Marīa
@solusandra.bsky.social
My name's spelled Maria, but pronounced like Mariah.
Freelance editor (graphic novels); day job in B2B cust srvc; poet & painter; multiple sclerosis.
Profile pic by the amazing @emilypearsonart.bsky.social. Header photo by me, of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Freelance editor (graphic novels); day job in B2B cust srvc; poet & painter; multiple sclerosis.
Profile pic by the amazing @emilypearsonart.bsky.social. Header photo by me, of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Sigh...
Call your Senators to demand a strong deal and not some pinky promise
🔥📞🔥 >
5calls.org/issue/federa...
Call your Senators to demand a strong deal and not some pinky promise
🔥📞🔥 >
5calls.org/issue/federa...
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Sigh...
Call your Senators to demand a strong deal and not some pinky promise
🔥📞🔥 >
5calls.org/issue/federa...
Call your Senators to demand a strong deal and not some pinky promise
🔥📞🔥 >
5calls.org/issue/federa...
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I mean it shouldn't have to be said: "Bernie Sanders...has encouraged his colleagues to keep fighting, saying that last week’s elections that were overwhelmingly favorable for Democrats 'showed growing opposition to Trumpism & his efforts to decimate the already-broken American health care system.'"
Democrats are considering a Republican deal to reopen government with a promise of a later vote on extending health-care tax credits—but no guarantee.
One Democrat says it'd amount to "unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double."
One Democrat says it'd amount to "unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double."
Democrats Consider GOP Deal to Reopen Government, With Promise of Later Vote on ACA Subsidies
Democrats are considering a Republican offer to reopen the government with a promise of a later vote on extending ACA health-care tax credits.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I mean it shouldn't have to be said: "Bernie Sanders...has encouraged his colleagues to keep fighting, saying that last week’s elections that were overwhelmingly favorable for Democrats 'showed growing opposition to Trumpism & his efforts to decimate the already-broken American health care system.'"
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Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations.
Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.
Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...
www.propublica.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations.
Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
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Asking anyone who's got energy to do so to call their Dem Senators and urge them not to back down on healthcare. 🙏
Your friends who are too sick to work to access healthcare are going to be really fucked otherwise. Being too sick to work means no paycheck to cover now-exorbitant marketplace plans.
Your friends who are too sick to work to access healthcare are going to be really fucked otherwise. Being too sick to work means no paycheck to cover now-exorbitant marketplace plans.
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Asking anyone who's got energy to do so to call their Dem Senators and urge them not to back down on healthcare. 🙏
Your friends who are too sick to work to access healthcare are going to be really fucked otherwise. Being too sick to work means no paycheck to cover now-exorbitant marketplace plans.
Your friends who are too sick to work to access healthcare are going to be really fucked otherwise. Being too sick to work means no paycheck to cover now-exorbitant marketplace plans.
Bring buried under a tree is actually my preferred future burial option. Who knows if it'll be legal when I die, but I'm hoping so.
Sagittarius: Your family has already planted a tree on the spot where you're to be buried. It's nothing sinister exactly they just all agree it should be "so big and hungry for [you]." Little bit sinister.
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Bring buried under a tree is actually my preferred future burial option. Who knows if it'll be legal when I die, but I'm hoping so.
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(That said I also don’t trust Schumer to not make the most weak willed, politically absurd, and pathetic decision he can so still call and tell him and his caucus to keep their fuckin spines straight: reps.fyi)
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
(That said I also don’t trust Schumer to not make the most weak willed, politically absurd, and pathetic decision he can so still call and tell him and his caucus to keep their fuckin spines straight: reps.fyi)
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I don’t trust axios but call your senators ASAP. The deal (supposedly) is the promise of a vote in December to maybe extend the ACA subsidies
BREAKING: Deal to end government shutdown in reach
Deal to end government shutdown in reach
At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I don’t trust axios but call your senators ASAP. The deal (supposedly) is the promise of a vote in December to maybe extend the ACA subsidies
@robertwilsoniv.bsky.social sent you a DM a few days ago... what with the Kickstarter & travel, I thought I'd ping you here just in case
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
@robertwilsoniv.bsky.social sent you a DM a few days ago... what with the Kickstarter & travel, I thought I'd ping you here just in case
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Out TODAY!!
Please please PLEASE give our book a chance — @nicolascottart.bsky.social and I really think it’s a fun way to spend your comic book time!
Please please PLEASE give our book a chance — @nicolascottart.bsky.social and I really think it’s a fun way to spend your comic book time!
Renee gets me.
CHEETAH & CHESHIRE ROB THE JUSTICE LEAGUE 4 is out tomorrow! Cats, rats, and capers! Art by @nicolascottart.bsky.social ! Colors by Annette Kwok, lettering by Troy Peteri!
CHEETAH & CHESHIRE ROB THE JUSTICE LEAGUE 4 is out tomorrow! Cats, rats, and capers! Art by @nicolascottart.bsky.social ! Colors by Annette Kwok, lettering by Troy Peteri!
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Out TODAY!!
Please please PLEASE give our book a chance — @nicolascottart.bsky.social and I really think it’s a fun way to spend your comic book time!
Please please PLEASE give our book a chance — @nicolascottart.bsky.social and I really think it’s a fun way to spend your comic book time!
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Just observed ICE agents transferring detainees between vehicles at Warren Park — city property. This is prohibited.
November 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Just observed ICE agents transferring detainees between vehicles at Warren Park — city property. This is prohibited.
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Chicago: ICE heavily active in West Ridge and Edgewater. Landscapers heavily targeted. Put on your whistles and patrol if you can.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Chicago: ICE heavily active in West Ridge and Edgewater. Landscapers heavily targeted. Put on your whistles and patrol if you can.
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I actually think this reframe @alexhanna.bsky.social shares is a great one:
AI isn't coming for your job, your company dumping you for AI is.
AI isn't coming for your job, your company dumping you for AI is.
Rejecting the premise here. "AI" is not coming for your job. Companies are dumping people because they are putting more money into AI investment, not because there is labor replacement via productivity.
Even in the Amazon announcement, Jassy backed away from the framing that AI took those 14k jobs.
Even in the Amazon announcement, Jassy backed away from the framing that AI took those 14k jobs.
Much like dictatorship or climate change, the threat of AI taking your job is no longer hypothetical. It's here, as shown by last week's bloodbath at UPS, Amazon, etc.
Should the government be sending us $1,000 a month? Is there any alternative to UBI? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Should the government be sending us $1,000 a month? Is there any alternative to UBI? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
November 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I actually think this reframe @alexhanna.bsky.social shares is a great one:
AI isn't coming for your job, your company dumping you for AI is.
AI isn't coming for your job, your company dumping you for AI is.
I genuinely can't explain why I love Kandinsky so much, but I do. I have a visceral reaction to his art, especially in person.
Etching with Five Diagonals (Radierung mit fünf Diagonalen)
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/1148106
https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/1148106
November 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I genuinely can't explain why I love Kandinsky so much, but I do. I have a visceral reaction to his art, especially in person.
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Killing the fourth estate. Trying to make an "aristocracy" (their word!) to control the country. It's like a reverse French Revolution.
They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Killing the fourth estate. Trying to make an "aristocracy" (their word!) to control the country. It's like a reverse French Revolution.
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It’s finally here: Election Day!
It’s 7 AM, which means polling places across the city are open until 8 PM tonight!
After 8 years of Frey’s failed leadership, today’s the day we turn the page and elect @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com or @jazzformayor.bsky.social for mayor!
It’s 7 AM, which means polling places across the city are open until 8 PM tonight!
After 8 years of Frey’s failed leadership, today’s the day we turn the page and elect @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com or @jazzformayor.bsky.social for mayor!
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It’s finally here: Election Day!
It’s 7 AM, which means polling places across the city are open until 8 PM tonight!
After 8 years of Frey’s failed leadership, today’s the day we turn the page and elect @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com or @jazzformayor.bsky.social for mayor!
It’s 7 AM, which means polling places across the city are open until 8 PM tonight!
After 8 years of Frey’s failed leadership, today’s the day we turn the page and elect @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com or @jazzformayor.bsky.social for mayor!
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Please please go vote today, if you haven't already. And then, whatever happens today, let it energize you tomorrow to keep pushing to make things better. ❤️👊
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Please please go vote today, if you haven't already. And then, whatever happens today, let it energize you tomorrow to keep pushing to make things better. ❤️👊
If you're in line before the end of the day at your local polling place, you'll be able to stay in line & vote.
This election is especially important in Minneapolis: we have a chance to get a better mayor in office & there's 3 good candidates. Don't rank Frey - he's failed us for years now!
This election is especially important in Minneapolis: we have a chance to get a better mayor in office & there's 3 good candidates. Don't rank Frey - he's failed us for years now!
Local Voting is Critical!
Here are today's Polling Place Hours.
Here are today's Polling Place Hours.
November 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
If you're in line before the end of the day at your local polling place, you'll be able to stay in line & vote.
This election is especially important in Minneapolis: we have a chance to get a better mayor in office & there's 3 good candidates. Don't rank Frey - he's failed us for years now!
This election is especially important in Minneapolis: we have a chance to get a better mayor in office & there's 3 good candidates. Don't rank Frey - he's failed us for years now!
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Your regular reminder that the number of trans kids using puberty blockers to delay puberty is tiny, and the vast majority of prescriptions for the medication in children and adolescents are used to delay precocious puberty in cisgender kids.
Because it’s cis kids.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Your regular reminder that the number of trans kids using puberty blockers to delay puberty is tiny, and the vast majority of prescriptions for the medication in children and adolescents are used to delay precocious puberty in cisgender kids.
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People are convinced that “politics” is just gossip about the personalities of politicians and not, y’know, how we care for each other and allocate resources as a society
Every business saying they're offering people a meal and adding "let's not make this political" deserve their asses on platters on social media. It is 100000% political. ENTIRELY political. There is nothing not political about the withholding of food money from citizens.
November 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
People are convinced that “politics” is just gossip about the personalities of politicians and not, y’know, how we care for each other and allocate resources as a society
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71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”
As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”
As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”
As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”
As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.
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A year after Trump won, why won’t the @democrats.org change their playbook ❓
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The party leadership’s devotion to economic elites continues to evade scrutiny. Read the latest from @normansolomon.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The party leadership’s devotion to economic elites continues to evade scrutiny. Read the latest from @normansolomon.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
A year after Trump won, why won’t Democrats change their playbook? | Norman Solomon
The corporate-friendly party refuses to learn the lessons of the past decade. When will it implement a truly humane agenda?
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A year after Trump won, why won’t the @democrats.org change their playbook ❓
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The party leadership’s devotion to economic elites continues to evade scrutiny. Read the latest from @normansolomon.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The party leadership’s devotion to economic elites continues to evade scrutiny. Read the latest from @normansolomon.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
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November 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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steve minn has said that he voted for donald trump three times, and his company lupe developmment gave safer hennepin $25k for them to send mailers calling for republicans to vote for jacob frey
the media not writing about the conservative DFL / republican alliance this year is a failure!
the media not writing about the conservative DFL / republican alliance this year is a failure!
Here is who is funding Safer Hennepin, who is calling for Republicans to vote for Jacob Frey, and some history on the PAC -
taylordahlin.com/f/safer-henn...
taylordahlin.com/f/safer-henn...
Safer Hennepin PAC: Calls for Republicans to Vote for Jacob Frey
In addition to chairing the new PAC We Can Do Better Mpls, Lawrence Wright is also the treasurer for Safer Hennepin, a PAC first registered in 2019 under the name "Cannabis for Economic Growth," chair...
taylordahlin.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
steve minn has said that he voted for donald trump three times, and his company lupe developmment gave safer hennepin $25k for them to send mailers calling for republicans to vote for jacob frey
the media not writing about the conservative DFL / republican alliance this year is a failure!
the media not writing about the conservative DFL / republican alliance this year is a failure!
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Judges ordered the federal government to use reserve funds to cover SNAP benefits during the shutdown, but the funding is limited and will be delayed.
Tens of Millions of People Lost Their Food Stamps—For Now
Judges ordered the federal government use reserve funds to cover SNAP benefits during the shutdown, but the funding is limited and will be delayed.
www.motherjones.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Judges ordered the federal government to use reserve funds to cover SNAP benefits during the shutdown, but the funding is limited and will be delayed.