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𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔 @gmf1369.bsky.social · 5h

#GVerse #Update - via @calltoactivism.bsky.social
"Just wanted to point out that Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff is quite possibly the most vulnerable Senator in America right now and tonight, he voted no on this deal.

This is what courage looks like."

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suemac81.bsky.social @suemac81.bsky.social · 5h

Don’t try to tell us we might get the ACA subsidies now that you have caved - it is an insult to the intelligence to all of us who have been supporting Dems for years.

suemac81.bsky.social @suemac81.bsky.social · 5h

Don’t be disingenuous- almost 20 million citizens will lose health insurance - you gave up your leverage. Are you going to give up your own great insurance?

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suemac81.bsky.social @suemac81.bsky.social · 6h

Do not cave - you are failing your constituents

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 9h

The Dems who are caving are doing so not because their base wants them to,

not because the voters want them to,

not because the fed workers and SNAP recipients want them to…

they are caving because their DONORS want them to.

And that’s really all that ever matters to the corrupt

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suemac81.bsky.social @suemac81.bsky.social · 7h

I called Schumer. Probably should also call Gillibrand.

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Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 6d

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6d

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP.

They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown.

They’re refusing.

Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop.

Starvation as a policy choice.

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suemac81.bsky.social @suemac81.bsky.social · 8d

“A staggering miscarriage of Justice” Depose every line prosecutor and above in Epstein’s cases. Hold Alex Acosta accountable!

Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 8d

Another previously undisclosed detail about the money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in 2007.

On Dec 13, 2007, the lead prosecutor on the case, then-AUSA Marie Villafaña, sent a letter to Epstein's atty Jay Lefkowitz and cc'd then-US Atty Alex Acosta.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

suemac81.bsky.social @suemac81.bsky.social · 8d

Do Not Cave!

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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 9d

Shifting to Medicare for All could save $650B annually.

Improving healthcare affordability for Americans isn’t just the moral choice, it’s the smart economic choice.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10d

Survivors — and family of survivors — of Epstein and Maxwell's abuse are urging Mike Johnson to swear-in Adelita Grijalva:

"Every day you stall is another day survivors are denied justice, and the American people are denied the truth. Swear in Representative Grijalva and let democracy speak."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11d

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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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11d

"Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

W.E.B. Du Bois, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906.

I think we all know how that turned out.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 12d

The #KavanaughStops now reportedly include Border Patrol agents breaking ribs of 67 year of old US citizen. ↘️

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 12d

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says

The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

www.independent.co.uk

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 15d

Time to stop shopping at businesses that allow federal agents to kidnap your neighbors. Drop Home Depot. Go to Ace and Lowe's instead.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16d

"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...

Normal Times in Dire Times

Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.

frederickjoseph.substack.com

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 16d

The crowd of protesters is standing peacefully, chanting "neo nazis" as ICE marches by

When the agents stop and attack a blind man with a cane

Thus proving the demonstrators point

Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 16d

Watch this.

Open your eyes to this brutality.

ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.

Now share this.

Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.

You have power.

Even sharing this video exerts that power.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Merkley: "What we've seen is that democracies no longer die bc men w/guns go in and take it over. Instead, it's electeds who erode the separation of power. If you have a rubber-stamp Congress & courts that deliver more power to the executive, suddenly you have an authoritarian state. It's here now."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18d

Health insurance costs jumped for workers & employers in 2025.

This will get worse if the GOP refuses to extend ACA subsidies.

Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.

Still not sure we need Medicare for All?

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suemac81.bsky.social @suemac81.bsky.social · 19d

In Albany NY, protesters lined up along a 2.5 mile stretch of a major avenue; few black/brown protesters but many black/brown drivers honking and waving encouragement. We need next step of inflicting economic pain - only thing I have done on that score is boycotting Target and a few others.

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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 20d

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.

Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 21d

DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni says Emil Bove told him, 'those planes need to take off no matter what, and if some court should issue an order preventing that, we may have to consider telling that court 'fuck you.'

Reuveni: It is the highest, most egregious violation of the lawyer's code of ethics.

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