Pat Pointer
@mamapointer.bsky.social
Naturalized cheesehead 🧀, cat 🐈lover, dog 🐶 lover, knitter, gardener, outdoor 🌳enthusiast, word ✏️puzzle nerd. Love 🌈 is love. Banned 📖 book reader.
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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
February 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
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Wealth inequality has set the stage for our current political condition. The billionaires stay in power by dividing the groups who might otherwise unite and oust them from power. The race baiting, xenophobia, homophobia, and faux religious pandering is all part of the strategy. We shall overcome.
For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed.
Is it any wonder why so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void.
This is why we must fix the system. AOC is right.
Is it any wonder why so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void.
This is why we must fix the system. AOC is right.
AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
February 14, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Wealth inequality has set the stage for our current political condition. The billionaires stay in power by dividing the groups who might otherwise unite and oust them from power. The race baiting, xenophobia, homophobia, and faux religious pandering is all part of the strategy. We shall overcome.
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Stop saying underage women.
They are children.
They are children.
February 3, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Stop saying underage women.
They are children.
They are children.
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The one thing authoritarian leaders usually have going for them is the general apathy of the majority when they make a move solely against a marginal group in society.
But when they occupy an entire city with clumsy, brutal force, that just forces everyone out of that apathy.
But when they occupy an entire city with clumsy, brutal force, that just forces everyone out of that apathy.
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 PM
The one thing authoritarian leaders usually have going for them is the general apathy of the majority when they make a move solely against a marginal group in society.
But when they occupy an entire city with clumsy, brutal force, that just forces everyone out of that apathy.
But when they occupy an entire city with clumsy, brutal force, that just forces everyone out of that apathy.
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This
No but really my fear is that the next democrat in the White House will be conciliatory and deliberate when what we need is a chainsaw and some sage.
Need this energy when Trump leaves office. Take a fucking bulldozer to his bribe ballroom and rip his name off the Kennedy Center and whatever else he slaps his name on.
January 2, 2026 at 3:46 AM
This
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SAVE THE DATE! This Crossroads of Ideas conversation will pull back the curtain on quantum science, revealing its surprising role in shaping the present, and the future, we all share. Presented in celebration of 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
SAVE THE DATE! This Crossroads of Ideas conversation will pull back the curtain on quantum science, revealing its surprising role in shaping the present, and the future, we all share. Presented in celebration of 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
@baldwin.senate.gov PLEASE do not cave.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
@baldwin.senate.gov PLEASE do not cave.
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SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
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Top 10 Rally Reminders for #NoKingsDayOct18th
October 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Top 10 Rally Reminders for #NoKingsDayOct18th
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Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization.
September 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization.
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"All lives matter"
"Except those ones"
"Feed them to alligators"
"Burn their food"
"Except those ones"
"Feed them to alligators"
"Burn their food"
July 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"All lives matter"
"Except those ones"
"Feed them to alligators"
"Burn their food"
"Except those ones"
"Feed them to alligators"
"Burn their food"
Amen
June 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Amen
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Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:
June 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:
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To be clear, I truly don't GAF that some wealthy and/or famous women were passengers on a Bezos rocket. It is not in any way inspiring, especially at a time when NASA budgets are being slashed and women engineers & scientists are being pushed out of their careers and having their legacies erased 🧪
April 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
To be clear, I truly don't GAF that some wealthy and/or famous women were passengers on a Bezos rocket. It is not in any way inspiring, especially at a time when NASA budgets are being slashed and women engineers & scientists are being pushed out of their careers and having their legacies erased 🧪
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👇🎯 The only solution now fully consistent with being an actual democracy & not having this remain a weaponized tool of mass voter suppression/disenfranchisement is automatic universal voter registration & free passports for every US citizen.
This is a case where IMO the ship on the policy has sailed and the best option is to make access to and availability of the IDs very easy
Periodic reminder that voter ID requirements are sadly often quite popular.
Democratic opponents need to find better ways to mitigate this.
Democratic opponents need to find better ways to mitigate this.
April 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
👇🎯 The only solution now fully consistent with being an actual democracy & not having this remain a weaponized tool of mass voter suppression/disenfranchisement is automatic universal voter registration & free passports for every US citizen.
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Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate.
March 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate.
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If you live in Wisconsin PLEASE make sure you/your friends vote for Judge Susan Crawford in April 1 election for Supreme Court. Elon Musk is funneling millions to her opponent to BUY a Judge. In every war there is a turning point. Let this election be ours as we begin to take back our country!
March 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
If you live in Wisconsin PLEASE make sure you/your friends vote for Judge Susan Crawford in April 1 election for Supreme Court. Elon Musk is funneling millions to her opponent to BUY a Judge. In every war there is a turning point. Let this election be ours as we begin to take back our country!
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In case you doubted that he’s a russian asset, know that VOA was instrumental in keeping the hope of freedoms alive in the Soviet Union and is hated with a passion by putin for exactly that. This is no accident.
JUST IN: Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.
'Bloody Saturday' at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks
Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.
www.npr.org
March 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
In case you doubted that he’s a russian asset, know that VOA was instrumental in keeping the hope of freedoms alive in the Soviet Union and is hated with a passion by putin for exactly that. This is no accident.