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@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · Aug 9

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ma...

For decades, Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused and trafficked girls and young women. His power and money shielded him from accountability—and he was enabled by those around him. Americans have been left...

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@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · Jun 27

I just donated to the Alejandro Narcizo Barranco Go Fund Me Page. Here is the link: gofund.me/2f64565c

Donate to Justice for Narciso: Assaulted and detained by CBP, organized by Jacqueline Vasquez

Today June 21st 2025, NARCISO BARRANCO, husband and father, whom… Jacqueline Vasquez needs your support for Justice for Narciso: Assaulted and detained by CBP

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@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · Jun 9

This is the one we warned about.
www.treason.io/p/this-is-th...

This is the one we warned about.

Trump is deploying the military in California. It could be the beginning of his worst abuse of power yet.

www.treason.io

@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · Jun 5

🚨 No president should use the White House for revenge. Join over 200 bipartisan leaders standing with whistleblowers like Miles Taylor. Support the legal defense fund at 👉 ENDPRESIDENTIALREVENGE.org #EndPresidentialRevenge #Whistleblower #MilesTaylor

End Presidential Revenge: Support Miles Taylor's Legal Defense

Join over 200 bipartisan leaders in defending democracy. Support the legal fund opposing presidential retaliation against whistleblowers like Miles Taylor. Stand up for constitutional rights today.

ENDPRESIDENTIALREVENGE.org

@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · May 10

I just signed up for Red Wine & Blue's June Banned Book Club. We're reading "A Queer History of the United States" and the author, Michael Bronski, will be there! Come learn and discuss LGBTQ+ history — something extremists want to ban. social.redwine.blue/s/aoNnyPWv

RSVP here.

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@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · Apr 15

This ad is quite simply the most honest depiction of the Republican Tax Scam in existence.

Share it everywhere! #MAGABlowingYourTaxes

@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · Apr 9

From The Contrarian newsletter a quote from Jeffrey Frankel of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: “A remarkable 9 of the last 10 recessions have started when a Republican was president."

@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · Apr 9

From The Contrarian newsletter today: “The last five recessions all started while a Republican was in the White House (Reagan. G.H.W. Bush, G.W. Bush twice, and Trump),” Jeffrey Frankel from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government wrote last year.

@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · Apr 1

BREAKING:

There are actions across the country today calling for the immediate release of illegally abducted and detained union members Rumeysa Ozturk and Lewelyn Dixon!

ICE is acting like the gestapo and we can't turn a blind eye.

Repost if you demand their release! #4The1st

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@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · Apr 1

It's time to call out the GOP for what they are: a party that prioritizes power over people.

The SAVE Act is just the latest example of their attempts to silence our voices and maintain their grip on power.

#HandsOffHerVote

@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · Mar 24

substack.com/redirect/b06...
This video from the War Department in 1945 is worth watching.

Don't Be a Sucker

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · Mar 24

substack.com/redirect/b06...
This video put out by the War Department is worth watching.

Don't Be a Sucker

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

substack.com

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Tammy Golden @tammygolden.bsky.social · Mar 21

If only they were both beasts that were only rumored to exist

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · Mar 21

Good news out of Colorado! A Federal judge orders Colorado district to return banned books to school libraries. Good work! www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...

Federal judge orders Colorado district to return banned books to school libraries

The order prohibits the school board from removing books “because the district disagrees with the views expressed therein or merely to further their preferred political or religious orthodoxy.”

www.denverpost.com

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · Mar 22

Trump ordered the end of diversity, equity & inclusion federal programs hours after taking office, trying to implement Project 2025's regressive goal of White male domination over women & people of color. Stop resurging patriarchy. Support civil rights.

Support our campaign to oppose MAGA extremism

dlvr.it

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · Mar 22

If AOC or someone like her started a progressive party that ran on things like universal healthcare, UBI, protections for immigrants and LGBTQIA people, antiracism, etc., I (and I imagine many others) would gleefully organize and vote for that party, like I think it might actually work

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · Mar 22

I’m a transgender writer.

I’m not your punching bag. Not your project. Not your scapegoat. Not your villain.

I’ve survived worse than your pearl clutching outrage—and I’m still loud, proud and here to stay.

My existence is not up for debate.

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · Mar 22

Oligarchs own most of our major media! ‘Stripped For Parts’ exposes a hedge fund plundering America’s newspapers and the journalists fighting back. Join us for a Zoom screening and discussion w/ director Rick Goldsmith on Saturday, March 29th. Sign up below! www.mobilize.us/mediademocra...

SCREENING: "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink" + Director Rick Goldsmith · The Media and Democracy Project

Worried about the media diets of your fellow Americans, the loss of local journalism jobs - and the impact of this on our democracy? Join our Zoom screening of "Stripped for Parts: American Journalis...

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · Mar 22

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · Mar 22

What do you call humans being kidnapped and sent to another country to be imprisoned in shackles and forced to perform intense physical labor while living in horrid conditions under the threat of daily physical violence and rape?

Open a history book. You can do it. I believe in you.

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · Mar 22

Unprecedented tornadoes. Melting ice caps. Hurricanes intensified by warming seas. 2nd degree burns on 117°F asphalt. Why are MAGA Republicans in lockstep with the fossil fuel industry?
Dark money contributions to MAGA politicians.
http://dlvr.it/TJhQB8 #SaveOurClimate

Support our campaign to oppose MAGA extremism

dlvr.it

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For the Many NJ @forthemanynj.bsky.social · Mar 17

"Health care is a basic need, and Medicaid provides that for a broad range of low- and moderate-income people in our country..." Bottom line: Republicans can't make their proposed $ cuts w/o hurting *billions* of people. That's why we're in this fight. #PeopleOverProfits www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

Congressional Republicans Can’t Cut Medicaid by Hundreds of Billions Without Hurting People | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Medicaid is a popular program that covers 72 million people. The majority of U.S. adults across party affiliations oppose cuts to Medicaid.

www.cbpp.org

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@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · Mar 21

You know all those book bans and school board fights that have been happening? Well, this new report shows that they cost our schools $3.2 BILLION just last year!!! 🤯 Our kids and teachers deserve better. Read the report for yourself at the link! social.redwine.blue/s/fNtST2e0

Get the report.

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@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · Mar 20

Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...

Free Mahmoud Khalil and protect students exercising their First Amendment rights!

Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the rig...

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@milt49 @milt49.bsky.social · Mar 13

The Center for American Progress Action says that without unions the middle class withers.
Fight back against oligarchs & massive companies' union-busting. Support union workers and unions. app.sosha.ai/s/MDa1jTAF

Read this article and support efforts for unionization.

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