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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 17h

So we were cowards, so we were liars
So we're not heroes, we're still survivors
The dreamers, the fighters, no lying, I'm tired
But dive in the fire, and I'll be right here by your side!

'What It Sounds Like' Huntrexx

aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 17h

We're shattering the silence, we're rising, defiant
Shouting in the quiet, "You're not alone"
We listened to the demons, we let them get between us
But none of us are out here on our own

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19h

#A_NewHope ✊

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aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

Gross incompetence...I have zero doubts that Kegseth loves him

aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

Me too

aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the list

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aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, we have no idea if others have survived the initial attack and then they just gunned them down while they were trying to swim away.
Hell for all we know these people are plants to justify their actions.
There is literally nothing about this administration or its words that can be trusted

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aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

Good. Run by partisan hacks anyway.

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aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

It's always both Kevin

a man and a woman are looking at each other and the man is asking " both "

ALT: a man and a woman are looking at each other and the man is asking " both "

media.tenor.com

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aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

Done

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re worried about the authoritarianism peaceful protest is the way

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

We're going to make history tomorrow. #NoKings

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 2d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 3d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

Gosh, I wonder where "Young" Republicans got the notion that Nazis and gas chambers were good ideas from?

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aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

Cryptocurrency, the Amway of the 21st century

aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

Never.

aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

Why does almost every conversation with Republicans end up with them talking about sex and children?

Apparently often enough that it's literally become it's own stereotype of Republicans.

aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

So still a rich pedophile but no one has to call him "Prince" anymore?

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aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

What Republicans mean is you are free to praise Dear Leader all you want. Anything else and you are a terrorist and a communist and unAmerican.
All hail our Orange Messiah.

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Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social · 2d

I'm honored to have President @barackobama.bsky.social on Team Mikie.

This movement is about delivering something better for New Jersey — lower costs, more opportunity for our kids, and a government that's truly accountable to the people.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

As governor, I know @mikiesherrill.bsky.social will deliver for New Jersey. She has the experience and plans to drive down costs – and the integrity, grit, and commitment to service to be the kind of leader we need right now.

Make a plan to vote today at mikiesherrill.com.

Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social · 2d

I'm honored to have President @barackobama.bsky.social on Team Mikie.

This movement is about delivering something better for New Jersey — lower costs, more opportunity for our kids, and a government that's truly accountable to the people.

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aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

You can be 623.4% sure of that.

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aboutthevote.bsky.social @aboutthevote.bsky.social · 1d

So the rich pedophile is going to stop using his made up titles of his fake royal family (the last direct descendant of the original British royal family, Queen Anne, died in 1714 and the crown then went to a second cousin in Hanover because they didn't want it to go to a Catholic)

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