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Ann Michelle

@partylizards.bsky.social

Exactly this!! Call your House reps and Senators and tell them HANDS OFF MEDICAID!

Larry Tenney ❌👑 @larrytenney.bsky.social · May 12

DON'T MESS WITH MEDICAID

20% of VETERANS rely on Medicaid

38% of healthcare for KIDS is covered by Medicaid

41% of BIRTHS are covered by Medicaid

61% of SENIORS in long-term care are covered by Medicaid

MEDICAID is a LIFELINE for millions of Americans

May 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM

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Sandra Marsh

@lacubana.bsky.social

February 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM

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Patton Oswalt

@pattonoswalt.bsky.social

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

February 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM

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Isaac Rowlett

@isaacrowlett.bsky.social

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

February 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM

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Jess Piper

@piperformissouri.bsky.social

That part 👇🏻

Michele Hornish @hornish.bsky.social · Feb 15

If RFK wants to meaningfully decrease rates of depression, he can support paid family and maternity leave, equal pay for women, universal healthcare, and fully funded public schools.

Stigmatizing medication that treats the mental impact of a country that devalues your existence won’t cut it.

February 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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ex-Lethality Jane

@lethalityjane.bsky.social

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM

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🌴🐰Untamed Bunny 🐰 🌴

@bunny.sheshed.rocks

Empathy, respect, and support is #Resistance at its finest.

#ERA
#EndClassWarfare
#EndTheWarOnWomen
#FightDammit

#SheShed

January 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM

Ann Michelle

@partylizards.bsky.social

@robwitzke.bsky.social I’ve deleted Twitter, and FB is the next to go. Much prefer this platform! Better people without all the hate! 🥰

January 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM

Ann Michelle

@partylizards.bsky.social

@drrobertbullard.bsky.social
Welcome to BlueSky! We are so glad you’re here!

January 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

🤣🤣🤣🤣

December 28, 2024 at 3:13 PM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

Well would you look at that.

December 25, 2024 at 7:39 PM

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Kaylan_TX

@kaylan.bsky.social

Reminder:

December 16, 2024 at 10:11 PM

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Nick Knudsen

@nickknudsenus.bsky.social

BREAKING: In light of the tragedy in Wisconsin, there is a massive digital rally happening NOW.

Our message: #EndGunViolenceNow!

Please share this social media toolkit & talking points with your followers & friends:

Join the Digital Rally! #EndGunViolenceNow

Another day, another school shooting in America. This is a moment to get LOUD.

www.digitaldrumbeat.com

December 16, 2024 at 10:23 PM

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Nick Knudsen

@nickknudsenus.bsky.social

REALLY IMPORTANT UPDATE PLEASE SHARE

#ASafeChoice physicians WILL prescribe medication abortion via telehealth FOR WOMEN WHO ANTICIPATE NEEDING THIS MEDICATION.

REPEAT: You do NOT need to be currently pregnant to get this prescription.

In an era of potentially draconian abortion bans, take note!

Click to Visit #ASafeChoice Network

social.demcast.com

December 6, 2024 at 6:09 PM

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy

@physiciandemocracy.medsky.social

November 27, 2024 at 11:08 PM

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C.J. Tudor - Author

@cjtudor.bsky.social

As I have somehow surpassed 7k followers on here I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway: All 7 of my books to one lovely winner. Just share and like to be in with a chance! 😁📚

November 28, 2024 at 11:10 AM

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Justin Baragona

@justinbaragona.bsky.social

No, Rachel Maddow did not have a tearful meltdown reading Musk's tweet about buying MSNBC.

Musk's acolytes have been sharing an altered video of Maddow reacting in 2018 to a Trump immigration order to mock her for breaking down on-air over Elon's MSNBC memes.

www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...