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Fellow sojourner on this good Earth. Against those who would destroy it, and those who have no empathy or social awareness. I don't follow bots. MA x 2, writing, music, sailing, hiking, languages, travel, food, science, wonder. No DMs.

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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · Jul 4

"We the People...

These words must apply to everyone...or they mean nothing!"

#weThePeople #declarationOfIndependence #ePlebnista #starTrek #resist

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

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 2d

Essentially

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats are furious that the Trump Administration held a briefing on Capitol Hill today about U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats. Only Republicans were invited. This is from Sen. Mark Warner D-VA.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 2d

"is" right out! (darn keyboards!)

TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 2d

Anything requiring secret police os right out, as Brits would say.

ICE is the objectification of the failure to reach a humane immigration policy. It shows the inhumane face of Republicans and the weakness of Democrats to achieve good legislation.

TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 2d

Immigration lies. High-profile ICE raids, media crews in tow, try to bait Democrats & paint them as defenders of criminals.
This strategy isn't working. The public doesn't support masked ICE agents roaming cities.
The GOP doesn't even know Trump is losing the argument.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Trump and Stephen Miller Thought Immigration Was Their Winning Issue. They Were Wrong.

The more extreme and visible their deportation agenda becomes, the more the American people are turning against it.

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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 3d

Doordash worked against a state bill to weaken healthcare insurance in Wisconsin.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 4d

This is what corporations should be doing to face this moment!! 🤝

Door Dash now we just need you to pay employees their fair share.

Text is a screenshot of a social media post from DoorDash that says:
@DoorDash • 7h
The federal government shutdown threatens
SNAP benefits for 40 million Americans this week. We're launching an Emergency Food Response to help: delivering 1 million free meals through 300+ food banks, and waiving delivery and service fees for 300k grocery orders for SNAP recipients. It's a stopgap, not a solution.
But help is needed now. Read more: about.doordash.com/en-us/news/sna...

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 4d

In Old Irving Park, the “new normal” for residents on Saturday included federal agents deploying tear gas as parents and costumed children were leaving their homes on their way to a neighborhood Halloween parade.
www.rawstory.com/ice-chicago-...

ICE deploys tear gas as costumed children head to Halloween parade

A former Cook County prosecutor said he had collected a tear gas canister from his own front lawn in a residential Chicago neighborhood and submitted it to a law firm that is preparing a lawsuit over ...

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: U.S. Postal Service Cuts Funding for a Phoenix Mail Room Assisting Homeless People, by @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social

U.S. Postal Service Cuts Funding for a Phoenix Mail Room Assisting Homeless People

The loss of support comes at a time of uncertainty for one of Arizona’s largest homeless services providers as the Trump administration calls for reducing and restructuring homelessness assistance gra...

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Colleen @gracie87.bsky.social · 4d

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Jeff Turner 🦋🌈🦋🌈@loveneverhate @loveneverhate.bsky.social · 5d

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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 4d

Mike Davis, your comments are a disappointment to evolved humanity everywhere. I hope you do not also presume to call yourself Christian.

#fundSnap #fundHealthcare

@Thadd1950.bsky.social @thadd1950.bsky.social · 4d

grandpas and grandmas in wheelchairs can't work. Babies can't work. Who will hire an old man or woman who walks with a cane and has poor hearing?
Americans-join an anti-Trump protest and vote blue.

Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 5d

Someone want to tell Mikey here that 86% of all SNAP benefits go to households that include a child, an elderly person, or a person with disabilities?

Or that almost 40% of SNAP recipients are children?

And that Whites account for 37% of SNAP recipients?

TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 4d

When the Whitehouse had class and was funky. Obama, run again?

Jeff Turner 🦋🌈🦋🌈@loveneverhate @loveneverhate.bsky.social · Mar 9

TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 4d

So he can dole out money as patronage. Reward or punishment. Not a federal republic under this turdfly. A Bananastan.

#impeachTrump

@Thadd1950.bsky.social @thadd1950.bsky.social · 4d

• Trump has stated he plans to significantly downsize or potentially eliminate FEMA. Either way, funding will be distributed directly from the White House, resulting in less federal aid for disaster recovery.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

This is not “America First”

TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 5d

Great show today!

Love me some "Krautrock".

Rock on!

TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 5d

No such thing as "federal immunity". Miller is a hateful little man. Talks tough, should be arrested himself for impersonating a human being without a license.

#impeachTrump #investigateMiller #pritzkerForPresident

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

Threatening to arrest governors for seditious conspiracy. Getting dark fast.

TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 5d

Looks like a normal, unshot ear to me.

#impeachTrump

TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 6d

Let them eat Argentinian beef, except that farmers can't afford even that due to low commodity prices and closed markets as a result of stupid, capricious tariff "policies."

#impeachTrump ##EpsteinTrump ##EpsteinFiles #impeach47 #castThemOut

TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 7d

They play zero-sum international politics. They can always conquer more space and resources. And there's always Space! Moon, Mars, space colonies. Though they don't give a fuck about the science to get ppl there.

TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 7d

I messaged Esty's program today. Her guest was Rob Hopkins.

The right is fixed on low birth rates in the white population. That's why they oppose birth control. Just get em born, let em fend for themselves. They don't actually think into the future that far to worry about sustainability. ...

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Jeff Turner 🦋🌈🦋🌈@loveneverhate @loveneverhate.bsky.social · Aug 17

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TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 7d

You're welcome!

The issue of long distance trips is improving. There is infrastructure out there. It must be built out more, for which our current regime has prevented further funding.

This regime will be gone at some time. We must keep the vision of positive change alive.

TL @tjlang.bsky.social · 7d

@apublicaffair.bsky.social

One aspect of my vision of the best future would be centered around a no-growth economy.

Growth is antithetical to sustainability.

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