Dave
@merlyn43.bsky.social
A Twitter refugee, still going through divorce proceedings w/ the Democratic Party. #GreenParty supporter.
I DON’T FOLLOW LIBERALS
I DON’T FOLLOW LIFELONG DEMOCRATS
I DON’T FOLLOW LIBERALS
I DON’T FOLLOW LIFELONG DEMOCRATS
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Dave
@merlyn43.bsky.social
· Aug 30
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Robert Reich may sounds like a progressive for calling corruption in the fascist GOP.
He’s no progressive when he never calls out Biden for being beholden to the rich bastards and corporate interests or corruption in the Democratic Party.
He’s no progressive when he never calls out Biden for being beholden to the rich bastards and corporate interests or corruption in the Democratic Party.
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Please help us. I don't have money to buy winter clothes for my children and our tent is torn.
gofund.me/20dee64f6
gofund.me/20dee64f6
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Please help us. I don't have money to buy winter clothes for my children and our tent is torn.
gofund.me/20dee64f6
gofund.me/20dee64f6
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November 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The response is slow 💔😥
We need $700 to buy a tent 💔
Our lives are so difficult 💔😥
I don't know what else to tell you to help me 💔😥
I'm starting to feel so discouraged 💔😥
chuffed.org/project/1426...
We need $700 to buy a tent 💔
Our lives are so difficult 💔😥
I don't know what else to tell you to help me 💔😥
I'm starting to feel so discouraged 💔😥
chuffed.org/project/1426...
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The response is slow 💔😥
We need $700 to buy a tent 💔
Our lives are so difficult 💔😥
I don't know what else to tell you to help me 💔😥
I'm starting to feel so discouraged 💔😥
chuffed.org/project/1426...
We need $700 to buy a tent 💔
Our lives are so difficult 💔😥
I don't know what else to tell you to help me 💔😥
I'm starting to feel so discouraged 💔😥
chuffed.org/project/1426...
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"Trump’s authoritarian corruption thrives on making clear that the path of least resistance is to bend the knee & pay off the protection racket," says our co-president @lisa-pubcitizen.bsky.social
Trump can't focus on working people because he's stuck in his gold-plated bubble. Read more⬇️
Trump can't focus on working people because he's stuck in his gold-plated bubble. Read more⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"Trump’s authoritarian corruption thrives on making clear that the path of least resistance is to bend the knee & pay off the protection racket," says our co-president @lisa-pubcitizen.bsky.social
Trump can't focus on working people because he's stuck in his gold-plated bubble. Read more⬇️
Trump can't focus on working people because he's stuck in his gold-plated bubble. Read more⬇️
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There's NO lesser evil - what Democrats and Republican call the "lesser" evil always leads to the greater one.
Don't fall their lies. Fight against the ONE party duopoly instead!
Don't fall their lies. Fight against the ONE party duopoly instead!
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
There's NO lesser evil - what Democrats and Republican call the "lesser" evil always leads to the greater one.
Don't fall their lies. Fight against the ONE party duopoly instead!
Don't fall their lies. Fight against the ONE party duopoly instead!
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Say GOOD MORNING to our baristas in Aurora, IL who joined our national ULP strike this morning!
And remember: don't buy Starbucks while baristas are on strike! #NoContractNoCoffee
And remember: don't buy Starbucks while baristas are on strike! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Say GOOD MORNING to our baristas in Aurora, IL who joined our national ULP strike this morning!
And remember: don't buy Starbucks while baristas are on strike! #NoContractNoCoffee
And remember: don't buy Starbucks while baristas are on strike! #NoContractNoCoffee
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Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not.
Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know
Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know
Ezra and his partner are even more at risk right now because of a looming loss of benefits due to the government shutdown. Ezra is a DSA member, a Communist, and a dear Comrade it pains me to see them in such a situation.
We need to rally around each other to endure these hard times. Please help.
We need to rally around each other to endure these hard times. Please help.
If anyone can spare something to help tipped wage workers in need please do so, it's much appreciated. Ezra & his partner are quietly being fired for their Organizing activities, their hours just keep getting cut all of the time and it's making life very difficult.
linkr.it/2RdwMf
linkr.it/2RdwMf
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not.
Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know
Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know
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Please support me🙏
I hope everyone supports me, even if it is a little we appreciat🤝❤️
🔗 gofund.me/2f400fb2
Whatsapp📞: 00972599530523
Telegram: 972599530523h
t.me/BelalAshraff
I hope everyone supports me, even if it is a little we appreciat🤝❤️
🔗 gofund.me/2f400fb2
Whatsapp📞: 00972599530523
Telegram: 972599530523h
t.me/BelalAshraff
October 23, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Please support me🙏
I hope everyone supports me, even if it is a little we appreciat🤝❤️
🔗 gofund.me/2f400fb2
Whatsapp📞: 00972599530523
Telegram: 972599530523h
t.me/BelalAshraff
I hope everyone supports me, even if it is a little we appreciat🤝❤️
🔗 gofund.me/2f400fb2
Whatsapp📞: 00972599530523
Telegram: 972599530523h
t.me/BelalAshraff
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MintPress News: "Corporate media have ignored a historic match played in Bilbao between the Basque Country and Palestine. The event attracted well over 50,000 spectators, as Palestine lost to the hosts 3-0 in their first ever European game.
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
MintPress News: "Corporate media have ignored a historic match played in Bilbao between the Basque Country and Palestine. The event attracted well over 50,000 spectators, as Palestine lost to the hosts 3-0 in their first ever European game.
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What do settler colonialism and the immigration "crisis" have in common? Both are features of capitalism and imperialism; the forced displacement of people to feed western labour markets. They're a constant feature in the brutal oppression and capitalist campaigns from western liberal democracies.
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
What do settler colonialism and the immigration "crisis" have in common? Both are features of capitalism and imperialism; the forced displacement of people to feed western labour markets. They're a constant feature in the brutal oppression and capitalist campaigns from western liberal democracies.
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Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in its recent 13-month war in Lebanon, photos of munition remnants in south Lebanon suggest
The images, which have been examined by six different arms experts, appear to show the remnants of two types of cluster munitions found in 3 locations
is.gd/IgGUXk
The images, which have been examined by six different arms experts, appear to show the remnants of two types of cluster munitions found in 3 locations
is.gd/IgGUXk
Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest
Exclusive: Images are first indication that Israel has used cluster munitions in nearly 20 years
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in its recent 13-month war in Lebanon, photos of munition remnants in south Lebanon suggest
The images, which have been examined by six different arms experts, appear to show the remnants of two types of cluster munitions found in 3 locations
is.gd/IgGUXk
The images, which have been examined by six different arms experts, appear to show the remnants of two types of cluster munitions found in 3 locations
is.gd/IgGUXk
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There are SO many ways they'll try to scare you!
But we Greens have been on the right side of history since our inception. With every single hard-earned vote against the wave of $billion's in D&R blood money, we are still the ONLY UN-bought national party in U.S.
#RegisterGreen
But we Greens have been on the right side of history since our inception. With every single hard-earned vote against the wave of $billion's in D&R blood money, we are still the ONLY UN-bought national party in U.S.
#RegisterGreen
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
There are SO many ways they'll try to scare you!
But we Greens have been on the right side of history since our inception. With every single hard-earned vote against the wave of $billion's in D&R blood money, we are still the ONLY UN-bought national party in U.S.
#RegisterGreen
But we Greens have been on the right side of history since our inception. With every single hard-earned vote against the wave of $billion's in D&R blood money, we are still the ONLY UN-bought national party in U.S.
#RegisterGreen
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We are boycotting Target because the company went back on its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
If the company wants to bring customers back, they should bring back DEI programs.
Doing everything BUT the right thing.
If the company wants to bring customers back, they should bring back DEI programs.
Doing everything BUT the right thing.
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We are boycotting Target because the company went back on its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
If the company wants to bring customers back, they should bring back DEI programs.
Doing everything BUT the right thing.
If the company wants to bring customers back, they should bring back DEI programs.
Doing everything BUT the right thing.
Low Point of Humanity: When there’s zero aid going into #Gaza (this includes prosthetic limbs). Palestinian kids from Gaza take matters into their own hands to make their own prosthetic limbs with pipes.
youtu.be/MXv-awXzIAA?...
youtu.be/MXv-awXzIAA?...
10-year-old Rateb made his own prosthetic leg from a plastic pipe
YouTube video by Defence for Children Palestine
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Low Point of Humanity: When there’s zero aid going into #Gaza (this includes prosthetic limbs). Palestinian kids from Gaza take matters into their own hands to make their own prosthetic limbs with pipes.
youtu.be/MXv-awXzIAA?...
youtu.be/MXv-awXzIAA?...
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Labour voters: is this what you wanted?
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Labour voters: is this what you wanted?
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Toronto raised the Palestinian flag for the first time at Nathan Phillips Square outside city hall, after Canada formally recognized the State of Palestine this fall. The moment marks a visible acknowledgment of Palestinian identity and presence in one of the country’s most prominent civic spaces.
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Toronto raised the Palestinian flag for the first time at Nathan Phillips Square outside city hall, after Canada formally recognized the State of Palestine this fall. The moment marks a visible acknowledgment of Palestinian identity and presence in one of the country’s most prominent civic spaces.
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Just imagine the heart breaking images from Gaza 🇵🇸 were instead from a white Christian European country.
