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Roberta Baskin
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CBS, PBS, ABC News investigative reporter alum. Think #climate justice in shopping, eating, voting & investing. In these cataclysmic times, embrace good trouble & the First Amendment. ☮️🍃🌎🌊
Trump & his billionaires don't care about throwing 15 million people off their healthcare, and millions more finding their health care premiums double--just to give a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the wealthiest 1%. #Vote on Tuesday for fair elections & working families. #TaxTheRich
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Trump sent $40 billion to Argentina while Americans lose healthcare, SNAP, + other essentials. He demolished the White House’s East Wing to build a gaudy golden ballroom. Next plan: a Triumphal Arch dedicated to himself. #Trump couldn’t care less about rising energy & food prices. #NoKings #resist
October 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Trump's a chronic liar, promising his golden gaudy ballroom wouldn't "touch" the East Wing of the White House. Then came the wrecking ball to history to host his dancing with the czars. He's an authoritarian tyrant ignoring working people who struggle with rising costs. "Let them eat cake!" in 2025.
October 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
October 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."—Albert Einstein
#NoKings showed there are 7-million people willing to stand up for an America that values truth & justice. An America that believes in loving thy neighbor.
October 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
In little old Manassas VA more than 2,000 protesters turned up inspired by our Constitution & demanding this authoritarian regime start obeying their oath and remembering America rebelled against a King. #NoKings #resist
October 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Early career US journalists— apply for the 2026 Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) Health Journalism Fellowship! This unique opportunity includes a $4,000 stipend, workshops, mentoring and more! @womenjournos.bsky.social #health #journalism
October 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Trump has already forced 275,000 federal employees out. He's imposed illegal tariffs, impounded funds, deployed the military violating the Posse Comitatus Act, ordered DOJ to indict his personal enemies, & engaged in extreme corruption, enriching himself & billionaires, at taxpayer cost. #resist
September 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Evermore hope for a saner, kinder America.
September 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Robert Redford, Screen Idol & Activist, Dies at 89. I had the honor of interviewing him in the ‘90s for my investigation of the 1872 Mining Law & its devastating environmental impacts. #Redford cared deeply about our beleaguered planet. RIP. #climate www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
September 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Such hypocrisy for #Trump to grant clemency to nearly 1,600 people involved in the Jan. 6 riot. Then throw an authoritarian military power playbook at DC residents to terrorize & intimidate them despite a 30% drop in crime. Whose City is next for military takeover?
thehill.com/opinion/nati...
August 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Remember the fall of 2024 when The Economist wrote that the U.S. economy was “The envy of the world”?! That was before #Trump #tariffs and Big UGLY Bill blew it up to make things better for the wealthiest Americans.
August 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Inflation RISING.📈 Working Americans pay for #Trump's erratic, abusive tariffs. Corp America passes tariffs onto consumers & the chasm betw super rich & the rest of us grows under this authoritarian regime. Meanwhile the grifter eradicates healthcare while adding more gold leaf to the White House.
August 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
USA's gross misbehavior: At the international Convention on Wetlands to save Earth’s fastest-disappearing ecosystem, our U.S. "delegation" had only one representative who came to demand that conference documents include NO mention of #climate change, DEI, gender, the U.N.’s SDGs, or “zero growth.”
August 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
FOREWARNED by a shocked consumer: "Just ordered some kitchenware from England: cost $267. A week after delivery, FedEx sends a bill for the tariff due: $131. Turns out, the items originated in China. Tariffs are here, and collections have begun." #Trump #Tariffs are a tax on consumers. #TaxTheRich
August 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Release Epstein files: “Trump literally had Lawrence Taylor, a registered sex offender who raped a 16-year-old, featured at the White House as he announced his 'President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition' initiative for kids," -Brian Krassenstein #Trump @briankrassenstein.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Tears are rolling down my cheeks. Reporting for Bill Moyers on PBS was the best journalism experience of my 30+ years. He was an authentic voice for shedding light on America’s problems and hopes. Bill was 91. We’ve lost a brilliant maverick in public tv. #BillMoyers #publictv #PBS
June 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Behind closed doors Mitch McConnell tells Republican lawmakers not to worry about complaints to cutting Medicaid, “They’ll get over it.”

Why?! Because you killed them? #TaxTheRich #protest #resist #cruel #McConnell
June 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Trump repeatedly betrays our Constitution:
-eliminates agencies Congress created
-refuses to spend $$$s Congress appropriated
- limiting Congressional visits to ICE detention facilities
-unilaterally declared war on Iran without Congressional debate or action
#CongressDoYourJob #NoKings
June 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I subscribe to the theory that there's more good people than evil ones. But the cruel ones are louder and in power. We need to organize better & better to Make America Sane Again. #Iran #protest
June 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Happy Juneteenth in these unhappy times. #Protest #resist
June 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
MAGA Republicans are racing to pass Trump's big, ugly, cruel bill to give huge tax breaks to the richest among us by making the poorest Americans pay for it. Steal from Medicaid, SNAPS, healthcare for millions & saddle our kids with an extra $3.1 TRILLION to the deficit. #resist #TaxTheRich #protest
June 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Manassas VA #NoKings march brought together 1500+ protesting Trump's authoritarian regime. The Rule of Law, immigration, the Constitution, veterans, and what America aspires to be were celebrated.
June 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
In Manassas Virginia more than a 1000 protesters stood against fascism and for the Constitution and Rule of Law. #NoKings #Resist
June 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Trump is advertising on DC Craig’s List to pay people to come to his Birthday Tank Parade “for space maximization perception.” Fraud. Waste. Abuse. We taxpayers are footing the $45-million. #NoKings #protest
June 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM