Blake
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Blake
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Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
February 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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The fall of a superpower.
February 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Liz Cheney just wiped the floor with JD Vance 🔥

"Rarely has so much ignorance and ahistorical BS been crammed into a single tweet."
February 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Working class Americans live 6 years shorter lives than the wealthy. Doctors believe economic stress is a major factor in that disparity.

I asked Americans to describe how stress impacts their lives & well-being. The responses were heartbreaking.

Here are some of them:
February 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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This is true. @bsky.app is the app of the people.

We may not all agree. We may not even all like each other. But we can engage and disagree and agree with our hate

That makes the platform the future of social media
February 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.
February 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Russia's most venomous fascists are now quoting the US President's words for authority on Ukraine.

Donald Trump is a traitor to the West, and so is every person that enabled and voted for him.
February 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Thank you to @maddow.msnbc.com for promoting @bsky.app on air and complimenting it.

Her on air support is truly important
February 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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This is why you fight these cowards.

The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.

Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.

He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Republicans aren’t hiding anything. Their priorities are written in black and white: trillions of dollars in tax breaks to the rich, while making savage cuts to Medicaid, housing, nutrition and education. The reconciliation bill will make the rich even richer and the poor poorer.
February 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Maybe sort out America's fascist takeover, mass gun violence, abortion bans, oligarch & conspiracy theorist control of govt, climate change denialism, privatised healthcare, politicised judiciary, religious fundamentalism & tax favouring rich over poor before lecturing Europe on "values", JD Vance.
February 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
MACKLEMORE - fucked up (official video)
YouTube video by Macklemore
youtu.be
February 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Yes. But they are missing that much of this has to be performative. That’s what Trump is great at and Dems are awful at.

You can’t just tell voters , you have to know how to sell voters.

Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten
This was the way.
February 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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It's not possible for Hegseth to "walk back" on ruling out Ukrainian NATO membership & US forces in Ukraine, as some claim he did today.

Points of leverage are only useful if Putin thinks they're credible. Hegseth recklessly admittedly they're not.

Trump Administration are incompetent negotiators.
February 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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MAGA explained in 14 seconds.
February 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Conservatives used to say that wanted to make the government small enough to drown in the bathtub, but they ended up making it stupid enough to play in traffic
February 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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U.S. House GOP releases budget that raises debt limit by $4 trillion, extends tax cuts, reports Jennifer Shutt, @jennifershutt.bsky.social, of @statesnewsroom.com, via @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2025/02/12/r...
U.S. House GOP releases budget that raises debt limit by $4 trillion, extends tax cuts • Alaska Beacon
Extending the 2017 tax cuts and spending more on border security and defense would be paid for by cutting other programs.
alaskabeacon.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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NEW: Judge McConnell refuses to lift his stay on the Trump funding freeze while the administration appeals to the First Circuit storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."

(gift link)
Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I'm sorry if I'm making you uncomfortable, but I promise to continue doing so 😊🇨🇦
February 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.
February 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Pretty damn good framing for Dems
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.

How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65

Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
February 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM