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retiredteacher-55.bsky.social
Retired public school teacher. Love pets, nature, music & travel. Democrat, pro choice, pro democracy. Kindness is a virtue.
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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 10 days ago • 418 comments

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

submitted 31 days ago • 2387 comments

My current position on the Biden pardon is….are you fucking kidding me? Trump has picked a kaleidoscope of unqualified losers, criminals, and lunatics to run his government as a “dictatorship on day 1” and we need to get into the information war to stop as many as we can right damn now.

submitted 82 days ago • 191 comments

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submitted 84 days ago • 522 comments

Undocumented workers pay nearly $100B year in state and federal taxes, including: "$25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022." Amount of services received for the payroll taxes paid? 0 itep.org/undocumented...

submitted 88 days ago • 196 comments

Today, November 25th 2024 is the day we officially learned that justice in America, in fact, does NOT matter. #sad

submitted 89 days ago • 2754 comments

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

submitted 89 days ago • 739 comments

Starting a phony transgender bathroom debate and hiding behind the guise of “protecting women” to distract from your attempts to push through the confirmations of alleged rapists, sex traffickers, and fraudsters at the highest levels of government is peak Republican Party.

submitted 94 days ago • 1036 comments

If Matt Gaetz DIDNT rape a minor, the GOP would have released the report. Just fyi

submitted 94 days ago • 821 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