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#AppeasingAuthoritariansDoesNotWork
Disturbing thoughts to digest here about so many Democratis legislators caving to the Trumpites.
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Disturbing thoughts to digest here about so many Democratis legislators caving to the Trumpites.
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This isn’t just about the eight Senate Democrats who surrendered. 👇
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
#AppeasingAuthoritariansDoesNotWork
Disturbing thoughts to digest here about so many Democratis legislators caving to the Trumpites.
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Disturbing thoughts to digest here about so many Democratis legislators caving to the Trumpites.
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#ArtOfTheSteal
The steal is stealing $ from Medicaid and funds for ACA. Awful that some Democrats are bending the knee.
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The steal is stealing $ from Medicaid and funds for ACA. Awful that some Democrats are bending the knee.
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Oh wow. Who could've ever seen this coming?
"Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies"
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
"Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies"
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies
abcnews.go.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
#ArtOfTheSteal
The steal is stealing $ from Medicaid and funds for ACA. Awful that some Democrats are bending the knee.
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The steal is stealing $ from Medicaid and funds for ACA. Awful that some Democrats are bending the knee.
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#Breaking #NoCavingOnHealthcare
The current "deal" is no deal at all. Please call your Senator if they are one of the ones who caved. Urgent! Have friends call too.
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The current "deal" is no deal at all. Please call your Senator if they are one of the ones who caved. Urgent! Have friends call too.
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🚨🚨Hey folks apparently we still have a chance to stop this deal but we need to get one of these 8 to flip their votes: Durbin, Rosen, Cortez Masto, King, Kaine, Fetterman, Shaheen, Hassan. If one of them is yours, please get on the phone right now and tell them to reverse their vote. 202-224-3121🚨🚨
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#Breaking #NoCavingOnHealthcare
The current "deal" is no deal at all. Please call your Senator if they are one of the ones who caved. Urgent! Have friends call too.
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The current "deal" is no deal at all. Please call your Senator if they are one of the ones who caved. Urgent! Have friends call too.
bsky.app/profile/jess...
#MoreTrumpAbsurdity
Trump consistently sides against people of color and governments that represent them. Plus Elon Musk's family and many right wing authoritarians settled in South Africa.
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Trump consistently sides against people of color and governments that represent them. Plus Elon Musk's family and many right wing authoritarians settled in South Africa.
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U.S. President Donald Trump says that his government will boycott the Group of 20 summit this month in South Africa over his claims that a white minority group there is being violently persecuted. Those claims have been widely rejected.
https://to.pbs.org/4nPnWEf
https://to.pbs.org/4nPnWEf
How Trump's support for white South Africans led to a U.S. boycott of the G20 summit
U.S. President Donald Trump says his government will boycott the Group of 20 summit this month in South Africa over his claims that a white minority group there is being violently persecuted.
www.pbs.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
#MoreTrumpAbsurdity
Trump consistently sides against people of color and governments that represent them. Plus Elon Musk's family and many right wing authoritarians settled in South Africa.
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Trump consistently sides against people of color and governments that represent them. Plus Elon Musk's family and many right wing authoritarians settled in South Africa.
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#DealWithTheDevil
It looks like too many Democratic Senators are caving on Trump's awful Budget Bill in a way that will seriously jeopardize healthcare benefits for millions of US citizens
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It looks like too many Democratic Senators are caving on Trump's awful Budget Bill in a way that will seriously jeopardize healthcare benefits for millions of US citizens
kffhealthnews.org/morning-brea...
ACA Subsidies Still In Limbo As Senate Nears Deal To End Longest Shutdown - KFF Health News
Eight senators voted with the Democratic caucus to advance a compromise measure to fund the government through the end of January. SNAP benefits would resume, but the extension of health care tax cred...
kffhealthnews.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
#DealWithTheDevil
It looks like too many Democratic Senators are caving on Trump's awful Budget Bill in a way that will seriously jeopardize healthcare benefits for millions of US citizens
kffhealthnews.org/morning-brea...
It looks like too many Democratic Senators are caving on Trump's awful Budget Bill in a way that will seriously jeopardize healthcare benefits for millions of US citizens
kffhealthnews.org/morning-brea...
Another horrifying consequence of Republican abortion bans that block women from getting the basic health care they need.
Every Republican should have to answer for this.
Every Republican should have to answer for this.
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
www.propublica.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
#VictoryForSame-SexMarriage
Finally the Supreme Court stands up for a human right to choose whom to love and whom to marry ("right to pursue happiness" and liberty).
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Finally the Supreme Court stands up for a human right to choose whom to love and whom to marry ("right to pursue happiness" and liberty).
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
#VictoryForSame-SexMarriage
Finally the Supreme Court stands up for a human right to choose whom to love and whom to marry ("right to pursue happiness" and liberty).
bsky.app/profile/apne...
Finally the Supreme Court stands up for a human right to choose whom to love and whom to marry ("right to pursue happiness" and liberty).
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Judge allows deployment of more than 300 West Virginia National Guard members in nation’s capital to continue.
Deployment of West Virginia National Guard members in nation’s capital can continue: judge
A judge has allowed the continued deployment of more than 300 West Virginia National Guard members to the nation’s capital. Kanawha County Circuit Judge Richard D.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
#AdamSchiffStandsUp
Tragically, it looks like many democrats are caving and accepting a Budget Bill that leaves so much of US healthcare unprotected.
This is spineless. Thanks to Senators Schiff & Padilla for standing up, but now we face a nightmare b/o some gutless Dems.
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Tragically, it looks like many democrats are caving and accepting a Budget Bill that leaves so much of US healthcare unprotected.
This is spineless. Thanks to Senators Schiff & Padilla for standing up, but now we face a nightmare b/o some gutless Dems.
bsky.app/profile/schi...
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
#AdamSchiffStandsUp
Tragically, it looks like many democrats are caving and accepting a Budget Bill that leaves so much of US healthcare unprotected.
This is spineless. Thanks to Senators Schiff & Padilla for standing up, but now we face a nightmare b/o some gutless Dems.
bsky.app/profile/schi...
Tragically, it looks like many democrats are caving and accepting a Budget Bill that leaves so much of US healthcare unprotected.
This is spineless. Thanks to Senators Schiff & Padilla for standing up, but now we face a nightmare b/o some gutless Dems.
bsky.app/profile/schi...
#SusanMonarezMD #FutureOfPublicHealth
The CDC director RFKJr fired shares thoughts re: how to restore CDC & other medical institutions in an improved fashion when the autocrats are voted out in the Midterms. Part of the democratic Project 2028 we need!
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The CDC director RFKJr fired shares thoughts re: how to restore CDC & other medical institutions in an improved fashion when the autocrats are voted out in the Midterms. Part of the democratic Project 2028 we need!
erictopol.substack.com/p/dr-susan-m...
Dr. Susan Monarez—Former CDC Director, First Live Interview
An American hero for standing up for science and public health
erictopol.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
#SusanMonarezMD #FutureOfPublicHealth
The CDC director RFKJr fired shares thoughts re: how to restore CDC & other medical institutions in an improved fashion when the autocrats are voted out in the Midterms. Part of the democratic Project 2028 we need!
erictopol.substack.com/p/dr-susan-m...
The CDC director RFKJr fired shares thoughts re: how to restore CDC & other medical institutions in an improved fashion when the autocrats are voted out in the Midterms. Part of the democratic Project 2028 we need!
erictopol.substack.com/p/dr-susan-m...
#AstronomyRocks #RebuildNASA #Otto
NASA continues to do amazing work despite the Mad King and his sycophants crippling funding. Two new massive telescopes being installed but we need scientists to interpret the findings!
stand up for science.
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NASA continues to do amazing work despite the Mad King and his sycophants crippling funding. Two new massive telescopes being installed but we need scientists to interpret the findings!
stand up for science.
