Robbie
@yorkiedoglover.bsky.social
Retired English teacher, avid reader, photographer, grandmother of two. Love my Yorkie, Roxie. Sarcasm. Anxiety ridden with depression. Hypochondriac. Good sense of humor. Be the change you want to see.No DMs! Make good trouble. Resist. UCONN basketball.
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Corporations and ultra-rich individuals with numerous business interests cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own bottom lines.
When billionaire conglomerates take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
When billionaire conglomerates take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
If Paramount is allowed to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the conservative billionaire Ellison family will control:
Paramount Studios
CBS
CNN
MTV
HBO
Comedy Central
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
Warner Bros.
DC Studios
Fandango
New Line Cinema
TNT Sports
TBS
Oracle
And more.
Paramount Studios
CBS
CNN
MTV
HBO
Comedy Central
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
Warner Bros.
DC Studios
Fandango
New Line Cinema
TNT Sports
TBS
Oracle
And more.
December 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Corporations and ultra-rich individuals with numerous business interests cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own bottom lines.
When billionaire conglomerates take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
When billionaire conglomerates take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
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Didn’t need one for Harvey Weinstein either…
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Didn’t need one for Harvey Weinstein either…
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Hey Texas, Y’all need her. You know she’s a fighter, and she’ll fight for You. Elect Jasmine Crockett for US Senate
December 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Hey Texas, Y’all need her. You know she’s a fighter, and she’ll fight for You. Elect Jasmine Crockett for US Senate
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The American economy was the best in the world when Trump took office and where we are now is a result of his terrible economic policies.
December 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The American economy was the best in the world when Trump took office and where we are now is a result of his terrible economic policies.
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This has largely been memory-holed but in Trump 1.0, he picked a big public trade fight with China. They retaliated by cutting off agriculture purchases, farmers got squeezed, Trump mailed them checks and had to go crawling back to Xi for a face-saving "deal".
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
December 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
Friday, December 12
Rally to Protect Academic Speech @ the U of M
Friday, December 12
Rally to Protect Academic Speech @ the U of M
#WETHEPEOPLE
#4Democracy
#Minnesota
Minneapolis Minnesota
Rally to Protect Academic Speech at the U of M
Friday, December 12
7:45 – 9am CST
outside McNamara Alumni Center, 200 SE Oak St.,
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
#4Democracy
#Minnesota
Minneapolis Minnesota
Rally to Protect Academic Speech at the U of M
Friday, December 12
7:45 – 9am CST
outside McNamara Alumni Center, 200 SE Oak St.,
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Rally to Protect Academic Speech at the U of M · Mobilize
We will gather outside McNamara Alumni Center, 200 SE Oak St., Minneapolis at 7:45 a.m. on Dec. 12 to encourage the Board of Regents to review limits it set on academic speech last spring. We will the...
www.mobilize.us
December 9, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Friday, December 12
Rally to Protect Academic Speech @ the U of M
Friday, December 12
Rally to Protect Academic Speech @ the U of M
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Let’s not get mired in simplistic electability debates. Both Talarico and Crockett can win in Texas
IF
they motivate the base AND persuade disaffected Republicans and Independents. One or the other is not enough.
Let’s get to work and flip this seat, Texas!
open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
IF
they motivate the base AND persuade disaffected Republicans and Independents. One or the other is not enough.
Let’s get to work and flip this seat, Texas!
open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
Can Jasmine Crockett Win Texas?
A discussion of the electability debate roiling Democrats
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Let’s not get mired in simplistic electability debates. Both Talarico and Crockett can win in Texas
IF
they motivate the base AND persuade disaffected Republicans and Independents. One or the other is not enough.
Let’s get to work and flip this seat, Texas!
open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
IF
they motivate the base AND persuade disaffected Republicans and Independents. One or the other is not enough.
Let’s get to work and flip this seat, Texas!
open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
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Yea but you can say Merry Christmas again like Republican Jesus wanted.
Protestors outside an ICE detainment center in Burlington, Massachusetts.
December 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Yea but you can say Merry Christmas again like Republican Jesus wanted.
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The orange pedo's first year is almost at it's end. This begs the question, "are you better off today than you were a year ago?" Absofuckinglutely not.
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The orange pedo's first year is almost at it's end. This begs the question, "are you better off today than you were a year ago?" Absofuckinglutely not.
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They want to repeat lies to make them true in people's minds. Every time you hear these lies, remind people that Biden left Donald Trump an economy that The Economist called envy of the world. ZERO% chance of a recession. Donald's regime has dragged it down into a stagflation.
Karoline Leavitt lies with impunity on Fox & Friends: "Don't forget -- a year ago, President Trump inherited the worst inflation crisis in modern American history from the Biden administration."
