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bendersae.bsky.social
Just a Dad who believes that everyone has a right to live their life the way they want. I advocate for more biking, walking, housing access, education, clean air and water, and social justice.
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 2 days ago • 1899 comments

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

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Over the past 40 years, 90% of economic gains have gone to the wealthiest 1%. Meanwhile, working families are struggling—whether they’re juggling four jobs just to make ends meet or earning $400,000 a year but still feeling financially strained. 1/7

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, true. Except, media's doing the same. Big business is doing the same. Universities are doing the same. All the institutions & leaders are failing us.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

For the people who still believe that facts matter

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Take note of the messaging - this is both accurate and *deeply* unpopular. It's the kind of thing that forces GOP House members to quietly tell their constituents that they too are concerned about Musk. Make them own this. Make them squirm.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Last night, Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid. This morning, Trump endorsed the House Republican plan to slash Medicaid. It's smoke and mirrors: Trump and Republicans are plotting to take away health care from millions of people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

submitted 2 days ago • 459 comments

Welcome to the resistance Mr Pence

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REAPPOINT 👏 MARISSA 👏 GILLETT 👏 www.ctinsider.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Follow the thread, great info

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This whole post from @danpfeiffer.bsky.social feels like politics 101, but it’s plainly one our Dem leaders need to read and absorb. open.substack.com/pub/messageb...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: "The question is can you work with Republicans in the middle of a constitutional crisis when democracy is on the line? And right now, I think that this crisis is serious and deepening in its seriousness, that our job #1, #2, and #3 is to save our democracy."

submitted 5 days ago • 310 comments

Sen. Brian Schatz: "I do think we are there's a real chance that in 6 months that Trump consolidates power in a way that is more similar to autocrats in Belarus or Turkey or elsewhere, but it is not a foregone conclusion."

submitted 5 days ago • 246 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments

Captures it perfectly.

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