WV Populist
@wvpopulist.bsky.social
Populism - "A political philosophy or movement that represents the interests of ordinary people especially against the Establishment" (Merriam Webster)
West Virginia born and bred. 🇺🇲🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 Montani Semper Liberi.
West Virginia born and bred. 🇺🇲🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 Montani Semper Liberi.
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An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
October 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
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BREAKING: A federal court ruled that the FDA's unnecessary restrictions on medication abortion are unlawful and must be reconsidered.
This decision reaffirms that our access to safe and essential medicines should be dictated by science, not politics.
This decision reaffirms that our access to safe and essential medicines should be dictated by science, not politics.
October 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that the FDA's unnecessary restrictions on medication abortion are unlawful and must be reconsidered.
This decision reaffirms that our access to safe and essential medicines should be dictated by science, not politics.
This decision reaffirms that our access to safe and essential medicines should be dictated by science, not politics.
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#ICYMI: Among the citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
#ICYMI: Among the citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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Health insurance costs jumped for workers & employers in 2025.
This will get worse if the GOP refuses to extend ACA subsidies.
Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.
Still not sure we need Medicare for All?
This will get worse if the GOP refuses to extend ACA subsidies.
Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.
Still not sure we need Medicare for All?
October 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Health insurance costs jumped for workers & employers in 2025.
This will get worse if the GOP refuses to extend ACA subsidies.
Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.
Still not sure we need Medicare for All?
This will get worse if the GOP refuses to extend ACA subsidies.
Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.
Still not sure we need Medicare for All?
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In West Virginia, rallies took place in communities all across the state on Saturday, including the state capital in Charleston, university cities Morgantown and Huntington and smaller places like Keyser, Fayetteville, Romney and Wardensville.
At 'No Kings' rallies, West Virginians say they are not antifa militants, Hamas, haters or paid protesters - WV MetroNews
Participants said they were motivated by what they see as overreach by the Trump administration.
buff.ly
October 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
In West Virginia, rallies took place in communities all across the state on Saturday, including the state capital in Charleston, university cities Morgantown and Huntington and smaller places like Keyser, Fayetteville, Romney and Wardensville.
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This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.
October 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.
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Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.
October 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.
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Next week, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could determine the future of the Voting Rights Act.
At stake in Louisiana v. Callais is Black voters’ ability to elect their candidates of choice in Louisiana, and all voters' ability to challenge racially discriminatory maps.
At stake in Louisiana v. Callais is Black voters’ ability to elect their candidates of choice in Louisiana, and all voters' ability to challenge racially discriminatory maps.
The Supreme Court Is Being Tested on History Once Again
The leading arguments in support of Black voting rights were race-conscious at their core.
slate.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Next week, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could determine the future of the Voting Rights Act.
At stake in Louisiana v. Callais is Black voters’ ability to elect their candidates of choice in Louisiana, and all voters' ability to challenge racially discriminatory maps.
At stake in Louisiana v. Callais is Black voters’ ability to elect their candidates of choice in Louisiana, and all voters' ability to challenge racially discriminatory maps.
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1. A new The 19th/SurveyMonkey Poll finds that a majority of Americans are against trans youth care bans.
This includes a majority of Independent voters, casting doubt on the narrative that Democrats need to pull back on transgender people.
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This includes a majority of Independent voters, casting doubt on the narrative that Democrats need to pull back on transgender people.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
New Poll: Most Americans Oppose Bans On Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth
A new The 19th/SurveyMonkey poll reveals that most Americans oppose bans on trans care for youth, with LGBTQ+ people overwhelmingly opposing such bans.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
1. A new The 19th/SurveyMonkey Poll finds that a majority of Americans are against trans youth care bans.
This includes a majority of Independent voters, casting doubt on the narrative that Democrats need to pull back on transgender people.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This includes a majority of Independent voters, casting doubt on the narrative that Democrats need to pull back on transgender people.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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DHS subpoenaed Meta for information about an account that posts names and images of the ICE agents raiding our communities, but @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and advocates are pushing back.
Recording federal agents while on duty in public — and sharing that information — is our First Amendment right.
Recording federal agents while on duty in public — and sharing that information — is our First Amendment right.
The Feds Want to Unmask Instagram Accounts That Identified Immigration Agents
StopICE.net filed a motion to quash a subpoena about an Instagram video that identified a Border Patrol agent.
theintercept.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
DHS subpoenaed Meta for information about an account that posts names and images of the ICE agents raiding our communities, but @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and advocates are pushing back.
Recording federal agents while on duty in public — and sharing that information — is our First Amendment right.
Recording federal agents while on duty in public — and sharing that information — is our First Amendment right.
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Honestly, a really good article.
It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years.
It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.
It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years.
It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.
Wrote for @thenation.com about the complicity of some liberal politicians and pundits in the conservative campaign to exterminate trans people www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Right Wants to Exterminate Trans People. Liberals Are Helping.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the conservative movement has accelerated its war against trans people. And too many centrist Democrats have kept up their trans bashing.
www.thenation.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Honestly, a really good article.
It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years.
It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.
It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years.
It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.
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I don’t think people truly understand the ascendency of fascism in this country right now. This is an abhorrent, but not surprising, proposal given the rhetoric and actions of the Trump regime and its far right supporters.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I don’t think people truly understand the ascendency of fascism in this country right now. This is an abhorrent, but not surprising, proposal given the rhetoric and actions of the Trump regime and its far right supporters.
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Hating Pitt and having a proper dust up over it since 1895. As God intenteded it...
Let's Go Mountaineers
#ESP #BackyardBrawl
Let's Go Mountaineers
#ESP #BackyardBrawl
a man in a fur hat holds a flag that says let 's go class of 2024
ALT: a man in a fur hat holds a flag that says let 's go class of 2024
media.tenor.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Hating Pitt and having a proper dust up over it since 1895. As God intenteded it...
Let's Go Mountaineers
#ESP #BackyardBrawl
Let's Go Mountaineers
#ESP #BackyardBrawl
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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This is what lawlessness looks and sounds like
September 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This is what lawlessness looks and sounds like
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Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C.
Governors of three states — Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...
www.pbump.net
August 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
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August 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Two things can be true:
1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &
2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &
2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
August 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Two things can be true:
1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &
2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &
2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
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“Voters should pick their reps, not the other way around.”
@texasdemocrats.bsky.social chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social & Kanew discuss how Dems would prefer national fair districting, but Republicans won’t let it happen so Dems have to fight fire with fire — as @jessicatarlov.bsky.social said.
@texasdemocrats.bsky.social chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social & Kanew discuss how Dems would prefer national fair districting, but Republicans won’t let it happen so Dems have to fight fire with fire — as @jessicatarlov.bsky.social said.
August 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
“Voters should pick their reps, not the other way around.”
@texasdemocrats.bsky.social chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social & Kanew discuss how Dems would prefer national fair districting, but Republicans won’t let it happen so Dems have to fight fire with fire — as @jessicatarlov.bsky.social said.
@texasdemocrats.bsky.social chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social & Kanew discuss how Dems would prefer national fair districting, but Republicans won’t let it happen so Dems have to fight fire with fire — as @jessicatarlov.bsky.social said.
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Although Israel said it would pause military activity in select areas of Gaza to allow more food aid in, humanitarian organizations have said that the amount of food entering the area is far from enough, and without additional aid, an increasing number of Palestinians will die from famine.
Gaza Still Isn't Receiving Enough Food to Prevent Starvation, Aid Workers Say
The famine situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate. Aid workers say Israel is not allowing enough food to enter the area as Palestinians starve.
www.rollingstone.com
August 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Although Israel said it would pause military activity in select areas of Gaza to allow more food aid in, humanitarian organizations have said that the amount of food entering the area is far from enough, and without additional aid, an increasing number of Palestinians will die from famine.
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Freedom from Fascism protest July 5th Fairmont, WV facebook.com/events/s/fre...
June 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Freedom from Fascism protest July 5th Fairmont, WV facebook.com/events/s/fre...
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Flash flooding has killed at least six people, including a 3-year-old, in West Virginia.
In the middle of it all people are stepping up to help one another.
With the state's capacity limited, and Trump making severe cuts to FEMA, neighbors are helping neighbors.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRvb...
In the middle of it all people are stepping up to help one another.
With the state's capacity limited, and Trump making severe cuts to FEMA, neighbors are helping neighbors.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRvb...
MEDIA BLACKOUT: America’s Poorest Counties Devastated By Catastrophic Flooding
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Flash flooding has killed at least six people, including a 3-year-old, in West Virginia.
In the middle of it all people are stepping up to help one another.
With the state's capacity limited, and Trump making severe cuts to FEMA, neighbors are helping neighbors.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRvb...
In the middle of it all people are stepping up to help one another.
With the state's capacity limited, and Trump making severe cuts to FEMA, neighbors are helping neighbors.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRvb...
West Virginians have some of the worst drinking water systems in the country. The rich needn't worry, but the working class folks get the short end of the stick and are stuck paying exorbitant prices for alternative water sources.
www.post-gazette.com/news/environ...
www.post-gazette.com/news/environ...
Weirton residents left reeling after a winter water crisis turned it ‘into a third-world country’
WEIRTON, W.Va. — When Rose McClements turns on the tap in her Weirton, W.Va., home, she’s not sure if she’ll get water that runs...
www.post-gazette.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
West Virginians have some of the worst drinking water systems in the country. The rich needn't worry, but the working class folks get the short end of the stick and are stuck paying exorbitant prices for alternative water sources.
www.post-gazette.com/news/environ...
www.post-gazette.com/news/environ...
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Palantir’s technology has already built a centralized surveillance system for Trump, we’re not going to make anything easier for them. That’s one of the main reasons we stopped sharing videos and photos on our page. Our mailing list will also be taken down soon.
June 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Palantir’s technology has already built a centralized surveillance system for Trump, we’re not going to make anything easier for them. That’s one of the main reasons we stopped sharing videos and photos on our page. Our mailing list will also be taken down soon.