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Mom, Yiayia, and generally nice person wondering WTF happened to our country. I bleed 💙
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The GOP budget plan kicks 5.5 million off Medicaid—and 2.4 million will be left with no health insurance at all.

This isn’t belt-tightening. It’s a death sentence dressed up as “fiscal responsibility.”
#MomsForMedicaid
May 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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I love ❤️ this kid
Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
May 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Transgender inmates in Georgia are going to be involuntarily detransitioned. Horrific.

archive.ph/9YAQa
archive.ph
May 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Rafah, Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces are systematically blowing up the homes of displaced families, ensuring there’s nothing left standing—no shelter, no trace—for them to ever come back to.
May 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Apropos…

Episode XLVII: The Tariff Menace

#MayThe4thBeWithYou
May 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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It’s gruesomely simple: If we keep allowing an anti-vaxxer to lead this country’s main health agency, more people will die.
April 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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I shit you not, Trump took Harriet Tubman OFF the National Parks Underground Railroad memorial and instead centered it around White people.

Read it yourself!! 👇👇 apple.news/Aspm2lJFkRnu...
April 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Strap in brothers and sisters. Tomorrow will be another market disaster. Don’t be surprised by this time tomorrow night if analysts are dropping the “D” Word..
April 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Visas for international students at the University of Michigan and Central Michigan University have now been revoked.

This is very disheartening -- and the opposite of what our country should be doing right now.🧵 #momsky

www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Department of Homeland Security revokes 4 U-M student visas; at least 1 flees US
Amid a federal move to revoke student visas, University officials confirmed that four international students at U-M have been told to leave the US.
www.freep.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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The Trump tariff market crash continues as S&P futures fall 4% while stocks plunge over 8% in Japan, 5% in South Korea and 6% in Australia. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
Stocks in Asia Fall Sharply, Extending a Rout Caused by Trump’s Tariffs
Futures on the S&P 500, which allow investors to trade the index before regular trading begins on Monday, added to last week’s sell-off.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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WIRED has new info on the specific DOGE operatives at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the ways they’re trying to infiltrate and change the agency—including trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency’s systems.
Inside DOGE’s AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs
A DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency’s systems, among other proposals.
wrd.cm
April 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Wow Chicago!

#HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne

(🎥 Marco Foster)
April 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Mother Jones had reporters on the ground.

Please support their independent journalism.

I subscribe....do you?
April 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Get your signs ready. We’re doing it again!! Push it!!
#MomSky
#50501movement
#Resist
#FightFascism
April 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Asian markets plummet, circuit breakers tripped. US dollar drops in value.
Get ready for Monday opening bell, its gonna be ugly.

Meanwhile, Trump is playing golf.

finance.yahoo.com/news/japans-...
Asian markets plunge with Japan's Nikkei diving nearly 8% after the big meltdown on Wall St
U.S. futures also signaled further weakness. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index lost nearly 8% shortly after the market opened. Oil prices sank further, with U.S. benchmark crude down 4%, or $2.50, at $59.49 pe...
finance.yahoo.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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At least 75% of the men Trump illegally deported to El Salvador have no criminal records. These men have been abducted and sent to a hell-hole Salvadoran “prison” that is the the equivalent of a torture-laden concentration camp. DEMAND freedom and justice for these men.
April 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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No matter what they do, we will keep posting, reposting, and telling our kids and grandkids about Harriet Tubman and the Underground RR. Try to get your hands on history books before mass book burnings occur. In the end, all we have is history and each other.
#MomSky
April 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared.”

Lindsay Toczylowski represents 31-year-old Andry, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela who was flown to a notorious prison by the Trump administration after seeking asylum in the U.S.

MORE: www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...
April 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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For decades the GOP told us don’t worry, the market corrects itself. Turns out the market is barking. It’s telling us we need a handful of the GOP to find courage and end this. They aren’t faithful to the constitution. We are hostages in a heist.
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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These are the signs of the times — as demonstrated in today’s Hands Off!

WE ARE THE OPPOSITION!!
April 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Trump’s view on trade deficits is like getting mad at Target because you spend money there but they never buy anything from you. It’s just complete brain dead nonsense.
April 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Here come the Years of Lead
The Oklahoman - US Senator Markwayne Mullin suggests shooting reporters would be one way to cut down on the frequency of “fake news” stories. https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2025/04/06/markwayne-mullin-fake-news-remarks-us-senator-capitol/82963694007/?taid=67f2c129175fce0001c10fd3
April 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM