Bright Echo
@brightecho.bsky.social
Writer & Composer | Critter Enthusiast | Wanderer of Unusual Places
Always chasing new adventures, fascinating folks & stories they carry. Leftist with a penchant for wandering off the beaten path & a PhD in meeting strangers who somehow become friends.
Always chasing new adventures, fascinating folks & stories they carry. Leftist with a penchant for wandering off the beaten path & a PhD in meeting strangers who somehow become friends.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you:
The World’s Most Greediest Man.
The World’s Most Greediest Man.
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you:
The World’s Most Greediest Man.
The World’s Most Greediest Man.
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This clip will be forever burned into my brain. When @sanders.senate.gov told them they would be killing 51,000 people with their vote and they did it anyway. It was like watching him beg for mercy at a public execution.
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This clip will be forever burned into my brain. When @sanders.senate.gov told them they would be killing 51,000 people with their vote and they did it anyway. It was like watching him beg for mercy at a public execution.
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Nope never gonna happen
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Nope never gonna happen
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"Maxwell has received custom meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area, access to a service puppy, and private meetings with visitors arranged by the warden, complete with snacks. Visitors were allowed to bring computers..."
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
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Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison ‘luxuries’
In a letter to the president, House Democrats say Maxwell’s treatment as she prepares a clemency request makes the convicted sex offender look like a “guest at a Trump hotel.”
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"Maxwell has received custom meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area, access to a service puppy, and private meetings with visitors arranged by the warden, complete with snacks. Visitors were allowed to bring computers..."
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
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Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
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Democratic establishment just opened the door for the young progressives in the party. Establishment just proved progressives point, they’re not fighters.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Democratic establishment just opened the door for the young progressives in the party. Establishment just proved progressives point, they’re not fighters.
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When a great democracy ceases to be progressive, it will soon cease to great - and a democracy (T. Roosevelt)
Teddy knew this to be true over a 100 years ago.
The Dems brand is now dead. They have just proven incapable of being a party for working Americans. We need a new Dem party.
Teddy knew this to be true over a 100 years ago.
The Dems brand is now dead. They have just proven incapable of being a party for working Americans. We need a new Dem party.
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
When a great democracy ceases to be progressive, it will soon cease to great - and a democracy (T. Roosevelt)
Teddy knew this to be true over a 100 years ago.
The Dems brand is now dead. They have just proven incapable of being a party for working Americans. We need a new Dem party.
Teddy knew this to be true over a 100 years ago.
The Dems brand is now dead. They have just proven incapable of being a party for working Americans. We need a new Dem party.
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Bring on the Progressives. Boot out the establishment.
I am so sick of them.
I am so sick of them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Bring on the Progressives. Boot out the establishment.
I am so sick of them.
I am so sick of them.
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Think about it‼️🤬🤬
November 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Think about it‼️🤬🤬
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I've cared for patients who used the ER when the pain got so bad they couldn't stand it, only to find out they had STAGE FOUR CANCER. Several left behind very young children. We should never go back to 54 M uninsured before the ACA took effect.
Thanks for nothing to the 8 D Senators who voted yes.
Thanks for nothing to the 8 D Senators who voted yes.
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I've cared for patients who used the ER when the pain got so bad they couldn't stand it, only to find out they had STAGE FOUR CANCER. Several left behind very young children. We should never go back to 54 M uninsured before the ACA took effect.
Thanks for nothing to the 8 D Senators who voted yes.
Thanks for nothing to the 8 D Senators who voted yes.
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I am so furious right now.
AGs across the country fought to get SNAP benefits.
Federal workers suffered with weeks of no pay.
Millions of people showed up to protest Trump.
Democrats showed up in record numbers at the polls to say 'we've got your back!'
And you caved for literally nothing.
AGs across the country fought to get SNAP benefits.
Federal workers suffered with weeks of no pay.
Millions of people showed up to protest Trump.
Democrats showed up in record numbers at the polls to say 'we've got your back!'
And you caved for literally nothing.
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I am so furious right now.
AGs across the country fought to get SNAP benefits.
Federal workers suffered with weeks of no pay.
Millions of people showed up to protest Trump.
Democrats showed up in record numbers at the polls to say 'we've got your back!'
And you caved for literally nothing.
AGs across the country fought to get SNAP benefits.
Federal workers suffered with weeks of no pay.
Millions of people showed up to protest Trump.
Democrats showed up in record numbers at the polls to say 'we've got your back!'
