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@runningrn.bsky.social

Democrat, political junkie, enjoy learning all the back politics in DC. I like to ride my bike, hike with the pups, strength train, garden and sketch. I marched in the 1st Women's March and can't believe we are going through this again. #MIResists

created November 13, 2024

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Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you Marc!

1/9/2025, 4:46:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Cassidy's legacy is voting for a nonscientist who has no medical background. Yes, he could have been a hero but he will forever be known as a coward.

31/8/2025, 9:42:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

This is f@#$g nuts!

31/8/2025, 4:25:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, sure! Let's dehome these people then turn Gaza into a vacation wonderland. Greed wins again.

31/8/2025, 4:23:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Good for you Mama! It's time everyone sues these monsters.

31/8/2025, 4:18:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

What a horrid person! No empathy, no decency, no thoughts on leaving families, jobs to pick up trash.

31/8/2025, 4:05:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted

He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.

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31/8/2025, 3:28:16 PM | 18019 6293 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

I just got your book in the mail yesterday. I'm looking forward to reading it.

30/8/2025, 6:47:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Democratic Activists (@democratswin.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 2:27:51 AM | 4313 2363 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Greed.

30/8/2025, 1:51:04 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you Angry for spending time with us. You are my Saturday morning read. Always thought povoking and sprinkled with some humor. Wishing you and yours a lovely weekend.

30/8/2025, 1:50:11 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s the guns. It’s the refusal of the Rs to address the murdering of children and the citizens they represent. It is cowering to Krasnov. It’s cowering to NRA. It’s despicable

30/8/2025, 12:55:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Evil!

29/8/2025, 1:28:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

And Senator Dr. Cassidy could hsve been a hero. Now his legacy is his vote to confirm a nonscientist.

28/8/2025, 10:43:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you Governor!

28/8/2025, 9:14:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

👇👇

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28/8/2025, 2:34:29 AM | 5730 2302 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Hickey, MD (@pwhickey.bsky.social) reposted

Must read - Powerful warning to the nation as @drdemetre.bsky.social resigns as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and posts this post on X. Well done, Sir! 🔥💪 “My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, 1/x

28/8/2025, 12:58:59 AM | 395 161 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Hickey, MD (@pwhickey.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people.

28/8/2025, 12:58:59 AM | 98 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just_Vicki 🐾🎵💟🕉💙🌈🌻🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦 (@justvickimarie.bsky.social) reposted

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28/8/2025, 6:22:17 PM | 79 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Basic human decency is lost with tis regime

28/8/2025, 8:50:13 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @DUH4Healthcare (@duh4healthcare.bsky.social) reposted

REPUBLICANISM IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY PROFITS OVER PEOPLE HEALTHCARE DENIED CLIMATE CHANGE DENIED A LIVING WAGE DENIED ENTRENCHED RACISM & BIGOTRY BLOCKING LIFE-SAVING GUN REGULATION STEALING & CAGING CHILDREN ILLEGAL DEPORTATION & IMPRISONMENT EPIC PANDEMIC FAIL ENVIRONMENTAL DEVASTATION UNQUALIFIED, EXTREMIST JUDGES TAXPAYER $$$ TO ENRICH THE RICH RELIGIOUS OPPRESSION ANTI-DEMOCRACY SUPPORTING DICTATORS WORLDOVER DENIGRATING THE DISADVANTAGED
28/8/2025, 7:37:58 PM | 14 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Republican cowards are bowing to monies from the gun industry and NRA rather than saving our children and ourselves. Guns rule right now.

28/8/2025, 5:15:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture earthbound420.bsky.social (@earthbound420.bsky.social) reposted

Be There! Support the Victims! 👍💙

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27/8/2025, 8:49:48 PM | 347 182 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

27/8/2025, 3:59:49 PM | 24878 7759 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.

27/8/2025, 4:54:50 PM | 17804 5360 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

👇👇

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27/8/2025, 11:34:55 AM | 13267 4856 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Republicans are you listening? Step up! Represent your constituents.

27/8/2025, 12:40:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rep. Summer Lee (@repsummerlee.bsky.social) reposted

Had to stop by this sign outside the Moshannon Valley Detention Center. The GEO Group donated $1M+ to Trump’s campaign. Now they’re profiting off of locking up kids using our taxpayer dollars. The corruption is clear. Thank you to the local residents, clergy, & advocates for standing against this.

Rep. Summer Lee stands in front of a sign that reads
25/8/2025, 7:15:40 PM | 736 199 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Facism, cruel evil facism.

26/8/2025, 8:36:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

I don’t know if this qualifies as spilling the 🫖 But release the damn Epstein files already.

26/8/2025, 5:07:12 AM | 9514 4063 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion

26/8/2025, 1:08:38 AM | 35341 11180 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Wouldn't it be nice if empathetic Republican Congresspersons read this? We just need true representation vs. following the cruel regime.

25/8/2025, 11:26:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Evil, cruel, vile.

25/8/2025, 2:03:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

I'll help you 'cause I'm Rhonda!

25/8/2025, 12:42:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social)

History repeating.

24/8/2025, 7:35:38 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Our troops fighting our citizens.

24/8/2025, 5:56:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.” Listen to the survivors.

24/8/2025, 2:00:25 PM | 23925 10344 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

I worry about those who do not read political media. Do they understand the mess we are in?

23/8/2025, 6:07:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you Marc!

23/8/2025, 1:30:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Evil..despicable.

22/8/2025, 3:37:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

22/8/2025, 2:00:01 AM | 40011 10379 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

People are constantly asking me — what can I do? Between now and the 2026 midterm elections, here are five practical steps you can take to make a difference.

21/8/2025, 10:32:49 PM | 4566 2312 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

Just now…

20/8/2025, 11:43:35 PM | 8063 4030 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Another reason not to visit Texas

21/8/2025, 6:50:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Congratulations Robert!

21/8/2025, 6:47:24 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Watch this. Apparently, police followed Rep Collier into the bathroom and threatened her with a FELONY for being on a press call with Senator Corey Booker and Governor Newsom.

20/8/2025, 8:35:54 PM | 8867 4269 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸

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21/8/2025, 3:30:43 PM | 11939 4201 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Wonderful news!

19/8/2025, 9:22:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Step up Republicans ! Listen to your constituents. Step up resisters! Use your 5 Calls app to call your Representatives ansd Senators

18/8/2025, 10:34:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.

18/8/2025, 7:59:46 PM | 9858 2752 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Evil

18/8/2025, 1:50:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

Holy shit.

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18/8/2025, 11:16:59 AM | 13249 7133 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

I finished it up a bit ago. Same reason. Even if it's fiction it cheered me.

17/8/2025, 6:53:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Saganism (@sagan.bsky.social) reposted

Let’s make a planet in which nobody is starving. Let’s make a planet in which men and women have equal access to power. Let us make a planet in which no ethnic group has it over another ethnic group. Let’s have a planet in which science and engineering is used for the benefit of everybody on the planet. And my personal idiosyncrasy, let’s have a world in which we go to other worlds. ~ Carl Sagan
17/8/2025, 10:48:12 AM | 4260 1211 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) reposted

Traveling to US with Zelenskyy: EU Commission President v/d Leyen, French President Macron, Finnish President Stubb, German Chancellor Merz, NATO Secretary General Rutte, Italian Prime Minister Meloni, and UK Prime Minister Starmer have officially confirmed their participation.

17/8/2025, 12:15:15 PM | 2654 723 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted

MAGA aren't republican, they are pro-monarchy, pro-oligarchy, and pro-autocracy. Supporting corruption and removing power from the people to concentrate it in the hands of a few wealthy and corporate entities and individuals is the opposite of republicanism. They are regressives.

17/8/2025, 11:09:10 AM | 2561 629 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm so sorry

17/8/2025, 1:47:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Let's agree to disagree.

