Erin
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Erin
@ebmartier.bsky.social
Kitchen designer Oreaddesign.com
Pittsburgh
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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He didn't get that Nobel Peace Prize but he got that fake FIFA thing and now he's renamed the Institute of Peace for himself.

He's like a dog who has to pee on everything.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
Trump puts his name on the US Institute of Peace after gutting it | CNN Politics
After gutting the agency, firing its leadership and all but shutting it down, why is President Trump now putting his name on the building of the US Institute of Peace?
www.cnn.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Drag him.
December 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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In South Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly two dozen neighbors confronted and surrounded ICE goons after rapid-response alerts were issued. The goons were questioning an East African man when the situation escalated, and they eventually left the area without making any arrests.
December 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Indiana has rapidly become the latest flashpoint in the GOP’s national push to engineer aggressive mid-decade gerrymanders. Few states illustrate the immense costs to voters and how far lawmakers are willing to go to appease President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/ind...
Indiana’s GOP Shows Us the Future of Gerrymandering — And It’s Grim: A Conversation With Election Law Expert Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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“A massive crisis”

Again: Making a broken system less bad is not enough. #MedicareForAllNOW

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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A point of nuance here: "masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable" is how lynch mobs are described, not state-sanctioned executions.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Again: Steering public dollars to private religious schools has always been the #1 goal of @GovBillLee and his fellow privatizers.

(His pal Betsy Devos, who has funded much of the war on public schools, called it “Advancing God’s Kingdom”)

www.wfae.org/education/20...
December 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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They’re desperately trying to separate the pipe bomber from MAGA, Trump, and 1/6. It’s why there’s a 22-day gap in the arrest affidavit. I’ll be covering this on the @meidastouch.com channel tomorrow at noon PT.
Please call the guy the January 6th pipe bomber.

Fox is calling him the "January 5th bomber" because he planted the bombs the night before but really because they don't want to mention 1/6 as a bad day.
December 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.

Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Here’s a great article describing how, before the vaccine, Alaska Natives had some of the highest rates of liver cancer in the world, and the hepatitis B vaccine virtually eliminated the cancer. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
Hepatitis vaccines credited as life-saving for Alaska children may be upended
Hepatitis B, once rampant in Indigenous villages, has been brought under control in the state, but a CDC advisory committee voted to drop the vaccine recommendation for newborns.
www.adn.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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So Bondi and Kash make a big deal out of arresting the J6 pipe bomber then the guy confesses that he is a Trump supporter who thought the 2020 election was stolen and his lawyer is arguing that Trump’s broadly-worded J6 blanket pardon applies to him and he should go free. Poetry.
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly:
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
December 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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3 Questions:

1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?

www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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🤔🤔🤔🤔
December 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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The CEO of Palantir.
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Putler, referring to Novorossya, seems to be now desiring this whole part of Ukraine.
December 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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A Ukrainian drone crashed into the Grozny-City skyscraper in central Chechnya early Friday, setting off a massive explosion that ripped through several floors of one of the region’s most famous high-rises.

www.kyivpost.com/post/65645
Grozny Shaken After Ukrainian Drone Smashes Into High-Rise in Chechen Capital
The building sits next to the FSB’s Chechnya headquarters, which may have been the intended target before the drone was diverted, possibly by Russian electronic warfare.
www.kyivpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM