@benjaminpartridge.bsky.social
A man of letters. Oops, I mean lettuce.
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
05.04.2025 19:06 — 👍 111159 🔁 23945 💬 2090 📌 1562Thank you, Senator Cory Booker! #Resist
01.04.2025 22:37 — 👍 32555 🔁 3004 💬 203 📌 72- make boycott your default practice
- tell your friends and family (esp those not on social media or connected to movement) why you’re boycotting - ask them to join you!
Each week, The Contrarian selects an "Undaunted" individual working to defend democracy
This week's spotlight: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
AOC speaks to Americans as responsible, engaged citizens. She lays out the stakes clearly & empowers ordinary people to courageously fight for democracy.
So embarrassed by our country.
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Elon Musk is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire. Imagine if his wealth was capped at $999M, and we taxed the rest (~$239B).
We could:
End homelessness: $20B
End hunger: $40B annually to 2030
Build homes: 710K new homes at $308K each
A trillion for one or a future for all?
Meanwhile in Iowa, @ayannapressley.bsky.social shows how Gov. Reynolds is responsible for Iowa's decline and that her policies are erasure of marginalized people.
08.02.2025 00:41 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
My name is Aaron Parnas, and this is my story. Unlike legacy media, I will never bow to Donald Trump.
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Who could have possibly predicted?
07.02.2025 13:38 — 👍 4861 🔁 1412 💬 352 📌 101
It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
"Do not lose hope", says @mariaressa.bsky.social to journalists who continue to report the truth even in the hard times of a corrupt government. "Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate. Reach across. Stand by your values."
And most important: "Hold the line."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtST...
Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.
03.02.2025 19:44 — 👍 30873 🔁 8834 💬 1565 📌 575People are getting up off the mat.
03.02.2025 18:21 — 👍 31628 🔁 4928 💬 898 📌 189
"I certainly hope Congress takes action because what is happening here is illegal."
03.02.2025 20:26 — 👍 2023 🔁 468 💬 76 📌 23
front page of NYT today
A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
This at an essential point. If Republicans want to abolish USAID they're as free to do that as with any other part of the government - through Congress. (i.e., follow the constitution) There's a budget process starting right now. Go for it. Doing it this way is illegal.
03.02.2025 20:35 — 👍 1988 🔁 514 💬 52 📌 14Folks (and this thing has gone around quickly), it's still unclear *what* has been "deleted"; as many of you have noted DirectFile remains active. Part of the danger of Government-By-Unelected-Nutball is that what's actually *true* is a moving target.
If you RT'd my initial post, RT this as well.
Canadians booing the U.S. national anthem isn’t something I ever thought I’d see, but this is what happens when you let a psychopath criminal with isolationist and protectionist policies back into the White House.
02.02.2025 02:07 — 👍 28048 🔁 5315 💬 1127 📌 483And the party that wanted to throw HRC in prison for using a private email server is ok with Musk having access to all this government information...unbelievable
02.02.2025 01:08 — 👍 1071 🔁 223 💬 15 📌 1it's interesting (??) canada is making this red/blue distinction, like signaling to the world this is not the will of americans
02.02.2025 04:29 — 👍 872 🔁 77 💬 32 📌 5imagine that Joe Biden let George Soros take control of the treasury. Republicans would have burned DC to the fucking ground
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JUST IN: British Columbia says it will no longer buy American liquor from red states in response to U.S. tariffs
02.02.2025 01:18 — 👍 7287 🔁 1289 💬 305 📌 90
For more than 150 years, through Democratic and Republican administrations, the US and Canada have been the closest of allies. Beyond the economic harm that his senseless tariffs will surely cause, Donald Trump is sending a clear message to the world that the United States can no longer be trusted.
02.02.2025 04:40 — 👍 1554 🔁 404 💬 76 📌 15this hurts worse than the tariffs 😭
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BREAKING: Nat'l intelligence experts are ringing the alarm on the politicization of the FBI and other intelligence agencies. Hear from three of them now. **This post is free, and we urge you to share it with those who may not otherwise have access to the information revealed.**
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NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated another government agency, and they're trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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For the last four years, Jennifer Abruzzo vigorously defended workers' rights and cracked down on union-busters as General Counsel at the National Labor Relations Board.
She was one of the strongest pro-worker voices in the federal government.
Trump just fired her.
Halting spending approved by Congress.
Firing independent inspectors general from federal agencies.
Replacing civil servants with loyalists.
All plans pulled from Project 2025.
Remember when Trump denied knowing about the playbook and the media gave him a pass?
