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Cultural Political Warrior🇮🇪🇲🇽 Human Rights Activist 💙 Migration Studies-Oxford Planner Architect We have it in our power to begin the world over again~Thomas Paine “Drive it like you stole it” 🚜💙 Mexico 🇲🇽Ireland 🇮🇪 🦫Illinois 🌾

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29m

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Thanksgiving Canada 🇨🇦 🍁

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 1d

Over $10t hoarded in corporate coffers, offshore accounts & bank vaults while Americans face a recession. The radical left isn't coming for your guns—just that money. We want healthcare, not violence. We just want what's ours.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 6h

The Trump-China trade relationship reminds me of my middle school love life: On one week, off the week, high drama, passing notes, heartache, renewal, gossip, and we did it all again the next week.

The reality, of course, is that despite the drama, no-one was making long-term commitments.

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lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social · 7h

Equal savagery.

Regimes never change

Many British Common laws became standards for the US government.
(These were controversial, restrictive and reinforce class and racial segregation.
They are regressive and dangerous precedents.)

Many of these laws created and enforced by state constitutions.

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lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social · 7h

Bobby Sands and the Hunger Strikers are a lesson for the present and the future.

Oppression of the people is the root of the decay of any nation.

“…everyone has a part to play, no part is to big or too small.. no one is too young or too old..

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lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social · 7h

The internments led to the Hunger Strikes of 1981. The torture of the Hunger Strikers became the story of the torture of the people in Ireland.

Mo Chara
May the world understand and know that injustice, detention and oppression is the root of moral violence and corruption.

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Hunger Strike 1981

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lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social · 7h

Everyone in America should know about Bloody Sunday.

It led to unlawful detention and internments for 20 years.

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Bloody Sunday 1972: The day's events explained

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social · 7h

Lack of education leads to a lack of innovation.

Lack of innovation destroys the workforce.

Public education was founded by President Thomas Jefferson.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 11h

At least half a dozen companies vying for some of the $45B allocated for immigration detention work hired a friend of border czar Tom Homan because that friend (who previously had Homan on his payroll) led them to believe his connections to Homan would help their chances of scoring a contract.

Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign

A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...

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lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social · 7h

That’s enough in Europe 😂

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lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social · 8h

JD never practiced law. Why does anyone listen to his opinions?

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 9h

RFK Jr.’s attack on mRNA vaccines will cost lives
HHS shouldn't pull the plug on vaccine breakthroughs. If RFK is successful in rolling back any vaccine’s approval, many will suffer and die. Using children as his guinea pigs is unconscionable. He must be removed.
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RFK Jr.'s attack on mRNA vaccines will cost lives

HHS shouldn't pull the plug on vaccine breakthroughs

www.salon.com

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 13h

#trumpsEconomy
$$$$$

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

#MedicareForAll

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lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social · 21h

Illinois is the Land of Love 🩵💙

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social · 1d

Run for office and quit whining.

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lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social · 1d

The military are already using food pantries.

1.6 trillion was wiped off the economy today.

The rich are terrified of losing their wealth and power.

lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social · 1d

Witches were burned for their property. They were young heiresses and widows.

The immigrant scam is also a property grab. Wealthy want free labor, and are on a property heist.