JD Foster
@jdfoster.bsky.social
Learner, Organizer, Dad.
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JD Foster
@jdfoster.bsky.social
· Jan 21
“One day, our children and grandchildren may ask us, ‘When it was all on the line, what did you do?’ And the only acceptable answer is, everything we could,”
- Cecile Richards.
- Cecile Richards.
Happy belated #NationalBestFriendsDay to my bestie.
June 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Happy belated #NationalBestFriendsDay to my bestie.
On this day of redemption and rejuvenation, let us celebrate the innate dignity of every human being - regardless of the color of their skin, their gender, where they were born, how much money they make, what house they worship in, or who they happen to love.
April 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
On this day of redemption and rejuvenation, let us celebrate the innate dignity of every human being - regardless of the color of their skin, their gender, where they were born, how much money they make, what house they worship in, or who they happen to love.
A cathartic tactic isn’t inherently an effective tactic.
April 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A cathartic tactic isn’t inherently an effective tactic.
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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
www.wired.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
So many college-educated folks don't seem to understand the Trump majority includes a substantial number of people that don't feel western liberal-democratic capitalism is working for them and their families. Those voters don't tease out capitalism from democracy, the whole thing is "the system."
April 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So many college-educated folks don't seem to understand the Trump majority includes a substantial number of people that don't feel western liberal-democratic capitalism is working for them and their families. Those voters don't tease out capitalism from democracy, the whole thing is "the system."
Nothing says Christian more than commodifying Easter...
www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/p...
YouTube, Amazon and Meta sign up to sponsor White House Easter Egg Roll | CNN Politics
The White House has set up high-dollar partnerships with YouTube, Meta and Amazon, among others, for Monday’s Easter Egg Roll, underscoring the close relationships the leaders of those tech companies ...
www.cnn.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Nothing says Christian more than commodifying Easter...
www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/p...
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Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
The term #Woke, as it was used by Black southerners in the early and mid-1920s, simply meant keeping your eyes open for any injustice being perpetrated.
So, when someone is against #wokeness, they want you to ignore what they are about to do to you or others you care about.
So, when someone is against #wokeness, they want you to ignore what they are about to do to you or others you care about.
March 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
HEY GRANDMA, YOU'RE A FRAUD.
This same tactic has been used on #Medicaid and ALWAYS leads to the same result: people who fully qualify for their earned benefits don't get them.
They will call it something else, but this is a cut to #SocialSecurity.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This same tactic has been used on #Medicaid and ALWAYS leads to the same result: people who fully qualify for their earned benefits don't get them.
They will call it something else, but this is a cut to #SocialSecurity.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Social Security to require millions to make claims in person rather than by phone
The change is expected to create new hardships as Trump and Musk push massive cuts to the agency that serves elderly and disabled Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
HEY GRANDMA, YOU'RE A FRAUD.
This same tactic has been used on #Medicaid and ALWAYS leads to the same result: people who fully qualify for their earned benefits don't get them.
They will call it something else, but this is a cut to #SocialSecurity.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This same tactic has been used on #Medicaid and ALWAYS leads to the same result: people who fully qualify for their earned benefits don't get them.
They will call it something else, but this is a cut to #SocialSecurity.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Anger is not a strategy
March 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Anger is not a strategy
A set of tactics is not a strategy.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
March 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A set of tactics is not a strategy.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
Is the reason that the Democratic Party and professional progressives are focusing so much on DOGE - in which public opinion is split - and not on the cuts to Medicaid and other health care programs - which are incredibly unpopular - that they can not identify with the working families on Medicaid?
March 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Is the reason that the Democratic Party and professional progressives are focusing so much on DOGE - in which public opinion is split - and not on the cuts to Medicaid and other health care programs - which are incredibly unpopular - that they can not identify with the working families on Medicaid?
They can no longer pretend that they care about working people.
February 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
They can no longer pretend that they care about working people.
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It’s early. Stay tuned.
Staggering that McKee doesn’t have a single serious candidate running against him.
Gov McKee liked some of what he heard from Stephen Miller at the White House:
"Anytime you can cut down the bureaucracy and the timeframes and the regulation on the federal level, that helps the states. I thought that was good. ... And the president reinforced that"
"Anytime you can cut down the bureaucracy and the timeframes and the regulation on the federal level, that helps the states. I thought that was good. ... And the president reinforced that"
February 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
It’s early. Stay tuned.
