piperskip.bsky.social
Private brass instructor, retired music teacher, lover of the environment
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WTAF?!?!?
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Grrrr!
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Grrrrrrr!
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UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!
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;-)
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I think a huge advance could be setting up ranked choice voting which pulls candidates towards the center instead of towards the extremes (if you know of anyone who is advocating for this... please let me know)! Anyway, what do you think? 6/6
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So hive mind, I'd be interested in hearing any ideas you have as to how we could break out of our individual camps to have a dialogue about what most of us in the middle can identify as being the problems, and work on a solution that embraces both instead of excluding one for the other! 5/
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Progressives are concerned with the manner in which those cuts are being made, following legal processes as set out in our statutes and Constitution. I think these things are reasonable concerns and that, if we could step out of our circled wagons, we would admit that they need addressing. 4/
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...the list goes on. Conservatives are understandably and rightly concerned with expenditures that many of us would find to have little return on investment, be excessive, or not be an apparent benefit to those of us in the United States. 3/
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Maybe looking at one of the hot button issues of the day would be instructive to finding common ground.
Let's take peoples' perspective on DOGE cutting waste in many activities of the federal government going on right now... USAID, Department of Education, the National Parks, NIH, CDC, EPA 2/
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rather than bolstering them!! Maybe they could walk the walk instead of talking the talk! 4/4
#MakeAmericaHealthyAgain #MAGA #DerGropenfuhrer #RFKJr
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to protect citizen and environmental safety..and muzzling agencies like the EPA, FDA & CDC who have been charged with maintaining and advancing those missions.
That makes a "Presidential Commission" feel a little disingenuous when the administration's actions are removing the checks in the system 3/
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Many oppose "regulation" because it's bad for business!! Now we see the Trump administration cutting pesky inspectors and inspector generals...the few Federal employees we have providing oversight to the admittedly lax rules we have compared to the rest of the world 2/
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Which dictator? What's the quote?
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I wonder what snarky slur Musk has for those of us whose lives have been improved if not saved by such medications! If those falling back on the social safety net are the "parasite class", what slur do you have for me tonight?
F√¢€ you F47!! F√¢€ all of you!! 4/4
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It couldn't be about the chemicals we use in food production that other countries ban or the poisons we let corporations release on the citizenry that other countries ban. It couldn't be the raw greed that wins above all else and is "Winning" so much more now...no! 3/
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Now we have a Presidential Commission set up to determine safe practices in healthcare! Reagan turned countless individuals with mental illness out into the streets and now Felon47 is hoping to take away their medications. Brilliant!! 2/
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No, he and they are not the first to have done so by a long shot, but I believe they are and will carry this further than has yet been seen in this country! "This is how democracy dies!!" 3/3 @bluevirginia.bsky.social @markwarner.bsky.social #Uniparty
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The GOP and his followers have signed on to someone who will, in their minds, restore US to being "Winners" regardless of how it's done...including breaking the law!! 2/
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We've definitely been fooled again, over and over...but especially now!! 2/2 #Uniparty #Thisishowdemocracydies #MakeAmericaEmpireAgain #TrumpisHitler
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... that you're going to preserve religious freedom by preserving religious freedom for Christians only and remake our democracy in the image of Hungary... into a Christian Nationalist government!! 4/4 #Project2025 #MakeAmericaChristianNationalistagain #1933again
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I find it just one of the many ironies that you find the expression of your patriotism in rallying to his cry that America is a cesspool that needs saving... that you're going to make American government great again by breaking American democracy... 3/
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...(even though his one bankable characteristic is that he does follow through and try to do all of the hateful things he says)... you who held up his statement that he didn't know what Project 2025 was or have anything to do with its mission!! We knew, that's why we voted against him!! 2/
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Trump is not the antidote, he is the next offensive in a long game enterprise to cement our oppression. He has not come to deliver democracy back to Conservatism but to deliver us all to the Oligarchy!! 4/4
#Uniparty #Oligarchy #TrumpOligarchy
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Sadly, as long as we are only willing to see this in the "other side" and not our own, they will continue to succeed in keeping us at each other's throats instead of focusing on the real problem....the Uniparty!!! 3/
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...now is the widening of the political and institutional pendulum towards the diminution of the power of the people for the benefit of oligarchs here and around the world! 2/