Californian with a wide variety of interests, but since 2016, seeking justice, democratic norms, improving public: education & health, access to the arts, inclusivity, ethics in government, finance & business, human rights, IMM, ENVIR & worker protections, accountability for the oligarch criminality in the US & helping America turn blue.
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Last Notes npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales “ACLU has reached 90 of the ~137 Venezuelans sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, then prisoner-swapped to VZ. 90⚡️of 91 want to challenge their Tren de Aragua designation: 22 by coming back to USA (🚨they’ll be detained) +68 in written petitions. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "“The imminent threat🚨was that we knew that if #Iran was attacked, & we believed they would be attacked, that they'd immediately come after us, & we were not going to sit, sit there & absorb a blow before we responded” -Rubio." npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Even🚨CNBC calls out Vance, as he blames Good for her KILLING. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "The US govt🚨doesn't want you to know that it sent innocent ppl to be tortured through a program that the SC unanimously ruled violated #DueProcess. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "iRobot🚨is selling itself to Chinese manufacturers, a result of hedge fund attack a decade ago that gutted the company. Wall Street is a threat to our national sovereignty." npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Trump hailed: get-together w the RU dictator as “productive,” praised #Putin’s observations as “profound, & “many pts” -agreed on +2: “made some headway.” npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "The DOORS WOULDN'T OPEN." npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales With all due respect,🚨there's Nothing The #Fed can do to overcome the HC #Insurance Tax every indiv & co paying for ins faces. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The #jobs numbers don't fit Trump's narrative, so he's having his goons find a way to rig the data: npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The mood at the appt that AM was dif. An officer shadowed them *soon handcuffed, stripped of their belongings. Orozco Forero said🚨she showed an #ICE officer a letter from O David’s💔doctors approving a biopsy; the officer tore it apart, she said. “This no longer works." npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales 5 of #SCOTUS' 6 RW justices took adv of their right to remain silent, but SCJ Kav: Such stops are usually “brief."🚨 I'd no idea *deprived of my rights under the 4A as long as my getting roughed up takes only a few moments. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "SK officials:🚨negotiating with the US to win “voluntary” departures of the wkrs, rather than #deportations *could result in making them ineligible to return to the US for up to 10 yrs. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales “They put Trump’s name on the trucks. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales MAGA Rs are fuming: "During Aug recess, Johnson & Thune plan to call the House & Senate into session every 4 or 5 days, with practically no one there, for the sole purpose of preventing Trump from making recess apps." npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "We need to extend our soul to the hungry." npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "DOGE🚨"is using a new artificial intelligence tool to slash federal regulations, with the goal of eliminating half of DC’s regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of Trump’s inauguration." npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Trump: now admitted Americans aren't rushing in to fill jobs of deported migrants -makes it essential to stop removing them. That wrecks a core pillar of MAGA ideology. There's no putting that genie back in the bottle. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales “Trump said that there’ll be a temporary pass issued for migrants working at farms/hospitality IND to allow employers to have more control after mixed msgs re exceptions in deportation efforts.” npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "Likely in light of the situation in LA, #ICE l'ship just put out a pretty outrageous msg to politicians: “I’m demanding they stop.” He specifically calls out Mayor Wu & Hakeem Jeffries. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Funding decreases touch virtually every area of #science, the #TrumpRegime says it wants to cut. That means less support for early-stage #research *underpins future tech advancements +American competitiveness.⬇️💰for undergrad/grad students, postdoc res... npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "The US has been talking with Hamas thru an American intermediary in Doha this week in hopes of brokering an IL-Gaza ceasefire AGT -as US officials say Trump's growing increasingly frustrated with IL’s handling of the conflict. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Ominous: “Scores of foreign #mercenaries have landed in IL for the launch of a controversial US-backed aid plan for #Gaza that could force the UN out of managing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "If your insurance co ditches you in the middle of open-heart surgery, you’ll go bankrupt. Local governments face a similar future when Trump🚨kills federal disaster relief. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales They don't want to make govt smaller or even more efficient. They want to use it to punish their opponents." npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The #TrumpMusk regime is decimating the #VA. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Welcome news: “The Social Security Administration said it would postpone controversial changes to phone service and partially relax new rules on identity verification.” npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales We Americans no longer have undeniable legal status. Our #rights /orgs/jobs/health/schools/laws/C -now provisional, subject to the whims of the “King". npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales “Trump moves closer to a court crisis.” npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "There are a lot of Trump-aligned voices telling people to calm down. Selloffs happen. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The degree to which Trump & Musk’s interests are intertwined is unprecedented & unsustainable. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales A Trump admin freeze on purchase cards that agencies use to cover -dumpster pickups at nat parks -liquid nitrogen for lifesaving MIL research -upending work across the govt. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Trump’s empire is an actively malicious force in European & Canadian affairs. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Trump is keenly alert to his legal danger, deeply committed to keeping power by any means necessary. He seems to be sleepwalking toward a stinging pol loss that'll expose him to all kinds of personal risk. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Protesters have so many things to push back against -from #tariffs to Trump's reset on the war in Ukraine to the aggressive & sometimes legally dubious actions of the #DOGE & its ldr #Musk, that it's hard to know what to focus on. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "A senior FEMA official, fired by the Trump administration, is suing saying she's been falsely smeared as illegally funding hotels for migrants in NYC. Her firing violates the law and right to due process, she argues." npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "We're firing Rangers at Nat. Parks, scientists & aid workers that treat/prevent/research disease & feed the poor, & disabled vets helping fellow vets at VA hospitals, but the good news is we're going to buy a shit ton of crypto so Trump & his friends can make billions. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales “Treasury Secretary Bessent says Trump tariffs won’t cause inflation to increase.” npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "IRS leaders rejected a request from immigration enforcement officials to divulge the home addresses of 700,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally." npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "Major changes coming to federal govt, led by Musk's #DOGE: npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "DOGE says it's now saved $65B in federal funds, but that's still impossible to verify. It only provides records for $9.6B in savings from contract terminations." npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales #DOGE has installed 2 ppl at HUD: given them unprecedented access to the agency's highly sensitive data on Ms of American & 10s of $Bs in payments. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales While #Musk is touting cuts to govt, the new admin has already delivered $86 million to SpaceX since the inauguration." npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "grok says Musk’s shuttering of USAID condemns tens of 1000s of ppl AT A MINUMUM to DEATH. & there was no corruption or fraud in the org whatsoever. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The Department of Justice has eliminated its national database that tracked misconduct incidents among federal law enforcement officers. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales @nprofile…qfwu I'm so sorry, California (+some other💙states) aren't perfect, but in respect to LGBTQ rights, they're much better then red states. Now we know how Hitler was able to commit atrocities. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The US in the meeting in Saudi Arabia normalized a regime headed by somebody -designated as a war criminal & all of the crimes of this war/killing/just brutal assault on UA -illegal, brutal assault -was, in effect, washed away." npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who's a retired air traffic controller." npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales All my life I have studied democratization & autocratization. AR, CU… I can recognize the stages of transition to #authoritarianism. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Economists are warning that #Trump is causing #stagflation. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Trump may have fired the nuclear weapons workers intentionally. The media downplays the crisis & gives Trump a pass because they believe he was just uninformed. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "How much Elon Musk makes from the govt a day: $8M. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales 🚨"I’m calling it the apocalypse of American science -will basically change science as we know it in the US. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The brakes don’t work! She crashed into a large concrete barrier. Zhang could never have imagined what was to come: Tesla🚨sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car’s brakes -& won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay >$23,000 in damages & publicly apologize to the $1.1T co. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales House Rs seek bill with up to $2T in savings. The prime target is Medicaid, that provides health coverage to >72M low-income Americans. Rs see MDCD as a program rife with fraud & abuse & have long sought to rein in its spending. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The #NHI came under attack by PJ25 before Vought -confirmed to head of OMB *asserts: “funding for scientific research shouldn't be controlled by a sm. grp of highly paid/unaccountable insiders” -encourages “more modest fed funding thru” NIH. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The Trump-Musk regime ramps up atrocities by the hour. At some point their followers will be severely impacted, & break from the movement. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales #Florida lawmakers look to move up in the pol field -hoping: changes to gun laws may sway voters into giving their support. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales #AI imperils us: npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales #Tradwife🚨 npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Every single crypto industry-backed candidate won their race. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales JD Vance: “Democratic opponents pose ‘bigger threat' than Russia and China.” Vance, who’d soon succeed #TFG, if he wins, would also rule America as a fascist. “Listen to what he is saying. In the Fascist tradition, Vance considers the democratic political opposition of his own country an enemy force to be defeated. Ending US democracy is a win for foreign autocracy, and he makes sure Russia and China know his allegiances.” -R Ben-Ghiat #USPol #GOPFascists https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/vance-current-u-s-leadership-is-a-way-bigger-threat-than-any-foreign-threat-222772293910 npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales #Crypto has no socially redeeming reason to exist. It's actually useful for is buying things on the internet that're illegal -not the sort of thing that causes big banks & investment firms & institutional$ managers to flock to something -or a currency. It's a digital bauble that speculators speculate on. Does the overseer of our nat. currency need to promote this made up form of money that proclaims that's goal is to displace our nat. currency? npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Sad, there were only 11 Senators that voted for in favor of the resolution: The Senate rejected a resolution from Senator Sanders to require the State Dept to write a report detailing any human rights violations stemming from the use of US equipment & military funding in conjunction with Israel’s bombardment of Gaza since the #Oct7 attacks. #IsraelHamasWar #WarCrimes #IHL #HumanRights https://prospect.org/world/2024-01-17-attempt-congress-to-do-something-on-foreign-policy-israel-gaza-fa/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Fascism in Florida: #DeathSantis suspends the elected Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell, he accused her of failing to impose mandatory sentences for gun & drug crimes & allowing juveniles to avoid incarceration. DeSantis previously suspended Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren last year. Andrew Bain, the judge appointed to replace State Attorney Monique Worrell is a member of the Federalist Society. https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/08/09/desantis-suspends-monique-worrell-state-attorney-prosecutor/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Some of the Republicans’ 2025 platform has been released, which is good for voters, bc now they know how dystopian & dangerous their plans would be for America. Their would-be reign of terror includes, fascism, racism, lawlessness, regression, a federal abortion ban, gutting regulations, decimating the USG, esp. the IRS & DOJ… but their most disturbing plan would escalate global warming, which should be disqualifying. #ClimateCrisis #GOPSabotage https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01082023/far-right-battle-plan-to-undo-climate-progress-trump-win-2024/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Another dangerous RW operative: On Hanania's podcast, he's interviewed: S Pinker, M Andreessen, E Musk, P Thiel... Rich benefactors, some of whose identities are unknown, have funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars into a think tank run by Hanania which doles out cash to conservative academics. He maintains a creepy obsession with so-called race science, arguing that Black people are inherently more prone to violent crime than white people. #GOPRascism #GOPSabotage https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817?utm_campaign=share_twitter&ncid=engmodushpmg00000004
