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Trudy Gonzales

@trudygonzales.bsky.social

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Ca grandma Democrat who wants equality and equity for all Happily married Focus of my posts Veterans Seniors Health care Education Monetary policy Economy My feeds The Reformers #DemCast #DemsUnited #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue

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Trudy Gonzales @trudygonzales.bsky.social · Nov 16

Ramaswamy & Musk under their DOGE scam want to CUT Veterans benefits

Veterans benefits under discretionary spending are NOT fraud waste & abuse

It's the okie doke because House Republicans stalled 2025 budget approval

HOLD Congress accountable to fund Veterans benefits

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 1d

Judge rules ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over ‘warrantless arrests’ www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/f...

Federal judge in Chicago finds ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over ‘warrantless arrests’

A Chicago federal judge has extended a nationwide consent decree requiring ICE to better document and report probable cause for immigration arrests and found the agency repeatedly violated the 2022…

www.chicagotribune.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 9h

🚨 She fights back. ✊🏼

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 7h

You know who takes a cognitive test? People whose family members suspect their loved one is suffering from dementia. If he kept getting “perfect” scores…they wouldn’t keep administering them. My take? He blew the first one he ever took. Now, they’re tracking the decline. I’d bet my hot coffee on it.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 8h

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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Trudy Gonzales @trudygonzales.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks
Here is a more current minimum wage chart
State Minimum Wages share.google/YKvk1eO2shH1...

State Minimum Wages

This chart shows state minimum wage rates as well as future enacted increases.

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Trudy Gonzales @trudygonzales.bsky.social · 5h

Here is a more current minimum wage chart
State Minimum Wages share.google/YKvk1eO2shH1...

State Minimum Wages

This chart shows state minimum wage rates as well as future enacted increases.

share.google

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 9h

NEW STUDY

Since I was born, 500 Black neighborhoods have vanished

And 500,000 Black people have been lost

All due to urban revitalization projects

Like the one for LA’s new coliseum — for the Clippers and ‘26 Olympics — that’s destroying Inglewood

@adamlmahoney.bsky.social @capitalb.bsky.social

From Watts to D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished in 45 Years

America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.

capitalbnews.org

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zensoul.bsky.social @zensoul.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely! This is not Nobel Prize material.

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Grace @grace55.bsky.social · 8h

I am outraged. Trump’s authoritarian actions along with the House & Senate GOP legislators fealty to trump. One can only surmise they are in collusion with this autocratic hostile attempt to overthrow our Democracy; treason. There is NOTHING noble or heroic about Trump’s cowardly acts. 🤮

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Mary Wood @maryrosewood.bsky.social · 11h

Fascism in action. One day, these people will be on trial for crimes against humanity. I am antifascist.

#MomSky

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 10h

Shout Out ARIZONA 🏜

OUR GREAT GOVERNOR
KATIE HOBBS HAS LAUNCHED HER
RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN

Please join me in supporting her
Go to:
KatieHobbs.org
She is our proven champion for every Arizonan
Join me, every donation adds up. I Pledge to work hard for her campaign, won't you ?
Thank you!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

This is becoming urgent.

Private equity is gutting hospitals for profit — when they collapse, communities lose care. That’s life and death.

PE has been taking over some of your favorite companies for years. They sell off assets, strip the business bare, and when there’s nothing left, it collapses.

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 13h

California🚨
🗳️ YES on Prop 50

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 14h

“Then they come for the Socialists And l did not speak out..”
…something, something

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

California voter here 🤚🏽

Not cool. Judge Katie Porter for yourself, but all the whiteboards in the world don’t make up for losing your cool when the questions get uncomfortable.

Even worse, flipping out on your own support team. This isn’t sexist, it’s about staying level-headed under pressure…

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Analisa Swan (she/her) @analisaswan.bsky.social · 17h

Proud to VOTE YES ON PROP 50! Completed my ballot yesterday & putting it in the mail today! Californian voters, your ballot is arriving by mail! Vote by mail, dropbox, or in person. Last day to vote is 11/4/25. Vote now! Prop 50 is TEMPORARY & levels the playing field! Vote YES to stop Trump/GOP!!!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

ICYMI: Speaker Mike Johnson is second in line to the presidency, but he wants you to know he has no opinion on anything and takes responsibility for nothing. His go-to line is “not in my lane.”

Jen Psaki last night…

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Trudy Gonzales @trudygonzales.bsky.social · 10h

Minimum wage workers usually don't get a company healthcare plan so the ACA is their only option for affordable healthcare

If WAGES were higher then ACA subsidies wouldn't be necessary but that's not the case

Ranked: Minimum Wages in 50 U.S. States & 35 Countries share.google/OVfeeayWuEk4...

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 18h

A troll on the Other Place asked why the ACA needed to be "fixed".

Here’s how Trump & the GOP tried to kill and sabotage the ACA—making it costlier. Now they want to let the tax credits expire too.

𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝘅 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼.

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁!

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Trudy Gonzales @trudygonzales.bsky.social · 10h

Trump is bad for us

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 20h

So far he is delivering a higher price

#TrumpShutUSDown

SHUTDOWN

THIS IS WHAT GOP CHAOS COSTS

Post from Sen Warnock showing tripling of premium cost from this year to next for the most comparable ACA plans of a Georgia constituent

PREMIUMS TRIPLING WHILE THEY PLAY POLITICS

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you for posting Doc
This is a must read
Congratulations Laszlo
The cost of War ⬇️

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 20h

🧵
Today's Nobel Prize in Literature goes to

“a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic and often shatteringly beautiful.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

www.nytimes.com

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 22h

Republicans are the party of pedophiles. That’s why he has to think about it!

#Epstein

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Trudy Gonzales @trudygonzales.bsky.social · 11h

Yes
Definitely

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Essence of RBG @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 11h

Also broke his sworn oath!

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