December 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
They want to repeat lies to make them true in people's minds. Every time you hear these lies, remind people that Biden left Donald Trump an economy that The Economist called envy of the world. ZERO% chance of a recession. Donald's regime has dragged it down into a stagflation.
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Lies.
Before the trade war this year, the US had sold nearly 6 mill tons of soybeans to China. If China buys the 12 mill ton commitment in the last 2 mos, '25 exports would total around 18 mill tons – 33% lower than in '24.
Facts, farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/11/us-c...
Before the trade war this year, the US had sold nearly 6 mill tons of soybeans to China. If China buys the 12 mill ton commitment in the last 2 mos, '25 exports would total around 18 mill tons – 33% lower than in '24.
Facts, farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/11/us-c...
December 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Lies.
Before the trade war this year, the US had sold nearly 6 mill tons of soybeans to China. If China buys the 12 mill ton commitment in the last 2 mos, '25 exports would total around 18 mill tons – 33% lower than in '24.
Facts, farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/11/us-c...
Before the trade war this year, the US had sold nearly 6 mill tons of soybeans to China. If China buys the 12 mill ton commitment in the last 2 mos, '25 exports would total around 18 mill tons – 33% lower than in '24.
Facts, farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/11/us-c...
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Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the United States will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs... We're going to use that money to provide $12B in economic assistance to American farmers"
You killed their business with the tariffs
You killed their business with the tariffs
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the United States will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs... We're going to use that money to provide $12B in economic assistance to American farmers"
You killed their business with the tariffs
You killed their business with the tariffs
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He's flat out saying that he's giving farmers a bailout because they vote for him, not because Americans can't afford food.
Trump: We are going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. Farmers like me based on voting trends. So we are going to use that money to provide $12 billion in economic assistance to American farmers. $12 billion is a lot of money
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
He's flat out saying that he's giving farmers a bailout because they vote for him, not because Americans can't afford food.
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"The Bureau of Labor Statistics will skip publication of its delayed report on wholesale-price inflation..."
www.wsj.com/economy/bls-...
www.wsj.com/economy/bls-...
BLS to Skip October PPI Report
The BLS will skip publication of its delayed report on wholesale-price inflation, and will instead roll those figures into a postponed November report to be published on Jan. 14.
www.wsj.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics will skip publication of its delayed report on wholesale-price inflation..."
www.wsj.com/economy/bls-...
www.wsj.com/economy/bls-...
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Is it too much to hope that Congress is regrowing some backbone? Baby steps here, but important ones. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos
Lawmakers quietly stuck the requirement into their must-pass annual defense policy bill.
www.politico.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Is it too much to hope that Congress is regrowing some backbone? Baby steps here, but important ones. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Let’s GO Jasmine Crockett‼️
December 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Let’s GO Jasmine Crockett‼️
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I took a little comfort in this. Though the National Security Strategy is alarming, does Trump really have the discipline or the cognitive function to implement this? It would be disastrous to cut economic and military ties w/Europe…and
December 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I took a little comfort in this. Though the National Security Strategy is alarming, does Trump really have the discipline or the cognitive function to implement this? It would be disastrous to cut economic and military ties w/Europe…and
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Houston fam: @salinasforhtx.bsky.social is in a Dec. 13th runoff for City Council At-Large Position 4. Big city, big race, big impact. Show up!
December 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Houston fam: @salinasforhtx.bsky.social is in a Dec. 13th runoff for City Council At-Large Position 4. Big city, big race, big impact. Show up!
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Kavanaugh pretty much just said this out loud
The practical effect of overturning Humphrey’s will be that Republican presidents can stack the formerly independent agencies with their copartisans and SCOTUS will be cool with everything they do but when a Dem POTUS does the same Roberts et al will declare all those agencies’ actions unlawful.
In a memo John Roberts wrote just 4 yrs out of law school, he said the “time may be ripe to reconsider the existence” of independent agencies & bring them back into the executive branch. Now he’s poised to end what he has long called “a constitutional anomaly.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Kavanaugh pretty much just said this out loud
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ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows
ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows
The figures don't include arrests made by Border Patrol, which has launched aggressive immigration operations in several cities in recent months.
www.nbcnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows
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Add him to the list w Vance, Cruise, Rubio, Graham…
NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments.
Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same.
LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...
Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same.
LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...
December 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Add him to the list w Vance, Cruise, Rubio, Graham…
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"get ready for the least-surprising thing you’ll hear today: apparently, Holy Mike Johnson — a Christofascist from a southern state — has a problem with women in power. as a result, he’s been sidelining and ignoring them the entire time he’s been House Speaker..."
Republican women are revolting
Holy Mike’s speakership is in peril. boo fucking hoo.
www.jefftiedrich.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"get ready for the least-surprising thing you’ll hear today: apparently, Holy Mike Johnson — a Christofascist from a southern state — has a problem with women in power. as a result, he’s been sidelining and ignoring them the entire time he’s been House Speaker..."