Maria Gardner
@mariagardner.bsky.social
Trying to make a difference in this world!
Poverty is absolutely a POLICY choice. It is unconscionable that this still happens in America, the richest nation in the world. We can and must do better.
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I don't see the government bailing me out of homelessness, which was a result of getting sick and because I like millions of others aren't paid a living wage, im now on the street. When they bail us all out then they can consider bailing out the wealthy of a small comparative loss.
I don't see the government bailing me out of homelessness, which was a result of getting sick and because I like millions of others aren't paid a living wage, im now on the street. When they bail us all out then they can consider bailing out the wealthy of a small comparative loss.
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Poverty is absolutely a POLICY choice. It is unconscionable that this still happens in America, the richest nation in the world. We can and must do better.
Barely legal would be.....18 and legal! WTF?! Keep your dirty old man fantasies away from our teen girls!
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Barely legal would be.....18 and legal! WTF?! Keep your dirty old man fantasies away from our teen girls!
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Quote from December 3, 1906. Our country would be very different if we heeded this advice.
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Quote from December 3, 1906. Our country would be very different if we heeded this advice.
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The only thing Senate Democrats should be agreeing to is an extension of the enhanced premium tax credits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for millions of Americans buying plans on the health exchanges and releasing the Trump-Epstein files.
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The only thing Senate Democrats should be agreeing to is an extension of the enhanced premium tax credits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for millions of Americans buying plans on the health exchanges and releasing the Trump-Epstein files.
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Still think he cares about YOU?! 👇
Enjoy. 😎✨
Enjoy. 😎✨
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Still think he cares about YOU?! 👇
Enjoy. 😎✨
Enjoy. 😎✨
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The current GOP lie is that they’re going to replace Obamacare with something better.
Bullshit. In all of the majorities they’ve had since Obamacare passed, they’ve never once tried to replace it.
They’ve tried to repeal it a whole bunch, but never actually make it better.
Bullshit. In all of the majorities they’ve had since Obamacare passed, they’ve never once tried to replace it.
They’ve tried to repeal it a whole bunch, but never actually make it better.
November 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The current GOP lie is that they’re going to replace Obamacare with something better.
Bullshit. In all of the majorities they’ve had since Obamacare passed, they’ve never once tried to replace it.
They’ve tried to repeal it a whole bunch, but never actually make it better.
Bullshit. In all of the majorities they’ve had since Obamacare passed, they’ve never once tried to replace it.
They’ve tried to repeal it a whole bunch, but never actually make it better.
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This is obscene!!!
Trump throws another extravagant party at Mar-a-Lago while thousands, including government workers, line up at food banks during the shutdown— while he’s still fighting to block SNAP funding while kids go hungry.
Literally a tale of two Americas.
Trump throws another extravagant party at Mar-a-Lago while thousands, including government workers, line up at food banks during the shutdown— while he’s still fighting to block SNAP funding while kids go hungry.
Literally a tale of two Americas.
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is obscene!!!
Trump throws another extravagant party at Mar-a-Lago while thousands, including government workers, line up at food banks during the shutdown— while he’s still fighting to block SNAP funding while kids go hungry.
Literally a tale of two Americas.
Trump throws another extravagant party at Mar-a-Lago while thousands, including government workers, line up at food banks during the shutdown— while he’s still fighting to block SNAP funding while kids go hungry.
Literally a tale of two Americas.
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Who benefits from 50 year mortgages: banks, developers, realtors, estate lawyers.
Who gets screwed: everyone else.
Who gets screwed: everyone else.
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Who benefits from 50 year mortgages: banks, developers, realtors, estate lawyers.
Who gets screwed: everyone else.
Who gets screwed: everyone else.
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A 50-year mortgage to solve the fact that no one can buy a home seems like the kind of idea a man who bankrupted a bunch of casinos would come up with.
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A 50-year mortgage to solve the fact that no one can buy a home seems like the kind of idea a man who bankrupted a bunch of casinos would come up with.
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Trump‘s brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Trump‘s brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.
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ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.
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Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.
November 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.
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It"s time for a 21st century New Deal.
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It"s time for a 21st century New Deal.
Do we need to improve the ACA? YES!
Do the Republicans have a plan? Absolutely not!
