olivia grimes
@olivelaughlove.bsky.social
policy wonk, people person | berkeley law c/o 27
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I’ve seen plenty of takes like this, shaming people for their feelings and reactions when a CEO overseeing immeasurable harm, heartache and death is murdered. I haven’t seen many, or any, spotlighting how normalized the greed and corruption in the system and industry the CEO represented has become.
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed, @adriennelaf.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/ZRcsrreK
December 13, 2024 at 5:14 AM
I’ve seen plenty of takes like this, shaming people for their feelings and reactions when a CEO overseeing immeasurable harm, heartache and death is murdered. I haven’t seen many, or any, spotlighting how normalized the greed and corruption in the system and industry the CEO represented has become.
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You know what was a "blinking and blaring warning signal"? When it took an act of Congress for coverage of pre-existing conditions to become the norm . Health insurance is an industry that is designed to *not* give people what they pay for. That it takes a m*rder to draw attention to that means...
December 13, 2024 at 12:49 AM
You know what was a "blinking and blaring warning signal"? When it took an act of Congress for coverage of pre-existing conditions to become the norm . Health insurance is an industry that is designed to *not* give people what they pay for. That it takes a m*rder to draw attention to that means...
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sorry but I’m fucking furious that they’re going after Sarah McBride and implying she’s a sexual predator while electing DONALD TRUMP and appointing MATT GAETZ
November 21, 2024 at 12:30 AM
sorry but I’m fucking furious that they’re going after Sarah McBride and implying she’s a sexual predator while electing DONALD TRUMP and appointing MATT GAETZ
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The Party of Mean is getting to work fast: Sending a clear signal they’ll try to ban trans people from all sorts of spaces, even the bathroom. If they’re doing this to their own House colleague, just imagine what they’ll try to do to people who don’t have power. This is vile.
"Just plain bullying": Congress erupts over bill targeting new transgender member
Fumed one Democrat: "Is that what we want the sergeant-at-arms to be doing when we had an attack on the freaking Capitol?"
www.axios.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:43 PM
The Party of Mean is getting to work fast: Sending a clear signal they’ll try to ban trans people from all sorts of spaces, even the bathroom. If they’re doing this to their own House colleague, just imagine what they’ll try to do to people who don’t have power. This is vile.