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Ashleigh Parsons

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59 yr old Native American transgender woman. Independent. Progressive. IT services business owner. Critical thought practitioner.

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Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · Dec 13

After reading this article on United Healthcare's Bible on denying care for increased profits authored by their whole owned subsidiary for prescription coverage, Optum - I have my own story to tell about dealing with them.

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Revealed: UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to critical treatment for kids with autism (AlterNet)

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. There was a time when Sharelle Menard thought her son would never be abl...

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Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 24m

It turns out that oligarchs fucking over democracy is extremely unpopular 💕 looks like Trump should enjoy his cake while he can because he won't be enjoying prison after the working class is finished with him!

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Why Democrats won the 2025 elections (Vox)

The pendulum of American politics has swung again. Just...

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Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 1h

At long last these motherfuckers are now demoralized! 🥳 🥂 🎉 🍷

Let's keep needling these assholes exactly where they can get off to!

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MAGA says 'warning signs are flashing' after blowout losses (AlterNet)

Republicans saw wall-to-wall losses in virtually every major election on Tuesday night, and many MAGA activists are starting to fear what next year's midterm...

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Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 1h

Schwing!

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19h

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19h

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

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Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 1h

Release the Epstein Files! Take your castor oil! You skeevy fuckers are going down every election from here on out!

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At least 188 Christian & Republican leaders have been accused of child abuse this year (LGBTQ Nation)

Anti-LGBTQ+ conservatives have long crowed about how queer adults, drag queens, and their allies have been “grooming” and “sexualizing” children for abuse. N...

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Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 8h

Norway rains on Lex Luther's parade.

Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 14h

Bovino wears that helmet to cover up his Naziesque shock of hair on top of his very white bean. In that trenchcoat, he looks every bit the part of Heinrich Himmler!
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Judge Rips Bungling DHS Lawyer for Trying to Keep Stephen Miller Orders Secret (The Daily Beast)

A federal judge humiliated a Justice Department attorney after he tried to shut down questions about Stephen Miller's role in Chicago's ICE crackdown. Govern...

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Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 14h

We already know that no one likes this extractive oligarchy that we currently have. I am betting that no one will enjoy a so called "productive aristocracy" either. How about you pay employees what they're worth or no one will be buying any of your shit anymore!

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Top-secret billionaire meeting in tiny town builds plan for MAGA to last forever: report (Raw Story)

A cabal of billionaires is plotting a strategy to ensure MAGA rule outlive President Donald Trump — and they've already decided on a preferred heir for their...

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Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 16h

cash register? Why has shot got to be so back-asswards? When you update the damned EBT debit cards, make the fuckers work like any other debit card on the planet please!

Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 16h

shit got to be so fucking damned difficult? Like I don't want to be the person standing there waiting for an answer on the phone of you can even get the cardholder on the horn. So that the clerk can check out the next person in line with 20 others waiting on the wings for me to be re-rung up at the

Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 16h

required to pay as the balance? Not every disabled or in extreme pain is the actual user of the card at the store cash register and so we don't know the exact amount remaining on the card to tell them so they can right it up as a split transaction with the balance being paid in actual cash. Why has

Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 16h

I have one beef with Michigan's EBT card system for SNAP benefits. Why can't the card operate like any other debit card on the planet? When your funds are low and you purchase a lot of stuff, why doesn't it just ring up the balance on your card automatically and then tell you how much cash you are

Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 18h

Russia's economy is in shambles and Putin is desperate to avoid more growing citizen protests outside of the Kremlin. This is the dying gasp of a doomed war effort by Putin.

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The Kyiv Independent

⚡️ Russia ends seasonal draft model, moves to year-round conscription from 2026. While Russian conscripts are officially barred from being deployed abroad, reports indicate that many are pressured in...

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Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 18h

The cult loses its lustrous appeal once they realize who and what he is, and what he is doing.

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Gavin Newsom's Hollywood Wife Steals His Crown With Utterly Brutal New Trump Takedown (The Daily Beast)

Jennifer Siebel Newsom has unleashed on the president as her husband, California Governor and serial Trump troll Gavin looked on proudly. Newsom was speaki...

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Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 20h

He's gone to the great duck hunt in the sky - finally.

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Dick Cheney dies at 84 after powerful VP tenure and Republican career. Live updates. (USA Today)

WASHINGTON ‒ Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful vice presidents in United States history, a chief architect of the war in Iraq after the 9/11 terrorist at...

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Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 20h

They've gone from being scapegoated to being the scapegoaters. They've forgotten the lessons from their captivity in Egypt for 400 years. They've gone from being the apple in God's eye to being that log in their own eye. They have lost what kernel of humanity they had remaining after the Holocaust.

Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 21h

Republican at age 17 in Ohio! Never, ever again will I even consider voting for another Republican traitor to The Constitution or humanity.

Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 21h

brand is greed and hatred for anything or anyone who gets between them and their God of illegally and immorally and unethically obtained material wealth. They've finally and permanently made themselves unelectable in my eyes - and that's despite being 59 now and having first registered as a

Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 21h

You know, for years one could plausibly buy their smaller, more responsive government schtick. But after Trump's first term and it ending in the J6 turmoil, there's no fucking way that I can believe that any Republicans should ever hold another elected office in this country - ever. Their entire

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

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Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 21h

behavior.

Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 21h

She sure seems happy for someone who is so scared. She doesn't appear nervous or anxious in the photos. Somehow though, her hateful ideas and rhetoric requires an awful lot of protection from common sense and decency. The terminally greedy will go to any lengths to rationalize their abhorrent

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 1d

The tale of the #puppyexpress concludes even better than I could ever have hoped.

On Patreon & Substack:

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The Glorious Conclusion of the Wild Ride of the Puppy Express

Note: We will return to politics and business as usual tomorrow.

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Ashleigh Parsons @ashleighparsons.bsky.social · 22h

friends who is an artist with acrylic pours is incorporating a small amount of her ashes into some jewelery for us to keep her always close to our heart.

Dogs that choose you, change you - for the better - always.