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Cronyism is alive and well…. Just thought you should know.
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I edited @mediumboi’s. The more the merrier🌈🏳️‍🌈🦄

And release the Epstein files!

The birthday parade money could pay for 4 million Meals on Wheels meals, enough to cover 10,000 hungry and isolated seniors for an entire year.

$45 million could pay for GI Bill benefits for 3,000 veterans, showing our nation’s thanks to our brave soldiers with the college or vocational training we promised after their service.

$45 million could provide more than 10 million school lunches, enough to feed 56,000 hungry kids – whose only warm meal each day could be at school – for an entire year.

There’s an estimated 33,000 homeless veterans in the United States. With $45 million, our government could provide housing for 6,500 of those forgotten heroes.

Army estimates that Trump's military parade could cost $16 million in damage to Washington streets The repair costs are part of the estimated $45 million price tag for the upcoming parade.

President Trump’s birthday military parade is estimated to cost $45 MILLION. Here’s a list of a few ideas of what they could be doing with that money instead:

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About 1 in 5 veterans go to bed hungry each day. The money used for Trump’s birthday parade could provide SNAP food assistance for nearly 18,000 veterans for an entire year.

Please CLICK and Rate UP my new design submission for the current Threadless Challenge, which asks Artists to reimagine their logo. The more 5s I get the better my chances of winning are!! Vote early, Vote often!!!
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Please take a minute and score up my newest design in my Threadless.com shop SM Speak: Solidarity With Pride submitted for their Causes Challenge: www.threadless.com/designs/soli...

Please help Madison Opera recoup the lost funding from a rescinded NEA grant worth $25,000 which was being used to put on a brand new opera “Everlasting Faint” next Jan. Please help as you can. I’m the SM for it. Many thanks in advance for your generosity.

www.madisonopera.org/support-us/d...

Tell Your Members of Congress to Support Increased Federal Arts Funding for FY25 Congress is already making decisions about next year’s funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and it needs to hear from you! We can...

Take Action:

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HEY DMV: come see my show tonight 8pm
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Stop the SAVE Act The SAVE Act would keep millions of people from being able to vote – and would shut countless eligible voters out of our democracy. Urge Congress to vote no now.

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I’m interested in the Booker/Moore Ticket

I find it ironic that someone, who dislikes opera and only put up with it because they had to, is the keynote speaker at an opera promoting event.

Keep DOGE Out of Our Data Trump has given DOGE unrestricted access to our personal info, from finances to health records. Join me in demanding accountability.

Here’s a way to help: www.aclu.org/doge

I recommend that you follow the ACLU feed and take action whenever you can. Contact your state reps from the top down and tell them to protect all of your rights and States rights.

Trump's Efforts to Dismantle AI Protections, Explained | ACLU President Donald Trump has swiftly removed Artificial Intelligence protections, exposing people to real-world harms.

The Trump administration is aiming to accelerate unregulated AI across federal agencies.

Without critical guardrails, the administration's actions will translate directly into real-world harms.

Trump's Attempt to Unilaterally Control State and Local Funding is Dangerous, Dumb, and Undemocratic | ACLU Donald Trump's attempts to withhold vital funding to bully and coerce states into compliance is plainly unconstitutional.

Congress — not the president — has the power of the purse.

The courts have consistently ruled that presidents do not have the right to bully states and cities into doing what they want by withholding funds already approved by Congress.

I stand with and support the LGBTQ+ community. I am an ally and a safe person. I believe that everyone has the Right to be treated with respect, dignity and integrity. We should All have access to legal and safe healthcare and have agency over how our own entities are cared for and treated.

A small grey and white figurine of an owl on top of a theatrical fly pipe with lighting instruments hanging off of it. White cotton rope is wrapped around electrical cables holding them to the pipe. The owl is on top of the knot, on the top side of the pipe.

OperaOwl’s first post on Bsky, so it’s only appropriate that we show off a new perch on the first electric during Focus at the Capitol Theater at the Overture Center for Madison Opera’s production of Maria de Buenos Aires! Performs next weekend!