Philosophy Prof at CSUF-personal acct; all views my own; pro-democracy, science,&humanities; lover of books,movies,music, &tv; devoted to my dog & a few others
orange county, ca
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Amy Coplan retweeted
I’ve been in this fight my whole life.
Don’t ever let them make you feel powerless. When working people stand together, there’s nothing we can’t do.
Today is the last day to vote early. Let’s go win this thing, Maine.
Amy Coplan retweeted
🚨 Barack Obama blasts the Trump White House over Ukraine:
“The White House is bending the knee to Vladimir Putin and selling out Ukrainians who are fighting for their freedom and democracy.”
Ukraine is fighting for its freedom while the White House stands accused of appeasing the very dictator trying to destroy it. History will remember who stood with Ukraine — and who bowed to Putin.
Amy Coplan retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: After making it a FELONY to illegally seize ballots, Gavin Newsom is PRE-DEPLOYING election lawyers to key California battleground districts to monitor vote counting and prevent Trump interference.
Amy Coplan retweeted
"No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
Amy Coplan retweeted
Russian TV hosts are saying that Alaska “belongs” to Russia while a gas project on Alaska’s North Slope has Russian money and equipment behind it, all while Russia is still under US sanctions, while oligarchs fund Don Jr’s wedding, and while Russia provides intel to Iran on US troops.
Amy Coplan retweeted
Russia is still bombing us here in Dnipro, even after today’s devastating attack killed 13 people waiting for a train.
Ordinary people, simply trying to get somewhere, now the families are grieving, and while attacks continue.
Absolutely sickening. 🇺🇦
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Amy Coplan retweeted
Fox: Why are you here this morning?
Trump rally attendee: Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front.
Amy Coplan retweeted
Ossoff: Tech titans build bunkers while warning the artificial intelligence they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports, and the president builds a ballroom. An ancient establishment barely capable of email sleepwalks into a technological revolution, while the president dismantles precautions and calls us fools for worrying.
So you see this scenario, and it fills you with dread. I get it. But, Georgia, we can and will reclaim control over our own destiny. We can and will meet our obligations to our children. And it begins with victory this fall.
Amy Coplan retweeted
Let's say that some Peltola campaign staffers did in fact recruit Dan Sullivan to run.
One, it's not illegal. People with the same name can run for office. It happens.
Two, how is that any different than the Republican operatives who have long been recruiting "flipper" candidates, and running GHOST candidates in other races.
Screw Republicans.
Taste your own medicine.
If Alaskans can't read their own ballot, that's on them, not Dems.
Amy Coplan retweeted
I made the decision to have Democracy Docket take down its paywall through Election Day. Read it, enjoy it, share it -- all for free.
If you want to support this effort, here is how: hubs.ly/Q04CxxVy0
Amy Coplan retweeted
Mass deportation isn't just. It isn’t a triumph of the rule of law. It’s a product of Trump’s own hatreds and bigotries.
After pledging to deport the “worst of the worst,” he has decided to pursue otherwise law-abiding residents for deportation, even residents with American families. He has decided to detain people who are eligible for bonds. Again, that is not what the law requires. It is what Trump demands. nytimes.com/2026/10/29/opini…
Amy Coplan retweeted
“The conservative-leaning ranks of FBI agents and progressive-leaning nonprofits and legal advocates aren’t normally aligned. But some agents share the fear of the administration interfering in vote counting because of the Trump administration’s legal attacks on state elections and the president’s rhetoric in advance of the Nov. 3 midterms.”
🚨🚨NEWWWWW --- @FBI agents are privately sharing a grave concern in recent days: that they'll be ordered to seize voting machines or take other legally questionable steps to disrupt the mid-term elections.
@KDilanianMSNOW & me
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Amy Coplan retweeted
All I'm saying is that if you had a tribe of say 100 people and 5 of those people hoarded 95% of all the resources while half the tribe starved the rest of the tribe would eventually nationalize SpaceX
Amy Coplan retweeted
Chris Van Hollen and Robert Garcia want to bar Elon Musk and others from making campaign contributions while their companies profit from government contracts.
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Amy Coplan retweeted
DHS is trying to deport a mentally ill U.S. citizen to Jamaica—where he's not even from. Phillip James was born in Florida, but due to his paranoid schizophrenia, he told ICE he's Jamaican.
Despite legal evidence and documentation proving his status, ICE has wrongfully detained James for 10 months. Every day, ICE is violating the basic constitutional rights of the people of the United States.
apnews.com/article/ice-immig…
Amy Coplan retweeted
Over 200 complaints regarding sexual violence at schools were filed with the Education Department in Trump’s second term.
The department has investigated only 29 of these, finding fault with a school district only once as expected from a rapist in charge
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Amy Coplan retweeted
We just learned more about Trump’s Venezuela oil deal, and here’s everything you need to know:
1. This deal is structured to hide the identities of people who stand to profit from it.
You don’t hide that unless you have a reason to. And the man whose firm Trump just bought a 35% stake in? Alejandro Betancourt, a Venezuelan billionaire who has faced several money-laundering investigations around the world.
2. Don’t expect cheaper gas anytime soon.
Experts have been telling us for MONTHS that oil production in Venezuela isn’t going to lower U.S. gas prices anytime soon. Betancourt’s company is able to deliver as much oil in a year as the U.S. uses in a few days. Anyone promising this deal will bring down prices at the pump is selling you lies.
3. If there’s a legal fight over this agreement, it has to go through a Texas court that Trump’s DOJ has repeatedly turned to for favorable rulings.
4. This deal creates a board designed to be shielded from oversight and accountability. Trump’s own Treasury Secretary wasn’t able to give Congress basic answers or audits when he testified about Venezuela just last month. But we should blindly trust them now?
So let’s recap: Americans aren’t going to feel relief at the pump. The identity of the people involved is conveniently hidden from us. And legal disputes go to a specific court that disproportionately rules in Trump’s favor.
Whatever you think American foreign policy towards Venezuela should be, Congress and the public deserve to know who’s involved and where the money is going.
propublica.org/article/trump…
Amy Coplan retweeted
On Monday the House Judiciary Committee Dems released an explosive 50+ page report documenting Donald Trump’s deep involvement in Epstein's criminal network and DOJ's refusal to prosecute or even investigate any of Epstein’s accomplices, co-conspirators and enablers. Read it yourself and help debunk Trump’s lies.
Amy Coplan retweeted
NEW: Cobb County, Georgia will send absentee ballots via priority express mail to voters who never received them despite applying weeks ago.
The announcement comes after a lawsuit aimed at forcing the county to act. demdock.com/4jMMKyu
