Jen S
@dosomethingfilms.bsky.social
Blue dot, red state.
Democracy really does die in darkness, apparently - so be the light, k? #resist
Democracy really does die in darkness, apparently - so be the light, k? #resist
Of course, Tennessee Republicans love to have their hands out for fed $$ - funds provided by blue state taxes that support red states - and then the GOP does what it can to destroy the hands that feed it. Gonna blow back at them someday.
"California paid in a lot more [to the federal government] than it got back — $83 billion in total. So did Washington state and much of the Northeast. Most red states were in the reverse position, getting much more from DC than they paid in return."
In Praise of California
It has its flaws — what place doesn’t? — but it plays a big role in America’s greatness
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Of course, Tennessee Republicans love to have their hands out for fed $$ - funds provided by blue state taxes that support red states - and then the GOP does what it can to destroy the hands that feed it. Gonna blow back at them someday.
Remember how Trump lied, said he didn't know anything about Project 2025?
As he surrounds himself again with its authors, preparing to unleash its power against The People, you realize that Trump really could have just shot someone in the middle of 5th Ave and he wouldn't have lost any voters
As he surrounds himself again with its authors, preparing to unleash its power against The People, you realize that Trump really could have just shot someone in the middle of 5th Ave and he wouldn't have lost any voters
November 22, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Remember how Trump lied, said he didn't know anything about Project 2025?
As he surrounds himself again with its authors, preparing to unleash its power against The People, you realize that Trump really could have just shot someone in the middle of 5th Ave and he wouldn't have lost any voters
As he surrounds himself again with its authors, preparing to unleash its power against The People, you realize that Trump really could have just shot someone in the middle of 5th Ave and he wouldn't have lost any voters
Aside from maybe 2 clips each of Rachel, Lawrence, and Chris and 1 clip of Joy, I gave up MSNBC and all other cable "news" after they started trashing Joe and (then Kamala !) and I don't think I've missed anything important.
November 21, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Aside from maybe 2 clips each of Rachel, Lawrence, and Chris and 1 clip of Joy, I gave up MSNBC and all other cable "news" after they started trashing Joe and (then Kamala !) and I don't think I've missed anything important.
Reposted by Jen S
Hey, Blue Dots!
T O N I G H T
Jessica Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social is our Special Guest Speaker & everyone is welcome!
Tuesday, November 19
6:30 PM Central / 7:30 PM Eastern
We'll share ideas & discuss the path forward.
Register right here:
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T O N I G H T
Jessica Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social is our Special Guest Speaker & everyone is welcome!
Tuesday, November 19
6:30 PM Central / 7:30 PM Eastern
We'll share ideas & discuss the path forward.
Register right here:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Blue Tennessee Post-Election Meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Since the election, so many folks have asked: Where do we go now? What do we do? How do we make progress? Join Jessica Piper, Michele Hornish, and the Blue Tennessee community to visit about how Blue...
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November 19, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Hey, Blue Dots!
T O N I G H T
Jessica Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social is our Special Guest Speaker & everyone is welcome!
Tuesday, November 19
6:30 PM Central / 7:30 PM Eastern
We'll share ideas & discuss the path forward.
Register right here:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
T O N I G H T
Jessica Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social is our Special Guest Speaker & everyone is welcome!
Tuesday, November 19
6:30 PM Central / 7:30 PM Eastern
We'll share ideas & discuss the path forward.
Register right here:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Everything she wrote - everything - is right on the money about GOP super majorities and how much they really co$t us.
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@thetnholler.bsky.social - please have Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social on Justin Kanew's podcast to help people understand what's going on in TN.
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@thetnholler.bsky.social - please have Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social on Justin Kanew's podcast to help people understand what's going on in TN.
If MAGA voters thought the price of eggs was high, just wait until they are buying tire rims and driving 100 miles for healthcare and paying school tuition after the public schools close. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Cheap Eggs and Private School Tuition
Oligarchy is expensive...
open.substack.com
November 19, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Everything she wrote - everything - is right on the money about GOP super majorities and how much they really co$t us.
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@thetnholler.bsky.social - please have Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social on Justin Kanew's podcast to help people understand what's going on in TN.
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@thetnholler.bsky.social - please have Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social on Justin Kanew's podcast to help people understand what's going on in TN.
We tried so hard to tell them, didn't we?
Lots of people are about to be really mad that price of eggs goes up but they can’t get a 2nd job because they can’t afford childcare and when they do finally get the eggs they get E Coli because there’s no FDA but can’t go to the doctor because they got kicked off their health plan. #FAFO
November 19, 2024 at 4:45 AM
We tried so hard to tell them, didn't we?
Tennessee friends - this is an open virtual meeting to talk about post-election next steps!
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social and Michele Hornish will be on the call - come get fired up👇
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social and Michele Hornish will be on the call - come get fired up👇
So what's next?
Join us to regroup & refocus, post-election!
