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Worker power is the way

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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submitted 4 days ago • 277 comments

Bringing this to Bsky bc @steverattner.bsky.social hasn't posted it yet and it's so critical. The entirety of the cuts to Medicaid and food benefits are to pay for tax cuts for people earning more than half a million a year. Call Congress: 202-224-3121

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

🚨🚨🚨Important!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The “big, beautiful” bill ain’t beautiful—it’s bullshit. House Republicans just voted for the largest cut to SNAP & Medicaid in U.S. history—turning their backs on their own damn constituents: the working people they were sent here to represent. They don’t serve the people. They serve the rich.

submitted 3 days ago • 321 comments

The US desperately needs more doctors, engineers & highly educated workers. But we’re telling students that if they want a higher education, they have to go into debt. Other countries understand how important it is to invest in their young people. We should be doing the same.

submitted 5 days ago • 106 comments

“I will not yield to disrespectful men.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 493 comments

According to a study by Penn Wharton, Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that pays for tax breaks for the rich by cutting Medicaid leads to a $700 LOSS in income for the working class, a $1,000 LOSS in income for the poor & a $389,000 INCREASE for the top 0.1%. We must defeat it.

submitted 8 days ago • 95 comments

He thinks there’s a cargo ship full of VCR tapes steaming toward the Port of Blockbuster that he’s going to exact these tariffs upon, doesn’t he

submitted 20 days ago • 542 comments

We need the best educated workforce in the world. We need the best teachers in the world. We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do. No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.

submitted 29 days ago • 880 comments

This is what a rigged economy looks like: In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker. In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker. This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker. That has got to change.

submitted 29 days ago • 746 comments

The power of the people is always greater than the people in power.

submitted 28 days ago • 440 comments

We must stand up and speak out, not because something is left or right, but if it is right or wrong.

submitted 28 days ago • 162 comments

Impeach. Convict. Remove.

submitted 29 days ago • 48 comments

Trump’s playbook is simple: punish anyone who stands in his way. This ain’t law and order—it’s a rise of authoritarianism in real time.

submitted 30 days ago • 260 comments

Let’s be clear. Trump's arrest of Judge Dugan in Milwaukee has nothing to do with immigration. This latest attack is about one thing: unchecked power. It is time for my colleagues in the Republican Party to stand up to his growing authoritarianism.

submitted 30 days ago • 269 comments

They came for the undocumented immigrants. They came for the lawyers. They came for the students. Now they're coming for the judges. Don't think you're in a protected class, because no one is. If you have been waiting to get involved, the time is now.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Due process is not negotiable.

submitted 31 days ago • 33 comments

“All you have to do is get a passport” ummm we SHOULD NOT HAVE TO!

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

Today in America, the rich are getting richer & working families are struggling. What is Mr. Trump doing about this? He's getting ready to give tax cuts to billionaires while making it harder for Americans to access the Medicare, Social Security & veterans benefits they earned.

submitted 31 days ago • 122 comments

NEW: The Trump administration admitted in a court filing that ICE lied about having an arrest warrant when they detained our client Mahmoud Khalil in retaliation for his protected speech. This confirms what we already knew: The government is intent on punishing Mahmoud by any means necessary.

submitted 30 days ago • 28 comments

Today! Rally at 5 at the federal building! Rochester will show that we reject this administration's frightening raids on communities and illegal practices of sending people to foreign gulags without due process.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Trump’s efforts to deport migrant farm workers will only disrupt families, raise food prices and put more pressure on struggling family farms. It is exactly the wrong approach. The time is long overdue for real immigration reform and a path to citizenship for migrant workers.

submitted 32 days ago • 97 comments

The Trump DOJ canceled grants for gun violence prevention, opioid addiction treatment, and victim advocacy—because saving lives doesn’t “align” with their priorities. These are the same folks claiming to make our streets safer.

submitted 32 days ago • 83 comments

FaMiLy VaLuEs

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Let’s be real: the cost of living is out of control. People are living paycheck to paycheck. Rent is sky high. And folks are choosing between medication and meals—just trying to survive. Meanwhile, billionaires aren’t paying taxes and are getting richer by the day.

submitted 32 days ago • 177 comments

Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after. But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.

submitted 32 days ago • 1332 comments

50501 - No Kings Day in Rochester New York

submitted 36 days ago • 10 comments

Make your plan to get out there tomorrow, ROC! 11-12: Lima 4-corners 12-2: 50501's rally/march downtown starting at MLK park. 1-2: Geneseo Main Street 2-4: Canandaigua (5&20 and Main Street) tinyurl.com/4b5dek2e

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Mailed my thank you notes courtesy of Betty White

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

ROCHESTER NEW YORK APRIL 19 12pm

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone needs to stop starting sentences with disclaimers. If your upcoming thought needs a disclaimer before you say it… you probably just shouldn’t say it.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I too am advocating for due process for Abrego Garcia.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

The IRS working with ICE is proof this was never about removing dangerous criminals. Criminals don't pay their taxes. ICE is too lazy to find criminals.

submitted 46 days ago • 82 comments

Republicans used to say “undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes.” Now the IRS is handing their tax data to DHS… So which is it? Seems like you’d have to pay taxes to even have tax data…

submitted 46 days ago • 229 comments

We must do everything in our power to ensure fair elections in 2026, which is why we must stop H.R. 22 — the GOP voter suppression bill we call the "Silencing Americans Act." A House vote is expected later this week. Make sure your representative hears from you ASAP: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 47 days ago • 15 comments

ICE isn't "deporting" immigrants, it is kidnapping them. DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it. Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them. Pam Bondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it.

submitted 47 days ago • 241 comments

Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true? BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime? BONDI: leaves

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Sotomayor is right. According to this Supreme Court, the US can now kidnap, detain, and fly legal immigrants and citizens to a foreign country's prison, even if it's a whoopsie. America, people. Freedom and stuff.

submitted 47 days ago • 798 comments

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

submitted 47 days ago • 1260 comments

⚡️JUST NOW: The cruel Lamberth & Watson bill to block undocumented kids from schools across 🇺🇸 interrupted by prayer, until trooper escorted clergy and others out It passed Gov ops 8-7 (Faison joined the Dems against)

submitted 48 days ago • 30 comments

Posted this on meta socials and tiktok, got so much hate that “I’m being divisive”. #handsoff

submitted 49 days ago • 94 comments

White House: we want reciprocal tariffs Vietnam: fine, let’s do zero percent White House: fuck you Absolute clown car administration

submitted 48 days ago • 758 comments

Instead of using “emergency“ decrees to move us toward authoritarianism, Trump should declare our broken health care system an emergency and move us toward guaranteed health care for all. When 85 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured, that’s the true emergency.

submitted 48 days ago • 172 comments