Olie Surfs
@oliesurfs.bsky.social
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For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers.
Instead, wealth and power has accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us.
Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.
Instead, wealth and power has accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us.
Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.
June 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers.
Instead, wealth and power has accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us.
Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.
Instead, wealth and power has accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us.
Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.
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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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There is a reason why millions of workers want to join unions.
There is a reason why greedy corporations oppose unions.
Union membership means higher wages and better benefits.
Let’s grow the trade union movement.
There is a reason why greedy corporations oppose unions.
Union membership means higher wages and better benefits.
Let’s grow the trade union movement.
May 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
There is a reason why millions of workers want to join unions.
There is a reason why greedy corporations oppose unions.
Union membership means higher wages and better benefits.
Let’s grow the trade union movement.
There is a reason why greedy corporations oppose unions.
Union membership means higher wages and better benefits.
Let’s grow the trade union movement.
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This isn't hypothetical.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
May 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This isn't hypothetical.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
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Yes, this is a real tweet.
April 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Yes, this is a real tweet.
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A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
April 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
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“And then I grew up … and I read books.”
As someone else who’s proud of his NC ties, I respect the hell out of @davidjoy.bsky.social for speaking out like this.
As someone else who’s proud of his NC ties, I respect the hell out of @davidjoy.bsky.social for speaking out like this.
WATCH: “You’re saying you revere a time when their ancestors were in bondage.”
In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
April 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
“And then I grew up … and I read books.”
As someone else who’s proud of his NC ties, I respect the hell out of @davidjoy.bsky.social for speaking out like this.
As someone else who’s proud of his NC ties, I respect the hell out of @davidjoy.bsky.social for speaking out like this.
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We need the best educated workforce in the world.
We need the best teachers in the world.
We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.
No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.
We need the best teachers in the world.
We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.
No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.
April 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
We need the best educated workforce in the world.
We need the best teachers in the world.
We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.
No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.
We need the best teachers in the world.
We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.
No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.
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If you’re attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke about the toddler cancer patient they just disappeared despite her being a citizen.
Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.
Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.
April 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If you’re attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke about the toddler cancer patient they just disappeared despite her being a citizen.
Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.
Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.
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“He is one of the top five, probably, most targeted people in the world for espionage.”
That seems accurate!
That seems accurate!
Hesgeth used his personal phone to log into a 4th-tier sports betting site -- and to relay real-time information about U.S. airstrikes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
Hegseth’s Personal Phone Use Created Vulnerabilities, Analysts Say
The phone number used in the Signal chat could also be found in a variety of places, including on social media and a fantasy sports site.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“He is one of the top five, probably, most targeted people in the world for espionage.”
That seems accurate!
That seems accurate!
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there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
![In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreie3gc6fndj7mtotijddm4eg264zgsqxpn4nbekb3xq5ubdmskvr6u@jpeg)
!["You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiensu64iobo4ftuqeaighf2p5k745uzdnmhcecugsi4ec74dnqse4@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
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*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
April 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
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The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.
April 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.
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i’m getting van hollen pilled
Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?"
Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
April 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
i’m getting van hollen pilled
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We are sending people to the Salvadoran gulag for nothing at all.
documentedny.com/2025/04/14/i...
documentedny.com/2025/04/14/i...
ICE Took His Son From Their Bronx Home. Now His Son Is In Bukele's Mega-prison In El Salvador
Merwil Gutiérrez had no criminal record when ICE agents detained the 19-year-old outside his home. Now his father, Wilmer, is still searching for answers.
documentedny.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We are sending people to the Salvadoran gulag for nothing at all.
documentedny.com/2025/04/14/i...
documentedny.com/2025/04/14/i...
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Trump will reportedly end the IRS Direct File program that allowed taxpayers to file taxes for free.
This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file.
Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.
See how this works?
This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file.
Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.
See how this works?
April 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Trump will reportedly end the IRS Direct File program that allowed taxpayers to file taxes for free.
This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file.
Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.
See how this works?
This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file.
Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.
See how this works?
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Who could have predicted that... <checks notes> a weekend Fox and Friends host with a substance abuse problem who mismanaged two small nonprofits could not successfully manage an agency with more than 3 million employees?
April 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Who could have predicted that... <checks notes> a weekend Fox and Friends host with a substance abuse problem who mismanaged two small nonprofits could not successfully manage an agency with more than 3 million employees?
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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Did anyone notice that Buekele didn’t wear a tie? I thought that outraged people when Zelensky didn’t
April 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Did anyone notice that Buekele didn’t wear a tie? I thought that outraged people when Zelensky didn’t
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Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸
April 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸
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this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
April 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview