Candace Berger
@candaceberger.bsky.social
museum pro. loves cats, books, and old things. infant loss mom. blue dot in red state.
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at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
January 9, 2026 at 11:22 PM
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
Man in a building full of the biggest criminals in the US, Christopher Anderson really pulled off the biggest con.
December 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Man in a building full of the biggest criminals in the US, Christopher Anderson really pulled off the biggest con.
I remember going back and forth last year about going to Target on Black Friday for a vinyl that everyone was so sure would be available online and with other retailers. My Toys R Us trauma is real but my fear of never having the second half of Tortured Poets Department was greater.
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I remember going back and forth last year about going to Target on Black Friday for a vinyl that everyone was so sure would be available online and with other retailers. My Toys R Us trauma is real but my fear of never having the second half of Tortured Poets Department was greater.
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Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
The wholesaler is the latest company to sue a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
Life has been dreary but I found out @sonicdrive-in.bsky.social brought back the green apple syrup and slush and frankly, it was the win I needed today.
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Life has been dreary but I found out @sonicdrive-in.bsky.social brought back the green apple syrup and slush and frankly, it was the win I needed today.
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With SNAP expiring, at least one Calif community is responding not by helping people get food, but by threatening hungry people with arrest
This is what we mean when we say policing is a policy choice that creates crime
Here’s the math that proves it 🧵
This is what we mean when we say policing is a policy choice that creates crime
Here’s the math that proves it 🧵
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
Over 5.5 million Californians, including 2 million children, are set to lose their SNAP benefits this Saturday.
www.foxla.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
With SNAP expiring, at least one Calif community is responding not by helping people get food, but by threatening hungry people with arrest
This is what we mean when we say policing is a policy choice that creates crime
Here’s the math that proves it 🧵
This is what we mean when we say policing is a policy choice that creates crime
Here’s the math that proves it 🧵
We’re going to do the wrong thing instead of making it more affordable and accessible to have children, aren’t we?
Fertility treatments still aren’t covered by a lot of insurance companies. Insurance doesn’t define “treatment” as just the big ones like IVF. It includes office visits, testing…
Fertility treatments still aren’t covered by a lot of insurance companies. Insurance doesn’t define “treatment” as just the big ones like IVF. It includes office visits, testing…
RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."
October 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We’re going to do the wrong thing instead of making it more affordable and accessible to have children, aren’t we?
Fertility treatments still aren’t covered by a lot of insurance companies. Insurance doesn’t define “treatment” as just the big ones like IVF. It includes office visits, testing…
Fertility treatments still aren’t covered by a lot of insurance companies. Insurance doesn’t define “treatment” as just the big ones like IVF. It includes office visits, testing…
Our diversity will ALWAYS be our strength. If it wasn’t, you wouldn’t be so afraid of us.
October 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Our diversity will ALWAYS be our strength. If it wasn’t, you wouldn’t be so afraid of us.
I should also say—this is something MAGAs have been saying for years. My MAGA former grandfather (incredibly, someone who would hop hospitals to get pain killers) was saying this years ago.
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I should also say—this is something MAGAs have been saying for years. My MAGA former grandfather (incredibly, someone who would hop hospitals to get pain killers) was saying this years ago.
Every time I’ve had a long wait time (as someone who has had 15+ ER visits in the last ten years), it was because beds were full due to preventable diseases but we’ve been dissuading people to get their Covid and flu shots, so I anticipate that will get worse.
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Every time I’ve had a long wait time (as someone who has had 15+ ER visits in the last ten years), it was because beds were full due to preventable diseases but we’ve been dissuading people to get their Covid and flu shots, so I anticipate that will get worse.
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I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort
September 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort
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The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.
September 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.
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It is not our job to determine if resistance is hopeless. It is our duty to render it effective, at all possible points, while we are alive. It is the future that will determine if our efforts were victorious, not the present. To act fully in the present means to never face defeat.
September 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It is not our job to determine if resistance is hopeless. It is our duty to render it effective, at all possible points, while we are alive. It is the future that will determine if our efforts were victorious, not the present. To act fully in the present means to never face defeat.
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A reading list for building durable organizations for both short term survival and long term social transformation.
They're Organized; We Need to Be Organized, Too
Trump and his far-right acolytes wield their power to disinvest from public services, terrorize our neighborhoods with ICE agents, and ensure that opposition to genocide becomes a fireable, and d...
www.haymarketbooks.org
September 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A reading list for building durable organizations for both short term survival and long term social transformation.
This might be the closest he’s ever gotten right re: a statistic.
Trump: "When 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech."
September 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This might be the closest he’s ever gotten right re: a statistic.
This cannot be emphasized enough.
Also, shame on any democrat politician who thought for one moment this was a radicalized progressive. We don’t radicalize toward weaponry and murder. We generally radicalize toward justice, protest, mutual aid, and community action.
September 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This cannot be emphasized enough.
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Also, shame on any democrat politician who thought for one moment this was a radicalized progressive. We don’t radicalize toward weaponry and murder. We generally radicalize toward justice, protest, mutual aid, and community action.
September 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Also, shame on any democrat politician who thought for one moment this was a radicalized progressive. We don’t radicalize toward weaponry and murder. We generally radicalize toward justice, protest, mutual aid, and community action.
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NEW: In 40 cities across Australia, an estimated one million people have been on the streets calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.
These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
August 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
NEW: In 40 cities across Australia, an estimated one million people have been on the streets calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.
These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
I like how he has to say “over 90 years old” because the president is too old to use any other decade (who also needs to go home and take a nap and stop destroying our country).
Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."
August 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I like how he has to say “over 90 years old” because the president is too old to use any other decade (who also needs to go home and take a nap and stop destroying our country).
We remember who else did this to their museums, right?
why doesn't the Smithsonian talk more about how the upsides of slavery?
August 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We remember who else did this to their museums, right?
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NEW: The number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli military campaign against Hamas in Gaza passed 60,000 on Tuesday, local health authorities said. "It is a figure public health analysts, doctors and conflict casualty monitors say is likely to be a significant undercount"
July 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
NEW: The number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli military campaign against Hamas in Gaza passed 60,000 on Tuesday, local health authorities said. "It is a figure public health analysts, doctors and conflict casualty monitors say is likely to be a significant undercount"
Ok I thought a high schooler wrote this but now it’s clear it was Elon.
July 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Ok I thought a high schooler wrote this but now it’s clear it was Elon.
Is this a Dr. Seuss book or
July 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Is this a Dr. Seuss book or
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I’m really gonna ask you please not to turn your nose up at the WSJ story and sneer that it’s a distraction.
These men harmed real people. They used their power and money to trap and abuse them.
That’s not a distraction, actually. That’s central to what matters.
These men harmed real people. They used their power and money to trap and abuse them.
That’s not a distraction, actually. That’s central to what matters.
July 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I’m really gonna ask you please not to turn your nose up at the WSJ story and sneer that it’s a distraction.
These men harmed real people. They used their power and money to trap and abuse them.
That’s not a distraction, actually. That’s central to what matters.
These men harmed real people. They used their power and money to trap and abuse them.
That’s not a distraction, actually. That’s central to what matters.
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He’s literally on tape boasting about sexually assaulting women so yes this is the way he talks
July 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
He’s literally on tape boasting about sexually assaulting women so yes this is the way he talks