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08.08.2025 10:13 β π 14 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0@marinde.bsky.social
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Gerrymandering Is America's Dumbest Political Tradition | Opinion https://twp.ai/4ip5zS
08.08.2025 10:13 β π 14 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Add to that congressional Republicans trying to steal the right to vote for millions of American citizens living abroad
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
"When I talk to folks in Europe and I talk to even older people...they look at me like, do you guys understand how bad it is? Do you know how far down the path towards dictatorship you actually are?" @zerlinamaxwell.bsky.social talks American authoritarianism with @timmiller.bsky.social:
07.08.2025 12:01 β π 1544 π 479 π¬ 68 π 29A rose garden without roses
07.08.2025 14:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Add to that the Republican plan to steal the right to vote from Americans living abroad. That would hit every district.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
Why mRNA vaccines are so valuable, explained: π§ͺ
06.08.2025 20:23 β π 52 π 37 π¬ 0 π 1Another ploy by Republicans to steal the vote, this time from American citizens living abroad.
06.08.2025 21:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yet snother ploy by Republicans to steal the vote, this time from American citizens living abroad.
06.08.2025 20:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The latest plot by Republicans to steal the vote: H.R.4851 would remove the right to vote for Americans living abroad.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
Me, too
06.08.2025 19:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Washington Post: βIs fascism bad? The answer may surprise youβ
Teen Vogue: βHere are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrierβ
#OpEd: "We must recognize the prison industry for what it is: an industry built on the human suffering of crime victims, incarcerated people, their families, and still others." Read the full story on how the prison industry became worth over $80 billion a year.
06.08.2025 18:30 β π 419 π 167 π¬ 10 π 11Trying to take away the right to vote for Americans living abroad is another thing they are trying to do.
H.R. 4851 - New Threat to Overseas Voting Rights Introduced in Congress - Democrats Abroad share.google/0hCRTYVLMXnY...
Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitutionβwhich limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpusβhave disappeared from Congressβs website. They claim a coding error is to blame.
06.08.2025 15:57 β π 12605 π 6312 π¬ 1366 π 854Yet another bad day for science...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
Beautiful!
04.08.2025 20:02 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Relentless greed of a few has caused the downfall of many societies in the past. Can we react in time to prevent it from happening this time?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Get rid of the billionaires...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Can we stop growing inequality in time before those promoting it have consumed everything in their path?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
30.07.2025 11:57 β π 16555 π 5429 π¬ 414 π 337Not a surprise that big agribusiness benefits while small farmers do not...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...
Actually heartbreaking, the list of colleagues that have run the show behind the scenes for so many years who are saying their pre-emptive goodbyes and taking literally thousands of years of amassed knowledge and expertise with them.
Not to mention camaraderie and community.
Morale is ... bleak.
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29.07.2025 10:37 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Terrible
28.07.2025 10:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you say βIβm fine with immigration as long as itβs legalβ or βI came the right wayβ but youβre not sounding the alarm over this, youβre lying.
A company says an employee was detained by federal agents during an immigration court hearing, despite being here legally with a valid work permit.
Itβs important for folks to know, that we have faced this before.
And we have won!!!!!
βWe the Peopleβ saved Democracy from oligarchs in 1850, 1890, and 1920
www.milwaukeeindependent.com/articles/ame...
#Oligarchy
#MAGA