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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · Aug 16

What was I saying...oh yes...

Global. Energy. Oligarchy.
Oil. Rare Earth Minerals. Control of everything.
This is a great party, eh? /s

Screenshot of an April 28, 2018 Twitter post that reads: As soon as the GOP anti-parks caucus & cronies got their boy Trump, they set fire to public lands, EPA, ESA, a host of wildlife protections, science, and American leadership on climate change—all obstacles to the building of a Global Energy Oligarchy in cooperation with NRA and Putin.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 47m

I was thinking more along the lines of
Last chance healthcare, before we give up coverage at the New Year!
•one already-scheduled check-up at the doctor
•one for the dentist
•Giant bag of rice
•Giant bag of beans
The big splurge? A gas mask. You never know when ICE will be coming down the chimney!

Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

Here are the luxury items Gwyneth Paltrow recommends this holiday gifting season.

Gwyneth Paltrow's Holiday Gift Guides Include $40,000 Bracelet, $360,000 Jukebox And More Ultra-Luxe Items

Here are the luxury items Gwyneth Paltrow recommends this holiday gifting season.

www.forbes.com

These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 1h

😬
Jeebus. Really?

These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 13h

Wild horses & burros are federally protected--but it doesn't stop the brutality. Bureau of Land Management orchestrates horrific roundups--like ICE for horses--breaking up familial bands,often causing injury & death.They pay cattle ranchers to warehouse them in misery or auction them to anyone w/ $.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 19h

This land return and tule elk reintroduction is a significant milestone in California's relationship with the Tule River Indian Tribe.

We're taking critical steps to confront the historical wrongs committed by the state against the Native people of this land.

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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 13h

Despicable.

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 15h

Congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, who was indicted today for protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility: "We've been punched, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, rubber bullets from snipers on roofs going into local businesses windows."

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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 14h

The fantasy is techno-corporate-commie-feudalism, but unlike the MAGA minions who destroy democracy for treats, We the People have not been sedated and we will always know the definition of freedom, and we are not about to surrender it to a bunch of goons who've recently crawled out of a basement.

These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 15h

There are sometimes very general polls on these topics.
Quite depressing.
Now, if they were used to inform and initiate some publicly available civic education programming, that would be rad.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.

DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 17h

The U.S. is experiencing its highest wave of layoffs since 2020, with close to a million workers losing their jobs this year.

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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 16h

Turn the 'NO' volume up to 11.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16h

You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights.

Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal

Defend Kat Against Unjust Charges

Show your support with a contribution.

katforillinois.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 16h

It is all hard to take, but the kids part cuts the deepest 💔

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 23h

Career prosecutors were put on leave, allegedly for stating the truth about J6. The Administration is working overtime to erase history. It’s incumbent upon all of us to document truth, preserve historical record, and stand firm against efforts to replace facts.

abcnews.go.com/US/doj-place...

DOJ places on leave 2 prosecutors who said 'mob' of 'rioters' carried out Jan. 6 attack

Two federal prosecutors have been told they will be put on leave after filing a brief that described the Jan. 6, 2021, attackers a "mob of rioters," sources say.

abcnews.go.com

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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 16h

It is worth the watch--this is the history that people are trying to erase--ironically, while establishing the same kind of environment that created the history they want everyone to forget.

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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 17h

It is, but the bad is always there.
This Bill Moyers (RIP) doc is from 1976--focuses on the horrible racism from white ppl of Rosedale and the experience of a Black fam who moved there. Just 49 yrs ago.
Warning: includes footage of flagrant racism; use of the n-word.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRfA...

Bill Moyers' Journal - Rosedale: The Way It Is

YouTube video by Richard Kotuk

www.youtube.com

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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 17h

WOW.😱🤬

"How is he going to treat those people still in mourning?"
With compassion...because they are his fellow New Yorkers?

"He just understand the New York culture...why people came here...'
Didn't he...come here?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:

$100 billion

Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:

$100 billion

One is decried as "welfare." One is not.

Why?

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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 20h

Every single time, please.

And other straight to the point things like:
"Taxation without representation was a key issue leading to the American Revolution. Aren't you engaging in that by denying Grijalva's constituents their voice through her vote by refusing to swear her in?"

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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many damn red flags around here, you can't see anything *but* red flags.

Our only response seems to be:
There *sure are a *lot* of red flags around here. I think there are *more* red flags around here today, than yesterday. I wonder what the red flag forecast will be for tomorrow.

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Farmer Marv Bot 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🚜🌾 @farmermarvbot.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking of all my Jamaican friends and neighbors…

youtu.be/qUuvLwxZ8CA?...

"Weather The Storm" - I-Grade Dub feat. Pressure, Midnite, and Ras Batch

YouTube video by Midnight Raver

youtu.be

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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in a very dark place and I’m scared for our nation. I think that apartment complex in Chicago was a test. They will move on from immigrants soon. People need be to be prepared. We should act NOW!

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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 1d

Reading with delight.
Also keenly aware that this is why they are doing everything they can to toe-tag us.