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On the way up to #ALMA around 4000m we had to make way for one of the two massive telescope dish transporters, “Otto”. It weighs 130 tons and can lift 110 ton telescope dishes to reconfigure the array! 🔭🧪
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
#AstronomyRocks #RebuildNASA #Otto
NASA continues to do amazing work despite the Mad King and his sycophants crippling funding. Two new massive telescopes being installed but we need scientists to interpret the findings!
stand up for science.
bsky.app/profile/prof...
NASA continues to do amazing work despite the Mad King and his sycophants crippling funding. Two new massive telescopes being installed but we need scientists to interpret the findings!
stand up for science.
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Pathetic. This isn’t a deal. It’s a surrender. Don’t bend the knee!
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
#GiulianiPardon #Autocracy
Every day the Mad King shows he cares nothing for the #RuleOfLaw
Every day please try to do something however small to #ResistAutocracy while we still have the right to assembly and free speech.
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Every day the Mad King shows he cares nothing for the #RuleOfLaw
Every day please try to do something however small to #ResistAutocracy while we still have the right to assembly and free speech.
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Trump is offering a pardon to any criminal who tried to help him steal an election.
The most corrupt administration in history and Republicans won’t say a peep.
The most corrupt administration in history and Republicans won’t say a peep.
Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others involved in bid to overturn 2020 election
The pardons may be largely symbolic as none of the people listed were convicted of federal crimes, which the presidential pardon covers.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
#GiulianiPardon #Autocracy
Every day the Mad King shows he cares nothing for the #RuleOfLaw
Every day please try to do something however small to #ResistAutocracy while we still have the right to assembly and free speech.
bsky.app/profile/murr...
Every day the Mad King shows he cares nothing for the #RuleOfLaw
Every day please try to do something however small to #ResistAutocracy while we still have the right to assembly and free speech.
bsky.app/profile/murr...
#TrumpPitiesEx-PrinceAndrew
The Mad King sympathizes with fellow pedophile former Prince Andrew. So tough to be held accountable for rape! Tears flowing.
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The Mad King sympathizes with fellow pedophile former Prince Andrew. So tough to be held accountable for rape! Tears flowing.
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Here I thought Trump was finally expressing sympathy for Virginia Giuffre’s family and the other victims of his leering wing man Jeffrey Epstein—but nope, it was the Royal family and poor ex-Prince Andrew that Trump feels so badly for.
Trump says he feels 'badly' for royal family over Andrew-Epstein scandal
"That’s been a tragic situation," Trump said Sunday, after King Charles III stripped his brother of his princely title and effectively banished him from the royal family.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
#TrumpPitiesEx-PrinceAndrew
The Mad King sympathizes with fellow pedophile former Prince Andrew. So tough to be held accountable for rape! Tears flowing.
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The Mad King sympathizes with fellow pedophile former Prince Andrew. So tough to be held accountable for rape! Tears flowing.
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#Cartoonist Ann Telnas’ design for
#MadKingCoin
Typical Mad King narcissism: Trump wants to issue a coin of himself now. We will recall it when this nightmare is over and make a museum of Trump's autocracy like the Holocaust museums in Germany so US citizens never forget his atrocities.
#MadKingCoin
Typical Mad King narcissism: Trump wants to issue a coin of himself now. We will recall it when this nightmare is over and make a museum of Trump's autocracy like the Holocaust museums in Germany so US citizens never forget his atrocities.
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#Cartoonist Ann Telnas’ design for
#MadKingCoin
Typical Mad King narcissism: Trump wants to issue a coin of himself now. We will recall it when this nightmare is over and make a museum of Trump's autocracy like the Holocaust museums in Germany so US citizens never forget his atrocities.
#MadKingCoin
Typical Mad King narcissism: Trump wants to issue a coin of himself now. We will recall it when this nightmare is over and make a museum of Trump's autocracy like the Holocaust museums in Germany so US citizens never forget his atrocities.
#PortlandStandsUp #WrongfulArrests #DismantleICE
ICE is corrupt and continues with cruelty and illegal acts. It needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up when Democrats regain power.
Kudos to Portland for continuing to #StandUp
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ICE is corrupt and continues with cruelty and illegal acts. It needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up when Democrats regain power.
Kudos to Portland for continuing to #StandUp
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Angela: “This town hall was at Roosevelt High School. ICE came into their neighborhood, the other day, and people turned out. They lined the sidewalks to make sure that children got home from school safely and that ICE didn't snatch kids.” (2:01)
Kudos! 👏
#USDemocracy #MomSky
#Portland #Oregon
Kudos! 👏
#USDemocracy #MomSky
#Portland #Oregon
Rep Maxine Dexter Town Hall, Nov 8: ICE in Portland
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#PortlandStandsUp #WrongfulArrests #DismantleICE
ICE is corrupt and continues with cruelty and illegal acts. It needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up when Democrats regain power.
Kudos to Portland for continuing to #StandUp
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ICE is corrupt and continues with cruelty and illegal acts. It needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up when Democrats regain power.
Kudos to Portland for continuing to #StandUp
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#SNAP #RuleOfLaw
An appeals court has ruled that the Trump regime cannot withhold SNAP funds. Will the autocrats appeal this ruling?
They seem intent on starving people to try to get the horrible budget bill passed.
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An appeals court has ruled that the Trump regime cannot withhold SNAP funds. Will the autocrats appeal this ruling?
They seem intent on starving people to try to get the horrible budget bill passed.
bsky.app/profile/will...
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
#SNAP #RuleOfLaw
An appeals court has ruled that the Trump regime cannot withhold SNAP funds. Will the autocrats appeal this ruling?
They seem intent on starving people to try to get the horrible budget bill passed.
bsky.app/profile/will...
An appeals court has ruled that the Trump regime cannot withhold SNAP funds. Will the autocrats appeal this ruling?
They seem intent on starving people to try to get the horrible budget bill passed.
bsky.app/profile/will...
#Courage #StandUp #FeelGoodAction
🙏 see and REPOST inspiring video about courage and why we all must stand up now, created by the wonderful GOTV organization Feel Good Action
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTxZ...
🙏 see and REPOST inspiring video about courage and why we all must stand up now, created by the wonderful GOTV organization Feel Good Action
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTxZ...
The Courage to Bend the Arc of History
YouTube video by Courage HQ
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
#Courage #StandUp #FeelGoodAction
🙏 see and REPOST inspiring video about courage and why we all must stand up now, created by the wonderful GOTV organization Feel Good Action
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTxZ...
🙏 see and REPOST inspiring video about courage and why we all must stand up now, created by the wonderful GOTV organization Feel Good Action
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTxZ...
#Arizona #AGMayesStandsUp
Arizona Attorney General sues Trump regime to release SNAP funds. BRAVO!
www.youtube.com/shorts/ikjoV...
Arizona Attorney General sues Trump regime to release SNAP funds. BRAVO!
www.youtube.com/shorts/ikjoV...
SNAP Benefit Suspension Lawsuit | Attorney General Mayes
YouTube video by Arizona Attorney General's Office
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
#Arizona #AGMayesStandsUp
Arizona Attorney General sues Trump regime to release SNAP funds. BRAVO!
www.youtube.com/shorts/ikjoV...
Arizona Attorney General sues Trump regime to release SNAP funds. BRAVO!
www.youtube.com/shorts/ikjoV...
#RestoreMorality #FeedTheHungry
#SNAP #ReichPost
A key step in establishing oligarchy is to get the population inured to cruelty.
This is happening in huge headlines with the cutting off of SNAP.
Resist! Please talk to friends in Red & Purple districts about this.
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#SNAP #ReichPost
A key step in establishing oligarchy is to get the population inured to cruelty.
This is happening in huge headlines with the cutting off of SNAP.
Resist! Please talk to friends in Red & Purple districts about this.
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It is the responsibility of all of us to return the nation to a path that is morally sustainable.
Trump is threatening the basic needs of poor Americans. How low he has sunk | Robert Reich
The president has put Snap benefits in jeopardy amid a fight over Medicaid. The nation has lost its moral authority
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
#RestoreMorality #FeedTheHungry
#SNAP #ReichPost
A key step in establishing oligarchy is to get the population inured to cruelty.
This is happening in huge headlines with the cutting off of SNAP.
Resist! Please talk to friends in Red & Purple districts about this.
bsky.app/profile/rbre...
#SNAP #ReichPost
A key step in establishing oligarchy is to get the population inured to cruelty.
This is happening in huge headlines with the cutting off of SNAP.
Resist! Please talk to friends in Red & Purple districts about this.
bsky.app/profile/rbre...
#Hilarious #PoeticJustice #Redistricting
For a laugh, take a look at this. A California city went so far as to ban public buildings flying a PRIDE flag and now they likely will have a gay congressman.
calmatters.org/politics/202...
For a laugh, take a look at this. A California city went so far as to ban public buildings flying a PRIDE flag and now they likely will have a gay congressman.
calmatters.org/politics/202...
Newsom's maps would give this MAGA stronghold one of the most liberal congressmembers
If California redistricts, the conservative beach town that banned LGBTQ Pride flags on city property would get a gay, progressive Democrat in Congress.
calmatters.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
#Hilarious #PoeticJustice #Redistricting
For a laugh, take a look at this. A California city went so far as to ban public buildings flying a PRIDE flag and now they likely will have a gay congressman.
calmatters.org/politics/202...
For a laugh, take a look at this. A California city went so far as to ban public buildings flying a PRIDE flag and now they likely will have a gay congressman.
calmatters.org/politics/202...
A study in how right-wing interests destroy public libraries from the inside out, featuring York County Libraries in South Carolina: bookriot.com/whats-happen...
What's Happening in York County Library (SC) Should Be A Wakeup Call
Poor recording keeping, debates over what was or was not said and voted on, and special interests plague more than just this library system.
bookriot.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
#BookCensorship😱
🙏 See important post on Book Censorship and the battle to preserve information and literature and public education
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🙏 See important post on Book Censorship and the battle to preserve information and literature and public education
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A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.
This is updated regularly!
This is updated regularly!
November 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#BookCensorship😱
🙏 See important post on Book Censorship and the battle to preserve information and literature and public education
bsky.app/profile/heyk...
🙏 See important post on Book Censorship and the battle to preserve information and literature and public education
bsky.app/profile/heyk...
#AAUP #EducatorsStandUp #AcademicFreedom
Please read about important demonstration at over 100 Universities last Friday 11/7
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Please read about important demonstration at over 100 Universities last Friday 11/7
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Our November 7 day of action to defend higher education has taken the country by storm! ✊
“There is only one way forward in saving higher education and democracy writ large and that is students, faculty, staff united...We have to become a new political force.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
“There is only one way forward in saving higher education and democracy writ large and that is students, faculty, staff united...We have to become a new political force.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Students and faculty at over 100 US universities protest against Trump’s attacks
Student, national and local groups across US organized day of action to condemn Trump’s assault on academic freedom
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#AAUP #EducatorsStandUp #AcademicFreedom
Please read about important demonstration at over 100 Universities last Friday 11/7
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Please read about important demonstration at over 100 Universities last Friday 11/7
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#ReleaseSNAPFunds
Trump shows that he doesn't care if Americans starve while he gives billions to billionaires and foreign countries who do business deals with him--bribery at our expense.
bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump shows that he doesn't care if Americans starve while he gives billions to billionaires and foreign countries who do business deals with him--bribery at our expense.
bsky.app/profile/atru...
Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
#ReleaseSNAPFunds
Trump shows that he doesn't care if Americans starve while he gives billions to billionaires and foreign countries who do business deals with him--bribery at our expense.
bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump shows that he doesn't care if Americans starve while he gives billions to billionaires and foreign countries who do business deals with him--bribery at our expense.
bsky.app/profile/atru...