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Traveler, winemaker, recovering vegetarian, retired Firefighter. Blue all the way. 🚫maga🚫crypto or your bitcoin bullshit. 🚫porn.
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Hegseth jet-setting with the wife and gets brother a high paid nepo job. youtube.com/shorts/N-PeJ...

'Here's Why You Need To Be An Activist—Right. F*cking. Now.' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/heres-why-...

This is Elon Musk’s play: throwing cash at the Wisconsin Supreme Court race so he can push a far-right agenda and test if he can buy any election he wants. If Brad Schimel wins that seat, the nation should be terrified—no matter where you live. This Tuesday—Judge Susan Crawford MUST win!

🚨 OK WISCONSIN YOUR RIGHTS ARE ON THE LINE🚨 Vote FOR JUDGE SUSAN CRAWFORD who will support your right to join a union Your right to abortion access As Earl says, she's like SECRETARIAT, and the other guy is "Elon Schimel" Please take a moment to read this, ty @dearlstephens.bsky.social

Donald Trump cannot cancel the 2026 elections. But he can make it very difficult for them to be free and fair. His executive order is aimed at doing just that. Here is my promise: We are going to sue to stop him and we will win.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

"The Social Security Administration is rushing cuts to phone services at the White House's request, the agency's acting commissioner told Social Security advocates in a meeting on Monday, two sources who attended tell Axios." www.axios.com/2025/03/24/s...

#NY21 Blake Gendebien is running for Elise Stefanik’s seat. This will be a special election with the date TBD. Blake is a long time resident of the district & understands the needs of the community. To learn more please visit: blakegendebienforcongress.com

Speaker Johnson has backed a bill to bar district judges from issuing nationwide injunctions, an alternative to House Republicans taking politically perilous impeachment votes.

Delete your data before they sell it - wapo article, paywall removed www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

🚨THIS IS AMAZING: An incredible crowd showed up to see Rep. AOC in Greeley, Colorado where Republican Gabe Evans is hiding from his constituents. MAGA doesn't believe this is happening. Make sure everyone sees this.

Trump suspends shipments of produce and poultry to US food banks: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

We have overcome near-death experiences before. We shall overcome this one too. Not by denying we are in a constitutional crisis. We are. But we can and will prevail if we face the truth unflinchingly and never abandon the long twilight struggle against evil. open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...

Early voting has started in Wisconsin! Please vote by April 1. WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT 
Judge Susan Crawford STATE SUPERINTENDENT (EDUCATION)
Dr. Jill Underly WISCONSIN CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ON VOTER ID
Vote No

www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/m...

Another weekend Donald has spent laser-focused on the important issues (his handicap)

The 24 hours after Schumer announced his vote made up one of @runforsomething.net's biggest candidate recruitment days since Inauguration - as of this morning, we’ve exceeded 31,000 new people in the pipeline since the election. That’s more than in all of 2017 or 2018 combined. Read the rest.

A memo has just leaked revealing that the Trump administration is planning to sabotage the Social Security Administration. Their plan would gut the agency’s claims process, potentially preventing millions of Americans from getting their earned benefits. Per @juddlegum.bsky.social:

An Irish Blessing on St. Patrick's Day May those who love us, love us; And for those who don't love us, May God turn their hearts; And if He doesn't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles, So we will know them by their limping.

Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.

DOGE is plotting to cut Social Security phone support, according to leaked memo provided to Axios. The richest man in the word going after grandparents trying to get access to their own money is vile.

So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...

“‘I was put in a cell, and I had to sleep on a mat with no blanket, no pillow, with an aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body for two and a half days.’”

This is Chuck. Chuck is selling a book. Chuck also has a full-time job. I would consider buying Chuck’s book if he were doing that job, but he’s not. Don’t be like Chuck. And don’t buy Chuck’s book.

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

Security Expert Agrees Vote Tabulators Hacked open.substack.com/pub/tinfoilm...

Please like this post if you're as tired of "winning" as I am. #IncompetentKrasnov

NEW: Here are the 10 “democratic” senators that voted to sell out veterans, the American people, and their colleagues in the House. Cortez Masto Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan King Peters Schatz Schumer Shaheen

@therickwilson.bsky.social is not mincing words. This is a must watch. 👀 H/T @hate2badgeryou.bsky.social

Some recessions start because of a financial crisis (2008). Some start because of Fed tightening (1980). Some start because of some shock in the wider world. (2020). If we get a recession in 2025, however, it will be entirely because of stupid decisions by Trump and Musk.

Thank you Gov. Beshear for saying what many of us in CA think about Newsom's latest. www.yahoo.com/news/andy-be...

It does capture how many of us feel. It’s time for the dinosaurs to go to the tar pit, and the young lions take over.

Per @johnleguizamo.bsky.social: “Medicaid is called by different names in different states! Stay awake America you lose everything you rely on!”

Pretty much sums it up. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

"A federal health official said Weldon’s meeting with GOP Senate staff 'went very poorly.' The official, speaking on the condition on anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation, said Weldon 'was not able to articulate priorities for the agency'...” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

New: we've obtained a leaked list of the more than 200 sites, services, apps an ICE surveillance contractor monitors. Bluesky, OnlyFans, many more. Used to track targets. Highly relevant with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE. We've published the full list here: www.404media.co/the-200-site...

GOLDMAN: “We have cut our 2025 US growth forecast to 1.7% Q4/Q4 — our first below-consensus call in 2½ years — and raised our US inflation forecast, both on the back of more adverse tariff assumptions. By contrast, our Euro area growth forecast has risen .. especially for 2026 - 2027 ..” [Hatzius]

🚨🚨 The funding bill being proposed to extend gov operations is dangerous. “…it could grant Trump expanded authority to redirect funds between programs at his discretion… it could enable the administration’s reshaping of federal priorities without congressional approval.” Dems are wavering. 1/2

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The media showed every Trump rally but won’t show a single Bernie Sanders rally. Now that we control the biggest independent news network in America we will flip the script and show every Bernie Sanders rally, like the last one on Sunday in Altoona, Wisconsin youtu.be/2StnaGCQPCI?...

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

•••••BREAKING••••• A positive case of measles has been identified in Maryland, public health officials said Sunday. The highly contagious virus was detected in a Howard County resident who recently traveled internationally. (This case is NOT associated with the measles outbreaks in Texas and…