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Bren

@kindofnerdy.bsky.social

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Defender of Democracy 🗽 Schitt's Creek 🪭 N. Carolinian ☕ Insomniac #FeministAF I'm: Heeding History 🏫 Opposing Forming Sentences ✍️ Shouting at the Wind 💨 Growing stuff 🌱 Using Oxford commas, & so forth

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Bren @kindofnerdy.bsky.social · Aug 9

Just dropped...

On what would have been her 42nd birthday, I'm thinking of Virginia and wondering how joyful her life might have been, "had she not been forced to slay demons."

www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/rememberin...

Remembering Virginia Giuffre

Daughter, Sister, Mother, Survivor, and Fierce Advocate

www.digitaldrumbeat.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

Reported Trump plan to cut more than 750,000 older Americans off disability:

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Despite campaign promises, White House eyes new changes to Social Security and Medicare

“I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare,” Trump vowed in 2024. I have bad news for voters who believed him.

www.msnbc.com

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 2d

While 750,000 federal workers go unpaid and moms lose WIC, Trump’s out cheating at golf—on our dime. Families are rationing formula while he’s working on his handicap.

The only thing he’s leading in is hypocrisy. ⛳️

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Video 2/2 post, 2/3

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Video 1/2 Mayor Brandon Johnson is attempting to keep his city safe from federal invasion.
Please see following video for details related to what tactics are being used against residents of Chicago and the surrounding communities. 1/3

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Kathy W @jabber-wocky.bsky.social · 2d

Trump's shutdown is a cat's hissy fit on a national scale. He's throwing a fit because he can't get his way.

GOP, it's time to grow up and put the interests of the American people first. Quit protecting the rich and powerful. And release the Epstein files!!

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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 2d

🌎 Mikie Sherrill backs clean energy. Ciattarelli calls climate policy “overreach.” Register by Oct 14 to vote for a future—not fossil fuel favoritism. #VoteNJ

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Dani M. ❌👑 @danielleloveswords.bsky.social · 2d

Health care is on the line. Senator Warnock breaks it down:

A Chatham County family once paid $559/month for coverage—now it’s $2,100 after GOP subsidy cuts.

That’s 4x the cost just to stay insured.

4x

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KellyK🌺 @azkellyk.bsky.social · 2d

When 530,000 people already file for bankruptcy due to medical debt.

Republicans are causing 15 MILLION Americans to lose their health insurance.

Now, even more families will be left without healthcare. This isn’t politics—it’s life or death.

Healthcare is a right! 💙
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Athena Gabriel ❌👑 @athenagabriel.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s the truth:

Democrats are rejecting a 7-week “band-aid” that delays the fight—because waiting means 20M face higher premiums ＆ 15M could lose Medicaid.

Better to fight now than abandon families later.
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 2d

As America struggles, Donald Trump spent his weekend golfing at his Virginia country club while nearly two million federal workers either labor without pay or sit at home with empty accounts. He engineered this shutdown himself and now refuses to end it.
open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...

Trump’s Shutdown: The Only Thing He Leads Is the Golf Cart Parade

American workers go without pay and Trump is working hard - on his golf swing...

open.substack.com

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🇨🇦marciebp🇲🇽 @marciebp.bsky.social · 2d

#TrumpsHealthcareShutdown They skewered Obama for playing golf but now, it crickets when the orange puff pastry golfs during the governmental shutdown which he engineered. Meanwhile, regular people are getting desperate while the rich continue on with their obsession with accumulating wealth.

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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 2d

#TrumpsHealthCareShutdown in a nutshell: chaos, cruelty and corruption.

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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 5d

Trump is trying to rule like a king. Sending masked agents into our cities. Targeting immigrant families. Terrorizing our communities.

But this country does not belong to kings or dictators. It belongs to us.

On October 18, we rise to say #NoKings !
social.demcast.com/s/ccsVhB8W

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 5d

Well this is fantastic, the Epstein and Trump best friends statue is back just in time for #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown Look at it in all its glory and theirs no one to take it down.🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

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Leigh Harrison Helberg @leighhelberg.bsky.social · 2d

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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats are rejecting a 7-week “band-aid” that delays the fight—because waiting means 20M face higher premiums ＆ 15M could lose Medicaid.

Better to fight now than abandon families later.

#TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 2d

Trump’s playing golf on your dime while America pays the price. In Day 6 of his shutdown, the only thing he’s mastered is extortion.

#TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

Read on, spread the fire, and demand accountability now: www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/trumps-shu... 🔥 #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

Trump’s Shutdown: The Only Thing He Leads Is the Golf Cart Parade

American workers go without pay and Trump is working hard - on his golf swing...

www.digitaldrumbeat.com

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

SenatorWarnock just broke it down: health care is on the line.

A Chatham County, GA. family once paid $559/month for coverage—now it’s $2,100 after GOP subsidy cuts. Quadruple the cost just to stay insured.

#TrumpsHealthCareShutdown
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 2d

Dr. Durrani reminds us:
ER doctors are proud to care for anyone, anywhere, 24/7, 365. They swore an oath to heal, not to play politics.

Trump’s cruel cuts betray that oath and put lives at risk. #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 2d

“This is delusional but you don’t have to read the whole thing. Boils down to: he’s shutting down the government because he thinks he’s a king.” Sen. Chris Murphy nailed it. It's #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown #DonaldTrumpsShutdown and he owns it now.

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Leigh Harrison Helberg @leighhelberg.bsky.social · 2d

Health care funding saves lives. Period.

Just ask AFSCME member Annita Martinez, who fights every day to get patients the care they deserve. But Trump’s yes-men in Congress slashed billions piling costs on workers and forcing hospitals to the brink. #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 2d

Most plans begin open enrollment on Nov 1. This needs to be fixed NOW!

Democrats are rejecting a 7 week “band-aid” that delays a fix because waiting means 20M face higher premiums & 15M cut off Medicaid.

Better to fight now than abandon families later.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 2d

Americans are staring down a cliff: health premiums could soar 75% and DOUBLE in rural America. Instead of fixing the GOP’s health care mess, Trump is threatening to slam the brakes on government.

Cruelty over solutions, chaos over care.

#TrumpsHealthCareShutdown #DonaldTrumpsShutdown

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Leigh Harrison Helberg @leighhelberg.bsky.social · 2d

We won’t stand idly by. Democrats won’t rubber stamp a reckless GOP budget that worsens the healthcare crisis Republicans created.

Trump and his party are threatening a shutdown because they refuse to fix the disaster they manufactured. #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

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Kathy W @jabber-wocky.bsky.social · 2d

Rep Neguse: Trump can threaten all he wants, but House Democrats won’t be bullied. Republicans may have forgotten Congress is co-equal; we haven’t.

We don’t work for Donald Trump.
We work for the American people.
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