Ally to Democracy
Just a Mom who believes in equality, social justice, healthy democracy & the power of science to change humanity
The Amur Leopard is the rarest cat on earth, found in a small area within Russia and China, the world's largest autocracies. For now.
- 🦋 Trump 1.0 used same tactic to intimidate Judges but failed In 2019 Massachusetts Judge Shelley Joseph was indicted on charges of helping an illegal immigrant sneak out a courthouse back door to evade ICE. Charges were dropped in 2022. The same charges now facing Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan. 🦋
- 🦋 Democrats accuse Trump of trying to stop judicial opposition to his immigration policy through fear Judge Hannah Dugan’s arrest & ensuing indictment by Federal grand jury has escalated a clash between the President’s administration, local authorities & Democrat lawmakers WaPo: archive.is/Vfcwp 🦋
- 🦋 Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan has been indicted The judge was charged with concealing a person from arrest & obstruction of ICE proceedings after being indicted by a Federal grand jury The alleged incident was ICE arrest of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz who was in her courtroom on April 18 for a hearing 🦋
- 🦋 Senators to press for vote against $400m 'gift' from Qatar Cory Booker (D-NJ) Brian Schatz (D-HI) Chris Coons (D-DE) Chris Murphy (D-CT) Joint Statement “Air Force Once is more than just a plane – it’s a symbol of the presidency & of the United States itself" Murphy: It's just wildly illegal 🦋
- 🦋 Trump conundrum: reducing tariffs & taxes April Treasury Statement demonstrates the share that income taxes play in the overall US receipts Tariff income is so relatively small it is bundled with 'Other' It's not hard to see that tax cuts, and certainly all tax, can't be offset by tariffs 🦋
- 🦋 Allies within RFK Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again' are trading blows CEO Peter Gillooly & HHS top adviser Calley Means accused each other of lying, threatening & harming their businesses Gillooly filed a formal complaint to Office of the Special Counsel accusing Means of abusing his position 🦋
- Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) points out that a 30% tariff on Chinese imports is still significant the cost of which will be passed onto consumers.
- 🦋 Can be hard to keep track, basically: 1. China tariff rate at Jan 20 was 21.2%, now 30% for 90 days - 41.5% higher 2. Rest of World tariff rate at Jan 20 was 3.0%, now 10.3% - 243% higher Sen. Paul (R-KY) is right that there will be tariff impact on the consumer [Source: Petersen Institute] 🦋
- 🦋 Can be hard to keep track, basically: 1. China tariff rate at Jan 20 was 21.2%, now 30% for 90 days - 41.5% higher 2. Rest of World tariff rate at Jan 20 was 3.0%, now 10.3% - 243% higher Sen. Paul (R-KY) is right that there will be tariff impact on the consumer [Source: Petersen Institute] 🦋
- 🦋 Governor Pritzker is right to be concered - the Registry is for 'Chronic Disease & Autism Research' not just #Autism RFK Jr. data collection helps 'Outside' researchers by giving them access to 'Comprehensive' patient data & health records for a 'Broad Coverage' of US A #RFKJr NIH presentation 🦋
- “Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, has signed a first-in-the-nation executive order to block the federal government from collecting personal health data related to autism…” All states should follow his lead to protect those with Autism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- 🦋 Millions of scientific hours have been spent studying hundreds of thousands of children in hundreds of peer-reviewed papers All to debunk a study on 12 children by a gastroenterologist who was struck off in 2010 RFK Jr. just wants to keep a 27 year vaccine conspiracy alive #Autism #RFKJr #RFK 🦋
