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bobbitty.bsky.social
Old white lady, more liberal than not, fierce advocate for US Democracy; the rights of women, minorities, LGBTQ+; voting rights; safe borders; a sane immigration policy, and; a proud NEVER TRUMPER! RESIST!!
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Based on my earlier historical posts you can see my point: tRump has no original thoughts or policies. We’ve been here before, fellow Americans. Frederick Douglass, when asked by his great-grandson what he could do to help the cause replied, “AGITATE! AGITATE! AGITATE!”

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1889 political cartoon from Puck shows corporate monopoly bosses looming over the Senate as it debates the Sherman Antitrust Act (ClassicStock / Alamy Stock Photo)

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Below, from ‘The Union as it Was’ Thomas Nast, 1874, for Harper’s Weekly, New York, New York

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“A member of the Ku Klux Klan and a member of the White League shake hands atop a skull and crossbones. It rests above a black woman & man huddled over their dead child. In the background, a schoolhouse burns, and an African American is lynched. … a chilling indictment of white resistance…”

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From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler #skybrary #skybrarians #booksky

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A doctor has been serving one of Baltimore’s poorest neighborhoods for decades — and if his patients can’t pay, that’s OK with him. So when he was diagnosed with cancer, his community rallied to raise $100,000 for his treatments.

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Fact-check: True

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Pass it on: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Reports of our demise might have been premature

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Reading Powers and Thrones and Medieval history and it’s wild how crusades went from Christians getting their butt kicked in the levant to calling everything a crusade to justify power grabs. Funny how words used to justify violence become devoid of all meaning historically and today.

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from www.gao.gov/blog/federal... 3/26/24 1/ “…those with the highest payment errors—including Medicaid, Medicare, and the Earned Income Tax Credit. These are also federal program areas that issue the most payments to individuals and, as a result, maybe more vulnerable to these sorts of errors

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2/ “Medicare, Medicaid, the Paycheck Protection Program, and federal Pandemic Unemployment comprised about 20% each. All other programs were under 20% total.” While individual recipients do commit fraud by Far the most $$ is stolen by criminal providers scamming the system.

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I'm so grateful to all my colleagues from California - from both parties - for signing onto this letter to Congressional leadership to deliver critical disaster assistance to survivors of the Eaton and Palisades Fires. Disaster aid should never be partisan.

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“‘I recently directed Social Security employees to end two contracts which affected the good people of the state of Maine.”…Newsweek, Mar 7, 2025 GO GOV MILLER! Can I just say the quiet out loud? BECAUSE TRUMP ORDERED YOU TO F**K WITH MAINE AFTER THEIR GOVERNOR STOOD UP TO HIM FRIDAY MARCH 1, 2025

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