Mariah Berlanga-Shevchuk
@kaktusmoon.bsky.social
Arizonan living in the PNW. Self-proclaimed museum aficionado.
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Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
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As we celebrate #IndigenousPeoplesDay, please keep in your hearts the #Indigenous people in Alaska whom the colonizers forced onto areas at high risk of flooding.
Typhoon Halong has swept away whole ass houses and many people are still missing.
apnews.com/article/alas...
Typhoon Halong has swept away whole ass houses and many people are still missing.
apnews.com/article/alas...
October 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
As we celebrate #IndigenousPeoplesDay, please keep in your hearts the #Indigenous people in Alaska whom the colonizers forced onto areas at high risk of flooding.
Typhoon Halong has swept away whole ass houses and many people are still missing.
apnews.com/article/alas...
Typhoon Halong has swept away whole ass houses and many people are still missing.
apnews.com/article/alas...
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Jonathan Greenblatt is unaware of many things that happen to be true: For instance, that Israel denies millions of Palestinians basic human rights. His unawareness says nothing about reality. It says a lot about him.
August 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Jonathan Greenblatt is unaware of many things that happen to be true: For instance, that Israel denies millions of Palestinians basic human rights. His unawareness says nothing about reality. It says a lot about him.
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As I just said on CNN, my father's parents were Nakba survivors. I don't want Israeli children to live in fear and I don't want Palestinian children to starve to death. There is nothing anyone could do to make me put nationalistic talking points above basic human rights.
July 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
As I just said on CNN, my father's parents were Nakba survivors. I don't want Israeli children to live in fear and I don't want Palestinian children to starve to death. There is nothing anyone could do to make me put nationalistic talking points above basic human rights.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
May 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them.
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them.
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
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after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans:
www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...
www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...
Infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds
Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling that guaranteed a right to the procedure, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans:
www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...
www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
More and more every day I'm grateful to my 7th/8th grade language arts teacher for her extremely thorough unit on fallacies in reasoning. Raising critical thinkers in Arizona was a thankless task but thank you Mrs. Mitchell!!!
The secret of the "slippery slope" is that it's a logical fallacy.
February 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
More and more every day I'm grateful to my 7th/8th grade language arts teacher for her extremely thorough unit on fallacies in reasoning. Raising critical thinkers in Arizona was a thankless task but thank you Mrs. Mitchell!!!
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Banning and punishing diversity and inclusion. Stripping women and people of color of their rights and erasing them from history. Reveling in Nazism and the confederacy. Flaunting and celebrating corruption.
Don’t call this a course correction. It’s retribution.
Don’t call this a course correction. It’s retribution.
February 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Banning and punishing diversity and inclusion. Stripping women and people of color of their rights and erasing them from history. Reveling in Nazism and the confederacy. Flaunting and celebrating corruption.
Don’t call this a course correction. It’s retribution.
Don’t call this a course correction. It’s retribution.
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The day Israel came for the booksellers - https://www.972mag.com/educational-bookshop-east-jerusalem-raid-arrests/
The day Israel came for the booksellers - +972 Magazine
With a Palestinian coloring book as proof of 'incitement,' police raided East Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop and arrested its owners.
www.972mag.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The day Israel came for the booksellers - https://www.972mag.com/educational-bookshop-east-jerusalem-raid-arrests/
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The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.
February 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.
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DO NOT MEMORY HOLE THE NAZI SALUTE!
Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor!
It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.
Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor!
It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.
February 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
DO NOT MEMORY HOLE THE NAZI SALUTE!
Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor!
It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.
Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor!
It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.
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they can take over the entire country but they can never actually be cool and it will eat at them forever
February 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
they can take over the entire country but they can never actually be cool and it will eat at them forever
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also, by exiling and murdering all the jews he absolutely did fuck over german science wtf are you talking about. einstein LEFT
you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to Hitler"
yiiiiikes
yiiiiikes
February 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
also, by exiling and murdering all the jews he absolutely did fuck over german science wtf are you talking about. einstein LEFT
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is the goal merit or is the goal segregation?
Pete Hegseth's DOD has decided to recruit at an NRA event rather than a Black Engineering event.
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
February 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
is the goal merit or is the goal segregation?
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Tuberculosis outbreaks in Kansas and North Carolina and yet I’ve not seen a single media outlet mention wearing masks.
In fact masks are banned in North Carolina.
A good respirator protects from more than just Covid. The people deserve to know how to keep themselves safe.
In fact masks are banned in North Carolina.
A good respirator protects from more than just Covid. The people deserve to know how to keep themselves safe.
February 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Tuberculosis outbreaks in Kansas and North Carolina and yet I’ve not seen a single media outlet mention wearing masks.
In fact masks are banned in North Carolina.
A good respirator protects from more than just Covid. The people deserve to know how to keep themselves safe.
In fact masks are banned in North Carolina.
A good respirator protects from more than just Covid. The people deserve to know how to keep themselves safe.
why are democrats LIKE THIS
NEW: A Harris campaign organizer says senior officials ordered them to erase voters who asked about Gaza—marking emails as “no response” so they’d be removed from outreach. No engagement, no persuasion, just ignored. “The only clowns are the ones who decided to abdicate on this.”
February 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
why are democrats LIKE THIS
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the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!
February 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!
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The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
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The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
February 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
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This is the GOP’s long con on full display.
January 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This is the GOP’s long con on full display.
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“we are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
- carl sagan
- carl sagan
December 21, 2024 at 1:18 AM
“we are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
- carl sagan
- carl sagan