Blue Tennessee Virtual Meeting
**TOMORROW**
Tues, Nov 19 6:30PM CT / 7:30 PM ET
Special guest: Jessica Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social, Exec Dir of Blue Missouri!
💙 Register here: everystateblue.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Join us to regroup & refocus, post-election!
Blue Tennessee Virtual Meeting
**TOMORROW**
Tues, Nov 19 6:30PM CT / 7:30 PM ET
Special guest: Jessica Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social, Exec Dir of Blue Missouri!
💙 Register here: everystateblue.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?...
November 18, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Tennessee friends - this is an open virtual meeting to talk about post-election next steps!
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social and Michele Hornish will be on the call - come get fired up👇
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social and Michele Hornish will be on the call - come get fired up👇
"They just went along quietly with the tyrants and everything was fine, The End" said no history book ever.
We gotta push back. Stick together. Refuse to drink the MAGA Kool-aid.
We gotta push back. Stick together. Refuse to drink the MAGA Kool-aid.
November 15, 2024 at 1:01 PM
"They just went along quietly with the tyrants and everything was fine, The End" said no history book ever.
We gotta push back. Stick together. Refuse to drink the MAGA Kool-aid.
We gotta push back. Stick together. Refuse to drink the MAGA Kool-aid.
Wonder how all those drug company execs who voted for Trump "for the economy" are feeling right about now, since there's going to be an anti-vax head of Health & Human Services? Oh, well.
November 14, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Wonder how all those drug company execs who voted for Trump "for the economy" are feeling right about now, since there's going to be an anti-vax head of Health & Human Services? Oh, well.
Seen on the interwebs:
"This isn't a cabinet, this is a junk drawer."
"This isn't a cabinet, this is a junk drawer."
November 14, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Seen on the interwebs:
"This isn't a cabinet, this is a junk drawer."
"This isn't a cabinet, this is a junk drawer."
Going to just start posting every good thing Dems do - we need to celebrate our strongest leaders for the work they do. Thank you, @aoc.bsky.social and thanks to all who spoke out and stood up.
Was there today for the H.R. 9495 vote (bill that would have allowed labeling nonprofits as terrorist supporting organizations).
Voted no, of course - but I do want to report that the activism DID work and persuaded members.
I thought it’d be a lonely NO vote, which we take often. It wasn’t.
Voted no, of course - but I do want to report that the activism DID work and persuaded members.
I thought it’d be a lonely NO vote, which we take often. It wasn’t.
November 13, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Going to just start posting every good thing Dems do - we need to celebrate our strongest leaders for the work they do. Thank you, @aoc.bsky.social and thanks to all who spoke out and stood up.
How do you self-medicate?
November 13, 2024 at 6:46 PM
How do you self-medicate?
When pointing fingers, please remember some of us in red states (ie 35% of Tennessee voters) did not vote for Trump.
Please stop saying everyone who lives here deserves what's coming.
Please stop saying everyone who lives here deserves what's coming.
November 13, 2024 at 4:57 PM
When pointing fingers, please remember some of us in red states (ie 35% of Tennessee voters) did not vote for Trump.
Please stop saying everyone who lives here deserves what's coming.
Please stop saying everyone who lives here deserves what's coming.
Mood: foolishly optimistic like only a blue dot in a red state can be. LFG
November 13, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Mood: foolishly optimistic like only a blue dot in a red state can be. LFG
We are not going back ✊🏻
If you think democracy is gone, you're not reading this: You've already abandoned social media and thrown in the towel.
Thus...since you just read this, congratulate yourself. You've decided to stay in the fight and dig in! You're my kind of person.
Thus...since you just read this, congratulate yourself. You've decided to stay in the fight and dig in! You're my kind of person.
November 12, 2024 at 11:25 PM
We are not going back ✊🏻
Some excellent news, let's hope it holds.
A federal judge has blocked a Louisiana law that required the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public classrooms, ruling that it is unconstitutional.
November 12, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Some excellent news, let's hope it holds.
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I'm floored by the positive reaction this is already receiving. We need to know now -- who will bow and scrape and who will stand tall.
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November 12, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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Doing the right thing and helping others can bring a lot of personal happiness.
There. I said it. Go be happy.
There. I said it. Go be happy.
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
November 12, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Doing the right thing and helping others can bring a lot of personal happiness.
There. I said it. Go be happy.
There. I said it. Go be happy.
Friends who say 'We shouldn't let politics get in the way of our friendship' know they voted for somebody who plans to cause you harm - and your "friend" just doesn't want you to think less of them for that vote. Read that again.
November 11, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Friends who say 'We shouldn't let politics get in the way of our friendship' know they voted for somebody who plans to cause you harm - and your "friend" just doesn't want you to think less of them for that vote. Read that again.
I've been over here an hour and not one person has called me colorful names for refusing to support a dictator. What's the catch?
November 11, 2024 at 3:09 PM
I've been over here an hour and not one person has called me colorful names for refusing to support a dictator. What's the catch?