CJ
@musicmaven.bsky.social
Things I'm into: Music, Travel, Cats & Foster Kittens, Photography, Mindfulness, Psychology, Secular Buddhism/Humanism, Genealogy, Reading, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Halloween, Nostalgia, Liberal Democracy, GenJones, GenX, Compassion, Kindness, Building Community.
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In just a month, 10,000 people in MA dropped their health insurance. That's 2x more than last year.
10,000 mommas, grandpas, aunts, neighbors, and friends who looked at their bill and said "I can't do this."
Because Republicans won’t lift a finger to lower health care costs.
10,000 mommas, grandpas, aunts, neighbors, and friends who looked at their bill and said "I can't do this."
Because Republicans won’t lift a finger to lower health care costs.
December 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
In just a month, 10,000 people in MA dropped their health insurance. That's 2x more than last year.
10,000 mommas, grandpas, aunts, neighbors, and friends who looked at their bill and said "I can't do this."
Because Republicans won’t lift a finger to lower health care costs.
10,000 mommas, grandpas, aunts, neighbors, and friends who looked at their bill and said "I can't do this."
Because Republicans won’t lift a finger to lower health care costs.
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Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”
@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”
@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”
October 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”
@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”
@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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If your government subscribes to the conservative belief that you deserve nothing, then nothing is what you will get. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Blue States That Sued Kept Most CDC Grants, While Red States Feel Brunt of Trump Clawbacks - KFF Health News
The Trump administration's cuts of public health funds to state and local health departments had vastly uneven effects depending on the political leanings of where someone lives, a new KFF Health News...
kffhealthnews.org
August 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
If your government subscribes to the conservative belief that you deserve nothing, then nothing is what you will get. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.
August 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.
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79 people shot in Gaza over the weekend: There is no excuse for starving people and then opening fire on civilians desperately lining up for food. None.
Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.
Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.
July 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
79 people shot in Gaza over the weekend: There is no excuse for starving people and then opening fire on civilians desperately lining up for food. None.
Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.
Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.
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One of the most under reported stories in the legacy media is how many states the RNC and DOJ are suing right now to access their voter rolls. It is a frontal assault on democracy that Democracy Docket covers every day, while legacy media both-sides Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
RNC Sues New Jersey for Access to Voter Roll and Election Machine Records
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
One of the most under reported stories in the legacy media is how many states the RNC and DOJ are suing right now to access their voter rolls. It is a frontal assault on democracy that Democracy Docket covers every day, while legacy media both-sides Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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HAPPENING NOW: Catholic leaders lead a march to an ICE office in Detroit to hand deliver a letter calling for humane treatment of immigrants (Video: Niraj Warikoo)
July 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Catholic leaders lead a march to an ICE office in Detroit to hand deliver a letter calling for humane treatment of immigrants (Video: Niraj Warikoo)
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The yearly pay at the federal minimum wage:
$15,080
The average yearly cost of a 1 bedroom apartment in the United States:
$17,340
We need living wages and lower housing costs. This is not sustainable.
$15,080
The average yearly cost of a 1 bedroom apartment in the United States:
$17,340
We need living wages and lower housing costs. This is not sustainable.
July 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The yearly pay at the federal minimum wage:
$15,080
The average yearly cost of a 1 bedroom apartment in the United States:
$17,340
We need living wages and lower housing costs. This is not sustainable.
$15,080
The average yearly cost of a 1 bedroom apartment in the United States:
$17,340
We need living wages and lower housing costs. This is not sustainable.
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You don't deny people due process, kidnap them, and throw them into hot, crowded, bug-infested cages to control immigration. You do it to torture and terrorize.
July 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
You don't deny people due process, kidnap them, and throw them into hot, crowded, bug-infested cages to control immigration. You do it to torture and terrorize.
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The latest ICE statistics show that as of June 29, there were 57,861 people detained by ICE, 41,495, or 72% of whom had no criminal convictions. So much for the “worst of the worst.”
July 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The latest ICE statistics show that as of June 29, there were 57,861 people detained by ICE, 41,495, or 72% of whom had no criminal convictions. So much for the “worst of the worst.”
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This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
July 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
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This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
June 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
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We now have a concentration camp in Florida.
Stop pretending any of this is normal.
If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person.
Be human.
Stop pretending any of this is normal.
If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person.
Be human.
July 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
We now have a concentration camp in Florida.
Stop pretending any of this is normal.
If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person.
Be human.
Stop pretending any of this is normal.
If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person.
Be human.
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I really don’t understand how anyone in this administration, or anyone who supports them, sleep at night.
USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say
An analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet projects that cuts to the agency will lead to more deaths from diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
www.nbcnews.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I really don’t understand how anyone in this administration, or anyone who supports them, sleep at night.
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This whole story is insane
Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base.
This man has no citizenship now.
This man has no citizenship now.
Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported
He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case
www.austinchronicle.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This whole story is insane
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It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.
July 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.
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A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual
PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
June 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual
PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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This is what rule by the confidently ignorant looks like; sabotage stuff you don't understand and then discover it was actually doing vital work well at trivial cost
US scrambles to bring back VOA’s Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict politi.co/3HHsTQ4, via @politico.com
US scrambles to bring back VOA’s Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict
President Donald Trump ordered the service to shut down in March.
politi.co
June 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This is what rule by the confidently ignorant looks like; sabotage stuff you don't understand and then discover it was actually doing vital work well at trivial cost
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In the last week, Marines were deployed in an American city, the president has called for a governor to be arrested & the speaker of the House has called for that gov to be tarred & feathered, a senator has been pinned and handcuffed, and two state legislators have been shot in their homes.
June 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In the last week, Marines were deployed in an American city, the president has called for a governor to be arrested & the speaker of the House has called for that gov to be tarred & feathered, a senator has been pinned and handcuffed, and two state legislators have been shot in their homes.
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Gavin Newsom spitting facts
June 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Gavin Newsom spitting facts