erain
@erain2024.bsky.social
Student of Culinary History
Reader of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Crazy Blue Haired Liberal
Planning to be a hobbit when I grow up
Pronouns she/her
Reader of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Crazy Blue Haired Liberal
Planning to be a hobbit when I grow up
Pronouns she/her
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I found out my immediate family members, who are college-educated & vote in every election, did not know about:
- Kilmar Abrego García
- 278 men imprisoned in El Salvador w/o due process
- DOGE likely sending data from NLRB to Russia
- Cory Booker’s filibuster
The media ecosystem is deeply broken.
- Kilmar Abrego García
- 278 men imprisoned in El Salvador w/o due process
- DOGE likely sending data from NLRB to Russia
- Cory Booker’s filibuster
The media ecosystem is deeply broken.
April 20, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I found out my immediate family members, who are college-educated & vote in every election, did not know about:
- Kilmar Abrego García
- 278 men imprisoned in El Salvador w/o due process
- DOGE likely sending data from NLRB to Russia
- Cory Booker’s filibuster
The media ecosystem is deeply broken.
- Kilmar Abrego García
- 278 men imprisoned in El Salvador w/o due process
- DOGE likely sending data from NLRB to Russia
- Cory Booker’s filibuster
The media ecosystem is deeply broken.
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GOP's DOGE pillagers shut down another vital government service
www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/hawa...
www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/hawa...
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Evicted Amid Federal Cuts
Observatory leaders have assured local emergency officials their public service will continue, but questions linger about how and where that work will happen.
www.civilbeat.org
March 21, 2025 at 3:55 AM
GOP's DOGE pillagers shut down another vital government service
www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/hawa...
www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/hawa...
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Let's make Musk pay for his illegal attacks on working people!
This Saturday, join the #TeslaTakedown protest at the U Village Tesla Showroom in Seattle: actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...
Not in North Seattle? There are more protests across the state, find one near you!
This Saturday, join the #TeslaTakedown protest at the U Village Tesla Showroom in Seattle: actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...
Not in North Seattle? There are more protests across the state, find one near you!
March 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Let's make Musk pay for his illegal attacks on working people!
This Saturday, join the #TeslaTakedown protest at the U Village Tesla Showroom in Seattle: actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...
Not in North Seattle? There are more protests across the state, find one near you!
This Saturday, join the #TeslaTakedown protest at the U Village Tesla Showroom in Seattle: actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...
Not in North Seattle? There are more protests across the state, find one near you!
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VA hospital surgeons now can't purchase surgical supplies to care for American Veterans!!!!
February 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
VA hospital surgeons now can't purchase surgical supplies to care for American Veterans!!!!
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Thanks to @courtneymilan.com for this thread on how high egg prices in the US are because of illegal price fixing, not the bird flu.
I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.
February 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thanks to @courtneymilan.com for this thread on how high egg prices in the US are because of illegal price fixing, not the bird flu.
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It’s not the fucking bird flu. That would cause some price fluctuations, but not a lot.
It’s the fact that bird flu provides an excuse for massive corporations to reap unheard of profits by working together to fix prices.
It’s the fact that bird flu provides an excuse for massive corporations to reap unheard of profits by working together to fix prices.
February 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It’s not the fucking bird flu. That would cause some price fluctuations, but not a lot.
It’s the fact that bird flu provides an excuse for massive corporations to reap unheard of profits by working together to fix prices.
It’s the fact that bird flu provides an excuse for massive corporations to reap unheard of profits by working together to fix prices.
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This is extremely bad. Think of all the business conducted by mail. Now think of all the voting done by mail — entire states! Now think of the entire postal system being run by a political appointee instead of a career civil servant.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This is extremely bad. Think of all the business conducted by mail. Now think of all the voting done by mail — entire states! Now think of the entire postal system being run by a political appointee instead of a career civil servant.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Musk has threatened to cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals.
February 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Musk has threatened to cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals.
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"It's almost impossible to believe he exists.
It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth"
#PRESIDEMENTIA
It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth"
#PRESIDEMENTIA
February 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"It's almost impossible to believe he exists.
It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth"
#PRESIDEMENTIA
It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth"
#PRESIDEMENTIA
pretty sure I could help DOGE find some government waste: abcnews.go.com/US/musk-work...
As Musk works to slash federal spending, his own firms have received billions in government contracts
As Elon Musk has led an effort to slash government spending, his own companies have, over the last few years, received billions of dollars in government contracts.
abcnews.go.com
February 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
pretty sure I could help DOGE find some government waste: abcnews.go.com/US/musk-work...
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Extreme MAGA Republicans spent last year promising to lower costs.
And lying about their connection to Project 2025.
They have spent this year implementing the extreme Project 2025 agenda.
And haven’t done a damn thing to lower the high cost of living.
And lying about their connection to Project 2025.
They have spent this year implementing the extreme Project 2025 agenda.
And haven’t done a damn thing to lower the high cost of living.
February 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Extreme MAGA Republicans spent last year promising to lower costs.
And lying about their connection to Project 2025.
They have spent this year implementing the extreme Project 2025 agenda.
And haven’t done a damn thing to lower the high cost of living.
And lying about their connection to Project 2025.
They have spent this year implementing the extreme Project 2025 agenda.
And haven’t done a damn thing to lower the high cost of living.
This is my surprised face 🙄
The GOP budget is out.
Republicans recently promised to love and cherish Medicaid.
Their actual plan is to destroy it.
Republicans recently promised to love and cherish Medicaid.
Their actual plan is to destroy it.
February 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is my surprised face 🙄
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New Crowd Control Law Includes Few Restrictions on Use of "Less-Lethal Weapons"
A council majority rejected several proposed guardrails, including an amendment that would have allowed the council to reject new weapons in the future.
publicola.com/2025/02/12/n...
A council majority rejected several proposed guardrails, including an amendment that would have allowed the council to reject new weapons in the future.
publicola.com/2025/02/12/n...
New Crowd Control Law Includes Few Restrictions on Use of "Less-Lethal Weapons" - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle City Council approved legislation yesterday that retroactively authorizes the Seattle Police Department to adopt…
publicola.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
New Crowd Control Law Includes Few Restrictions on Use of "Less-Lethal Weapons"
A council majority rejected several proposed guardrails, including an amendment that would have allowed the council to reject new weapons in the future.
publicola.com/2025/02/12/n...
A council majority rejected several proposed guardrails, including an amendment that would have allowed the council to reject new weapons in the future.
publicola.com/2025/02/12/n...
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Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽
February 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽
In case there was any question...
Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"
February 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
In case there was any question...
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Seattle Nice: Banishment Orders and Housing Bans
On this week's podcast, we discuss SODA orders, "prostitution loitering" arrests, and the possibility of housing in Seattle's stadium district.
publicola.com/2025/02/10/s...
On this week's podcast, we discuss SODA orders, "prostitution loitering" arrests, and the possibility of housing in Seattle's stadium district.
publicola.com/2025/02/10/s...
Seattle Nice: Banishment Orders and Housing Bans - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Municipal Court judges have only issued one Stay Out of Drug Area order so far, raising…
publicola.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Seattle Nice: Banishment Orders and Housing Bans
On this week's podcast, we discuss SODA orders, "prostitution loitering" arrests, and the possibility of housing in Seattle's stadium district.
publicola.com/2025/02/10/s...
On this week's podcast, we discuss SODA orders, "prostitution loitering" arrests, and the possibility of housing in Seattle's stadium district.
publicola.com/2025/02/10/s...
Only if they'll take Washington & Oregon too!
February 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Only if they'll take Washington & Oregon too!
FFS people vaccinate!!!
Outbreaks and high levels of illnesses (like the flu) have become more common as vaccination rates have fallen, especially among children. Washington is among the states hit hardest by the flu.
Flu levels are at a 15-year high in the U.S., but many Washington children haven't gotten their flu shot
Outbreaks and high levels of illnesses (like the flu) have become more common as vaccination rates have fallen, especially among children.
www.kuow.org
February 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
FFS people vaccinate!!!
My guy Cory is standing up!
WOW! Cory Booker isn't holding back!
"There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent."
"There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent."
February 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
My guy Cory is standing up!
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February 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM