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@worldofchoices.bsky.social
· Nov 9
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-Edmund Burke
-Edmund Burke
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Nothing says America First like bailing out Argentina while making healthcare unaffordable for 20+ million Americans.
Or signing an Article 5 protection treaty with Qatar coz they bribed you with a plane, while screwing over longstanding NATO allies.
Folks, I think America First might be a scam.
Or signing an Article 5 protection treaty with Qatar coz they bribed you with a plane, while screwing over longstanding NATO allies.
Folks, I think America First might be a scam.
October 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Nothing says America First like bailing out Argentina while making healthcare unaffordable for 20+ million Americans.
Or signing an Article 5 protection treaty with Qatar coz they bribed you with a plane, while screwing over longstanding NATO allies.
Folks, I think America First might be a scam.
Or signing an Article 5 protection treaty with Qatar coz they bribed you with a plane, while screwing over longstanding NATO allies.
Folks, I think America First might be a scam.
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The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.
Let that sink in
Let that sink in
October 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.
Let that sink in
Let that sink in
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Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?
October 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?
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Lawrence: One of the examples you've put out is in Speaker Mike Johnson's Louisiana district, a 60 year old couple earning 82,000 a year. Their health care premiums will rise by almost $20,000 by 300% because of what their congressman is doing.
October 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Lawrence: One of the examples you've put out is in Speaker Mike Johnson's Louisiana district, a 60 year old couple earning 82,000 a year. Their health care premiums will rise by almost $20,000 by 300% because of what their congressman is doing.
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Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals
Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals
QUANTICO, VA—Racking his brain for answers as he gazed out at the high-ranking officers gathered before him, a visibly hungover Pete Hegseth reportedly struggled Tuesday to remember exactly how he end...
theonion.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals
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Funding cuts to Medicaid and other programs included in the sweeping tax-and-spending bill would hurt low-income households financially more than the tax cuts would boost their finances, according to nonpartisan analyses of the bill.
GOP tax bill could hurt the poorest households more than it helps them
Cuts to Medicaid and anti-poverty programs wipe out gains low-income households could see from policies like no taxes on tips and overtime, nonpartisan estimates show.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Funding cuts to Medicaid and other programs included in the sweeping tax-and-spending bill would hurt low-income households financially more than the tax cuts would boost their finances, according to nonpartisan analyses of the bill.
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In a Gangster State, the dear leader wastes other people's money on military parades to broadcast his fake strength, attacks the legislative branch and destroys programs that benefit the people.
June 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
In a Gangster State, the dear leader wastes other people's money on military parades to broadcast his fake strength, attacks the legislative branch and destroys programs that benefit the people.
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Trump Medicaid cuts could devastate rural health services, hospitals warn reut.rs/4k7F3iV
Trump Medicaid cuts could devastate rural health services, hospitals warn
Rural hospitals are sounding the alarm over proposed healthcare cuts in President Donald Trump's sweeping tax-cut and spending package, warning the changes could force them to scale back services or close their doors.
reut.rs
June 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Trump Medicaid cuts could devastate rural health services, hospitals warn reut.rs/4k7F3iV
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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
June 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
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wrote about the brokenness of our media systems (what's new?!), the people who think LA is a war zone because that's what they want to believe, & the strangeness of living in an emergency but also having to refute the lies being told about our cities as hellscapes www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
June 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
wrote about the brokenness of our media systems (what's new?!), the people who think LA is a war zone because that's what they want to believe, & the strangeness of living in an emergency but also having to refute the lies being told about our cities as hellscapes www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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People don't understand end of life care, Medicaid, and how this legislation will make things unimaginably worse. If people are too ill for home care, Medicare only covers a set amount of time. Once that ends, the patient covers it, and on average it exceeds a pension and social security check.
May 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
People don't understand end of life care, Medicaid, and how this legislation will make things unimaginably worse. If people are too ill for home care, Medicare only covers a set amount of time. Once that ends, the patient covers it, and on average it exceeds a pension and social security check.
