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tbi-msw.bsky.social
Green-leaning Social Worker; rural resident who is a spike of Blue in a sea of Red. #Colors
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A: b/c we're fucking sheeple who always want an easy fix, for someone to come and make it better. That's how Reagan was packaged and sold to the electorate, THREE TIMES ('76, '80, '84).

Everyone said there was going to be a recession under Biden. There wasn't. We had a "soft landing." Incredible job creation and the Inflation rate came down to 2%, all because he believes in America.

Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does

Not all corporations are the same: Costco pays its employees a minimum wage of $19.50/hr, and there's this:

Policy from #MafiaDonaldTrump Take The Cannoli — theonion.com/take-the-can...

The Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 & Project 47 are coming for Social Security. Like all efforts of the #DeepLibertarianState, they pretend it's a matter of fiscal responsibility. Lifting the cap on wages subject to the payroll tax could save Social Security! www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/....

Apparently Carter's campaign to rid Aberdeen of sex offenders was more about getting rid of competition! #RightwingHypocrisy...

In the modern retelling, Trumpus flogs bad Presidents!

Uh-oh, Olivia Troye--don't you know that Kash Patel wants, most of all, to be taken SERIOUSLY?!

Holy shit. Did you see the letter Olivia Troye’s attorney sent to Kash Patel after he threatened to sue her for defamation? Troye, a former Homeland Security advisor, had the BEST response.

As Damascus falls to the rebel forces, it’s Assad day for Putin.

" #OutOfTheCloset and #IntoTheMud, #Scumqueen!"

You know why we don't have Universal Healthcare? B/C our brand of capitalism is predicated on inequality, on having an insecure base of workers who are so desperate that they will accept whatever crumbs the oligarchs toss them.

#Oligarchs, of course, seek to perpetuate their status. In so doing, they aggravate the inequality that they previously created. This is a recipe for #revolution!

It's a sad fact that people need to be prepared, 'cause it's gonna get a whole lot worse before it starts to get better!

I moved away from Texas in the 80's. Glad to have left behind Masters of Ignorance like Chip Roy and former "Representative," Louie Gohmert...they're #TexasStupid!

The #plutocrats have long invented all sorts of myths to justify their relative wealth, from #predestination ("I'm rich b/c God loves me!") to ignoring the fact that they prospered b/c of the very system they've rigged!

I would vote for @aoc.bsky.social for President!

This is a dividend of the strategy employed by the #DeepRight for decades: stack the judiciary, then use the courts to rebuild the U.S. into #OurOwnDystopia!

@godpod.bsky.social Yup. He's playing from the #ManualForFascists, Revised edition. (Now trending on Amazon!)

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McConnell will go down in the anals (misspelling: deliberate) of history as one of the most potent forces for evil in American political history.

Biden needs to act on this act of injustice before leaving office--he MUST pardon Leonard Peltier! chng.it/Zjvs2KRbJx

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Dems, stop flailing about, looking for "the new thing." Stick with helping people. Hint: the "abundance agenda" ain't the answer. ('Abundance starts from a “growth above all” mindset,' and this results in ecological and social death. prospect.org/economy/2024...

This is why the GOP hates voter participation and strives to disenfranchise any portion of society that is unlikely to vote Republican. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Who else is ready for an exercise in direct democracy? I don't mean at the ballot box exclusively, although I have heard that there has been a spike in interest in #RunForSomething after last month. I mean pulling ALL the levers we have available. Comments welcome!

Grifters of a feather... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump’s movement 'more fragile than it seems' — and is about to implode: analysis www.alternet.org/trump-moveme... Wishful thinking--or #prognosticating?

This shows why we've got to stay strong, NOW, so that the damage Der OrangenFuhrer can wreak is limited. Data shows dire election postmortems could soon be in store for GOP: columnist www.alternet.org/data-gop-win...

Need another reason to block Hegseth's appointment? His own mom knows the truth. (Hint: Trump does, too--he just doesn't care!) meidasnews.com/news/pete-he...

@margaretatwood.bsky.social should sue for theft of intellectual property! meidasnews.com/news/texas-m...

THIS, this hyperfertile, ether-breathing techlord cum plutocrat, thinks he can flaunt not only civilized norms, but also the law?! meidasnews.com/news/elon-mu...

Exactly

“But the eggs were just so expensive.”

I’m a public librarian in a degenerating democracy, and I am pleading: Care about your library. Use it. See what programs and events it offers. And pay attention to its governing body. See who the trustees are. Consider running yourself. Libraries will need all the community support they can get. 📚

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Sepsis can have long-lasting, even permanent health effects, from organ damage ("Some studies have found that between 32% and 48% of acute kidney injury cases were caused by sepsis--" that's me), to cognitive effects/