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leftleaningnana.bsky.social
Wife of 1, Mother of 2, Nana of 3. Was registered Independent for 41 yrs, switched to Dem to participate in primaries in a very red state. Never voted for the 🍊 guy. Love to read, learn, hike, practice yoga, spend time w/family. 🚫DMs 🚫MAGA 🚫 CRYPTO
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In case anyone needs reminding.

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Dems would get much more traction finding and promoting people saying what they know and experience. What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?

submitted 30 days ago • 1661 comments

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

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1/20/2025

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Not a day passes that someone doesn’t tell me that they are exhausted or, more candidly, afraid. It is okay to be tired and understandable to be afraid. Courage doesn’t come from being well rested and feeling safe. It is found in overcoming those emotions. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...

submitted 62 days ago • 645 comments

Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

submitted 62 days ago • 1032 comments

Most avocados consumed in the U.S. are grown in Mexico. Here's what Trump's proposed tariffs would mean for prices at the grocery store and for the avocado industry. via @jamesdoubek.bsky.social

submitted 62 days ago • 66 comments

Today the great divide is not between left and right. It’s between democracy and oligarchy. Let me explain.

submitted 65 days ago • 616 comments

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

submitted 65 days ago • 1056 comments

I can hardly think of a better example of the moral decay in modern health care than a Goldman analyst noting that biotech cures for diseases like hepatitis are cool and all, until their success diminishes the business opportunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers. www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...

submitted 66 days ago • 542 comments

Right?

submitted 65 days ago • 525 comments

Damn! I feel this too… “I will never shake off the profound disappointment I have in my country right now, and will fight for what’s right, but I, too, need some damn time.” @dearlstephens.bsky.social Check out his latest. Link in 🧵

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NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇

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Regimes seem solid until they are not. Every resistance act matters because often regimes are crumbling from within from corruption and yet good at hiding that fact. cc: Russia

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I genuinely don't think I can handle the next four years of New York Times headlines. Kill me now.

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My part-time Black job will be to remind them of their idiotic choice every fucking chance I get.

submitted 86 days ago • 408 comments

🤷🏻‍♀️

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This! All. Day. Long.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

submitted 88 days ago • 473 comments

Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

submitted 95 days ago • 1047 comments

MOOD FOR THE NEXT FOUR FUCKING YEARS. #goodtrouble

submitted 96 days ago • 1282 comments

Do yourself a favor and read this from Fox News contributor Ben Domenech. I’d like to report a murder

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