Candace Nichols

Candace Nichols

@mims2.bsky.social

RN. Mom of two. Enjoy traveling. My beloved Grandkids call me “Mims”. I enjoy life and most of what it brings. Last but not least my sweet Cadie 🐾❤️

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BREAKING: The UK is blocking Trump from using its airbases to attack Iran. Trump is irate. The UK is having a good news day.

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Trump is actively making our goods more expensive by blocking a piece of key infrastructure - apparently all because his most Epstein-linked Cabinet Secretary conveyed a request from a billionaire GOP donor. America does not have to tolerate this kind of corruption.

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Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him. The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/

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The Department of Justice has sued 24 states and the District of Columbia for access to sensitive voter data on more than 100,000,000 Americans. My law firm has intervened on behalf of voters to fight DOJ in 23 of the 25 cases. Tomorrow we will do the same in the remaining two. Stay tuned.

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A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

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"Two things have to happen in order for us to save the Republic from [Donald Trump]—first of all, accountability ... and the second is to pass laws and legislation within the four corners of the Constitution to make sure we never have this autocratic authoritarian threat again."

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81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

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An agreement is worthless if one party can just break it immediately without consequences.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social

Finally, a good explainer of Dems' other shutdown demand, via @citizencohn.bsky.social. It's about trying to make it harder for the Trump admin to continue unilaterally (and illegally) cutting funding for government programs substack.com/home/post/p-...

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“Our ongoing research on protests in the United States reveals that within the first two weeks of the second Trump administration, protest activity surpassed that of 2017. By the end of March 2025, there had been three times as many protests as had taken place in 2017. ...

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The GOP bill would cut $1 trillion from health care. This would kick 10.9 million people off their health insurance. That, plus the expiration of the APTCs (and the other half of the ACA rule), lead to 16 million people losing health insurance, pushing the uninsurance rate up 4 percentage points.

Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

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The war in Ukraine will be over in 24 hours. So will Gaza. There will be 90 trade deals in 90 days. No tax on tips. No tax on overtime. Interest on car loans will be tax deductible. No tax on Social Security. He will balance the budget. Tariffs will pay for everything.

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Didn’t take Trump long to get us here did it? Moody's downgraded U.S. sovereign credit rating Friday, due to concerns about nation's growing $36 trillion debt pile, in a move that could complicate Trump's efforts to cut taxes & send ripples through global markets. www.reuters.com/markets/us/m...

reuters.comMoody's downgrades US to 'Aa1' ratingCredit ratings agency Moody's on Friday downgraded the United States ratings to "Aa1" from "Aaa."