ACA was signed into law in 2010 (effective 2014).
They only watch to bitch about it, so the least Congress could do right now is extend subsidies to try to control costs for everyone who relies on ACA coverage.
Do the Republicans have a plan? Absolutely not!
ACA was signed into law in 2010 (effective 2014).
They only watch to bitch about it, so the least Congress could do right now is extend subsidies to try to control costs for everyone who relies on ACA coverage.
Rachel Maddow warns: if Republicans let ACA subsidies expire, millions will face massive premium spikes. A WV couple’s plan could jump from $300 to $4,700 a month. The #GOPHealthCareShutdown isn’t fiscal discipline—it’s a war on working families’ health and wallets.
November 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Do we need to improve the ACA? YES!
Do the Republicans have a plan? Absolutely not!
ACA was signed into law in 2010 (effective 2014).
They only watch to bitch about it, so the least Congress could do right now is extend subsidies to try to control costs for everyone who relies on ACA coverage.
Do the Republicans have a plan? Absolutely not!
ACA was signed into law in 2010 (effective 2014).
They only watch to bitch about it, so the least Congress could do right now is extend subsidies to try to control costs for everyone who relies on ACA coverage.
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How sad is it that the richest country on Earth has a government that has to be forced to feed families with hungry children?
SNAP benefits shouldn’t be a courtroom battle. People shouldn’t have to beg for basic humanity. But here we are.
SNAP benefits shouldn’t be a courtroom battle. People shouldn’t have to beg for basic humanity. But here we are.
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
How sad is it that the richest country on Earth has a government that has to be forced to feed families with hungry children?
SNAP benefits shouldn’t be a courtroom battle. People shouldn’t have to beg for basic humanity. But here we are.
SNAP benefits shouldn’t be a courtroom battle. People shouldn’t have to beg for basic humanity. But here we are.
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So to cap their horrible week, Senate Republicans refused a deal to reopen the government in exchange for just helping people with health insurance and now the president wants the Supreme Court to say he doesn’t have to obey the law and feed the hungry.
Amazing.
Amazing.
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
So to cap their horrible week, Senate Republicans refused a deal to reopen the government in exchange for just helping people with health insurance and now the president wants the Supreme Court to say he doesn’t have to obey the law and feed the hungry.
Amazing.
Amazing.
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Trump and Vance did this.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Trump and Vance did this.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I don't think it's absurd at all to to insist that the most vulnerable don't starve...
Vance calls court order to fully fund SNAP 'absurd ruling'
thehill.com
Vance calls court order to fully fund SNAP ‘absurd ruling’
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November 7, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I don't think it's absurd at all to to insist that the most vulnerable don't starve...
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Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
This federal shutdown - the longest one in our history - surpasses this administration's previous shutdown by one day now and last time food benefits were not interrupted! If they wanted to feed people they would.
DAILY REMINDER: Donald Trump is starving 42 MILLION Americans by withholding SNAP benefits.
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This federal shutdown - the longest one in our history - surpasses this administration's previous shutdown by one day now and last time food benefits were not interrupted! If they wanted to feed people they would.
The rich get richer...
Time to break the cycle and make our government work for all of us!
Poverty is a policy choice... perpetuated by these tax giveaways to the rich.
Time to break the cycle and make our government work for all of us!
Poverty is a policy choice... perpetuated by these tax giveaways to the rich.
“The collective wealth of America’s top 10 richest people ballooned by $698 billion in the past year, supercharged by President Donald Trump’s tax giveaways to his fellow billionaires.”
Wealth of America’s Richest Billionaires Rockets Under Trump
“The rise of a new American oligarchy” is underway, according to an Oxfam study.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The rich get richer...
Time to break the cycle and make our government work for all of us!
Poverty is a policy choice... perpetuated by these tax giveaways to the rich.
Time to break the cycle and make our government work for all of us!
Poverty is a policy choice... perpetuated by these tax giveaways to the rich.
Wanting a basic, humble existence (as a right!) is not f'ing radical!
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Wanting a basic, humble existence (as a right!) is not f'ing radical!
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Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
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Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation.
They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.
They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.
Mike Johnson: "These blue states have abused the SNAP program just like they've abused Medicaid and so many other government programs."
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation.
They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.
They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.