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Nature, climate, books, birds, bikes, Boston healthcare, US/UK/EU/CA. If Antifa means anti-fascist, then call me Antifa. Democratic Socialism is looking pretty good right now. Demolish Vought/Trump/Bannon/Thiel. Protect the U.S. Constitution. DMs = Block.
Elsewhere on the internet, It is sad to see what threads about the fire emergency in Washington devolve to. A lot of Canadians are making acerbic comments about tariffing the US as the smoke drifts north of the border.
Study from Yale School of Public Health-2022. We pay billions of $ per yr to suffer at the hands of the insurance industry; many pay w/ their lives. "in a non-pandemic year, some $438 billion would be saved by single-payer universal health care, like Medicare for All." ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Study: More Than 335,000 Lives Could Have Been Saved During Pandemic if U.S. Had Universal Health Care
If the U.S. had had a single-payer universal health care system in 2020, nearly 212,000 American lives would have been saved that year, according to a new study
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Perimeters, not parameters. An excursion, not an incursion. Six genders, not cisgender. Insane asylums, not asylum. Transgender mice, not transgenic mice. The IQ of a potato.
"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've always found it interesting that Trump loves gold. He's always been more of a tin kind of guy. Rusted tin...at that. Oh...and Capital One...yeah, we now have far more clarity about why he wants IRS immunity. The Donald Trump family is scum, trash...shit.
People that have talent don't have to tell other people they have talent.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”
Tilting at windmills...fighting imaginary vandals....believing there are hordes of non-citizen voters ... Meet Don Trumpote and his faithful sidekick Sancho Vance-a!
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ALT: Lizzo: The Moment It Becomes Your Birthday Month!
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Congratulations to the Republican party for achieving the highest incident rate of measles in 35 years! The United States couldn't have achieved this with our Republican leadership! Remember girls & boys, one cain't git dummer than a non-gazillionaire Republican voter!
Are we just going to sit here wringing our hands, or are we going to fight and claw for our country, our constitution, & our rights? I personally have had enough. How’s about you? #WeHaveHadEnough #Pinks #ProudBlue #SheShed #OneV1 youtu.be/PqQdbevaB-Q
We're Not Gonna Take It
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We are 100 days from the midterm elections. Democrats have a clear path to the majority in the House and Senate. Trump and the GOP's only strategy is to make it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat. We will fight them in every district and in every state. And when we fight we win!
I was a Capitol Police officer on January 6th. I testified about what I saw. Then I ran for Congress to keep fighting for accountability. Outside groups spent $11 million to silence me. They will not. I am re-launching Standing Our Ground: www.standingourground.us/p/five-years-ago-today-i-raised-my
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I'm sure if Obama had gotten us into a costly quagmire of a war and then spent all his time posting cartoons about how cool he was, it wouldn't have been a big deal at all.
Scrooge Jones@fitzador.bsky.social · last wk.So the leader of the free world is posting AI slop memes on his self-owned social media platform instead of engaging in actual foreign policy.
Before the first ballot is counted, Donald Trump is already casting doubt on November. Now an analyst warns his election-security address may have been designed to justify whatever comes next. #DonaldTrump #Midterms2026 #ElectionSecurity
‘THIS IS ABOUT PRETEXT’: Trump Accused of Planting the Seeds for Election Chaos — and an Analyst Warns the Real Crisis May Be Yet to Come
WASHINGTON — The most dangerous moment in an election may arrive long before anyone casts a ballot. It can begin beneath television lights, behind a presidential lectern, with carefully chosen word…
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I can’t even measure the rage I feel over this disgusting administration. I implore you to check your registration and encourage others, your friends and family members to register to vote for the midterms in November. #BlueWaveIn100Days IWillVote.com
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Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · 2w agoCOMMENTARY: The Pentagon Says Some Servicemember Deaths Don’t Count
Every time he opens his mouth out comes a lie and an insult. His family should have him committed. He is obviously insane.
Mark Hamill@markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2w ago"Bombed" is too kind. Just the same old ugly insults & self-pitying drivel he's been spewing forever. "Fat Pig Chris Christie/Watermelon Head Pencil Neck Shifty Schiff/Pocahontas Elizabeth Warren" etc. from a deranged sociopath who can't understand humor. 🤢 #Pathetic shorturl.at/eEX8A
We need to BOYCOTT AMAZON! But the American people won't because you have become TOO LAZY to fight for yourself! I am an American Veteran "Sickened" by the behavior I see by Americans, watching Trump, Maga and the GOP destroy our country, democracy and steal from the poor to enrich themselves.
Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 2w agoThe Odyssey cost $250 million to make. Guess who got a tax break worth more than 30x that last year? Amazon—after firing 30,000 workers.
$4B in corrupt deals, a $25M fraud settlement, and now blanket immunity from prosecution. Corrupt Trump built an empire on scams and corrupt Republicans protect him instead of us. We deserve answers, not silence. Vote them out in November. #RepublicanCostOfCorruption
This is exactly what corrupt Republicans look like: fistfuls of cash, sprinting away from the communities they’re supposed to serve. Trump puppets have made greed their entire platform. We see it, we name it, we vote them out. #RepublicanCostOfCorruption
Apparently the poor WH correspondents are bummed at having to go to another dinner with the eternally exhausting Trump. Here's an idea: DON'T GO. Don't subject yourself to his abuse. And if you must, make it clear to him this dinner is about freedom of the press. www.rawstory.com/white-house-...
'Nobody wants this': Invitees bail on Friday night bash because Trump's too 'exhausting'
No one wants to go to President Donald Trump's big Friday night party, according to a new report. The White House Correspondents Dinner is expected to have terrible turnout after a gunman stormed the ...
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Americans need to call the Iran war what it is. It's not the US vs Iran, it's Donald Trump vs Iran. 70% of the American people don't agree we should be in this totally unnecessary unjustifiable war. Donald Trump is 100% responsible for the US being at war with Iran., nobody else.
70% of Americans don't want energy-guzzling AI data centers being built in their communities, including 63% of Republicans. Trump's response? "You can't fight it, you have to go with it." Reminder that Trump owns millions of dollars worth of stock in Big Tech corporations pushing data centers.