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lz000.bsky.social

Retired English professor. 31 years at Wisconsin land grant university. Liberal Democrat. Disappointed. Dreading the next 4 years, but not ready to give up yet. We can do this. 💙💙💙🤞

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#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 Dear “moderate “ Republican Lawmakers If you don’t act, “concerned” means nothing. Please act now. Otherwise, what are you sitting in Congress for?

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

🧵 NEW: Costco tops earnings and revenue estimates as sales jump 8% "Costco on Thursday posted quarterly earnings and revenue that topped estimates as the warehouse club’s sales climbed 8%." - @cnbc.com In January, Costco shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal, 98-2 percent.

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

If you leave a bag of drugs around the White House it’s a big deal. But if you ingest a bag of drugs in the White House, no problem.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Why is a drug abuser who bought political influence, and who has financial deals and in regular contact with our country’s enemies, still allowed to have national security clearance, government contracts and access to our data? Every Republican needs to answer this question.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Joni Ernst is a POS: "Illegals" don't get Medicaid benefits. Medicaid is not money mailed to people. Medicaid PAYS health bills. My mom's memory care was paid for by Medicaid. And it's HARD as HELL to qualify. Undocumented people sometimes pay IN thru taxes. They do NOT get friggin' benefits. Bitch.

submitted 2 days ago • 382 comments

Couldn’t help but notice that neither the Times or Post have a story up about Trump saying he’s not sorry that Joe Biden has cancer. I guess that’s just Trump being Trump ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

submitted 2 days ago • 277 comments

BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

Will these constituents remember when election time comes?

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Are you REALLY better off than you were 4 months ago? #USDemocracy

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

The GOP’s Bad Budget Bill is a direct hit on students. It slashes Pell Grants, makes college harder to afford, and threatens student aid—especially for women, student parents, and students of color. Call Congress at 202-224-3121 and tell them to OPPOSE the bill. #HandsOffPublicSchools

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Lawrence O’Donnell: one of the last honest voices in journalism—smart, sharp, and always right about the law. While others were busy sane-washing Trump, Lawrence said it for ages: those tariffs were illegal. The U.S. Court of International Trade proved him right. Again. Truth matters.

submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: 📅 This Day in History: May 28, 1830 President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, forcing approximately 50,000 Native people from their homelands, a brutal chapter of U.S. history. #IndianRemovalAct #TrailOfTears #History #ThisDayInHistory #IndigenousVoices

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is the most important post I’ll read this month. Maybe this year!!!!!!!!!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.

submitted 7 days ago • 394 comments

"In a month, Afghans may be deported back to the government that remains allied with al Qaeda. We asked for their help... and at infinite personal risk, they gave it. Then we offered our help, giving them a safe place to live—and now we’re going back on our word." www.thebulwark.com/p/this-memor...

submitted 7 days ago • 74 comments

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

submitted 8 days ago • 292 comments

Trump left West Point after his speech instead of staying to shake the hand of every graduating cadet, as is longstanding tradition. If Obama or Biden had done that, we would never the hear the end of it. But it's Trump, so reporters don't care.

submitted 8 days ago • 90 comments

Where is the press dissecting every word Trump utters? There is none because they are afraid of him.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump’s BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL wants to defund Planned Parenthood and leave more than a million patients without access to care. Call your Senators to let them know you support the life-saving work they do. #IFightForPP @ppfa.org

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

When our reality has less to do with our shared experiences and facts, and more to do with the prejudices of a single (warped) mind, we all suffer.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 678 comments

Fact checking alone isn't enough when these people speak Fact-twist-checking is the new gold standard. Sheesh.

submitted 12 days ago • 401 comments