I'm not interested in your MAGA.. be it of the red or blue variety. I want to help America become what she has always claimed to be: A country where all are created equal with liberty and justice for all. If you aren't... then just fo & block me.
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But now I'm just a terrorist in the eyes of the people I thought were working towards the same goals I was. And it's a bit of a kick in the teeth. So I think I'm done, at least for now. Good luck to you all. See you on the flip side. Stay safe. Use ICEblock. 7/7
"Equal Rights and Justice for all" If the USA isn't all about that... then what are we about? "Capitalism FTW"? Yeah.. I don't think so. I've put my whole heart into wanting to make America a better place since 1976 and the Bicentennial Celebration and campaigning for the ERA 6/7
I've voted Democrat for nearly 45 years. I may not like everything they do they are generally better than the GOP alternatives. I've always felt that voting was our responsibility but for the first time in my life I'm beginning to understand why no one showed up for the last election 5/7
Or for being angry at Schumer for his bipartisanship BS and his NYT screed about how his loyalty is to Israel? For thinking that Jefferies is bought and paid for after his anti-Mamdani crap? That trans rights are non-negotiable? That the homeless need HOMES? but opinions are terrorizing you? 4/7
But someone I respected re-posted a thread this morning on how anyone who says anything bad about the Dems is a terrorist Seriously? A terrorist. For saying that the current batch of democrats seems more concerned about the health of Citizen's United than implications of Trump vs US? 3/7
This whole the Dems can do, have done and will never do anything wrong BS you all have going on is ridiculous Am I a leftist? Maybe? I guess. If you think so. I certainly believe in labor unions, social security, and healthcare as a right. I don't consider that to be too much of a stretch 2/7
So.. I'm probably going to be taking a more permanent break from BlueSky. Not that I think anyone will miss me. But when the post mortem happens I want to leave some clues for the examiners. 🧵 1/7
This crap will continue after Trump dies. Vance works for Thiel. Thiel needs the US to fail so that he can try his Technofeudalism gig. Where he and the other Silicon Valley whores get to carve up the country and live as Kings with women in the kitchen and poor people as literal slaves. MAGA 2.0
Yeah, I was thinking that my BlueSky algorithm must be all screwed up. I thought Labor Day would be the biggest protest so far but I haven't heard a single word. But I shouldn't be surprised that most don't know what Labor day is about. It's not like they teach it in school.
Good morning from ME.
Don’t trust the experts”? That’s not democracy, that’s recklessness. On a plane, I want a pilot. In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence. Expertise isn’t religion or authoritarianism — it’s training, accountability, and data. Ignore it and we all pay the price.
If we survive this thing I expect we will.
NH is the crazy cousin from your in-laws side of the family. They support the style of 'libertarianism' where disabled Veterans are the same as Welfare Queens because no one should be getting anything from the 'Government'. Their passion for the Sununu family has taken them down a very dark path.
Exactly! After all COVID went away as soon as they stopped testing for it right?
Folks with power need to stop talking about 'bipartisan support' like it's the ultimate high praise or something people care about. It's consultant/beltway-speak and it sends exactly the wrong message at a time when one party is leaning into fascism. We need better Democrats. #MEpolitics
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
“He’s incredibly scared,” said attorney Abby Sullivan Engen said. “He said, ‘My heart hurts.’ ” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Frankly I'm hoping that that particular detail will have been unemployed well before 2029
In 7 months, Trump and Republicans have done generational damage to the United States, our economy, our national security, our reputation, and our health care. They're hollowing it out. Rich will get richer, and Putin will get what he wants.
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
huh.. maybe she figured out she was going to die too.
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As more states continue to legalize marijuana and public support increases, federal laws must catch up and reverse failed policies criminalizing marijuana. nadler.house.gov/news/documen...
A cult of personality. What could go wrong?
Cobb: You're not suggesting that what happened here -- with the social media posts -- constitutes notice and opportunity to be heard? Absolutely I am, Roth said.
The current regional EPA head in charge of cleanup is Scott Mason, a former Oklahoma energy official who "was also an author of the Project 2025 plan that called for ending certain pollution regulations, toxic chemical clean-up programs, and research on the impact of pollution on human health."
AI will be programed entirely on the odds. All these young people getting old people cancers? They are going to die because 'statistically' they are fine. People are going to die because the insurance companies don't want to spend money on statistical anomalies and AI will be fine with that. 3/3
After 2 YRS of appeals they relented. It was too late. Her cancer had metastasized. Chemo couldn't dent it. She died way too young. Why? Because it's 'rare' for Squamous to metastasize. The Anthem docs didn't see the need for an expensive test. Anyone think AI is going to be better? 2/3
Anthem killed my aunt. Sure there was some ignorant surgeon in there who couldn't tell the difference between MRSA and Squamous. But after the cancer was discovered Anthem refused a PET Scan, in spite of the fact that her PCP, her surgeon and her oncologist all said she needed one. 1/3
What could go wrong? The federal government plans to hire private companies to use artificial intelligence to determine whether patients would be covered for some procedures, like certain spine surgeries or steroid injections.
Because they would love to turn those huge sums of money into funds that they can 'win or lose' on the stock market ... all while taking a fee every month for "administration" of "your" money. And what happens if the market crashes again? I lost my 401K in 2008. I have nothing but SS. What then?
Mad about Cracker Barrel? youtube.com/shorts/kO-E7...
The GOP isn't 'cowardly'... they are COMPLICIT. It's not that they 'don't dare'.. they don't want to. It would only take a half a dozen of them to realize that their constituents are more important than their campaign contributions. But that will never happen.
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If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship. Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.
“Salazar replied. “We are going to overthrow some of our institutions, but in the way that Americans have always done it: through the ballot, through public consensus. That’s a revolution. That is a real revolution.”” @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-28-...
We’re somewhere between 1930’s Germany and Orwell’s 1984.
Susan Collins @pressherald.com lackeys still running errands for her, despite everything, even now. Aren't folks over there tired of contributing to this charade? #MEpolitics @rachelohm.bsky.social
When Laura Ingraham was a student at Dartmouth, she attended a meeting of the Gay Student Union and wrote down the names of the attendees, which she then published in the student newspaper. This was a time when it was very dangerous to be outed as gay. She is a dispicable, vile person.
The New Yorker…
Leavitt fails to see the irony of "believe in the power of prayer" and "prayer works" as she talks about children who were shot to death while praying.
Hello, everyone. Today, thanks to @sbg1.bsky.social and @newyorker.com, I learned a new word. The word is: "butt-snorkeler."
The injustice continues. A terrorist is now being honored by our military... My latest God I'm pissed!!! substack.com/@harrydunn/n...
Without woke Americans and DEI, Kash Patel could have been shining agents' shoes at the FBI and Pam Bondi serving coffee to lawyers at DOJ. Which both may be doing in a few years if the GOP fully implements its anti-woke/DEI master plan, Project 2025.
Innocent people don’t hide evidence. ‼️ RELEASE THE FILES ‼️
Not to point out the obvious here... I mean.. absolutely make it harder to get guns.. But MAYBE if we had universal healthcare.. Then MAYBE mentally ill people could get a psychiatrist and a therapist.. Then MAYBE they wouldn't want to go out loud all over social media in order be "famous"
... "but it's against the Constitution" Is the Constitution going to fly off the wall and beat Trump to death? 'cause who's going stop him? The FBI? The DOJ? Congress? Yeah.. nope.
I really need people in this country to move away from "but that's illegal!" or "but that's not allowed!" as their default response. Laws do not enforce themselves and life has no umpire. Stop waiting for magical referee in the sky to fix everything.
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
Yup. Drove all the way up there to kidnap anyone they could lay their hands on because apparently their quota is more important than the fires. How fucking disgusting is this country?
I am so confused as to why so much of Bluesky wants to nominate a democratic presidential candidate NOW instead of trying to organize for state and congressional elections that will set the conditions for any candidate later
NEW: A federal grand jury has REFUSED to indict sandwich guy! I imagine the DoJ will keep trying. They have two weeks, at which point they’ll have to drop the charges or reduce it to a misdemeanor. 🥪 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
August 27, 2025
P.E.I. successfully recruits 20 health-care professionals from the U.S. #PrinceEdwardIsland #Canada #Healthcare /1 www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/pri...
... oh we will be just fine. After all.. Texas is making Ivermectin available OTC. 🙄
You don’t have to like Gavin Newsom And you don’t have to support him as the Democratic nominee in 2028 But-right now-with Trump threatening to become a dictator as our democracy precariously teeters on the edge of a precipice He’s one of the few Democrats who have offered a viable battle plan
The Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, the nation’s largest maximum-security prison situated on 18,000 acres of land that was originally the site of slave plantations. Every person incarcerated in Angola, 74% are black, works in the fields. Landry wants to send teens there.
Technofeudalism A cadre of uber-rich, racist yt men who think they are smarter than everyone and all they need is their money and their AI to rule the world. Who think that Slavery is good and that women should not be allowed to vote or anything else for that matter. "Make me a sammich bitch"
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
Full story: www.levernews.com/greedflation...
