Erin O'Connor
@erinoconnor.bsky.social
Leftie resistor, mom of 3, lawyer, empath, INFJ, ❤️tacos & margaritas, 💙 Jamie Raskin = US Rep, ♥️ US history, forever blue, raising the next wave of blue voters 🚫DMs w/o consent 🚫Crypto/pot/MLM/OF/MAGA. I don't FB if you don't post anything.
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
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Really Really Free Holiday Market
Orange County CA
November 9, 2025
Sooooo happy and grateful for every single person who showed up yesterday! Thank you all and we’ll get started on planning the next one right away 🥰
Orange County CA
November 9, 2025
Sooooo happy and grateful for every single person who showed up yesterday! Thank you all and we’ll get started on planning the next one right away 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Really Really Free Holiday Market
Orange County CA
November 9, 2025
Sooooo happy and grateful for every single person who showed up yesterday! Thank you all and we’ll get started on planning the next one right away 🥰
Orange County CA
November 9, 2025
Sooooo happy and grateful for every single person who showed up yesterday! Thank you all and we’ll get started on planning the next one right away 🥰
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Average healthcare costs in the US:
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Average healthcare costs in the US:
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
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Kim Davis who tried to get the #SupremeCourt to overturn same sex marriage now owes a gay couple $360k — Fabulous 🏳️🌈
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Kim Davis who tried to get the #SupremeCourt to overturn same sex marriage now owes a gay couple $360k — Fabulous 🏳️🌈
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On the blog: In approving Trump's transphobic policy of listing sex assigned at birth on passports, SCOTUS said govt was "merely attesting to a historical fact," thus echoing the obtuseness of Plessy v Ferguson's statement that Black folks were only choosing to see segregation as white supremacy. 👇
SCOTUS Echoes Plessy v Ferguson in Greenlighting Trump's Transphobic Passport Policy
Repeating a pattern that has become all too familiar, late last week the Roberts Court issued a per curiam order staying a lower court rulin...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
On the blog: In approving Trump's transphobic policy of listing sex assigned at birth on passports, SCOTUS said govt was "merely attesting to a historical fact," thus echoing the obtuseness of Plessy v Ferguson's statement that Black folks were only choosing to see segregation as white supremacy. 👇
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Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
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Same one they all read....
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Same one they all read....
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The only silver lining to last night’s cave.
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The only silver lining to last night’s cave.
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It was nice to feel hopeful about America and optimistic about the future for six days though.
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It was nice to feel hopeful about America and optimistic about the future for six days though.
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Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
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AOC is absolutely correct!
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
AOC is absolutely correct!
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ICE abducted 9 documented workers at a car wash in Allston & denied them the chance to retrieve their documents — this is cruel & harrowing.
My office is in touch with the families and working with them to track down their loved ones & connect them with legal counsel.
My office is in touch with the families and working with them to track down their loved ones & connect them with legal counsel.
‘This is kidnapping — plain and simple’: ICE arrests 9 employees at Allston car wash trib.al/2NU6eGa
‘This is kidnapping — plain and simple’: ICE arrests 9 employees at Allston car wash
The employees were detained Tuesday morning before they could present their documents, according to the car wash’s manager.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
ICE abducted 9 documented workers at a car wash in Allston & denied them the chance to retrieve their documents — this is cruel & harrowing.
My office is in touch with the families and working with them to track down their loved ones & connect them with legal counsel.
My office is in touch with the families and working with them to track down their loved ones & connect them with legal counsel.
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