eok
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community lover & pragmatic dreamer. urban policy, community dev't, & antiracism student for life.
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you know all of this is to make sure there won't be any elections in 26 or 28, right?
September 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
you know all of this is to make sure there won't be any elections in 26 or 28, right?
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
September 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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A Democratic Party with any spirit would stage a press conference every single day to present Donald Trump with one sarcastic award after another.
The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia
The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness
The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia
The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness
The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
Trump: Since 1978 the Kennedy Center honors have been amongst the most prestigious awards. I wanted one, never able to get one. I would have taken it. I waited and waited and waited and I said to hell with it, I'll become chairman. I will give myself an honor. Next year we'll honor trump, okay?
August 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A Democratic Party with any spirit would stage a press conference every single day to present Donald Trump with one sarcastic award after another.
The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia
The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness
The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia
The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness
The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
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Holy shit, this is amazing
July 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Holy shit, this is amazing
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Jeffries: "When you look at that Declaration of Independence, the second part of it, it reads like an indictment against an out of control king ... they were fed up with Project 1775. So they implemented Project 1776."
July 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Jeffries: "When you look at that Declaration of Independence, the second part of it, it reads like an indictment against an out of control king ... they were fed up with Project 1775. So they implemented Project 1776."
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Nobody said it would be easy, but Republicans found a way to cut taxes for the rich while taking away your healthcare. A story of true heroism.
July 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Nobody said it would be easy, but Republicans found a way to cut taxes for the rich while taking away your healthcare. A story of true heroism.
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Say it!
AOC: This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt. It militarizes our entire economy. It strips away health care and basic dignity of the American people for what? To give Elon Musk a tax break.. We cannot stand for it. And we will not support it. You should be ashamed
July 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Say it!
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As the Senate moves to boost #ICE funding by $45 billion, for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social I reported on how Baltimore residents are responding by going door to door, building neighborhood defense networks to protect their neighbors. baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-re...
Baltimore residents are mobilizing to protect their immigrant neighbors from ICE
On June 11, as the sun bore down on an uncomfortably hot afternoon in Baltimore, four neighbors met under the shade of a tree on Ellerslie Avenue, a quiet road that divides Waverly from Ednor Gardens....
baltimorebeat.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
As the Senate moves to boost #ICE funding by $45 billion, for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social I reported on how Baltimore residents are responding by going door to door, building neighborhood defense networks to protect their neighbors. baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-re...
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STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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McGovern: Listen to this quote from Murkowski who just caved and voted for this. "My hope is that the house is going to look at this and recognize we are not there yet."
If you really believe that, why the hell did you vote for the bill?
If you really believe that, why the hell did you vote for the bill?
July 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
McGovern: Listen to this quote from Murkowski who just caved and voted for this. "My hope is that the house is going to look at this and recognize we are not there yet."
If you really believe that, why the hell did you vote for the bill?
If you really believe that, why the hell did you vote for the bill?
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This agenda directs harm on the very people the President and many Republicans say they are trying to help.
July 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This agenda directs harm on the very people the President and many Republicans say they are trying to help.
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Millions of people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including:
📍154,000 people in Kentucky
📍243,000 people in Louisiana
📍41,000 people in Maine
📍210,000 people in Maryland
Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.
📍154,000 people in Kentucky
📍243,000 people in Louisiana
📍41,000 people in Maine
📍210,000 people in Maryland
Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.
June 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Millions of people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including:
📍154,000 people in Kentucky
📍243,000 people in Louisiana
📍41,000 people in Maine
📍210,000 people in Maryland
Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.
📍154,000 people in Kentucky
📍243,000 people in Louisiana
📍41,000 people in Maine
📍210,000 people in Maryland
Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.
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Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.
BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
June 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.
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Today's Supreme Court decision does not opine on the constitutionality of Trump's assault on birthright citizenship. It is limited to the question of universal injunctions. But its ruling on that front is MASSIVE—a huge blow to plaintiffs and judges trying to block Trump's most lawless policies.
June 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Today's Supreme Court decision does not opine on the constitutionality of Trump's assault on birthright citizenship. It is limited to the question of universal injunctions. But its ruling on that front is MASSIVE—a huge blow to plaintiffs and judges trying to block Trump's most lawless policies.
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Today, we remember Tamir Elijah Rice on what would have been his 23rd birthday.
He was only 12 when his life was taken by a #Cleveland police officer. His killing was one of many that sparked the #BLM Movement.
#TheMarchContinues
He was only 12 when his life was taken by a #Cleveland police officer. His killing was one of many that sparked the #BLM Movement.
#TheMarchContinues
June 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today, we remember Tamir Elijah Rice on what would have been his 23rd birthday.
He was only 12 when his life was taken by a #Cleveland police officer. His killing was one of many that sparked the #BLM Movement.
#TheMarchContinues
He was only 12 when his life was taken by a #Cleveland police officer. His killing was one of many that sparked the #BLM Movement.
#TheMarchContinues
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Yes, the US is marching down path to autocracy familiar to countries around the world; this too is a recognizable part of a playbook. But fear is a goal we don't have to buy into. This is security theater in 1 town. It's bad. It's not martial law. Keep doing what you can do. /end
June 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Yes, the US is marching down path to autocracy familiar to countries around the world; this too is a recognizable part of a playbook. But fear is a goal we don't have to buy into. This is security theater in 1 town. It's bad. It's not martial law. Keep doing what you can do. /end
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This is a really excellent overview of the GOP's recent budget proposal bill with compelling visuals that show us the current administration's economic vision for the US: "You pay more for less."
Thank you, @gelliottmorris.com
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...
Thank you, @gelliottmorris.com
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...
Republicans want you to pay more for less
Donald Trump's policies are punishing the poor, rewarding the rich, inflating prices, and shrinking revenues. And for what?
www.gelliottmorris.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is a really excellent overview of the GOP's recent budget proposal bill with compelling visuals that show us the current administration's economic vision for the US: "You pay more for less."
Thank you, @gelliottmorris.com
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...
Thank you, @gelliottmorris.com
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...
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House Republicans passed their bill that’d rip health insurance from millions and take food assistance away from millions including households with kids as young as 7 in the largest Medicaid and SNAP cuts in history - while giving giant tax cuts to the rich.
Thread on the next steps of the process.
Thread on the next steps of the process.
May 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
House Republicans passed their bill that’d rip health insurance from millions and take food assistance away from millions including households with kids as young as 7 in the largest Medicaid and SNAP cuts in history - while giving giant tax cuts to the rich.
Thread on the next steps of the process.
Thread on the next steps of the process.
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It would also be by far the largest SNAP cuts in history, ripping food assistance away from millions, including households with children as young as seven years old.
May 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It would also be by far the largest SNAP cuts in history, ripping food assistance away from millions, including households with children as young as seven years old.
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This bill would cause so much additional suffering. It would be by far the largest Medicaid cuts in history, kicking millions off their health insurance and condemning thousands of those people each year to die due to lack of coverage.
(note the House-passed version is actually worse than this)
(note the House-passed version is actually worse than this)
May 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This bill would cause so much additional suffering. It would be by far the largest Medicaid cuts in history, kicking millions off their health insurance and condemning thousands of those people each year to die due to lack of coverage.
(note the House-passed version is actually worse than this)
(note the House-passed version is actually worse than this)
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This right here. WATCH and share.
Speaker Pro Tempore: You are to direct your comments to the chair.
Jeffries: You know what's interesting? Every time I come on this floor, I can use sharp language, he can use sharp language, you choose to admonish me. I don't work for you sir. I work for the American people.
Jeffries: You know what's interesting? Every time I come on this floor, I can use sharp language, he can use sharp language, you choose to admonish me. I don't work for you sir. I work for the American people.
May 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This right here. WATCH and share.
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Trump Has Cut Science Funding in the U.S. to Its Lowest Level in Decades. The lag in funding extends to almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... via @upshot.nytimes.com
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Trump Has Cut Science Funding in the U.S. to Its Lowest Level in Decades. The lag in funding extends to almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... via @upshot.nytimes.com
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CBO estimates that the combined effect of Republican Medicaid proposals, allowing enhanced ACA premium tax credits to expire, and President Trump’s proposed ACA rules would increase the number of uninsured by 13.7 million. That would take us back to close to pre-ACA levels.
May 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
CBO estimates that the combined effect of Republican Medicaid proposals, allowing enhanced ACA premium tax credits to expire, and President Trump’s proposed ACA rules would increase the number of uninsured by 13.7 million. That would take us back to close to pre-ACA levels.
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This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.
I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.
May 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.