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Alpaca Lunch Box @alpacalunchbox.bsky.social · 51m

Never mind what are the byproducts of renewed focus on coal or a legacy of coal… 😞

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Tam-Rah @blue-fire1.bsky.social · 16h

While the rest of us die.
This is all they want, people to work in the pollution plants. Workers and the rich.
As Trump Boosts Coal Industry, Black Lung Miners Say They've Been 'Cast Aside to Die' www.commondreams.org/news/trump-c...

As Trump Boosts Coal Industry, Black Lung Miners Say They've Been 'Cast Aside to Die' | Common Dreams

“The Trump administration was handed tools to protect black lung and they are doing everything in their power to toss those rules in the trash,” said one campaigner ahead of a planned protest.

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Navigator Research @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social · 7d

ICYMI: The government shut down last week — and Americans are clear on who’s to blame:

🔴45% Republicans in Congress
🔵26% Democrats in Congress
🟣21% Both equally

Read our full shutdown report: navigatorresearch.org/republicans-...

Republicans on the Hook for Government Shutdown

Polling report on perceptions of a potential government shutdown.

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Alpaca Lunch Box @alpacalunchbox.bsky.social · 2h

I have great hopes for Mamdani, and I really don’t care to hear anything about anyone named Cuomo.

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Navigator Research @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social · 4d

By a 13-point margin, Americans say Trump and Republicans in Congress are more to blame for the government shutdown than Democrats.

Top concern for Democrats, independents, and persuadables: stopping cuts to Medicaid and the ACA.

Learn more:
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Americans want the shutdown to end, but not if it means leaving millions without health care

Polling report on how to talk about the shutdown fight.

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Andrew M_CEO 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 @andrewmceo.bsky.social · 20h

My grandfather used to say: "The best Nazis are dead Nazis."

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"To bring a democracy under authoritarian control, you need more than a strongman. You need politicians who will assure the public, as we slide toward one-man rule, that nothing odd is happening." Wouldn't you know who one of them is!

New from @saletan.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...

The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism

Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes.

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Alpaca Lunch Box @alpacalunchbox.bsky.social · 10h

“The extreme left”.

Hmmm. 🧐

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Chris C 🦋 @maxsmightymom.bsky.social · 14h

I want to get Chris Christie's opinion as much as I want to hear Andrew Cuomo's: a big fat NO. I know Christie is now a paid commentator on ABC but come on, you have him stating the freaking obvious. Tell us something we don't know already or STFU.

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Alpaca Lunch Box @alpacalunchbox.bsky.social · 10h

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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Bozzi @bozzione.bsky.social · 22h

Trump is now working to secure one party rule--just like Mussolini and Hitler did
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Trump is now working to secure one party rule--just like Mussolini and Hitler did

History is screaming at us!

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Alpaca Lunch Box @alpacalunchbox.bsky.social · 18h

34th President of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower. Republican. Antifa.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Dan @djlane.bsky.social · 22h

No one, in Tennessee legislature, that introduced legislation for child marriages, should EVER be re-elected again.

Can’t anyone see the danger to America’s children?

Time to vote the pedophiles out.

#ProudBlue

Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 23h

Is Tennessee ready for a progressives resurgence? It could be. Rep Justin Jones is challenging entrenched Rep.Stephen Cohen who holds the only Democratic House seat in the state Cohen is progressive but is part of the Dem establishment. Jones has a great shot at winning the Memphis seat #ProudBlue

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Alpaca Lunch Box @alpacalunchbox.bsky.social · 18h

I’ve never even called him the title normally reserved for every other occupant of the White House Oval Office.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22h

Respect to those who got here first.

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Alpaca Lunch Box @alpacalunchbox.bsky.social · 18h

Also Halloween…

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22h

Congrats to Joel Mokyr, a professor at Northwestern in IL, on being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.

His groundbreaking work on sustained economic growth ignites innovative solutions — leading to a brighter outlook for our future.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction. n.pr/4oh42lZ

3 share Nobel Prize in Economics for work on technology, growth and creative destruction

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction.

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Alpaca Lunch Box @alpacalunchbox.bsky.social · 19h

The talent is amazing. The feeling this is sweatshop-like enforced efficiency is palpable.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20h

I – like Trump and RFK Jr. – do not have a medical degree.

So, when questions surrounding medical treatments emerge, I listen to people who do.

I get my information from doctors and public health experts – and urge you to do the same.

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Alpaca Lunch Box @alpacalunchbox.bsky.social · 21h

Listening now. Absolutely! So good!

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Tam-Rah @blue-fire1.bsky.social · 23h

Despicable.
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Native Heroes Erased

Native war heroes were swept up in President Donald Trump’s recent DEI directive at the Pentagon, erasing their legacies from its annals of military history. While some scrubbed photos and stories hav...

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Alpaca Lunch Box @alpacalunchbox.bsky.social · 22h

Honestly, do SCOTUS NOT make enough money to reasonably live on? And btw, there’s NO reason any one of them cannot choose to disclose their finances and make a case to the American people that they NEED more money, and hence book publishing income.

Alpaca Lunch Box @alpacalunchbox.bsky.social · 23h

Imagine being anti-vax, but getting a Covid immunization.

Imagine trying to eliminate healthcare for MILLIONS of Americans and increasing their risk exponentially to be economically destitute, while you have the best health care America has to offer.

Imagine…

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

Imagine making six figures to not do anything you were entrusted to do.

…getting paid to not work while thousands of civil servants around you were getting fired.

…betraying those who counted on you to represent them, all to appease a wannabe dictator.

The GOP Congress is a helluva thing.

Alpaca Lunch Box @alpacalunchbox.bsky.social · 1d

No finer way to assure decent Americans will find your publication & journal irrevocably irrelevant than to praise Trump for “peace”. And…

If Middle East history should teach anyone anything, there is no “peace”. At best it’s CEASE-FIRE to prepare for more war.

Surely we know that by now don’t we?

Andrew M_CEO 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 @andrewmceo.bsky.social · 1d

He'll still never get the Nobel Peace Prize. 😆

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