Profile avatar
pegpowers.bsky.social
183 posts 323 followers 171 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 22 Comments 28

this is gold 🤣. the political clarity is unmatched. i need the daily digest.

submitted 1 day ago • 597 comments

www.instagram.com/reel/DK-ohZv...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

From Robert Reich: Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

submitted 17 days ago • 551 comments

under the Trump administration, it has become nearly impossible for undocumented people to sponsor unaccompanied migrant children — as a result kids are trapped in government shelters, despite having parents and siblings desperate to care for them at home www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

I was the first member of the House to participate in the AIDS/Lifecycle ride back in 2014. This weekend, I'll become the first U.S. Senator to participate in the ride. The cause could not be more important.

submitted 18 days ago • 73 comments

Trump hands Dept of Interior to Russia-linked oil exec: "... given sweeping powers to overhaul the department that manages public lands "...hasn’t divested his investments or filed an ethics commitment to break ties with companies that pose a conflict of interest" apnews.com/article/hass...

submitted 18 days ago • 204 comments

Elon can't even get right something we accomplished over 60 years ago... and your tax dollars are paying for it. That's the waste, fraud and abuse.

submitted 21 days ago • 259 comments

He talks like AOC, and Crockett,

submitted 26 days ago • 57 comments

but seashells!

submitted 32 days ago • 1809 comments

No just or decent society allows this sort of cruelty, this evil.

submitted 34 days ago • 42 comments

"What did PBS shows teach you?" Mister Rogers taught us feelings are mentionable and manageable. Reading Rainbow taught us discovering books is joy. Sesame Street taught us learning through the kindness of community by way of our friends. Bill Nye taught us to observe wonder through science.

submitted 42 days ago • 87 comments

For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier

submitted 42 days ago • 166 comments

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

ICYMI: I will never stop loving the inimitable Lawrence O’Donnell—but now I love him even *more* for this priceless gem: Donny 2 Dolls. That’s it. That’s the nickname. The felon shall henceforth be known only as Donny 2Dolls. Iconic. Immortal. A legend gave us this gift & I accept it with joy.

submitted 44 days ago • 52 comments

“Children will be taught not to bully me. Children will be taught that I have a completely normal size and shape of head. Children will be taught not to say I look like if Pinocchio was made by Heinrich Himmler.”

submitted 48 days ago • 114 comments

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

submitted 50 days ago • 1022 comments

"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin

submitted 53 days ago • 589 comments

It really should be this simple. When that is who you are.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments