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Nancy B 💙🐱🐶📚💀

@extremebeautylv.bsky.social

Happy Caturday!

November 30, 2024 at 2:18 PM

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Brian Tyler Cohen

@briantylercohen.bsky.social

Wonder how Republicans are going to spin this statement from Pete Hegseth’s OWN MOTHER.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...

November 30, 2024 at 2:51 AM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

Lots of stories about how mass deportations will spike food prices and cause inflation. But as Tom Bonier noted, only one published before Election Day...

Lots of headlines about how deportations will cause labor shortages and spike food prices.

November 19, 2024 at 10:54 AM

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Just Jack

@just-jack-1.bsky.social

Democrats, take notes.

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · Nov 14

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

November 15, 2024 at 12:25 AM

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LillyV 🔞 🏳️‍⚧️ 30%off OF

@lillyvont.bsky.social

Bernie coming in hard and not fucking around. The democrats fucked everyone in 2016. I’m still pissed about it

Bernie
NEWS: Sanders Statement on the Results of the 2024 Presidential Election
November 6, 2024
BURLINGTON, Vt. - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement in response to the outcome of the 2024 presidential election:
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they're right.
Today, while the very rich are doing phenomenally well, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before. Unbelievably, real, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago.

Today, despite an explosion in technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents. And many of them worry that Artificial Intelligence and robotics will make a bad situation even worse.
Today, despite spending far more per capita than other countries, we remain the only wealthy nation not to guarantee health care to all as a human right and we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. We, alone among major countries, cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave.
Today, despite strong opposition from a majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu government's all out war against the Palestinian people which has led to the horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands of children.
Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign? Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much economic and political power? Probably not.
In the coming weeks and months those of us concerned about grassroots democracy and economic justice need to have some very serious political discussions.
Stay tuned.

November 6, 2024 at 10:19 PM

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Dennis A.

@dharmadog.bsky.social

#MayaAngelou

November 6, 2024 at 12:46 PM

Drew Phamy

@drewgee.bsky.social

It's Time!

November 3, 2024 at 5:36 AM

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darth™️

@darthbluesky.bsky.social

yes lets hear more about whether joe biden called them garbage

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 1

Trump on Liz Cheney: "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face."

November 1, 2024 at 4:56 AM

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Jennie🌷

@maobabie.com

doing my best just existing
#art

Illustration of a cartoon white cat laying in a grassy field with flowers. Her mouth and paws are stained with raspberry juice and a few berries still lay on top of her. Caption reads “I was meant to lay in the grass and eat berries”

October 26, 2024 at 5:37 PM

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Helen Kennedy

@helenkennedy.bsky.social

He made it. Early voting in Georgia begins today. Way to go Jimmy.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · Aug 3

Jimmy Carter went into hospice a year and a half ago, with doctors suggesting he might have only days to live. His 100th birthday is Oct 1 but his grandson said he's mostly focused on getting to November.

"I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his family.

Jimmy Carter’s next goal is voting for Kamala Harris for president

Former President Jimmy Carter, who turns 100 on Oct. 1, is “more alert and interested in politics and the war in Gaza” in recent days, his family says.

www.ajc.com

October 15, 2024 at 2:13 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

very good piece from earlier this year on glenn youngkin absolutely sucking shit at the actual job of governor. tl;dr: he’s a vicious partisan, got entirely high on his own supply and treated the legislature as an obstacle to overcome vs. a partner to work with.

Va. Gov. Youngkin arrived like a GOP star, but arena failure clouds legacy

The Republican parlayed business success into the Governor’s Mansion, but the failed deal to move the Wizards and Capitals to a new arena in Virginia is a political setback.

www.washingtonpost.com

October 15, 2024 at 12:57 PM

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emptywheel

@emptywheel.bsky.social

Here's VP Harris' new ad on Trump's insult of Detroit.

"Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she's your president."

He should be so goddamn lucky.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPgQ...

Like Detroit | Harris-Walz 2024

YouTube video by Kamala Harris

www.youtube.com

October 11, 2024 at 6:36 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

ah yes, what is worse? passing a law through congress to add more seats to the supreme court — as per congress’ explicitly stated constitutional authority — or a violent coup to overturn the constitutional order?

October 5, 2024 at 2:06 AM

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Place where cat shouldn't be

@catshouldnt.bsky.social

three heads are better than one

October 4, 2024 at 7:22 AM

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Hemry, Local Bartender

@bartenderhemry.bsky.social

Stating the obvious but "temporary protected status" is not some cuddly special-birthday-boy thing us wokes cooked up to coddle shiftless migrants. It means that returning these folks to their home country carries an imminent risk of death. Trump is saying "i would like to kill innocent people"