And you caved for literally nothing.
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The American People: “Chuck Schumer, we have provided you with all the leverage you need to win this shutdown fight, once and for all.”
Chuck Schumer *flushing the leverage down the toilet*: “What?”
Chuck Schumer *flushing the leverage down the toilet*: “What?”
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The American People: “Chuck Schumer, we have provided you with all the leverage you need to win this shutdown fight, once and for all.”
Chuck Schumer *flushing the leverage down the toilet*: “What?”
Chuck Schumer *flushing the leverage down the toilet*: “What?”
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Keep organizing, y’all. It is, and always has been, on all of us.
• Get connected to the resistance:
www.fiftyfifty.one
• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise
• Get bold for rapid response:
nokings.org/next
• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com
• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us
• Get connected to the resistance:
www.fiftyfifty.one
• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise
• Get bold for rapid response:
nokings.org/next
• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com
• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Keep organizing, y’all. It is, and always has been, on all of us.
• Get connected to the resistance:
www.fiftyfifty.one
• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise
• Get bold for rapid response:
nokings.org/next
• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com
• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us
• Get connected to the resistance:
www.fiftyfifty.one
• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise
• Get bold for rapid response:
nokings.org/next
• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com
• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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We’re not going to “fix the Democrats’ brand” by doing TikToks or launching pods. The brand is a direct reflection of our elected officials. If we want to purge our weak branding, we have to purge the weak Dems. I’m looking forward to a robust primary cycle and new Democrats who know how to fight.
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
We’re not going to “fix the Democrats’ brand” by doing TikToks or launching pods. The brand is a direct reflection of our elected officials. If we want to purge our weak branding, we have to purge the weak Dems. I’m looking forward to a robust primary cycle and new Democrats who know how to fight.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
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As long as it takes.
1. Republicans are being blamed for the shutdown by the public
2. This could sink Trump in future
2. We know how Trump works: cave now and they'll come back for more
3. Don't let them take our healthcare!!!!
1. Republicans are being blamed for the shutdown by the public
2. This could sink Trump in future
2. We know how Trump works: cave now and they'll come back for more
3. Don't let them take our healthcare!!!!
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
As long as it takes.
1. Republicans are being blamed for the shutdown by the public
2. This could sink Trump in future
2. We know how Trump works: cave now and they'll come back for more
3. Don't let them take our healthcare!!!!
1. Republicans are being blamed for the shutdown by the public
2. This could sink Trump in future
2. We know how Trump works: cave now and they'll come back for more
3. Don't let them take our healthcare!!!!
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"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."
-Carl Sagan
-Carl Sagan
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."
-Carl Sagan
-Carl Sagan
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When power is untouchable: the legal abyss facing Harrods survivors
Survivors of abuse connected to Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods empire are discovering what “no one is above the law” really means | Isabella
Survivors of abuse connected to Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods empire are discovering what “no one is above the law” really means | Isabella
When power is untouchable: the legal abyss facing Harrods survivors
Survivors of abuse connected to Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods empire are discovering what “no one is above the law” really means
sussexbylines.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
When power is untouchable: the legal abyss facing Harrods survivors
Survivors of abuse connected to Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods empire are discovering what “no one is above the law” really means | Isabella
Survivors of abuse connected to Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods empire are discovering what “no one is above the law” really means | Isabella
My grandfather always said “you have to have money to make money”. So true, a friend in Brazil was just lamenting that because he didn’t have the cash to buy his vehicle outright, he will end up paying twice what it actually cost over the next few years.
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
My grandfather always said “you have to have money to make money”. So true, a friend in Brazil was just lamenting that because he didn’t have the cash to buy his vehicle outright, he will end up paying twice what it actually cost over the next few years.
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Constant, conflicting and false information from the White House causes the public to see truth as relative and dismiss those who disagree as untruthful. It's a tactic with historical ties to 1930s Nazi Germany and modern extremist movements, according to a journalism scholar.
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Overwhelm the public with muzzle-velocity headlines: A strategy rooted in racism and authoritarianism
The unrelenting diet of chaotic, contradictory headlines that Americans face today echoes an antidemocratic playbook from the past.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Constant, conflicting and false information from the White House causes the public to see truth as relative and dismiss those who disagree as untruthful. It's a tactic with historical ties to 1930s Nazi Germany and modern extremist movements, according to a journalism scholar.
buff.ly/VDmXird
buff.ly/VDmXird