@mermerw.bsky.social
Hoping to find a kind, informed, engaged community here. I’m a Blue Dot in a state that folks call red but actually a state that just doesn’t show up enough to vote.
Little Rock AR protest as UA/ASU game attendees arrive. More waves, hand claps and thumbs up than the predictable beta male middle fingers.
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Great turnout in Little Rock supporting Workers on this Labor Day!
01.09.2025 19:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Floral snapshot, July, in case your brain is noisy and overloaded:
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Raskin: "It's a nightmare. 17 million people are gonna lose their health insurance ... the Republican Party just pulled the plug on a whole public health ecosystem organized around Medicaid."
03.07.2025 21:43 — 👍 2389 🔁 671 💬 103 📌 26
The image features a vibrant bouquet of various flowers, including red, purple, blue, yellow, and orange blooms, with green leaves and stems. The flowers are densely packed, creating a colorful and lively arrangement against a black background. Overlapping the floral design is bold white text that reads: "I WISH FOR YOU WHAT YOU WISH FOR IMMIGRANTS" The text is prominent and stands out clearly against the colorful backdrop. At the bottom, the word "TRANSPAINTER" appears, likely indicating the artist or creator of the image.
04.07.2025 17:03 — 👍 12803 🔁 3183 💬 272 📌 98This is what I’m so worried about
03.07.2025 20:17 — 👍 15196 🔁 3874 💬 723 📌 126
Every. Single. Word. Is. A. Lie. Including “an,” “the,” and “it.”
02.07.2025 21:29 — 👍 7257 🔁 1802 💬 739 📌 183![Bar chart from Data for Progress titled “Cuts to Benefits Are the Top Takeaway From the GOP Budget Bill, After ‘Nothing’.”
Nothing — 349
Cuts to Medicaid / SNAP / other social programs — 122
Legislative procedure — 105
Blank / unintelligible — 93
General negative comments — 85
Benefits the wealthy / doesn't benefit working people — 73
General positive comments — 70
General neutral comments — 50
Tax cuts in general — 46
Don't know — 43
Increases the deficit / national debt — 38
[All other items] — 36
Size / cost of the bill — 17
Bad for the economy / will raise taxes or costs — 15
No tax on tips / overtime / Social Security — 15
Reduces spending in general — 11
The chart is based on 1,168 survey responses collected from June 27 to July 1, 2025, by Data for Progress.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ltzetlayeqsp4qu7pb4irz24/bafkreih7zs6tm4w3nz3x6udonmix3esol4ssn2yj3a23xsv3oxpxxtvnty@jpeg)
Bar chart from Data for Progress titled “Cuts to Benefits Are the Top Takeaway From the GOP Budget Bill, After ‘Nothing’.” Nothing — 349 Cuts to Medicaid / SNAP / other social programs — 122 Legislative procedure — 105 Blank / unintelligible — 93 General negative comments — 85 Benefits the wealthy / doesn't benefit working people — 73 General positive comments — 70 General neutral comments — 50 Tax cuts in general — 46 Don't know — 43 Increases the deficit / national debt — 38 [All other items] — 36 Size / cost of the bill — 17 Bad for the economy / will raise taxes or costs — 15 No tax on tips / overtime / Social Security — 15 Reduces spending in general — 11 The chart is based on 1,168 survey responses collected from June 27 to July 1, 2025, by Data for Progress.
Among voters who have heard something about the GOP budget bill, that info has largely been more negative (that it will cut Medicaid, benefit the wealthy, etc.) than positive.
www.dataforprogress.org/datasets/pol...
📣“Our Veterans can’t eat thoughts and prayers.” — Rep. Angie Craig
Trump and Republicans' “Big Beautiful Bill" guts food aid for those who wore the uniform.
You don’t get to wave the flag while letting Veterans go hungry. That's not patriotism—that's betrayal.
17 million Americans will lose their health insurance 600 nursing homes and hundreds of rural hospitals will shutdown We put a lot more pollution into the air causing more asthma, heart attacks, and strokes So what is our HHS secretary tweeting about? Hershey just pledged to eliminate synthetic dyes from its candy by the end of 2027.
@ashishkjha.bsky.social
02.07.2025 19:05 — 👍 202 🔁 72 💬 9 📌 3
When the rule book is thrown out, it's all chutes!
@floodzonecomics #floodzonecomics #2025 #birthrightcitizenship #chutesandladders #trmp
In a mere matter of days, we can house migrants, but not our homeless. Because being cruel is always the motivation. #AlligatorAuschwitz
02.07.2025 19:19 — 👍 17978 🔁 5867 💬 745 📌 316I wonder how Satan is dealing with the arrival of Jimmy Swaggart. He’s famously wary of competition.
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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
02.07.2025 18:44 — 👍 44115 🔁 15040 💬 1611 📌 974
“Conservatives” voting for $3-4 trillion of additional debt to plunge the US into debt slavery for at least a generation. What are they conserving?
02.07.2025 18:42 — 👍 1123 🔁 224 💬 117 📌 9
Call it the “Kavanaugh Playbook.” Ignore credible allegations. Disparage the source. Ignore that if this was a Democrat nominee you’d be going berserk. Serve your masters whenever it’s about court-packing.
02.07.2025 19:00 — 👍 318 🔁 114 💬 11 📌 3
Our statewide paper estimates roughly 8,000 in attendance!
www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/ju...
We had around 5,000 in Little Rock, peacefully protesting. All ages, races, genders…. It was glorious!
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