JCF So they are taking away my Medicaid and I can no longer get vaccines? I'm an unpaid caregiver to three people. Only one of which can get the COVID vaccine anymore. My head is going to explode. The damage that these people are doing to our healthcare system wears me down day by day.
Communist regimes: Own companies Control their central banks Use tariffs to insulate their economies Use armies, false charges, home raids & arrests to intimidate the opposition Idolize their leaders with posters & praise Sound familiar?
Pretty sure that when you completely lack any sense of empathy that makes you schizoid not "happy".
Besides restricting absentee voting for elderly & disabled Mainers, Question 1 makes voting hard for absolutely no reason!
My understanding is that she campaigned on the fact that Trump was hurting farmers. When you are looking at losing the farm that has supported the family for 6 generations, I think that some kid changing their name starts to feel less important.
History will condemn us. The USA had such promise. But we let capitalism destroyed it all. What is that saying? Something, something purpose is to serve as a warning to others?
MSM continues to fail us..
.... well that explains about half of BlueSky I think...
A year ago we were telling anyone who would listen what a great job the VA was doing. The changes over the previous 20 years were amazing. Now it's all gone. 4/4
My P&T disabled husband has been without a PCP since winter. It's taken months just to get something as simple as an appointment for an eye exam. (don't even get me going about the 'specialty care line') 3/4
You have use the VA system and have them do referrals to departments that barely exist in order to get referred out into the community And I don't know about other places.. but there are no extra mental health practitioners in our community. I've been on waiting lists myself for over 5 years 2/4
It's not just mental health, though that's bad enough, but the entire VA system. They've gutted it. They pretend that 'community care' will do the job. But you can't just call any doctor and have the VA cover it. 🧵 1/4
What violent protests? The sandwich guy?
Thru her acts and omissions, Susan Collins has forfeited any claim to the trappings of respectability. By pointing this out, these protesters sent an important signal to their fellow Mainers. It's a start. #MEpolitics
20 to 30% comes right off the top to pay for Stockholder dividends, CEO Salaries and worker bees who's jobs may or may not be declining random claims in order to raise their bottom line. So up to 1.5 TRILLION dollars a YEAR evaporating that could have been spent on treatment. /rant off 2/2
Preach!!!! /rant on Been saying this for years. We spend far more money than any other country on healthcare. And most of it is spent trying to keep us from getting healthcare! We spend $5 TRILLION a year on Healthcare. 1/2
I own a medical billing company, so trust me when I tell you: The United States is the only country on Earth that employs more people in the business of blocking access to healthcare than it employs in the business of providing healthcare. You got suckered. And it shows.
This is why I have repeatedly said that Trans rights are non-negotiable. The demonization of this population by the 'rough, tough, MAGA' aholes is exactly what leads to horror shows like this Are we supposed to pretend that if they had been 25 yo instead of 18 that dad wouldn't have murdered them?
Onyx, a transgender teen in Idaho, was shot to death and murdered by their adoptive father. They were subjected to horrendous abuse by the father's brother who called them a pedophile. eliacugini.medium.com/onyx-cornish...
"I love arguing with people" Great.. so instead of listening to his constituents, he's just out there showing off what a big strong guy he is and that he can stand up to anyone who doesn't agree. The more I know the more I'm really, really starting to hate politicians.
Yeah.. I swear I just read this morning that she had to go against the 2nd place guy but I'll be damned if I can find that article now. So I'm going to delete that post in a few
We don't do run-offs. We do RCV which pisses off the GOP to no end.
That's because it's less a political party than it is three consulting firms in a trench coat
This was brought up several times during the testimony to get rape added as an exemption to Louisiana's abortion law but no name was every used for obvious reasons. I suspect everyone is being triggered because of the 11 yo in Oklahoma that just went through this same thing. 2/2
ahh.. ok ok. I finally get it. It was not clear what you were objecting to. I agree with you there. and I think you may be right. Because when I went looking.. there is nothing solid to back it up. 1/2
You are correct. Her weekly Tuesday newsletter mentioned nothing about any protestors at the Searsport ribbon cutting. Apparently her plan is to pretend that 'everything is normal' by ignoring us completely.
Darling get with the 21st century. I didn't get my period until I was 14. My daughter was one of the last in her class at 11. Her 1st cousin was 8. The time they are a-changing. I suspect PFAs or something like it.
... and LA is one of the worst states for Maternal and Infant health. And 25% of Louisiana is a Maternal Care desert. So she is literally in more danger from being pregnant than she ever would have been from an abortion. This is child abuse.
The Supreme Court is taking up a case to decide whether to uphold state conversion therapy bans for minors. Leading a brief to the Supreme Court with @repmarktakano.bsky.social and @merkley.senate.gov to defend these life-saving bans.
