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@joycecaroloates.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Why did folks stop talking about grocery prices? I just left the store and OMFG…

submitted 4 days ago • 1380 comments

Congress? You awake?

submitted 3 days ago • 1112 comments

Impeach the motherfucker.

submitted 3 days ago • 328 comments

It’s the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

submitted 3 days ago • 2191 comments

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

submitted 3 days ago • 1297 comments

skylight.social/profile/did:...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

ACTION ITEM - File a complaint with the Southern CA Air Quality Management District over DHS's use of tear gas and other pollutants. ONLINE FORM: xappp.aqmd.gov/complaints/N... or EMAIL: [email protected] (See below. You need to cite details about Who, what, when, where, etc.)

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

i was just in paramount basically a block away from ground zero of the confrontation, there is no civil unrest, nothing is wrong. people are going about their business heading to dinner and parties.

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

In other news, Republicans spent a couple million trying to win a Mayor’s race in San Antonio tonight They got crushed, miserably Really appreciate them for wasting all their money though Congrats MAYOR-ELECT Gina Ortiz Jones ‼️

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

He doesn’t come to his district often unless it’s for a fundraiser or for a photo op. He does post pictures from his farm twice a year — planting and harvest time. Other than that, no one I know has seen hide nor hair Congressman Sam Graves, in a very long time. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

submitted 32 days ago • 66 comments

Another helpful framing is the idea of "normotic" behavior, or "normopathy," which describes the psychology of someone who hides extreme dissociation beneath a mask of extreme normality.

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

My Congressman, Sam Graves, voted to gut Medicaid. This is a map of how many folks he couldn’t give two shits about…

submitted 33 days ago • 208 comments

Same!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

submitted 35 days ago • 381 comments

McGovern: "This is not a governing philosophy. It is a scam. I wasn't sent here to vote for trash. I can't understand why you'd choose a career of public service to do this -- to rip away the healthcare & food assistance of working & middle class Americans. Is that really what you came here to do?"

submitted 35 days ago • 613 comments

Accountable Tech asked five young people in @designitforus.bsky.social to test Instagram Teen Accounts, which are meant to protect teens online. Our participants found that these accounts don't always live up to Meta’s promises. accountabletech.org/research/sca...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Have you written your members of Congress yet? We're asking them to sign on the House Resolution 70 and Senate Resolution 147. Send a message! #USMailNotForSale #HandsOff actionnetwork.org/letters/publ...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

When the topic is women the conflict is that women are failing society. When the topic is men it's that society is failing them.

submitted 51 days ago • 152 comments

submitted 52 days ago • 23 comments

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 52 days ago • 394 comments

submitted 51 days ago • 8 comments

Have you written your members of Congress yet? We're asking them to sign on the House Resolution 70 and Senate Resolution 147. Send a message! #USMailNotForSale #HandsOff actionnetwork.org/letters/publ...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Dear ICE Agents: When your parents told you that you could be anything you want when you grow up, they didn’t mean masked kidnappers.

submitted 54 days ago • 435 comments