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SEN: @ossoff.bsky.social: “WHO’S GETTING FIRED AT THE VA?” COLLINS: 🤷🏼‍♂️

Sierra Matthews lives in a small Missouri town, works in the public school system, raises two young sons, and has no health insurance. She falls below the poverty line. Medicaid isn’t a handout. It’s her lifeline. Take it away, there is no fallback! #MedicaidSavesOurLives

I hope you all have a very froggy friday!

So government bailouts are only socialist when it's for poor people. But for "rich new yorkers" getting government bailouts suddenly the rest of us do need to be on the hook to bail them out for their decisions? I remember some banks taking government bailouts from tax payers.

I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful. Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood. We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?

An Israeli strike hit a street in central Gaza on Thursday where witnesses said a crowd of people were getting bags of flour from a Palestinian police unit that had confiscated the goods from gangs looting aid convoys, AP reports.

Every single word they say is PROPAGANDA. See it. Understand it. Label it. Call it out. They don’t & won’t value truth. They CREATE a false reality to confuse & wear us down. These aren’t mistakes they’re making. This isn’t “stupidity”. It’s lies & MANIPULATION & it is HIGHLY effective.

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”

If God did not force His will upon us at the beginning of creation, what makes you think he wants a flawed human interpretation of it legislated in America now? #deconstruction #exvangelical

You know who else can't be with their families? People being mass deported with no due process. The irony.

Makes sense for the party trying to gut our public education system and banning books.

You could not pay me to live in Texas

Stop attacking the LGBTQIA+ people when you won't handle the predators in your pews! open.substack.com/pub/preacher...

A question I have for christian nationalists: once you've successfully bound your religion to the government, what happens when the government makes decisions about how you can practice your faith that you don't agree with once you've demolished that wall between government and church?

Something I've noticed about Trump voters who are realizing how badly they fucked up: they won't say that. Instead, they just get quiet, remove their trump flags, stop ranting on social media. They'll stick their heads in the sand & cross their fingers instead of taking accountability & apologizing.

Tennessee passed a law threatening felony charges against local elected officials who vote in favor of policies supporting immigrant communities. This is an attack on the legislative process and democracy itself — @aclutn.bsky.social will see the state in court.

The US economy contracted in the beginning of the year at a much faster pace than previously reported, after new data factored in much weaker consumer spending — due in large part to Trump’s tariffs. #TrumpTariffs

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

the thing about echo chambers is they are actually extremely effective political organizing chambers that’s why they get mad about the left having its own while the right has had them for decades

Something I've noticed about church circles (I'm surrounded by primarily southern Baptist in my area), that there has been a lot of blame on covid for breaking down the church and adding to sharp declines in membership in attendance. 🧵/

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

Just gonna put this update here with language from the Department of VA guidelines issued to VA hospitals that mentions removing a ban on discriminating against “lawful political party affiliation” and realize what’s coming.

How anyone can still try to use the argument "that would never happen! He wouldn't do that, it's illegal!" is also beyond me. I need them all to realize how much this horrible human does not give a fuck about following the law. He was a criminal already when you elected him!

Bombing Iran on a whim, paving over the Rose Garden, and adding a new ballroom to the White House are not the actions of someone planning to ever leave office

You can bomb the world into pieces, but you can’t bomb it into peace. - Michael Franti

Remember all that “genocide Joe” and “Kamala is a war hawk” shit? Yeah…psyops. It worked.

How any news anchor is still attempting to deliver any news as a not so bad thing right now with a straight face is beyond me.

I can believe Hamas is a terrorist organization AND Palestine should be free, liberated, and rebuilt with restitution for the genocide against her people. I can believe Jewish people deserve to live free of antisemitism but that the Israeli war machine is genocidal and deserves proper condemnation.

My most recent Substack. You can read the rest here: open.substack.com/pub/benjaminrc…

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

I did a thing. I created my own substack! I'd love some subscribers. All content is currently free for anyone to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/maliarjo...

LA RESIDENT: “The cruelty is staggering. People are hiding in their homes from the federal government like Anne Frank. If you’re a Christian and you’re still supporting this you’ve lost your mind. You’re not gonna get a job because of what they’re doing. Absolute brutality.”

The idea that we can "easily" overthrow the regime in Iran is a fantasy of people that have never served. Afghanistan is back in the hands of the Taliban after 20 years of slaughter. Iraq still isn't peaceful. Libya is a war zone that's been in civil war since we dropped bombs. History is screaming!