Plades
@plades.bsky.social
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STRESS KILLS.
60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, struggling every day to keep their families going.
The result: working class people die 7 years earlier than the rich.
We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.
60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, struggling every day to keep their families going.
The result: working class people die 7 years earlier than the rich.
We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.
March 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
STRESS KILLS.
60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, struggling every day to keep their families going.
The result: working class people die 7 years earlier than the rich.
We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.
60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, struggling every day to keep their families going.
The result: working class people die 7 years earlier than the rich.
We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.
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Trump’s EPA just launched the biggest attack on clean air and water in decades. Slashing pollution rules, gutting climate protections, and undermining basic science. They're trying to Make Pollution Great Again—and we can’t let it stand.
Trump officials decimate climate protections and consider axeing key greenhouse gas finding
EPA takes aim at almost every major pollution rule in what environmentalists call act of ‘malice toward the planet’
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Trump’s EPA just launched the biggest attack on clean air and water in decades. Slashing pollution rules, gutting climate protections, and undermining basic science. They're trying to Make Pollution Great Again—and we can’t let it stand.
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Get rid of this ridiculous “boys club” called DOGE. Stealing from the poor and vets is unconscionable. 😡
March 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Get rid of this ridiculous “boys club” called DOGE. Stealing from the poor and vets is unconscionable. 😡
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This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
March 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
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Elon Musk and Donald Trump are hell bent on eroding trust in Social Security to justify their cuts to it.
It’s a deadly move that puts millions at risk. apnews.com/article/elon...
It’s a deadly move that puts millions at risk. apnews.com/article/elon...
Musk eyes Social Security and benefit programs for cuts while claiming widespread fraud
Elon Musk says Social Security and other federal benefit programs will be targeted in his hunt for fraudulent spending.
apnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Elon Musk and Donald Trump are hell bent on eroding trust in Social Security to justify their cuts to it.
It’s a deadly move that puts millions at risk. apnews.com/article/elon...
It’s a deadly move that puts millions at risk. apnews.com/article/elon...
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When your mail is delayed, your medications arrive late, or your packages get lost—remember it’s because two billionaires decided to fire thousands of mail carriers and cut billions in essential funding for USPS for NO reason except to break government & enrich themselves.
USPS agrees to work with DOGE on reform, planning to cut 10,000 workers
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget.
apnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
When your mail is delayed, your medications arrive late, or your packages get lost—remember it’s because two billionaires decided to fire thousands of mail carriers and cut billions in essential funding for USPS for NO reason except to break government & enrich themselves.
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Republicans say they love Veterans, but we know the truth.
March 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Republicans say they love Veterans, but we know the truth.
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Speaker Johnson has rolled out a slush fund continuing resolution that would give Donald Trump and Elon Musk more power over federal spending—and more power to pick winners and losers, which threatens families in blue and red states alike.
Read my full statement ⬇️
Read my full statement ⬇️
March 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Speaker Johnson has rolled out a slush fund continuing resolution that would give Donald Trump and Elon Musk more power over federal spending—and more power to pick winners and losers, which threatens families in blue and red states alike.
Read my full statement ⬇️
Read my full statement ⬇️
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Donald Trump targeted AP and legacy media did nothing.
Donald Trump has now targeted two large law firms and Big Law is silent.
You all read Martin Niemöller's poem “First They Came.”
So, I ask you -- What are you doing?
Donald Trump has now targeted two large law firms and Big Law is silent.
You all read Martin Niemöller's poem “First They Came.”
So, I ask you -- What are you doing?
March 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Donald Trump targeted AP and legacy media did nothing.
Donald Trump has now targeted two large law firms and Big Law is silent.
You all read Martin Niemöller's poem “First They Came.”
So, I ask you -- What are you doing?
Donald Trump has now targeted two large law firms and Big Law is silent.
You all read Martin Niemöller's poem “First They Came.”
So, I ask you -- What are you doing?