17/8/2025, 1:34:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

No. Violence would end up with our soldiers fighting us.

17/8/2025, 2:30:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

17/8/2025, 2:00:06 AM | 12399 3673 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

This was a tough week. Watching Putin in the limo, walking the red carpet was awful. Robert is right. We must rally, be loud, use the 5 Calls app and cheer on those taking on the regime. Thank you Robert for your message.

17/8/2025, 2:26:50 AM | 4 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted

In other words: They lied.

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16/8/2025, 7:25:51 PM | 20838 8137 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Evil

16/8/2025, 5:35:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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16/8/2025, 11:11:13 AM | 5002 2033 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Despicable. Veterans are our heroes.

15/8/2025, 9:57:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted

🚨 Our veterans have never had enough access to healthcare. Now, what they had has been slashed to the point that people will, without a doubt, die as a result of this administration’s lack of interest in caring for our veterans.

15/8/2025, 7:48:06 PM | 1163 625 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Kudos Alaska!!

15/8/2025, 7:12:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

It makes sense! Thanks for the explanation Robert. Now, if we could just get Congress to represent us instead of profiting from their power

14/8/2025, 5:46:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

Social Security became law 90 years ago today. Here's what we need to do to keep it strong for another 90 years (and beyond). www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfZu...

14/8/2025, 3:01:21 PM | 3312 1444 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Many of us depend on that check. Use your 5 Calls app folks. We need your voice.

14/8/2025, 5:38:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Not the action of a government for the people.

13/8/2025, 12:31:43 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Republicans, step up!

12/8/2025, 7:38:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Anywhere in the Mitten!

10/8/2025, 6:36:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

HCWs, scientists chose a life of service. Helping others vs. wealth.

10/8/2025, 12:52:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

So sad that perogie vendors and South Park have more courage than CBS, universities and the press.

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9/8/2025, 10:46:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend. This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending. Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared

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Profile picture 💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 (@cnice59.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

It's time for people of integrity on the other side of the aisle to step up.

7/8/2025, 4:35:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Big money rules. Greed and power vs. the people's voice is winning. But, we are trying to unite, show up at town meetings and protests and back our lawyers who fight for us. We have to take back our country.

7/8/2025, 11:42:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Senator Cassidy, a physician, could have been a hero instead he voted for this idiot.

7/8/2025, 2:27:22 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you for your wisdom Robert. I truly enjoyed a glimpse of your background too. Bravo to your grandma!

6/8/2025, 7:03:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Texas Democrats are demonstrating courage, love for our country and integrity. We will remember those that fight fascism.

6/8/2025, 6:51:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/8/2025, 6:47:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

There has been so much evil it is hard to keep track.

6/8/2025, 12:22:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Why?

6/8/2025, 12:19:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted

So much for “America first.”

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Profile picture Bonky (@shesbonky.bsky.social) reposted

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom

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Profile picture Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 (@adamfare1996.bsky.social) reposted

I want to live in a world where everyone has enough. Where everyone who needs support gets it. Where the support you get isn’t dictated by the size of your bank balance and privilege. Where everyone is treated with respect, compassion, and worthy of living.

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Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Despicable

4/8/2025, 9:22:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Hooray!The Last Class will be in Michigan! I just bought our tickets!

3/8/2025, 4:37:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Few are showing their integrity, courage and love for our country. We will cheer the few

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Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Living under this cruel regime is exhausting. I miss the days of being governed by a president that was for the people.

2/8/2025, 5:35:44 PM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) reposted

Happy Friday to everyone who might be concerned that he has possession of the nuclear codes, blames the messenger for tanking the economy & would gladly pardon a monster to save his own thin orange skin.

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Profile picture MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted

Wow

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Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you Governor. You are leading the way to a kinder government that cares for the people!

31/7/2025, 9:45:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RunningRN (@runningrn.bsky.social) reply parent

Despicable we have to pay for this . It is not necessary but SNAP and Medicare are basic needs.

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