Letβs start with the basics.
26.04.2025 01:35 β π 19737 π 3581 π¬ 308 π 82@glynalyn.bsky.social
Copywriter. Chronic mover. Cat mom.
Letβs start with the basics.
26.04.2025 01:35 β π 19737 π 3581 π¬ 308 π 82Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.
That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americansβ¦and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.
So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
do you think Cory Booker can make it for 3 years and about 10 months longer?
01.04.2025 19:29 β π 29549 π 2663 π¬ 854 π 200Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die.
[*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*]
A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt.
["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
15.03.2025 16:37 β π 77743 π 17782 π¬ 2698 π 2816Call each of these Senators to NOT vote with the GOP & instead grow a spine. Each number starts with 202-224
Schumer - 6542
Hassan - 3324
Peters - 6221
Durbin - 2152
Schatz - 3934
King - 5344
Shaheen - 2841
Fetterman - 4254
Cortez Masto - 3542
Gillibrand - 4451
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
13.03.2025 14:47 β π 20121 π 7134 π¬ 684 π 537No one ever said they were creative.
12.03.2025 19:30 β π 32739 π 12191 π¬ 884 π 788The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Mark Kellyβs inbox is full but I left a message for Gallega
12.03.2025 21:30 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Some happy news.
07.03.2025 01:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap
07.03.2025 00:32 β π 30618 π 4747 π¬ 914 π 224A tweet from ununusual_whales @ununusual_whales with a breaking news headline: 'BREAKING: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the President Trump at his Florida compound, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting, per WIRED.'
Bribes. Theyβre known as bribes.
06.03.2025 22:30 β π 9777 π 2046 π¬ 475 π 123youβre fired. wait youβre rehired. email us a list of things youβve done today wait forget it youβre fired again. come back your job was important. youβre fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
05.03.2025 22:34 β π 97088 π 26837 π¬ 1547 π 1264Al Green once told me: "Only God knows what he will do when he believes that he has no one to answer to. Right now, he knows that we are there, but if we donβt do our duty, the president will do unthinkable things.β
05.03.2025 03:05 β π 3647 π 641 π¬ 71 π 19Trump has a nerve to talk about cancer rates when he is gutting federal cancer research
05.03.2025 03:29 β π 3048 π 455 π¬ 58 π 13I want the dems to start booing again
05.03.2025 02:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Millennials are a goldilocks generation raised in the narrow window between leaded gasoline and social media and hooooo boy is that showing these days
03.03.2025 17:36 β π 5950 π 820 π¬ 87 π 47The same week that Elon Musk baselessly called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme," his co-president Donald Trump announced that he wants to create a national crypto reserve.
This could result in taxpayer dollars being used to prop up an actual Ponzi scheme.
Hello?
Every accusation is an intention.
02.03.2025 21:21 β π 30081 π 6214 π¬ 478 π 146How it started/How it's going
28.02.2025 11:57 β π 15243 π 4607 π¬ 356 π 268You first.
25.02.2025 20:53 β π 111557 π 14132 π¬ 5602 π 1137So, impeachment time or should we wait?
26.02.2025 16:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If youβre siding with Vladimir Putin, youβre wrong.
25.02.2025 17:01 β π 59528 π 10318 π¬ 1383 π 487This is the way.
25.02.2025 17:38 β π 76437 π 12413 π¬ 2362 π 877Elonβs mass harassment email to all federal employees underscores the importance of having unions to represent workers against abusive management.
23.02.2025 01:16 β π 19595 π 3095 π¬ 464 π 98Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on?
A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Malcolm X was assassinated 60 yrs ago today. See his timeless wisdom on the true meaning of βprogress.β
βIf you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6βthatβs not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.β