JD Foster
@jdfoster.bsky.social
Learner, Organizer, Dad.
Neb -> Ariz -> DC -> RI
Neb -> Ariz -> DC -> RI
Happy belated #NationalBestFriendsDay to my bestie.
June 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Happy belated #NationalBestFriendsDay to my bestie.
They can no longer pretend that they care about working people.
February 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
They can no longer pretend that they care about working people.
Trayvon Martin would have turned 30 today.
February 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Trayvon Martin would have turned 30 today.
ICYMI: you can’t be a Christian and anti-immigrant.
January 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
ICYMI: you can’t be a Christian and anti-immigrant.
If you're ignoring the fact that your immigrant neighbors are being terrorized and rounded up... remember that Germans in the 1930s were doing the exact same thing.
January 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you're ignoring the fact that your immigrant neighbors are being terrorized and rounded up... remember that Germans in the 1930s were doing the exact same thing.
MAGA apologists: Don't worry, it's not like they can retroactively take away citizenship...
The Trump Administration:
The Trump Administration:
January 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
MAGA apologists: Don't worry, it's not like they can retroactively take away citizenship...
The Trump Administration:
The Trump Administration:
Each of us can resist in our own way
January 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Each of us can resist in our own way
This is the size of the Palisades Fire overlaid over #PVDRI. I'm not sure how any mayor or governor addresses a climate event of this magnitude. No locality has the infrastructure equipped for it. And it will keep happening with increasing frequency. #ClimateChange
January 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is the size of the Palisades Fire overlaid over #PVDRI. I'm not sure how any mayor or governor addresses a climate event of this magnitude. No locality has the infrastructure equipped for it. And it will keep happening with increasing frequency. #ClimateChange
As a new report from the Treasury Department makes clear, extending the #TrumpTaxCuts would require TRILLIONS of dollars in cuts to #healthcare and other programs people depend on.
home.treasury.gov/system/files...
home.treasury.gov/system/files...
January 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
As a new report from the Treasury Department makes clear, extending the #TrumpTaxCuts would require TRILLIONS of dollars in cuts to #healthcare and other programs people depend on.
home.treasury.gov/system/files...
home.treasury.gov/system/files...
It's 1980 all over again.
January 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It's 1980 all over again.
Last night was the neighborhood book club at the local coffeehouse
January 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Last night was the neighborhood book club at the local coffeehouse
But, of course, Vance is talking about a narrow definition of physical violence. There will likely be pardons for those that attacked the republic in other ways. Is building a guillotine and calling for the beheading of Mike Pence violent in Vance’s view? We’ll see…
January 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
But, of course, Vance is talking about a narrow definition of physical violence. There will likely be pardons for those that attacked the republic in other ways. Is building a guillotine and calling for the beheading of Mike Pence violent in Vance’s view? We’ll see…
Demanding Bodily Freedom on the first day of the #RhodeIsland legislative session. #PVDRI
January 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Demanding Bodily Freedom on the first day of the #RhodeIsland legislative session. #PVDRI
And what are "the part without part" thinking?
January 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
And what are "the part without part" thinking?
Did you hear about that dead man?
Yep! He's walking!
Yep! He's walking!
January 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Did you hear about that dead man?
Yep! He's walking!
Yep! He's walking!
Two algorithms arguing with each other while even more people make money off of the system will TOTALLY fix #healthcare in the United States...
January 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Two algorithms arguing with each other while even more people make money off of the system will TOTALLY fix #healthcare in the United States...
Might as well put a bunch of graduate students in charge of the country...
January 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Might as well put a bunch of graduate students in charge of the country...
Happy holidays from the newest member of the family.
December 25, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Happy holidays from the newest member of the family.
We must defend the Affordable Care Act. The Trump/Musk administration and the GOP Congress have already indicated they plan to cut benefits and drive up prices: www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-r...
December 23, 2024 at 7:07 PM
We must defend the Affordable Care Act. The Trump/Musk administration and the GOP Congress have already indicated they plan to cut benefits and drive up prices: www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-r...
Why are #Musk and #Trump pushing for a government #shutdown? Because they want to eliminate the #debtceiling and pass even more tax cuts for their billionaire friends.
December 20, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Why are #Musk and #Trump pushing for a government #shutdown? Because they want to eliminate the #debtceiling and pass even more tax cuts for their billionaire friends.
Just a few examples of what Elon and Trump demanded be stripped out of the continuing resolution:
December 19, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Just a few examples of what Elon and Trump demanded be stripped out of the continuing resolution:
State-by-state numbers on the amount of federal disaster relief money will be lost if Elon Musk and Donald Trump succeed in bullying Congress into a “clean” continuing resolution:
December 19, 2024 at 2:32 PM
State-by-state numbers on the amount of federal disaster relief money will be lost if Elon Musk and Donald Trump succeed in bullying Congress into a “clean” continuing resolution:
In case you hadn't heard that Pete Buttigieg and his family moved to Traverse City several years ago...
December 10, 2024 at 5:27 PM
In case you hadn't heard that Pete Buttigieg and his family moved to Traverse City several years ago...