bellebutton.bsky.social
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In all the chaos, I would urge folks to remember that a lot of folks now don’t know when their next check will come.

The vast majority are good people who love this nation deeply, and many of them are still working despite not knowing when they’ll be paid

Have compassion.
October 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
July 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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July 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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I don't need solutions to my problems, I need punchlines to my jokes.
July 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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This is Nick Begich (R-Alaska). If he votes for the bill,
37,000 of his constituents lose access to their healthcare.
27,000 of his constituents lose access to their food assistance.
578 energy jobs in his district will disappear.
July 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Medicaid touches health care in every stage of life, for Washingtonians in every corner of our state.

Federal cuts to Medicaid would be felt by all Washingtonians, regardless of ZIP code or party affiliation.
June 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Here in Washington state, 3,866,398 acres are on the line. This includes some of the most carbon-dense forest in the world, with immeasurable value for climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and human health and well-being.
June 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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June 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.
June 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously

But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state

Keep that same energy of support for her
June 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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June 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.
June 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is my favorite thing I've ever read in my entire life
It’s because all the kids are going to Harvard and majoring in Lesbian instead of going to a trade school and learning banana construction.
June 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Sorry to step away from the catfight, but we’ve got a win! A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle AmeriCorps halting the termination of grants and its volunteer network!
June 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Two horrible things happened in DC in the dead of night but if this big ugly bill passed by the House becomes law, I'm afraid it's going to kill a lot more than two people
May 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Bringing this to Bsky bc @steverattner.bsky.social hasn't posted it yet and it's so critical. The entirety of the cuts to Medicaid and food benefits are to pay for tax cuts for people earning more than half a million a year.

Call Congress: 202-224-3121
May 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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House Republicans passed their bill that’d rip health insurance from millions and take food assistance away from millions including households with kids as young as 7 in the largest Medicaid and SNAP cuts in history - while giving giant tax cuts to the rich.

Thread on the next steps of the process.
May 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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The “big, beautiful” bill ain’t beautiful—it’s bullshit.

House Republicans just voted for the largest cut to SNAP & Medicaid in U.S. history—turning their backs on their own damn constituents: the working people they were sent here to represent.

They don’t serve the people. They serve the rich.
May 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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May 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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"And 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."

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8
May 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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May 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
May 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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May 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM