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Shane Gerlach

@shanegerlach.bsky.social

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Addiction Counselor. Director Emeritus SiouxperCon. South Dakota Humanities Scholar. Recognized in 605 Magazine 2024 best of South Dakota, honored as Public Citizen of the Year by National Association Social Workers 2025. Blue Dot. Ally & Advocate.

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Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 3h

Authoritarian decline looks like this. The fusion of vanity, vengeance, and absurdity.
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The Price of Everything, the Value of Nothing

Trump’s Oval Office spectacle, Milei’s stadium encore, and the auctioning of a nation

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Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 8h

Fuck ICE
Daniel Warren Johnson gives us a taste of what Batman thinks of ICE.
#Batman
#NYCC
#FUCKICE

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

THIS!! 👇👇

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 2d

Some random Republican tried to come for me in the Halls of Congress.

Things didn’t work out well for him.

#SaveHealthcare

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@DemocracyHere @democracyhere.bsky.social · 3d

❤️🩵💛

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Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 3d

Shutdown Turbulence
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Shutdown Turbulence

Airports stall, allies seethe, public health collapses, and Trump still thinks this is all about love

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Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 4d

Trump’s Red Queen Weekend
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Trump’s Red Queen Weekend

From Portland to the Fed to the DOJ, judges and prosecutors told him no, and still he storms around shouting “off with their heads!”

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Bluesmobile @bluesmobile.bsky.social · 6d

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Freedom 💙Bluewave @freedom2323.bsky.social · 5d

Jesus loves me this I know.

Release the Epstein files you b*tch a$$ h0.

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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 5d

PHOTOS: Denver Broncos upset Philadelphia Eagles 21-17 in NFL Week 5 trib.al/a3EegQz

PHOTOS: Denver Broncos upset Philadelphia Eagles 21-17 in NFL Week 5

The Denver Broncos beat the Philadelphia Eagles 21-17 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 5d

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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thewakan.bsky.social @thewakan.bsky.social · 6d

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Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 5d

Paratroopers, Pepper Spray, and Political Theater
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Paratroopers, Pepper Spray, and Political Theater

Trump’s Signal chats, Portland’s courtroom victory, and Chicago’s forced Guard deployment expose a presidency built on optics, not safety.

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Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 7d

I'm so tired of the ignorance, especially the willful ignorance. Vote like your life depends on it. Disruption works when it is strategic, lawful where possible, morally defensible, and backed by the institutions that can sustain it.

a poster that says hold them accountable in white letters on a black background

ALT: a poster that says hold them accountable in white letters on a black background

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Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 7d

Before you comment Please define, without google what Socialmism and Communism are before you use those terms.
Please be able to tell me the branches of the Federal Government and what each is responsible for before you come at with me with "the President can do whatever he wants" argument.

Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 7d

Bottom line, you're going to vote how you want to vote, but at least vote and argue and bitch and complain based on basic fucking facts.
The Republicans don't make policy, they destroy the safety net and force Democrats to clean up the mess.

Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 7d

Lower-income levels will see the biggest increase, from $0 to $1,607 for a family earning $45,000. Nationally, premiums would increase an average of 114%.

Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 7d

Fellow South Dakotans: The proposed rate increases for #SouthDakota insurers: Avera (8.9%), Sanford Health (5.2%) and Wellmark of South Dakota (1.2%). Nationally, the median proposed increase is 18%.
KFF estimates that a family of four making $90,000 will have premiums increase by 56%.

Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 7d

In Florida, the average premium cost will increase 132 percent, or $521 annually
In Mississippi, the average premium will increase 314 percent, or $602 annually.
In Texas, will increase 289 percent, or $459 annually.

Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 7d

9. Hey Red States. How ya doing? This is what you voted for, right, to get them stinking "illegals" that were never on Medicaid, Medicare or the ACA in the first place.
In Alaska, the average premium cost will increase 346 percent, or $909 annually.

Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 7d

8a. A 45-year-old earning $20,000, or 128% of the federal poverty level, in a state that hasn’t expanded Medicaid coverage would see premiums for a benchmark health plan rise from $0 to $420 per year, on average, from the loss of enhanced premium tax credits, KFF said.

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Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 7d

8. Insurers in the ACA marketplace have also proposed raising rates by a median of 18%, due to rising health care costs and the expiration of enhanced subsidies, KFF said. That would be the largest rate increase since 2018.
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ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire | KFF

KFF estimates that, if Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits to expire at the end of this year, ACA Marketplace enrollees on average would see their premium payments more than double next y...

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Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 7d

7. The non-partisan CBO estimates that 4 MILLION American Citizens will be without health care. Recipients would see their premiums increase to $1,906 in 2026 from $888 this year, on average — a 114% increase, according to the Non-Partisan Health Party Research Group, KFF’s analysis.

Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 7d

6. Your Big useless President and the GOP-controlled Congress just sent Billions of Dollars to Argentina and Israel, both countries that have UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, while saying that we cannot afford to provide UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE for our own citizens.

Shane Gerlach @shanegerlach.bsky.social · 7d

5. The Idiot in charge is placing tariffs on Pharmaceutical drugs, increasing costs.