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Author of What’s So Bad About Being Poor? Our Lives in the Shadows of the Poverty Experts; former TRIO student/staff; PhD in Social Work and Psychology from UMich. Chronic pain. Cat lady with kids, just not my own; Vaxxed. https://linktr.ee/DeborahMFoster
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This is Winston Smith’s job in “1984.”

#GVerse This dude in Trenton, New Jersey OMG!!! The Costume & The Sign 💯

I am scared to have our 401k funds in the market, and the rules where you can’t withdraw them when you wish www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the-super-ri...

"Due Process Denied One is Due Process Denied *You*"

"Bring him home -- 'Treat the foreigner among you as the native-born' Leviticus 19:34" in Eugene, Oregon

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

It’s kind of awkward to read the news that reports that your government wants you to die

In any other time in American history, 1/10th of this scandal would be the end of a presidency. But this is just like a day that ends in Y. This is our life now.

Biblical scholars now believe that if Jesus had covered up his gang tattoos, he might’ve avoided crucifixion.

Where we are is the inevitable result of giving undue deference to "sincerely held beliefs." It actually does not matter if your beliefs are sincerely held or not. If your sincerely held belief is that certain human beings are less than others, you suck, no matter how sincerely you believe it.

You know the *only* reason he got out so fast was a reporter live posted about this for hours. And, a large amount of public pressure. Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.

Eugenics resurged with Charles Murray in the Bell Curve. Now, they are coming for those of us with flawed genes

Elon is firing 1500 CFPB workers and shifting their priorities away from enforcement, supervision and consumer protection… … while building his own digital payment system and giving himself access to competitors’ data. In an oligarchy, the criminals get to fire the cops.

Absolutely minimising my exposure to news & politics at the moment is most likely being helpful for what remains of my sanity. Also constantly reminding myself that most people are good if imperfect just like me with only a tiny % of wronguns deliberately maliciously ruining life for everyone else!🤷🏻‍♂️

Australia's The Juice Media with their typical acerbic take on politics, in this case, the upcoming Federal election in Canada, otherwise known as Not America. youtu.be/wT_n4Khmq0o?...

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social )

If ICE is dressed like this and slinging this kind of gear inside a crowded passenger train, it means they're doing something that they think _might_ result in a fking military battle inside a crowded passenger train. Competent law enforcement tries to avoid that! ICE, however, is full of dipshits.

"If you can afford to send Katy Perry to space, you can afford to pay more taxes." #3E

They are so poor. All they have is money. #oligarchs #FElon

Trump is now on Twitter posting doctored photos of the tattoos of Kilmar Garcia. The whole world knows we have a deranged lunatic in the White House—and no one seems to know what to do about it. He is so obviously mentally unwell that there is no longer any serious debate about whether that is so.

No. No you won't nope. Nyet comrade This ends here and now You little Nazi weasel. Shut up sir down and don't speak until you have an apology to blurt out. Your coup is over your civil war won't work we the people will see you removed from that seat very soon. By the courts you despise

I understand that Kilmar Abrego Garcia may have abused his wife but I still don’t believe, given the values enshrined in the constitution and the principles of the rule of law, that he should become Secretary of Defense

I’m livid every time RFK, Jr and Dr. Oz open their mouths

THIS IS HOW YOU STAND UP. Take a few minutes to read this Op-Ed in the Tufts Daily co-written by the student leaders of the Democratic AND Republican campus groups, standing together for free speech. Professional pols could learn from these young people. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

Late night Prospect: The CFPB mass firing leaves the agency without sufficient staff to fulfill its statutory goals or even priorities laid out by the agency’s acting chief legal officer a day earlier. It also puts some markets CFPB oversees at risk of malfunctioning. prospect.org/justice/cfpb...

Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

I will NEVER forgive those of you who put him in power and did this to us… Never. ✨

Why?! 👇

Who would’ve thought we’d be living these books out? We are in perilous times.

China has stopped buying LNG from the U.S. Have fun with this, Texas.

What ‘should be’ done?! 👇 Whatcha thinkin’?! 🤔

IT'S OFFICIAL. I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK! 🤯 #TheDoubleTax unpacks the cost of being a woman, why the bill runs higher for women of color, and how closing the gaps moves us ALL forward. #blacksky #booksky #econsky PRE-ORDER NOW: tinyurl.com/doubletax-or... Get Involved: tinyurl.com/doubletax-join

A university that shall remain nameless is charging over $30 for my book that I sell for less than $20. 😵‍💫

Here it comes