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Republicans have NO PLAN to lower grocery prices or housing costs. Their only plan is gutting government from the inside out to pay for more billionaire tax cuts — and working families are the ones left paying the price.
March 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Republicans have NO PLAN to lower grocery prices or housing costs. Their only plan is gutting government from the inside out to pay for more billionaire tax cuts — and working families are the ones left paying the price.
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On the heels of the deadliest U.S. plane crash in decades, Elon’s clueless DOGE staffers were trying to fire AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS.
Trump and Elon are putting all of our lives at risk through their incompetence.
How about we fire Elon instead?
Trump and Elon are putting all of our lives at risk through their incompetence.
How about we fire Elon instead?
March 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
On the heels of the deadliest U.S. plane crash in decades, Elon’s clueless DOGE staffers were trying to fire AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS.
Trump and Elon are putting all of our lives at risk through their incompetence.
How about we fire Elon instead?
Trump and Elon are putting all of our lives at risk through their incompetence.
How about we fire Elon instead?
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Trump put a mid-level employee under investigation for leaking data to Musk IN CHARGE OF SOCIAL SECURITY. Now, DOGE is calling the shots and making life-or-death mistakes. It’s a corrupt clown show, and it’s seniors who will suffer.
DOGE is driving Social Security cuts and will make mistakes, acting head says privately
The Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner said members of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team are outsiders who are unfamiliar with the nuances of the agency’s programs.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Trump put a mid-level employee under investigation for leaking data to Musk IN CHARGE OF SOCIAL SECURITY. Now, DOGE is calling the shots and making life-or-death mistakes. It’s a corrupt clown show, and it’s seniors who will suffer.
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Civil servant source says DOGE has made agencies much less efficient: "Work has ground down to a stunning degree and management is spending a significant amount of time responding & preparing to respond to the chaos incited by the never ending barrage of EOs & accompanying memos"
Many make no sense🧵
Many make no sense🧵
March 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Civil servant source says DOGE has made agencies much less efficient: "Work has ground down to a stunning degree and management is spending a significant amount of time responding & preparing to respond to the chaos incited by the never ending barrage of EOs & accompanying memos"
Many make no sense🧵
Many make no sense🧵
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The common thread in everything he’s doing… children will be harmed most
ENDING SNAP-feeds children
ENDING Dept of Ed - children lose protections and services, equal opportunity to education, FAFSA (grants, loans)
FIRING 100’s of 1,000’s of people (families risk losing housing,
ENDING SNAP-feeds children
ENDING Dept of Ed - children lose protections and services, equal opportunity to education, FAFSA (grants, loans)
FIRING 100’s of 1,000’s of people (families risk losing housing,
March 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The common thread in everything he’s doing… children will be harmed most
ENDING SNAP-feeds children
ENDING Dept of Ed - children lose protections and services, equal opportunity to education, FAFSA (grants, loans)
FIRING 100’s of 1,000’s of people (families risk losing housing,
ENDING SNAP-feeds children
ENDING Dept of Ed - children lose protections and services, equal opportunity to education, FAFSA (grants, loans)
FIRING 100’s of 1,000’s of people (families risk losing housing,
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NEW: The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods is (or was) an advisory committee housed within the USDA which provides outside expert advice to advance food safety across the US and across different levels of govt. It was ordered disbanded this afternoon.
March 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
NEW: The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods is (or was) an advisory committee housed within the USDA which provides outside expert advice to advance food safety across the US and across different levels of govt. It was ordered disbanded this afternoon.
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For the rest of my life, I will never understand how a country full of people busting their asses, working paycheck to paycheck, allow the fucking richest guy on Earth to call them "parasites" while calling the Social Security we contributed to our entire lives "a Ponzi scheme."
Un-fucking-real.
Un-fucking-real.
March 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
For the rest of my life, I will never understand how a country full of people busting their asses, working paycheck to paycheck, allow the fucking richest guy on Earth to call them "parasites" while calling the Social Security we contributed to our entire lives "a Ponzi scheme."
Un-fucking-real.
Un-fucking-real.
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Trump’s plan to abolish the Department of Education is devastating.
Public schools are the bedrock of our country.
They're the foundation on which we build the American Dream.
Democrats are fighting for our kids and their future.
Public schools are the bedrock of our country.
They're the foundation on which we build the American Dream.
Democrats are fighting for our kids and their future.
March 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Trump’s plan to abolish the Department of Education is devastating.
Public schools are the bedrock of our country.
They're the foundation on which we build the American Dream.
Democrats are fighting for our kids and their future.
Public schools are the bedrock of our country.
They're the foundation on which we build the American Dream.
Democrats are fighting for our kids and their future.
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The moronic and cruel VA cuts are stunning…
Trump is slashing staff, delaying benefits, and gutting vets’ healthcare—while pretending to “support the troops.” Fewer doctors, fewer services, more vets left struggling.
Patriotism isn’t just waving a flag—it’s taking care of those who served.
Trump is slashing staff, delaying benefits, and gutting vets’ healthcare—while pretending to “support the troops.” Fewer doctors, fewer services, more vets left struggling.
Patriotism isn’t just waving a flag—it’s taking care of those who served.
March 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The moronic and cruel VA cuts are stunning…
Trump is slashing staff, delaying benefits, and gutting vets’ healthcare—while pretending to “support the troops.” Fewer doctors, fewer services, more vets left struggling.
Patriotism isn’t just waving a flag—it’s taking care of those who served.
Trump is slashing staff, delaying benefits, and gutting vets’ healthcare—while pretending to “support the troops.” Fewer doctors, fewer services, more vets left struggling.
Patriotism isn’t just waving a flag—it’s taking care of those who served.
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This is the second Elon Musk rocket to explode in 2 months
So can we please keep SpaceX and Starlink far, far away from the FAA now
Or have we learned nothing
So can we please keep SpaceX and Starlink far, far away from the FAA now
Or have we learned nothing
BREAKING: Debris over the Bahamas after SpaceX Starship falls apart during test flight
March 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is the second Elon Musk rocket to explode in 2 months
So can we please keep SpaceX and Starlink far, far away from the FAA now
Or have we learned nothing
So can we please keep SpaceX and Starlink far, far away from the FAA now
Or have we learned nothing
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This is so wrong. The real question is…will my Republican friends grow a pair and stand up to this bullshit? www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Veterans cuts spark GOP backlash on Capitol Hill
"We don't need to be reading memos in the paper about 20 percent cut at the VA," Sen. Lindsey Graham said.
www.politico.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This is so wrong. The real question is…will my Republican friends grow a pair and stand up to this bullshit? www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Maybe Elon should focus on preventing his recurring "rapid unscheduled disassemblies" of his Starship rockets instead of producing that same effect on our government and country....
March 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Maybe Elon should focus on preventing his recurring "rapid unscheduled disassemblies" of his Starship rockets instead of producing that same effect on our government and country....
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There’s not enough money to fund cancer research, but there is enough money to stockpile crypto…
www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
Trump Announces ‘Crypto Strategic Reserve’—Here’s What To Know
Cryptocurrency prices soared Sunday in the wake of Trump’s announcement.
www.forbes.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
There’s not enough money to fund cancer research, but there is enough money to stockpile crypto…
www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
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Holy shit! The White House really is an arm of the Kremlin, and Trump is Putin’s asset.
🚨 The Kremlin praised the U.S. for changing its foreign policy to align with Moscow.
🚨 The Kremlin praised the U.S. for changing its foreign policy to align with Moscow.
March 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Holy shit! The White House really is an arm of the Kremlin, and Trump is Putin’s asset.
🚨 The Kremlin praised the U.S. for changing its foreign policy to align with Moscow.
🚨 The Kremlin praised the U.S. for changing its foreign policy to align with Moscow.