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Trump promised to bring down the cost of housing.
But his "big beautiful bill" slashes billions in rental assistance, extends tax breaks for predatory landlords, and restricts state governments from cracking down on AI-powered rent-gouging.
Another Trump lie.
But his "big beautiful bill" slashes billions in rental assistance, extends tax breaks for predatory landlords, and restricts state governments from cracking down on AI-powered rent-gouging.
Another Trump lie.
May 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump promised to bring down the cost of housing.
But his "big beautiful bill" slashes billions in rental assistance, extends tax breaks for predatory landlords, and restricts state governments from cracking down on AI-powered rent-gouging.
Another Trump lie.
But his "big beautiful bill" slashes billions in rental assistance, extends tax breaks for predatory landlords, and restricts state governments from cracking down on AI-powered rent-gouging.
Another Trump lie.
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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of individual voters, my law firm has filed a petition in the Wisconsin Supreme Court to undo that state's extreme partisan congressional gerrymander. www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...
🚨 Bothfeld v. Wisconsin Elections Commission
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of individual voters, my law firm has filed a petition in the Wisconsin Supreme Court to undo that state's extreme partisan congressional gerrymander. www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...
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Trump reduced British auto tariffs to benefit luxury carmakers like Rolls Royce.
Meanwhile, the costs of essential goods like strollers, medications, and clothing are skyrocketing.
So the rest of America has to go without but he's happy to help his rich friends buy luxury cars?
Meanwhile, the costs of essential goods like strollers, medications, and clothing are skyrocketing.
So the rest of America has to go without but he's happy to help his rich friends buy luxury cars?
May 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Trump reduced British auto tariffs to benefit luxury carmakers like Rolls Royce.
Meanwhile, the costs of essential goods like strollers, medications, and clothing are skyrocketing.
So the rest of America has to go without but he's happy to help his rich friends buy luxury cars?
Meanwhile, the costs of essential goods like strollers, medications, and clothing are skyrocketing.
So the rest of America has to go without but he's happy to help his rich friends buy luxury cars?
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The rightwing hates me because I fight. They fear me because we win.
May 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The rightwing hates me because I fight. They fear me because we win.
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Y’all! My book is available for pre order now from @uncpress.bsky.social So excited! uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Jim Crow in the Asylum | Kylie M. Smith | University of North Carolina Press
There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The asylums of the Jim Cro...
uncpress.org
April 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Y’all! My book is available for pre order now from @uncpress.bsky.social So excited! uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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Every single day this unqualified trainwreck stays in this job is another day our troops are at greater risk.
Hegseth needs to be fired before these security breaches get someone killed.
apnews.com/article/hegs...
Hegseth needs to be fired before these security breaches get someone killed.
apnews.com/article/hegs...
Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer.
apnews.com
April 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Every single day this unqualified trainwreck stays in this job is another day our troops are at greater risk.
Hegseth needs to be fired before these security breaches get someone killed.
apnews.com/article/hegs...
Hegseth needs to be fired before these security breaches get someone killed.
apnews.com/article/hegs...
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Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom.
press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst...
#BookstoreDay
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#BookstoreDay
April 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom.
press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst...
#BookstoreDay
press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst...
#BookstoreDay
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Republicans in the Senate voted tonight while no one is watching to fatten Wall Street profits by jacking up overdraft fees on you.
So much for lowering costs.
So much for lowering costs.
March 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Republicans in the Senate voted tonight while no one is watching to fatten Wall Street profits by jacking up overdraft fees on you.
So much for lowering costs.
So much for lowering costs.
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Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed.
He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.
He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.
March 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed.
He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.
He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.
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The first rule of Trumpism is to never apologize or admit wrongdoing. That’s why he’s not firing anyone or even entertaining the idea anybody around him did something wrong.
March 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The first rule of Trumpism is to never apologize or admit wrongdoing. That’s why he’s not firing anyone or even entertaining the idea anybody around him did something wrong.
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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.