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Love hard, work hard, play hard
In order to thrive, we must help each other.
In order to thrive, we must help each other.
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I spoke about @generalstrikeus.bsky.social at the Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day Rally. I was nervous, but I did it! We must come together during this time. We have the power to shut everything down and make them listen to us. ✊
The people that talk the most about protecting children are more likely to protect predators
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The people that talk the most about protecting children are more likely to protect predators
There were more food safety regulation cuts in the emergency funding bill
Following ‘Lobbying Blitz,’ Senators Sneak Provision Killing Food Safety Rules Into Shutdown Bill | Common Dreams
“The next time you go to a restaurant and then uncontrollably vomit and diarrhea in your pants, you should send a note of thanks to the Republican and Democratic senators,” said David Sirota, founder ...
www.commondreams.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
There were more food safety regulation cuts in the emergency funding bill
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Fair pay is a feminist value. It’s respect. It’s uniting with workers who fight back. Unite with the baristas and don’t buy Starbucks. ☕️✊ #NoContractNoCoffee #Solidarity #StarbucksStrike
🔗 https://seiu.co/NoStarbucks
🔗 https://seiu.co/NoStarbucks
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Fair pay is a feminist value. It’s respect. It’s uniting with workers who fight back. Unite with the baristas and don’t buy Starbucks. ☕️✊ #NoContractNoCoffee #Solidarity #StarbucksStrike
🔗 https://seiu.co/NoStarbucks
🔗 https://seiu.co/NoStarbucks
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It’s wild how many of the ICE/CBP detentions are turning out to be illegal — and yet in the US system, there are no consequences for the agents and no recourse for the victims.
Judge rules mandatory detention of Chicago day care teacher by ICE is illegal
Judge rules mandatory detention of Chicago day care teacher by ICE is illegal
According to the ruling, Diana Santillana will be given a bond hearing in front of an immigration judge, who could order her released while her civil deportation case proceeds.
trib.al
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It’s wild how many of the ICE/CBP detentions are turning out to be illegal — and yet in the US system, there are no consequences for the agents and no recourse for the victims.
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A World War 2 veteran poses for #NOH8 with family whose future he fought to protect. Thank you to all who have served in the name of freedom for all. Happy #VeteransDay!
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A World War 2 veteran poses for #NOH8 with family whose future he fought to protect. Thank you to all who have served in the name of freedom for all. Happy #VeteransDay!
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SNAP benefits and health insurance wouldn't even need to exist at all if people got paid livable wages and health care was 100% free. They're functionally duct tape for holding a broken system in place and the GOP wants to peel off said tape.
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
SNAP benefits and health insurance wouldn't even need to exist at all if people got paid livable wages and health care was 100% free. They're functionally duct tape for holding a broken system in place and the GOP wants to peel off said tape.
All 8 voted yes again. That's a massive "Fuck you"
BREAKING: Senate passes bill to reopen the government as 8 Democrats join with Republicans
Final vote is 60-40.
The Dems who votes YES with 52 Republicans:
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
This now goes to the House.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Final vote is 60-40.
The Dems who votes YES with 52 Republicans:
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
This now goes to the House.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Senate passes bill to reopen the government as 8 Democrats join with Republicans to send it to the House
The legislation would keep the government funded through Jan. 30, without extending ACA funds slated to expire. It now goes to the House, which could vote as early as Wednesday.
www.nbcnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
All 8 voted yes again. That's a massive "Fuck you"
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🧑🌾 “The projected loss in 2025 on corn, cotton, soy, & wheat is $430,000,000 in Tennessee alone.”
TN Ag Commish Andy Holt tells @GovBillLee what TN farmers told 60 Minutes — Trump’s trade war is crushing farmers.
(cc: @rustygrills @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn)
TN Ag Commish Andy Holt tells @GovBillLee what TN farmers told 60 Minutes — Trump’s trade war is crushing farmers.
(cc: @rustygrills @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn)
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
🧑🌾 “The projected loss in 2025 on corn, cotton, soy, & wheat is $430,000,000 in Tennessee alone.”
TN Ag Commish Andy Holt tells @GovBillLee what TN farmers told 60 Minutes — Trump’s trade war is crushing farmers.
(cc: @rustygrills @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn)
TN Ag Commish Andy Holt tells @GovBillLee what TN farmers told 60 Minutes — Trump’s trade war is crushing farmers.
(cc: @rustygrills @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn)
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My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
We didn't even get to enjoy it for one fucking week
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
We didn't even get to enjoy it for one fucking week
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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Our healthcare should not be dependent on our ability to make a profit for someone else.
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Our healthcare should not be dependent on our ability to make a profit for someone else.
Fuck the Democratic party forever. We need to use Zohran as an example to build up @workingfamilies.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Fuck the Democratic party forever. We need to use Zohran as an example to build up @workingfamilies.org
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If Congress were to receive the same healthcare benefits that Medicaid or Medicare offers, we'd solve our healthcare issues lickety split. They'd have skin in the game, so to say.
#UniversalHealthcare
#HealthcareForAll
#UniversalHealthcare
#HealthcareForAll
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
If Congress were to receive the same healthcare benefits that Medicaid or Medicare offers, we'd solve our healthcare issues lickety split. They'd have skin in the game, so to say.
#UniversalHealthcare
#HealthcareForAll
#UniversalHealthcare
#HealthcareForAll
Truly incredible
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Truly incredible
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so many people are going to fucking die directly from this vote. the republicans did it initially yes, but the dems had a chance to fix it and they squandered it. it's literal fucking murder
Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
so many people are going to fucking die directly from this vote. the republicans did it initially yes, but the dems had a chance to fix it and they squandered it. it's literal fucking murder
We have loudly told them when we wanted. They have betrayed us because they assumed they would be safe from any consequences. It's time to prepare for a general strike.
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
We have loudly told them when we wanted. They have betrayed us because they assumed they would be safe from any consequences. It's time to prepare for a general strike.
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social
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When the Conservative Party in Korea declared martial law, the Korean Democrats knew if they didn’t send them to hell there would be no opposition afterwards. And look at them. They’re taking the ex conservative president and ensuring he never breathes free ever again.
South Korea special prosecutor indicts ex-President Yoon on more charges reut.rs/3Xka3TD
South Korea special prosecutor indicts ex-President Yoon on more charges
South Korea's special prosecutor on Monday indicted former President Yoon Suk Yeol on additional charges of abusing power and aiding an enemy state related to his short-lived imposition of martial law last year.
reut.rs
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
When the Conservative Party in Korea declared martial law, the Korean Democrats knew if they didn’t send them to hell there would be no opposition afterwards. And look at them. They’re taking the ex conservative president and ensuring he never breathes free ever again.
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Speaker Johnson is violating the Constitution. Time to remove him.
"Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting."
Art. I § 5.
"Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting."
Art. I § 5.
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Speaker Johnson is violating the Constitution. Time to remove him.
"Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting."
Art. I § 5.
"Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting."
Art. I § 5.
Reminder that the US and Israel were the two countries in the UN to vote NO on "is food a human right"
Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Reminder that the US and Israel were the two countries in the UN to vote NO on "is food a human right"
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Huge night for democrats and democracy tonight. As we celebrate, though, we need to plan forward. We need to avoid complacency, and to be ready for inevitable backlash from Trump and the GOP. We’ll need to work to turn this step forward into the next. Onward.
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Huge night for democrats and democracy tonight. As we celebrate, though, we need to plan forward. We need to avoid complacency, and to be ready for inevitable backlash from Trump and the GOP. We’ll need to work to turn this step forward into the next. Onward.