The world would agree it is genocide and ethnic cleansing.
And send UN troops in.
The support for Israel 🇮🇱, led by Trump 🇺🇸 & Starmer 🇬🇧, is racist pure and simple 🤬
The world would agree it is genocide and ethnic cleansing.
And send UN troops in.
The support for Israel 🇮🇱, led by Trump 🇺🇸 & Starmer 🇬🇧, is racist pure and simple 🤬
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Just imagine the heart breaking images from Gaza 🇵🇸 were instead from a white Christian European country.
The world would agree it is genocide and ethnic cleansing.
And send UN troops in.
The support for Israel 🇮🇱, led by Trump 🇺🇸 & Starmer 🇬🇧, is racist pure and simple 🤬
The world would agree it is genocide and ethnic cleansing.
And send UN troops in.
The support for Israel 🇮🇱, led by Trump 🇺🇸 & Starmer 🇬🇧, is racist pure and simple 🤬
In the late stages of capitalism. Rich bastards are ditching AI stocks because they see the writing on the wall in which history is repeating itself.
www.commondreams.org/news/ai-bubb...
www.commondreams.org/news/ai-bubb...
Warnings of AI Bubble Grow Louder as Big Investors Dump Nvidia Stock | Common Dreams
Tech industry insiders are wary of a financial bubble in the AI industry. CEOs caution about overspending and potential market risks.
www.commondreams.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
In the late stages of capitalism. Rich bastards are ditching AI stocks because they see the writing on the wall in which history is repeating itself.
www.commondreams.org/news/ai-bubb...
www.commondreams.org/news/ai-bubb...
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Break up big tech monopolies. The system has become too vulnerable. Build local alternatives, resiliency.
X and Cloudflare down for thousands of users
X and Cloudflare down for thousands of users
Social media platform X was down for thousands of users in the US, according to Downdetector.
news.sky.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Break up big tech monopolies. The system has become too vulnerable. Build local alternatives, resiliency.
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Good. Ditch all these big US tech companies. Build local alternatives.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Good. Ditch all these big US tech companies. Build local alternatives.
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Get off Big Tech. Its all stealing your data and spying on you.
August 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Get off Big Tech. Its all stealing your data and spying on you.
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It's treasonous the FBI hasnt protected Americans & a failure of their Constitutional oaths: "actions included efforts to destroy the reputations of students & faculty, subjecting people to unwarranted investigations, & endless phony "antisemitism" accusations"
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Why Israel Slept
The long catalogue of intelligence failures that allowed Hamas to stage its brutal surprise attack on October 7 begins at The Venetian, Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas resort.
www.thenation.com
November 9, 2024 at 10:04 AM
It's treasonous the FBI hasnt protected Americans & a failure of their Constitutional oaths: "actions included efforts to destroy the reputations of students & faculty, subjecting people to unwarranted investigations, & endless phony "antisemitism" accusations"
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
🚨Government Failure Alert🚨
This sounds like that’s straight out of the Nazi regime playbook.
Are they then going to forcibly remove gold teeth from the mouths of immigrants who seeking refuge to pay for processing asylum claims?
www.commondreams.org/news/uk-labo...
This sounds like that’s straight out of the Nazi regime playbook.
Are they then going to forcibly remove gold teeth from the mouths of immigrants who seeking refuge to pay for processing asylum claims?
www.commondreams.org/news/uk-labo...
UK Labour to Let Authorities Take Jewelry From Asylum-Seekers as Part of Sweeping New Immigration Crackdown | Common Dreams
"Labour won't redistribute wealth from billionaires," said former party Leader Jeremy Corbyn. "But they will seize belongings from those fleeing war and persecution."
www.commondreams.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
🚨Government Failure Alert🚨
This sounds like that’s straight out of the Nazi regime playbook.
Are they then going to forcibly remove gold teeth from the mouths of immigrants who seeking refuge to pay for processing asylum claims?
www.commondreams.org/news/uk-labo...
This sounds like that’s straight out of the Nazi regime playbook.
Are they then going to forcibly remove gold teeth from the mouths of immigrants who seeking refuge to pay for processing asylum claims?
www.commondreams.org/news/uk-labo...
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“Alabama prisons are completely lawless at this point,” author Matthew Whalan tells @rattlingthebars.bsky.social. “A lot of the order that is injected into them is really just from prisoners organizing themselves.”
'The Alabama Department of Corrections is a drug cartel'
“Alabama prisons are completely lawless at this point,” author Matthew Whalan says. “A lot of the order that is injected into them is really just from prisoners organizing themselves.”
therealnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“Alabama prisons are completely lawless at this point,” author Matthew Whalan tells @rattlingthebars.bsky.social. “A lot of the order that is injected into them is really just from prisoners organizing themselves.”