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Now that I’ve hit 100K followers, a quick reintroduction… Been fighting for Democracy both home and abroad for over 2 decades on races up and down the ballot. Created “Vote Local” (see: Vote Local PA) because LOCAL races matter. Current ED of PA Dems. Yes, I used to fight in the “squared circle”

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Are people finally waking up? The real fight isn’t about bathrooms or drag queens—it’s about who holds power & at whose expense. Culture war is just a distraction, keeping working people too busy fighting each other rather than noticing who’s actually robbing us blind: billionaires—not each other!

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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound up🎵) Sunday 16 February 2025 THIS SONG and MESSAGE is to THANK ALL OF YOU Thank you for FIGHTING for ALL THE CHILDREN They need us to fight now more than ever It is UP to US to be their VOICE KEEP FIGHTING THANK YOU 💙

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The total estimated savings when using Cost Plus Drugs compared to Medicare was $462,375,491.53 and $618,833,850.34 for 30- and 90-count pricing, respectively. The price of a 42.5-gram tube of vaginal estrogen cream was $22.48 on Cost Plus Drugs, compared to $293.66 through Medicare Part D. #econsky

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Commemorate President’s Day— Learn about the first POTUS to use the presidential seal as a marker at his golf courses, a possible violation of US law

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Protect—don’t wreck—our children’s futures. My latest column: www.aft.org/column/prote...

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All of this right here👇this is how societies flourish. The top 1% has enough and they need to contribute to the economy, I mean how much money does one person need. Trickle down economics has never worked and it never will, really wish MAGA Republicans could understand this.

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This group is way ahead of MAHA

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Musk's DOGE suit guy at Treasury continues to act as CEO of Cloud Software Group. “I cannot think of another example where this has occurred, but I do think it's part of a broader pattern of the erasure of conflicts of interests within the federal government." - @donmoyn.bsky.social, U. Mich.

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If you needed a photo for target practice of somekind, may I suggest...

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This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts

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URGENT MALCOLM NANCE WARNING ‼️ open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...

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@1zzyzyx1.bsky.social Spread this everywhere! youtu.be/FrHFFt5VZvI?...

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Sheryl Crow waved goodbye to her black Tesla in a video shared to Instagram on Friday. She also said she donated to NPR.

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"No real estate transaction can conceal the evil, disgrace, and crimes against humanity that Gaza has witnessed in recent years." Spain’s PM Pedro Sanchez has criticised US President Trump’s plan to forcibly displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/u0f2wq

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The Trump administration laid off half of its Epidemic Intelligence Service, otherwise known as the “Disease Detectives.” The lay off affected 1,260 staff, reported NBC News’s Lewis Kamb.

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In an extraordinary intervention, Pope Francis also took aim at Vice President JD Vance's theological justification for the deportation program.

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“We refuse to leave Gaza and we refuse for anyone to decide these things on behalf of us.” https://theintercept.com/2025/02/08/trump-gaza-palestinians-displace/

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He suggested Musk isn't doing anything "nefarious." It didn't go over well. At all.

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The city of Springfield, Ohio, which was singled out by Donald Trump and JD Vance during the presidential campaign with false and outrageous claims about Haitian immigrants, has sued a neo-Nazi group that helped draw national attention to the small city in the first place.

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NFL Confirms Players Will Still Wear ‘Fight Bigotry’ Jockstraps theonion.com/nfl-con...

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A group of Chicago aldermen want to ban people involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol from working for the city.

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Our top story: “One of the things that I grieve about is that what we see here is a kind of echo of other shameful episodes in Christianity’s past: the Crusades, antisemitic pogroms in Europe, biblical defenses of American slavery by Christians.”

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OPINION | Calls to report our neighbors to ICE — which has wrongfully detained American citizens in the past — aren’t fundamentally about capturing criminals. The point is to terrorize and ostracize.

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A federal judge has barred the US Treasury from handing data from its payments system to outsiders, in an early legal blow to Elon Musk’s crusade to slash government spending. www.ft.com/content/097b...

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Requiring teachers to force-feed patriotism to their students won’t make America greater; it will make us angrier and stupider.

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Trump and Netanyahu are plotting genocide to match Hitler’s purges. What has happened to America? It is now and becoming unrecognizable as theRepublicans embrace evil.

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Panama accuses US of peddling ‘intolerable falsehood’ about canal

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr. both shared a fake E! News video with disinformation about USAID that was first posted by a pro-Kremlin disinformation network.

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Trump and Israel jeopardise second phase of ceasefire with Hamas

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Among dozens of troubling incidents in 2024, the hate-tracking project of the nonprofit @glaad.bsky.social documented a wave of bomb threats linked to anti-LGBTQ+ influencer Libs of TikTok, including several targeting Texas locations of the Planet Fitness gym chain.

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On Wednesday afternoon, dozens of immigrants and allies gathered in Langley Park, Maryland, to celebrate a major win: A federal judge had just indefinitely blocked the Trump administration’s executive order undermining birthright citizenship.

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Donald Trump wants to clear everyone out of the Gaza Strip. But Gazans themselves have a simple reply to that: we're not leaving.

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Trump and Netanyahu are planning to commit genaside

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During Trump's first term, Rep. Al Green of Houston unsuccessfully attempted to impeach the president on three occasions.

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We need more people like Letitia James. Article by Alyssa Steinsiek @alyssaur.bsky.social

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Trump, Musk, and their billionaire and theocratic allies are following the example of tyrants everywhere. But it’s worth remembering they haven’t all succeeded.

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A Federal District Court judge in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday blocking President Trump’s attempt to eliminate automatic U.S. citizenship for children born to undocumented or temporary immigrants on U.S. soil.

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"I Will Go to Jail to Defend Your Care": New York Doctor Vows to Keep Helping Trans Youth Patients

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A second federal judge blocked President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, saying it's likely unconstitutional

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A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to curb birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign visitors.

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“Morality is of no interest when there is a real-estate deal to be made.” David Remnick writes about Donald Trump’s declaration that two million Palestinians in Gaza should be forced out of the Strip.

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Joanne M. Pierce writes about Bishop Budde following a tradition of Christian Leaders publicly speaking out about acts of oppression.

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“We’ll be ripping up the province’s contract with Starlink. Ontario won’t do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy.”

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"Tariffs are a tax," Johnson said on Newsmax. "When you tax something, you get less of it, so we'll probably get fewer imports, but then with retaliation, fewer exports."

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#FYI: ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. (Published 2021)

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The expert consensus is that tariffs will drive up prices for American companies and, in turn, consumers.

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