@sarahmjones.bsky.social
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For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.
June 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.
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"A rapist and a murderer share a giggle."
May 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"A rapist and a murderer share a giggle."
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Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...
www.propublica.org
May 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
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Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:
“no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
“no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
May 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:
“no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
“no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
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When Trump...
-Holds a private dinner for his crypto coin buyers
-Promotes Teslas on the White House driveway on behalf of a multibillionaire who spent $277M backing him
-Uses state visits to advance his hotel business
It's corruption, plain and simple.
-Holds a private dinner for his crypto coin buyers
-Promotes Teslas on the White House driveway on behalf of a multibillionaire who spent $277M backing him
-Uses state visits to advance his hotel business
It's corruption, plain and simple.
May 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
When Trump...
-Holds a private dinner for his crypto coin buyers
-Promotes Teslas on the White House driveway on behalf of a multibillionaire who spent $277M backing him
-Uses state visits to advance his hotel business
It's corruption, plain and simple.
-Holds a private dinner for his crypto coin buyers
-Promotes Teslas on the White House driveway on behalf of a multibillionaire who spent $277M backing him
-Uses state visits to advance his hotel business
It's corruption, plain and simple.
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Guess which is going wind up killing more Americans.
May 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Guess which is going wind up killing more Americans.
Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception
May 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception
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Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.
May 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.
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“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones.
Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.
Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.
May 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones.
Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.
Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.
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🚨 Hundreds of community safety grants, which helped cut gun violence by up to 70%, abruptly canceled — and millions of dollars in critical funding wiped away.
The programs are for crime victims, mental health and hate crime support, and the DOJ says it’s “wasteful spending.”
bit.ly/3EJmsee
The programs are for crime victims, mental health and hate crime support, and the DOJ says it’s “wasteful spending.”
bit.ly/3EJmsee
MSN
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April 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🚨 Hundreds of community safety grants, which helped cut gun violence by up to 70%, abruptly canceled — and millions of dollars in critical funding wiped away.
The programs are for crime victims, mental health and hate crime support, and the DOJ says it’s “wasteful spending.”
bit.ly/3EJmsee
The programs are for crime victims, mental health and hate crime support, and the DOJ says it’s “wasteful spending.”
bit.ly/3EJmsee
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I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.
April 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.
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To be fabulously wealthy today means not having to come across anyone who isn’t. It therefore means not having a clue about how average working people live or what they worry about it.
The billionaire class is seceding from the rest of society. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-secess...
The billionaire class is seceding from the rest of society. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-secess...
The secession of the billionaire class
Friends,
robertreich.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
To be fabulously wealthy today means not having to come across anyone who isn’t. It therefore means not having a clue about how average working people live or what they worry about it.
The billionaire class is seceding from the rest of society. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-secess...
The billionaire class is seceding from the rest of society. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-secess...
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"The Last of Us" star Pedro Pascal is exactly right: You can't claim to stand for freedom while tearing it away from others 🤷
April 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"The Last of Us" star Pedro Pascal is exactly right: You can't claim to stand for freedom while tearing it away from others 🤷
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Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.
April 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.
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"Christians who sought asylum from persecution by the Taliban are being told they must leave immediately or be deported.
"The news came in an email to a group living legally in north Raleigh... Apostles Church in Raleigh had welcomed them after the Taliban took over...
www.wral.com/story/they-f...
"The news came in an email to a group living legally in north Raleigh... Apostles Church in Raleigh had welcomed them after the Taliban took over...
www.wral.com/story/they-f...
Afghani asylum seekers, members of Raleigh church, given a week to leave the U.S.
Apostles Church in Raleigh has welcomed about 25 people who came to the U.S. after the Taliban took over.
www.wral.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"Christians who sought asylum from persecution by the Taliban are being told they must leave immediately or be deported.
"The news came in an email to a group living legally in north Raleigh... Apostles Church in Raleigh had welcomed them after the Taliban took over...
www.wral.com/story/they-f...
"The news came in an email to a group living legally in north Raleigh... Apostles Church in Raleigh had welcomed them after the Taliban took over...
www.wral.com/story/they-f...
From my dog walk in Chicago. I love it.
April 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
From my dog walk in Chicago. I love it.
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Cost of extending the Trump tax cuts for the rich: $4.6 trillion
Cost of cutting corporate tax rate to 15%: $1 trillion
Remember this as we hear about "wasteful government spending."
Cost of cutting corporate tax rate to 15%: $1 trillion
Remember this as we hear about "wasteful government spending."
April 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Cost of extending the Trump tax cuts for the rich: $4.6 trillion
Cost of cutting corporate tax rate to 15%: $1 trillion
Remember this as we hear about "wasteful government spending."
Cost of cutting corporate tax rate to 15%: $1 trillion
Remember this as we hear about "wasteful government spending."
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We often look back on the seminal moments in our history and wonder "What would I have done?"
This is our moment. This is our time.
We must stand up. We must speak out. We must do everything we can to stop a President who has every intention of destroying our democracy.
This is our moment. This is our time.
We must stand up. We must speak out. We must do everything we can to stop a President who has every intention of destroying our democracy.
April 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
We often look back on the seminal moments in our history and wonder "What would I have done?"
This is our moment. This is our time.
We must stand up. We must speak out. We must do everything we can to stop a President who has every intention of destroying our democracy.
This is our moment. This is our time.
We must stand up. We must speak out. We must do everything we can to stop a President who has every intention of destroying our democracy.
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Here’s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS.
(Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)
(Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)
April 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Here’s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS.
(Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)
(Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)
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Yes, we have to take our medicine. Like bleach for Covid. Or cod liver oil for measles.
April 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Yes, we have to take our medicine. Like bleach for Covid. Or cod liver oil for measles.
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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
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From tax loopholes to defunding the IRS: how America’s tax system is rigged in favor of the rich (and what we can do about it).
https://youtu.be/wkiO0_uSJAk?si=nSy4Eh2aDSdfRkkc
https://youtu.be/wkiO0_uSJAk?si=nSy4Eh2aDSdfRkkc
Can We Fix Our Rigged Tax System?
For nearly a half century, trickle-down economic policies have resulted in a tax system rigged in favor of the rich. This is not only bad for our economy, but it’s leading to a billionaire takeover of our democracy as well. Watch.
youtu.be
April 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
From tax loopholes to defunding the IRS: how America’s tax system is rigged in favor of the rich (and what we can do about it).
https://youtu.be/wkiO0_uSJAk?si=nSy4Eh2aDSdfRkkc
https://youtu.be/wkiO0_uSJAk?si=nSy4Eh2aDSdfRkkc