Pat Thomas
@pthomas51.bsky.social
Union retiree committed to making it better for those who follow. Living my dream in Humboldt County CA
My husband turned 90 & got his YES ballot in weeks ago. You?
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 AM
My husband turned 90 & got his YES ballot in weeks ago. You?
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Trump and his Republican acolytes have declared war on coal miners. Refusing to enforce the silica standard, repealing safety and health regulations and destroying NIOSH. Meanwhile, more miners have already died this year than all of last year
Blood on their hands.
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Blood on their hands.
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Trump & Republicans Escalate War on Coal Miners - Confined Space
Trump is trying to pump up the coal industry, but he - along with Republicans and miner operators -- are doing their best to kill miners.
jordanbarab.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Trump and his Republican acolytes have declared war on coal miners. Refusing to enforce the silica standard, repealing safety and health regulations and destroying NIOSH. Meanwhile, more miners have already died this year than all of last year
Blood on their hands.
jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...
Blood on their hands.
jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...
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Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
n.pr
August 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
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At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has:
Removed COVID vaccine recommendations
Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee
Replaced scientists with antivaxxers
Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research
Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research
Removed COVID vaccine recommendations
Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee
Replaced scientists with antivaxxers
Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research
Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research
August 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has:
Removed COVID vaccine recommendations
Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee
Replaced scientists with antivaxxers
Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research
Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research
Removed COVID vaccine recommendations
Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee
Replaced scientists with antivaxxers
Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research
Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research
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Even the chemical industry opposes Trump's plan to close the Chemical Safety Board. “The risks are borne almost exclusively by workers who are there putting in the work, day in and day out,” said former board member Rick Engler.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...
Trump Wants to Kill a Chemical Safety Board. Chemical Makers Object.
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Even the chemical industry opposes Trump's plan to close the Chemical Safety Board. “The risks are borne almost exclusively by workers who are there putting in the work, day in and day out,” said former board member Rick Engler.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...
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Raskin: "I found the preamble to this big ugly bill. 'We the billionaires and our king, in order to deform and sicken our union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our people's defenses, undermine the general welfare, and have staggering debt servitude for eternity ... '"
July 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Raskin: "I found the preamble to this big ugly bill. 'We the billionaires and our king, in order to deform and sicken our union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our people's defenses, undermine the general welfare, and have staggering debt servitude for eternity ... '"
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Last week 3 workers died of heat stroke. 1 slashed his throat open with a chain saw. 1 baked to death in an industrial oven. Several were electrocuted. Another was crushed to death when a grain silo collapsed on top of him. A highway worker was killed by a hit-and-run driver.
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Weekly Toll: Killed At Work - Confined Space
On average, over 100 workers are killed every week in the United States due to traumatic injuries suffered at work. Here are how a few died last week.
tinyurl.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Last week 3 workers died of heat stroke. 1 slashed his throat open with a chain saw. 1 baked to death in an industrial oven. Several were electrocuted. Another was crushed to death when a grain silo collapsed on top of him. A highway worker was killed by a hit-and-run driver.
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tinyurl.com/2pr77buz
How much more wrong can this administration do? Its jaw dropping
July 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
How much more wrong can this administration do? Its jaw dropping
Raising my Pride Flag. Love who you want to love
June 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Raising my Pride Flag. Love who you want to love
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Regulatory Battle: #OSHA heat standard hearing begins with tragic stories of workers dead on the job whose lives could have been saved by a strong standard -- and the same old tired arguments and imaginary theories from business representatives.
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OSHA Heat Hearing: The Battle Commences - Confined Space
OSHA's public hearings on the agency's heat proposal started last week. Hearings continue for another week and a half.
jordanbarab.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Regulatory Battle: #OSHA heat standard hearing begins with tragic stories of workers dead on the job whose lives could have been saved by a strong standard -- and the same old tired arguments and imaginary theories from business representatives.
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ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
June 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
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I recently gave my first major political speech of this campaign season to retire Lauren Boebert. Like, share, follow, pitch in if you can. LET'S GO!!
June 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I recently gave my first major political speech of this campaign season to retire Lauren Boebert. Like, share, follow, pitch in if you can. LET'S GO!!
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At least 5.4 million U.S. children are estimated to be caring for family members at home, a number likely to rise if Medicaid cuts hit home-based care services.
Millions of kids in U.S. are caregivers for their elders. Why their numbers might grow
At least 5.4 million U.S. children are estimated to be caring for family members at home, a number likely to rise if Medicaid cuts hit home-based care services.
bit.ly
June 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
At least 5.4 million U.S. children are estimated to be caring for family members at home, a number likely to rise if Medicaid cuts hit home-based care services.
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Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works
May 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works
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New CBO analysis: The Republican party-line reconciliation bill would decrease household resources by 4% for the bottom 10 percent, while increasing them by 2% for the top 10 percent. As of 2033.
May 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
New CBO analysis: The Republican party-line reconciliation bill would decrease household resources by 4% for the bottom 10 percent, while increasing them by 2% for the top 10 percent. As of 2033.
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It’s 10 pm on a Sunday night and Republicans on the Budget Committee are cutting food assistance, health care, and access to education to give billionaires a tax break.
May 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
It’s 10 pm on a Sunday night and Republicans on the Budget Committee are cutting food assistance, health care, and access to education to give billionaires a tax break.
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🚨🚨🚨 The House GOP just passed the #MedicaidMassacre bill out of the Budget Committee.
#CA22 Rep. David Valadao (R) won by just 6.8% (Dems have overperformed by 12% so far this year)...
...while up to 198,000 of his constituents (21.3%) would lose healthcare coverage if this bill goes into effect.
#CA22 Rep. David Valadao (R) won by just 6.8% (Dems have overperformed by 12% so far this year)...
...while up to 198,000 of his constituents (21.3%) would lose healthcare coverage if this bill goes into effect.
May 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
🚨🚨🚨 The House GOP just passed the #MedicaidMassacre bill out of the Budget Committee.
#CA22 Rep. David Valadao (R) won by just 6.8% (Dems have overperformed by 12% so far this year)...
...while up to 198,000 of his constituents (21.3%) would lose healthcare coverage if this bill goes into effect.
#CA22 Rep. David Valadao (R) won by just 6.8% (Dems have overperformed by 12% so far this year)...
...while up to 198,000 of his constituents (21.3%) would lose healthcare coverage if this bill goes into effect.
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Trump and MAGA Republicans are slashing Medicaid so billionaires can get another tax break. That means fewer people get the care they need—just so the rich can get richer.
Tell them: hands off our healthcare:
Tell them: hands off our healthcare:
NO CUTS to Medicaid!
Cutting Medicaid—a state and federal partnership that funds health care for more than 80 million Americans, including older adults, children, pregnant people, and disabled people—would run counter to…
MoveOn.org
May 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Trump and MAGA Republicans are slashing Medicaid so billionaires can get another tax break. That means fewer people get the care they need—just so the rich can get richer.
Tell them: hands off our healthcare:
Tell them: hands off our healthcare:
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What we’re watching this week is the President of the United States using his public office to personally enrich himself. He’s using the office we put him in to take bribes from foreign governments.
It’s everything our Founders feared. And we’re letting it all happen right before our eyes.
It’s everything our Founders feared. And we’re letting it all happen right before our eyes.
May 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
What we’re watching this week is the President of the United States using his public office to personally enrich himself. He’s using the office we put him in to take bribes from foreign governments.
It’s everything our Founders feared. And we’re letting it all happen right before our eyes.
It’s everything our Founders feared. And we’re letting it all happen right before our eyes.
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Democrats have been saying it for months
And here it is-in black and white for all to see
Republicans want to cut $715 billion from Medicaid
Ripping away insurance from 13.7 million Americans
Just to give billionaires like Elon Musk another tax break
Don't
Mess
With
Medicaid
And here it is-in black and white for all to see
Republicans want to cut $715 billion from Medicaid
Ripping away insurance from 13.7 million Americans
Just to give billionaires like Elon Musk another tax break
Don't
Mess
With
Medicaid
May 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Democrats have been saying it for months
And here it is-in black and white for all to see
Republicans want to cut $715 billion from Medicaid
Ripping away insurance from 13.7 million Americans
Just to give billionaires like Elon Musk another tax break
Don't
Mess
With
Medicaid
And here it is-in black and white for all to see
Republicans want to cut $715 billion from Medicaid
Ripping away insurance from 13.7 million Americans
Just to give billionaires like Elon Musk another tax break
Don't
Mess
With
Medicaid