I’ve been sober for eleven years and one day. It keeps getting better.
February 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I’ve been sober for eleven years and one day. It keeps getting better.
Repeat after me:
#Stonewall is TRANS history. We cannot and will not comply with the erasure of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera or any other of our trans brothers and sisters from our past, present and future.
#Stonewall is TRANS history. We cannot and will not comply with the erasure of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera or any other of our trans brothers and sisters from our past, present and future.
Park Service deletes trans references on Stonewall Inn monument page
“LGB” reference made to comply with Trump executive order on gender, National Park Service says.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Repeat after me:
#Stonewall is TRANS history. We cannot and will not comply with the erasure of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera or any other of our trans brothers and sisters from our past, present and future.
#Stonewall is TRANS history. We cannot and will not comply with the erasure of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera or any other of our trans brothers and sisters from our past, present and future.
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Medicaid ensures life-saving health care for millions of Americans and protects vital public services.
Join us and tell Congress: Say NO to cuts to Medicaid. Use this form and we’ll connect you directly to your representative! 👉
Join us and tell Congress: Say NO to cuts to Medicaid. Use this form and we’ll connect you directly to your representative! 👉
Take Action Now: Medicaid Matters to Our State
AFSCME members won’t sit on the sidelines as Congress is crafting a tax and budget package that cuts federal funding for Medicaid. We won’t be silent as anti-worker lawmakers target people with disabi...
act.afscme.org
February 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Medicaid ensures life-saving health care for millions of Americans and protects vital public services.
Join us and tell Congress: Say NO to cuts to Medicaid. Use this form and we’ll connect you directly to your representative! 👉
Join us and tell Congress: Say NO to cuts to Medicaid. Use this form and we’ll connect you directly to your representative! 👉
Trayvon Martin would have turned 30 today.
February 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Trayvon Martin would have turned 30 today.
Every life has seasons and it’s ok to transition into the next one.
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Every life has seasons and it’s ok to transition into the next one.
“But my people have worn green glasses on their eyes so long that most of them think it really is an Emerald City” - The Wizard of Oz.
January 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“But my people have worn green glasses on their eyes so long that most of them think it really is an Emerald City” - The Wizard of Oz.
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Dear the Media,
When something bad happens in an area under the executive branch's purview, and the White House goes "uh... a Black or gay person must've done it," you do not need to accept that. You're allowed to follow up in pursuit of the factual reason, not the bigoted excuse.
Love,
The public
When something bad happens in an area under the executive branch's purview, and the White House goes "uh... a Black or gay person must've done it," you do not need to accept that. You're allowed to follow up in pursuit of the factual reason, not the bigoted excuse.
Love,
The public
January 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Dear the Media,
When something bad happens in an area under the executive branch's purview, and the White House goes "uh... a Black or gay person must've done it," you do not need to accept that. You're allowed to follow up in pursuit of the factual reason, not the bigoted excuse.
Love,
The public
When something bad happens in an area under the executive branch's purview, and the White House goes "uh... a Black or gay person must've done it," you do not need to accept that. You're allowed to follow up in pursuit of the factual reason, not the bigoted excuse.
Love,
The public
In another timeline, Sam Seaborn is a week and a half into his first term.
January 30, 2025 at 2:52 AM
In another timeline, Sam Seaborn is a week and a half into his first term.
ICYMI: you can’t be a Christian and anti-immigrant.
January 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
ICYMI: you can’t be a Christian and anti-immigrant.
If you're ignoring the fact that your immigrant neighbors are being terrorized and rounded up... remember that Germans in the 1930s were doing the exact same thing.
January 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you're ignoring the fact that your immigrant neighbors are being terrorized and rounded up... remember that Germans in the 1930s were doing the exact same thing.
MAGA apologists: Don't worry, it's not like they can retroactively take away citizenship...
The Trump Administration:
The Trump Administration:
January 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
MAGA apologists: Don't worry, it's not like they can retroactively take away citizenship...
The Trump Administration:
The Trump Administration: