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Leslie Allen

@ljoa.bsky.social

Lifelong feminist, appalled at the current state of affairs in the U.S. 🚫 DMs 🚫 MAGAts. Unless I know you, I don’t want to talk to you.

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Dem legislators should be vocal and out front in **every** major protest.

15.04.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

Lock them all up. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

26.03.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

If the Democrats want to get voters back on their side, they need to prove they’ll fight for us. Every last Congressperson and Senator needs to start showing up at marches and start holding town halls. Resist!

23.03.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

14.03.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 66612    πŸ” 19639    πŸ’¬ 2988    πŸ“Œ 1094

🧡I know what the Trump administration is doing to the country because they’ve already done it to rural America.

They stripped public schools of funding. They closed our hospitals. They sold family farms for parts. They let our infrastructure rot. And then they gerrymandered us to keep us quiet.

13.03.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3426    πŸ” 1179    πŸ’¬ 102    πŸ“Œ 74
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We Can’t Give In to Fear From Marc | No one wants to speak up. Everyone wants to hide or lay low.

Go ahead and stay silent. Let fear rule you. Watch injustice happen. Just don’t act like you did not know and accept that you are the latest in a long line of cowards who learned nothing from the past. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-c...

13.03.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 15707    πŸ” 5266    πŸ’¬ 493    πŸ“Œ 288

Donald Trump targeted AP and legacy media did nothing.

Donald Trump has now targeted two large law firms and Big Law is silent.

You all read Martin NiemΓΆller's poem β€œFirst They Came.”

So, I ask you -- What are you doing?

08.03.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 15886    πŸ” 4956    πŸ’¬ 526    πŸ“Œ 167
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Indeed she did.

01.03.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 21618    πŸ” 5794    πŸ’¬ 1647    πŸ“Œ 379
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Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

28.02.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 40888    πŸ” 17001    πŸ’¬ 822    πŸ“Œ 643
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Trump officials start dismantling civil rights offices, as part of DOGE’s secret plan Legal experts said that unwinding a civil rights-era bulwark designed to safeguard employees’ rights removes a crucial check on institutional power.

This is not an effort to roll back "DEI"

It's an effort to roll back civil rights

"Agencies across the federal government are dismantling offices that enforce civil rights and antidiscrimination laws...weakening the government’s ability to deliver on legal obligations to protect workers’ rights"

01.03.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3189    πŸ” 1092    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 52

It’s been a long day, but in short, bullies ain’t shit! I don’t care what title you hold! This isn’t some long gone reality tv show or failed casino; it is war!

How dare a draft dodging dumb dupe humiliate an ally & berate a brave man who has actually been on a battlefield for his people?!

01.03.2025 05:28 β€” πŸ‘ 68608    πŸ” 15661    πŸ’¬ 2425    πŸ“Œ 922
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The cowardice of the GOP has been astounding πŸ‘‡

#TraitorTrump

01.03.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 38383    πŸ” 10888    πŸ’¬ 1475    πŸ“Œ 654

Don't even show up. The world
Strongest message you all could send is empty seats for the nation and world to see. You could instead hold rallies in republican Strong holds throughout the country to rally folks to fight back against what's going on.

01.03.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 941    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 4

Refuse to go

01.03.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you were in Congress, what would you do for the State of the Union? What do you think Dems should do?

28.02.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 43922    πŸ” 4314    πŸ’¬ 34887    πŸ“Œ 3194
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If the market continues to trend down, and the Atlanta Fed turns out to be right, the midterms will be very interesting.

The battle between republican self preservation and MAGA will be intense

01.03.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 39670    πŸ” 8288    πŸ’¬ 3196    πŸ“Œ 675
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Red states-pay attention, because you’ll get hit hardest!

They’re gutting NOAA to privatize weather forecasting. Knowledge is powerβ€”forecasting is knowledge.

Fossil fuel execs rake in billions while the planet chokesβ€”folks keep guzzling gas & won’t notice the climate crisis while the world burns.

01.03.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 16131    πŸ” 5864    πŸ’¬ 727    πŸ“Œ 283

I’d like to have a word with you about your First Class which I booked to treat my 94 year old mother. Why, oh, why has it devolved into a cattle car situation?

01.03.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You’re correct, and sad to say, she’s doing a much better job speaking truth to power than you.

24.02.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them WASHINGTONβ€”With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

24.02.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 35397    πŸ” 6907    πŸ’¬ 813    πŸ“Œ 723

For the first time in history the presidency is capitalizing on their own policies!

24.02.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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DOGE is the Theranos of Cost-Cutting And other notes from the Chaos

DOGE is the Theranos of Cost-Cutting

Paul Krugman likens DOGE to a company ripe to be shorted bc of signs of fraud.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/doge-is-th...

24.02.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3180    πŸ” 861    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 23

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social why are you not posting on here first ? You have some great things to say. You are trying some great things. Yet you post on X where 100pct of the replies are meaningless and hateful.

It's not all roses here, but the engagement has depth and real convos happen

23.02.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 50102    πŸ” 6664    πŸ’¬ 1386    πŸ“Œ 313

The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979.Β 

Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth.Β 

Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

23.02.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 20359    πŸ” 5385    πŸ’¬ 522    πŸ“Œ 184

I heard my friend Dan here give a remarkable brief talk about this last month. Thankfully, he’s written it up at length to share.

24.02.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 19245    πŸ” 3740    πŸ’¬ 446    πŸ“Œ 123
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PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

24.02.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 37125    πŸ” 16532    πŸ’¬ 4980    πŸ“Œ 2650

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position.

You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

22.02.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 56903    πŸ” 8941    πŸ’¬ 813    πŸ“Œ 202

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

22.02.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 21296    πŸ” 5330    πŸ’¬ 625    πŸ“Œ 203

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long.

They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

20.02.2025 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 54277    πŸ” 6954    πŸ’¬ 1527    πŸ“Œ 393

@ljoa is following 15 prominent accounts