Sophierose
@sophierose729.bsky.social
She/Her. Born in the middle of the 20th century. Love old movies, #TCMparty, jazz, the Great American Songbook. Devoted staff to one cat. Reside in Sonoma County. Progressive. No DM's
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KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action.
Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?
Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action.
Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?
Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?
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I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.
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Pay attention to how big news organizations are describing Epstein’s death. It’s now much more like “he was found dead…it was ruled a suicide…” not “he killed himself.”
November 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Pay attention to how big news organizations are describing Epstein’s death. It’s now much more like “he was found dead…it was ruled a suicide…” not “he killed himself.”
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i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)
Opinion | JD Vance Is Idling at the Edges of American Politics
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)
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If anyone is buying this Marjorie Taylor Greene thing then please send me all your money to buy the Brooklyn Bridge
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
If anyone is buying this Marjorie Taylor Greene thing then please send me all your money to buy the Brooklyn Bridge
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The press contact for FACE THE NATION is [email protected] if anyone wants to explain to them why people might care about a massive pedophile sex trafficking ring that apparently implicates the president and several other powerful men.
Margaret Brennan to Tom Suozzi: "Can you explain the focus this past week in the House by Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files? Is this a tactic to distract from the failure to extract healthcare changes?"
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The press contact for FACE THE NATION is [email protected] if anyone wants to explain to them why people might care about a massive pedophile sex trafficking ring that apparently implicates the president and several other powerful men.
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i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...
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The best health care plan would be the government taxing everyone but especially the rich to pay doctors and hospitals so we have health care. We’ve spent at least 100 years pretending this is not the case.
November 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The best health care plan would be the government taxing everyone but especially the rich to pay doctors and hospitals so we have health care. We’ve spent at least 100 years pretending this is not the case.
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
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Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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If you're furious at the New York Times for the Olivia Nuzzi piece, watch my film Mr. Jones starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, on the long history of the NYT abusing power. They refused to let us show their articles covering up Stalin’s famine in Ukraine. youtu.be/wtWSyFNT9qY?...
MR. JONES - Official North American Trailer
YouTube video by Samuel Goldwyn Films
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November 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
If you're furious at the New York Times for the Olivia Nuzzi piece, watch my film Mr. Jones starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, on the long history of the NYT abusing power. They refused to let us show their articles covering up Stalin’s famine in Ukraine. youtu.be/wtWSyFNT9qY?...
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By the way, Olivia Nuzzi employer Vanity Fair is owned by Condé Nast ... which recently fired four employees for union activity www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
Condé Nast abruptly fires 4 staffers after HR confrontation
The firings were an unsubtle message to its employee union that the publisher was taking a harder line in its dealings with employees.
www.semafor.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
By the way, Olivia Nuzzi employer Vanity Fair is owned by Condé Nast ... which recently fired four employees for union activity www.semafor.com/article/11/0...
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All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.
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The Nuzzi piece is an excellent realtime test of whether hacks can bring themselves to criticize the New York Times.
The Nuzzi piece is an excellent realtime test of whether Bluesky can recognise an ironic writing style.
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The Nuzzi piece is an excellent realtime test of whether hacks can bring themselves to criticize the New York Times.
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Just wondering how we might get even 1/10th as much media attention for Virginia Giuffre’s book as outlets are giving that execrable Nuzzi claptrap
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Just wondering how we might get even 1/10th as much media attention for Virginia Giuffre’s book as outlets are giving that execrable Nuzzi claptrap
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Trump is facing a GOP rebellion over the Epstein files which Johnson can no longer contain.
The discharge petition now has enough signatures to force a vote and more Republicans are saying they will go on record and vote to release the files.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news/APWddSMmUR-
The discharge petition now has enough signatures to force a vote and more Republicans are saying they will go on record and vote to release the files.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news/APWddSMmUR-
Epstein furor takes over in the House — The Hill
The furor surrounding Jeffrey Epstein is in full force with the return of the House and the end of the government shutdown.
apple.news
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Trump is facing a GOP rebellion over the Epstein files which Johnson can no longer contain.
The discharge petition now has enough signatures to force a vote and more Republicans are saying they will go on record and vote to release the files.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news/APWddSMmUR-
The discharge petition now has enough signatures to force a vote and more Republicans are saying they will go on record and vote to release the files.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
apple.news/APWddSMmUR-
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i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
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This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
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My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
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Because this is a brand-destroying action by Senate Dems.
Interesting that NY gov Kathy Hochul felt compelled to put out a statement against Dems' deal to end the shutdown
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Because this is a brand-destroying action by Senate Dems.
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so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
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Keep calling. We need one flip for votes coming up this week.
Main switchboard (202) 224-3121
Kaine (202) 224-4024
Durbin (202) 224-2152
Rosen (202) 224-6244
Shaheen (202) 224-2841
Hassan (202) 224-3324
King (202) 224-5344
Cortez-Masto (202) 224-3542
Fetterman (202) 224-4254
Main switchboard (202) 224-3121
Kaine (202) 224-4024
Durbin (202) 224-2152
Rosen (202) 224-6244
Shaheen (202) 224-2841
Hassan (202) 224-3324
King (202) 224-5344
Cortez-Masto (202) 224-3542
Fetterman (202) 224-4254
Senators Kaine, Rosen, Fetterman, Shaheen, Hassen, King, Durbin, Cortez-Masto YOU JUST GOT PLAYED.
Are you happy now that you gave up on the health and well being of your constituents?
Because you know who is celebrating? The FOTUS in the gold plated palace.
Disgusted doesn't begin to cut it!
Are you happy now that you gave up on the health and well being of your constituents?
Because you know who is celebrating? The FOTUS in the gold plated palace.
Disgusted doesn't begin to cut it!
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Keep calling. We need one flip for votes coming up this week.
Main switchboard (202) 224-3121
Kaine (202) 224-4024
Durbin (202) 224-2152
Rosen (202) 224-6244
Shaheen (202) 224-2841
Hassan (202) 224-3324
King (202) 224-5344
Cortez-Masto (202) 224-3542
Fetterman (202) 224-4254
Main switchboard (202) 224-3121
Kaine (202) 224-4024
Durbin (202) 224-2152
Rosen (202) 224-6244
Shaheen (202) 224-2841
Hassan (202) 224-3324
King (202) 224-5344
Cortez-Masto (202) 224-3542
Fetterman (202) 224-4254