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If you’re Anti-DEI you’re anti civil rights. Teacher ~ Dem ~ trying to stay positive. Black Lives Matter. 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Now what? No kings!!

created November 7, 2024

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Lindsay Graham eats the same meal plan on rotation. Monday: MAGA meatballs Tuesday: Trump Tacos Wednesday: Windbag Waffles Thursday: Thronehugger Thin crust pizza Friday: Fascist Fajitas

1/9/2025, 10:04:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I dunno. It said “new”.

31/8/2025, 10:35:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The updated vaccine is available this week, I believe. But I could be wrong.

31/8/2025, 6:42:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was able to get an appointment for Sept 5 in Clinton but I wanted to wait to see if it gets figured out here first.

31/8/2025, 12:17:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank goodness!!

31/8/2025, 11:31:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m thinking of doing CT. Do you have to pay or will your insurance cover it?

31/8/2025, 3:13:34 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m hoping Massachusetts gets figured out. We aren’t used to being denied vaccines.

31/8/2025, 2:54:20 AM | 87 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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It worked! I think it had defaulted to my location as mass and that was what kicked it out. I just need to connect with my insurance to see if they will pay or not.

30/8/2025, 2:09:32 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just some mumbo jumbo about not being able to book to based on regulations.

29/8/2025, 8:33:03 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just tried to book in Connecticut and was denied.

29/8/2025, 8:15:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can I go to another state and get it? I don’t care if I self pay. I realize the privilege in this statement and wish it wasn’t this way.

29/8/2025, 6:24:04 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m beyond pissed.

29/8/2025, 3:19:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Agreed. “Dad, there’s whale juice leaking on me!!”

28/8/2025, 10:21:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted

[Bill Cassidy looking down at corpse of chicken he has fucked to death]: That chicken should not have been fucked that hard

28/8/2025, 7:55:28 PM | 4708 813 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) reposted

Who did this?

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26/8/2025, 10:38:10 PM | 14784 3568 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

25/8/2025, 8:55:07 PM | 56273 17781 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jess Calarco (@jessicacalarco.com) reposted

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

officialjackwhite officialjackwhite He's masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy. He's been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he's involved in has prospered except by using other people's money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift. His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and
22/8/2025, 5:56:35 PM | 9439 2772 | View on Bluesky | view

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Which insurance is that? It sounds horrible!

23/8/2025, 11:04:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I totally agree. I have been burned enough times believing in a charismatic “Democrat” to now be able to sniff one out in the wild. No more.

23/8/2025, 10:55:22 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s why I love being an elementary teacher. We normalize the shit out of anything. Penguins, pumpkins, you name it. We do it “for the kids”. 😂

23/8/2025, 2:13:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So now we have to change the name again? Taco McCankles Cakey makeup hands

23/8/2025, 12:14:13 AM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The amount of coaching that must have happened is stunning. Not to mention, how often was the recording paused or notes passed to her? Every bit of it is a bunch of BS designed to satisfy those who are sycophantic enough to believe it.

23/8/2025, 12:08:45 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gift shop also known as the grift shop?

22/8/2025, 8:38:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I struggled with that, but not enough to negate all the good work Acosta’s done. To me, one must consider a journalist’s entire body of work to evaluate effectiveness. More often than not, Acosta lands on the right side of history & that’s good enough for me. If not for you, well that’s okay, too.

22/8/2025, 4:39:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Personally, I would use a Pringle’s can. It seems more wallet-y.

22/8/2025, 12:30:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ugg. *you’re

22/8/2025, 2:20:33 AM | 44 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love acoustic unplugged Jim Acosta. You always were a bad ass but now your extra bad ass, and I’m here for it!

22/8/2025, 2:19:50 AM | 211 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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It also struck me how outraged we get and how hard we work to find killers of white people but not so much people of color. (And in no way do I mean to take away from the horror of this incident.)

22/8/2025, 12:46:28 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve got my fuzzy socks on and my windows are closed. Yikes!

21/8/2025, 2:30:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hoping to get some Freetos

21/8/2025, 1:29:36 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’d say the morally repugnant and ignorants far outweigh any supposed vagrants. (And has the timeline shifted to 1925 because I haven’t heard anyone use that term in decades?)

20/8/2025, 7:04:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers poem
20/8/2025, 2:36:49 AM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maher is a pugnacious, petulant punk. He struggles to remain relevant, opines with a smug sense of superiority, and can’t take no for an answer.

19/8/2025, 5:52:07 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He is so incompetent. Being eaten for lunch and he doesn’t even know he’s on the menu.

18/8/2025, 6:54:05 PM | 821 41 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s giving a coat hook meets kayak aesthetic.

18/8/2025, 2:20:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s way too long of a name and the logo looks like a country flag. I can’t picture saying — “I saw it on MSNOW”. I don’t think they had a choice about renaming because they were spun off but this is lackluster.

18/8/2025, 2:00:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank you for the gift link. How do you think this is going to play out?

17/8/2025, 10:24:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Welcome to racist America 2.0 (and let’s not forget that 1.0 is also still alive and well). This is disgusting and chilling on so many levels.

17/8/2025, 12:02:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Absolutely. www.commondreams.org/opinion/prog...

15/8/2025, 10:04:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I expected it was going to be a failed mission because of an honest attempt to engineer something that ended up going tragically wrong. What I didn’t expect was the total lack of care and concern for human life. From the get go, he was he’ll bent on making it happen and didn’t follow the rules.

15/8/2025, 2:56:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m not sure I follow what you’re saying? True, I am not an engineer. I restated what I saw in the documentary. My initial post was that, heading into the film I expected an honest attempt to design something innovative and what I found was a man who was a criminal with no regard for others’ lives.

15/8/2025, 2:54:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My daughter recieved SNAP. She works harder than most people I know. She has a BMI of 18 (not that it matters). Doesn’t she deserve a sweet treat? Who the hell do they think they are? Just because someone gets assistance doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.

15/8/2025, 1:02:42 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some, I think, were afraid of what he would do if they left. Many did leave. Others were whistleblowers. Those who stayed paid the ultimate price. One young woman was scared because it was Covid and she feared she wouldn’t get another job.

15/8/2025, 12:47:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I expected there’d be a design flaw (think Challenger o-ring). What I didn’t expect was a narcissistic cult leader who bullied people into creating a death trap —knowingly! Usually these exposes feature at least some employees who believed in the person or their mission. They hated this guy!

15/8/2025, 12:16:37 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Last month, we reported that the IRS was preparing a system that would share millions of taxpayers' data with ICE. Now we can confirm data was officially transferred ⤵️

14/8/2025, 9:05:02 PM | 1868 1321 | View on Bluesky | view

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Was it at least a club sandwich? So glad that the guy mustard up the courage to make a stand. He was so radical he went against the grain. Ok. I’ll show myself out.

14/8/2025, 2:02:51 AM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I thought it was supposed to be soup cans. 🤷🏻‍♀️

13/8/2025, 11:31:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pearl Marmalade

13/8/2025, 2:41:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I was a Faux anchor I’d look over my shoulder, too.

12/8/2025, 7:21:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And a salamander.

12/8/2025, 12:53:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ProPublica (@propublica.org) reposted

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

12/8/2025, 11:51:32 AM | 8931 5252 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have never watched that man’s show or taken a word he says seriously. He looks like an over aged privileged frat boy who is still trying to fit in his prep school suit.

12/8/2025, 11:12:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We can eject/elect every republican out of office.

10/8/2025, 4:01:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He has completely bought into the boorish brand. Grimace, nepo baby smirk. Unctuous posture with a thumbs up, point and stare, begging to be relevant and adored while all he deserves is contempt and disdain.

9/8/2025, 11:28:33 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks! That’s what I figured out after my heart stopped pumping out of my chest. I can’t imagine what it would be like if they did sting!

9/8/2025, 6:10:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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After a bit of research it may be a Giant Horntail that isn’t harmful and doesn’t sting. Still not sure. Not going outside. Nope. 😂

9/8/2025, 6:00:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This wasp/bee/thing just landed on my slider. What the hell is this?? Do you see the stinger? It’s like a flipping sword. I’m in New England if that helps source it. It’s scary.

Scary murder bee
9/8/2025, 5:56:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someday we will look back and more rational minds will prevail —how can one who exemplifies weaponization and lack of impartiality fire one who clearly doesn’t? How low we have fallen.

9/8/2025, 11:51:21 AM | 17 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mike and his Johnson

9/8/2025, 2:56:11 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s awful. Hoping everyone is safe.

8/8/2025, 9:53:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is everyone okay!!

8/8/2025, 9:52:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pamela Brown’s face when the nut job pastor tells her women are simply people that others come out of and that it doesn’t take any talent. www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...

Pamela Brown’s facial reaction when she smells the fundy misogynistic stench coming out of “Pastor” Wilson’s trench mouth
8/8/2025, 8:56:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ah. Got it!

8/8/2025, 3:15:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Was the story I posted the correct one? Because, if so, I’m in. I’ve decided. 😂😂

8/8/2025, 3:12:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And, if so, am I Murderous Urge with a Smile member number 1?

8/8/2025, 3:11:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is this the story? It’s super bad quality but seems to fit the bill. youtube.com/watch?v=t0rg...

8/8/2025, 3:10:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I jumped out of a moving plane at 13000 ft so I’m pretty much an astronaut. If Katie Perry is, so am I. 😎😂

8/8/2025, 2:30:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@maddow.msnbc.com @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @meidastouch.com @marisakabas.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social @joyannreid.bsky.social @terrymoranabc.bsky.social

8/8/2025, 12:04:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So many levels of suck in this. People aren’t reading & news orgs aren’t paying bright minds to provide provoking discourse. Many ppl don’t care because — ppl aren’t reading. My book-loving teacher heart weeps. Between waning curiosity, lack of intellect & the advent of AI, I fear for our future.

8/8/2025, 12:02:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It is almost as if our regime has it baked in to their plans and allow for a certain amount of collateral damage to further their plot. Do evil-create evil-fight back against that evil to justify doing more evil.

8/8/2025, 3:53:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They get what they feel they deserve and are entitled to all while denying others a shred of humanity. We deserve every bad thing that happens because we have been the purveyors of bad things for others.

8/8/2025, 3:51:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Imagine knowing that it was all because of a fabricated reason to expunge your people from the face of the earth through venge filled war crimes. Our country had propped up regimes and torn apart lives for greed more than people know. Just ask Haiti. Our people are too busy trying to make sure

8/8/2025, 3:50:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It makes me ill. We are supposed to be a shining beacon of hope and compassion, yet we continue to aid corrupt governments, fail our youth and that of others, while claiming to be “pro-life”. We wonder why people become radicalized. Imagine seeing your child die while holding them in your arms.

8/8/2025, 3:48:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Claiming to not know about it, that’s the “uncommon thing”. Every move that’s been made to cover this up is directly related to a request he has made, or those who are accomplices.

7/8/2025, 9:54:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Social Security Administration has conceded an issue with phone service, after denying it to NPR, and has announced a fix.

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Saybrook Breakwater light taken July 2024 from my boat. Happy Lighthouse Day! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saybroo...

Saybrook breakwater lighthouse
7/8/2025, 1:02:02 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do you know what the exhibit was planned to feature?

7/8/2025, 11:23:41 AM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wow! That’s some staying power. I think he confessed faster than what is going to happen here.

6/8/2025, 6:24:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My kids said they didn’t break the iPad nor did they take the last Oreo or return the milk to the fridge with 1/8 inch left in it. So, I am just supposed to believe them. 🤷🏻‍♀️

6/8/2025, 6:08:28 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s a miracle drug! If you haven’t seen this movie, it’s amazing. All about the doctor who helped invent it. Living Proof share.google/LmT6x7ZcZNkO...

6/8/2025, 10:20:55 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.herceptin.com

6/8/2025, 2:40:14 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Her2 fighter en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertuzu...

6/8/2025, 2:39:37 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Another , also known as the “Red Devil” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxorub...

6/8/2025, 2:38:52 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of the drugs that saved me: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paclita...

6/8/2025, 2:38:11 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am alive because of the invention of chemotherapy, radiation, and Perjeta and Herceptin. This isn’t the time to go back to the stone ages for treatment. We need to keep leveraging technology to save lives, not punish and withhold treatment all while trying to call oneself the party of pro-life.

6/8/2025, 2:37:35 AM | 27 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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5/8/2025, 6:54:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m a little tortoise and I agree with this message! Propublica is exactly the investigative journalistic entity we need right now.

5/8/2025, 4:37:00 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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You are an A #1 democracy defender and we are so thankful that you’re out there doing this hard work daily. As an educator, I particularly appreciate your bringing awareness to how difficult it is to do our jobs.

5/8/2025, 2:23:47 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted

Trump is panicking because the economic numbers are giving a recession vibe. From the Chief Economist at Moody's.

The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue. Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways. The foreign-born workforce is shrinking, and labor force participation is declining. Telling is the economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked. It’s no mystery why the economy is struggling; blame increasing U.S. tariffs and highly restrictive immigration policy. The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households. Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy. Any notion that the economic data misrepresents the reality of how the economy is performing is way off base. There are revisions to the data, even big revisions, but they universally say the economy is doing worse. That’s because it is. BTW, the DOGE cuts are a key factor in the revisions—not because BLS has cut staff, although that can’t help, but because the government often reports payrolls to BLS late. It didn’t matter when government employment was stable, but now that it’s declining, the cuts are picked up in the revisions.
4/8/2025, 12:57:18 PM | 2285 911 | View on Bluesky | view

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@faineg.bsky.social this reminded me of your thread awhile back about AC and human rights. Hearbreakjng. I don’t have a sub so there may be a paywall sorry if there is.

4/8/2025, 2:07:11 AM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean that in the sense of her chosen career that has been interrupted. I have no doubt she will land on her feet in a fantastic role that she’s very deserving of. But that was the career she chose and someone stepped in and terminated it.

3/8/2025, 7:05:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you’re looking for a company to add to your purchase power impact, Ocean State Job Lot should be high on your list!

3/8/2025, 5:17:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Holy shit. That’s whacked.

2/8/2025, 12:25:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That I didn’t know your name until today, says you did your job without fear or favor. That I know it now, says that a dictator wanted a favor for which you said no — without fear, & with bravery. Thank you for your service, & I’m sorry you lost your career because you chose to do the right thing.

2/8/2025, 3:35:03 AM | 388 28 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you haven’t listened to Lawless Planet episode one, you need to. open.spotify.com/episode/6puF...

2/8/2025, 2:45:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where the flippety f&ck is all this money going? There’s not one legitimate government account set up to receive extorted funds. Seriously, who do they make the check payable to?

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Santos did that? WTH? That makes Gaetz Nestor seem tame.

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Can he legally fire her? I guess it doesn’t matter because he does it anyway.

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Right now it feels like we’re living in an alternative universe.

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... He just can’t handle the truth and wants to hide it from us. Dictator.

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