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gingerread.bsky.social
@gingerread.bsky.social
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Every day I ask how can I help? Returning the shopping cart at a store, adding a comment of encouragement on somebody’s post. Mailing books to state representatives, or checking on a friend. Whatever our actions, keep asking: how can I help? RS

I am America: inspired by Heather Cox Richardson
August 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The GOP's loyalty to Trump is about to cost America everything. Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" has passed the Senate. Now what? @therickwilson.bsky.social breaks it down: youtu.be/BvFji84kSmE
Trump's Bill Will DEVASTATE Red States and Republicans Know It
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
youtu.be
July 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Difficult to overstate how depraved, racist, sociopathic, and fascistic the modern Republican Party has become.
July 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Congressman Gabe Evans is about to vote on whether to kick millions of Americans off health care.

He's refused to hold town halls to hear from his own constituents, so I went to his office to read the words of a person in his district who could badly suffer, or die, without Medicaid.
July 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski on the Big Ugly Bill she just voted for:

“Do I like this bill? No. But I tried to take care of Alaska’s interests, but I know that in many parts of the country, there are Americans that are not going to be advantaged by this bill"
July 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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"I know I could *not* pull this lever, and the trolley would just go along it's merry way and everyone would be fine, and if I pull the lever, millions will die. So I'm going to go ahead and pull it, and maybe someone else will save them?" -Lisa Murkowski, probably
July 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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$45 billion for ethnic cleansing
It’s one thing to say they want to deport 20 million people, it’s even one thing to go nuts brazenly doing whatever you can as the executive branch to make it happen, but the fact that they’re going to give ICE an additional 45B shows how committed they are to seeing this through.
July 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Trump is now calling for the deportation of American citizens.

This is fascism
July 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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After Texas made performing abortions a felony in August 2022, ProPublica found, the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54%.

Reporting by Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Andrea Suozzo
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
www.propublica.org
July 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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girl 😒 casting an "agonizing" *aye vote* and having the nerve to be like 'pls change it' is ridiculous

related: does anyone have the latest Senate version?

I know GOP released this around 11am but with all the frantic changes, idk what text they actually passed

www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
July 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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"I know that in many parts of the country, there are Americans that are not going to be advantaged by this bill. I don't like that.”

After voting in favor of the GOP domestic policy bill, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, says she still has issues with it.
July 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice. Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice. Taking from those in need and giving to the rich is a policy choice.

Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP are choosing to do this with their budget bill. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]
July 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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ATTENTION Susan Collins/Lusaka Murkowsky!!

Attached is what 13 of Alaskans and Maine's population goes through EVERYDAY.
Alexis traveled from NC to tell @SenThomTillis: Medicaid lets her daughter Kinsley live at home, not in a hospital. “Medicaid is a lifeline.” She’s not asking for charity—she’s fighting for her child. Senator, vote NO on cuts or face the people you’re hurting. #MedicaidSavesOurLives
June 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Lisa Murkowsky is a coward. If she’s so scared of Trump and MAGA, then she should resign immediately. You sold out the whole country except for Alaska. Thanks for nothing
July 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Senator Lisa Murkowsky
July 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Heartless Lisa Murkowsky
July 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Having already spent over $7M backing the right-wing candidate in Wisconsin's Supreme Court election, Elon Musk's Super PAC is now offering Wisconsin voters $100 each to sign its petition against "activist judges."

This is what a broken campaign finance system looks like.
March 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Absolutely superb and important piece by Professors @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and @ryanenos.bsky.social
The only way to fight authoritarianism is to fight together. Strongest institutions in the front.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.
www.thecrimson.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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This is a really good video
So who’s paying for Republicans’ massive billionaire and corporate tax cut? Families. Sick kids. Disabled kids. Rural hospitals. Seniors. Students. They’re all footing the bill as Medicaid will be ripped away if we don’t act.

Thank you @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
#SaveMedicaid
March 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Just so we’re all clear, the Supreme Court *expressly ruled* that the president cannot fire FTC commissioners without cause in 1935’s Humphrey’s Executor. Trump’s action here is brazenly illegal under any interpretation of the law as it stands. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump fires both Democratic commissioners at FTC, sources say
President Donald Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the situation said, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies.
www.reuters.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Of all the spineless worms out there, Rubio may be the wormiest.
March 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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GOP’s aim is to shutdown democracy and 'replace it with techno-state dictatorship' warns Rep. Raskin

Rep. Jamie Raskin joins Jonathan Capehart to discuss how President Trump used his speech at the Justice Department to attack his critics and vow to exact revenge.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIfD...
The GOP aim to shutdown democracy and 'replace it with techno-state dictatorship' warns Rep. Raskin
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
March 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk."
March 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM