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Communicating on coffee, cocoa, fair trade, sustainability & stuff. Former Wisconsin farm kid. he/him https://goodislove.wordpress.com
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Americans don’t want to see healthcare cuts and tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. That’s what the GOP wants. Where the Democratic Party loses people is just opposing that without providing an alternative vision. Tax the ruling class, pass Medicare for All for the working class.

This bugs me so much. We can do hard things, people. Dammit, let’s go.

Fitzy was a cheater when he was here in Juneau. A creep and a hack. Good to see him and Grothman verbally slapped around a bit here.

This guy’s always been a dick & never been prouder of the folks in my old neighborhood.

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

'Lead and 'read' rhyme. Unless you're saying 'lead' and 'read.' But also 'lead' and 'read' rhyme.

Horrible ppl are around us.

This is good bad.

The U.S. government keeps lying in court filings about what is going on with USAID and it's pretty horrific, per this filing from earlier today https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69619544/47/1/american-federation-of-government-employees-v-trump/

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

Just for all German friends, hoping we can get past this.

did you hear about the pirate's dick? 'scurvy

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

You know this is 100% going to happen…

Despite DOGE budget cut crusade, Trump has already spent $10.7 million of taxpayer money on golf trips

This administration is terrible & the @nytimes.com should search their hearts for how they so normalized & pandered to these assholes, which paved the way them to skirt in & release this torrent of abuse. Either way, h/t to @haleaziz.bsky.social & the team there. This is so damn sad & pathetic.

Owned by a lake.

you should do this.

Let's go Pope!

And there it is. Same holds for activists, writers, "free speech" orgs, arts institutions and everyone else who has been silent for 15 months.

When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first The moral here isn't to tell the truth It's to never co-operate with Nazis

If you wonder how countries slip into dictatorship, it’s like this. Amidst another flurry of news, an official adds at the end that Trump has signed an Executive Order saying that “only the President or Attorney General can speak for the US…as to what the law is.” What?! 👀

Personally I think Ukraine and Mexico should start negotiating the return of Texas to Mexico. They could hold talks in Cuba.

Republicans are racing forward with a budget that will raise costs for working families. People will pay more for food, health care, education, and child care – while Republicans plot more tax cuts for billionaires.

Every news roundup now is like "Top official responsible for keeping the Ancient Ones from devouring us all resigns rather than turn over systems to DOGE; 96 percent of government scientists have been locked in broom closets; black market eggs are your breakfast's new hope"

While everyone is focused on what DOGE is doing, Elon Musk is quietly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on an April Wisconsin Supreme Court race. This race could have electoral consequences in future elections, like 2028 in a crucial swing state. Pay attention.

This is an extraordinary document of a moment of extraordinary clarity and courage. We’ve read stories *about* the people who are impacted, but precious few accounts *from* the people who have been impacted.

AI is such a crock of shit.

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend. This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

The ideological bent is the one where those in power want to end public school. It has been a dream of the right for many decades. Get rid of data, get rid of proof of effectiveness, add your own data-free propaganda, and tell people it was broken and needed to be scrapped.

hey, are you doomscrolling? fuck yeah, refresh that shit, i bet there are new posts by now

Brad Schimel wants to take us back to an abortion ban from 1849. Back to a ban with no exceptions for rape or even health of the mother. Brad Schimel is too extreme.

BREAKING: Elon Musk is now trying to buy Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court majority. Election is on April 1—the first statewide election of the new Trump/Musk era. Musk wants to own state-level courts to thwart any possible check on their coup. Help us fight back. secure.actblue.com/donate/wisde...