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16.06.2025 02:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Good luck today, Canada π¨π¦ elbows up!
28.04.2025 12:25 β π 20186 π 2435 π¬ 291 π 107As a world laughs
18.04.2025 12:23 β π 144 π 26 π¬ 2 π 0There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
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USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you
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What a weekend!
Across the U.S., over 100,000 Americans mobilized β including more than 34,000 attendees at the Bernie/AOC rally, marking the biggest political event since Obama. Protests erupted in multiple states to defend Social Security, Tesla takedown protest gained momentum, and so much more!
Right to Read Day: Drawn to Freedom. April 7, 2025. #RightToReadDay #DrawnToFreedom. Unite Against Book Bans. bit.ly/RightToReadDay. Accompanying the text is artwork by Nate Powell of a library and the many things library users can do there.
β¨ #RightToReadDay is April 7! This year, weβre #DrawnToFreedom: the freedom to read, access information, and find communityβall of the opportunities our libraries provide. But these freedoms are under attack. Take action to defend them this Right to Read Day: uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea...
23.03.2025 00:35 β π 64 π 37 π¬ 1 π 6Elon is upset that the public is staying informed. So many threats from him lately. We are public servants, not Elon servants.
22.03.2025 16:15 β π 12954 π 1695 π¬ 208 π 36The National Weather Service is facing significant staffing cuts and has temporarily reduced weather balloon launches at several sites. These balloons are a key tool used by meteorologists to gather data for weather forecast models.
21.03.2025 19:03 β π 13156 π 3471 π¬ 340 π 159Social Security is financed through a dedicated payroll tax. Employers and employees each pay 6.2 % of wages up to the taxable maximum of $176,100 (in 2025), while the self-employed pay 12.4 % www.ssa.gov/news/press/f...
22.03.2025 02:23 β π 3369 π 1236 π¬ 156 π 59This isnβt legal, Elon.
Musk steps up calls to impeach judges, offering $100 to voters who join in. America PAC is paying registered Wisconsin voters to sign its petition against βactivist judges.β Talk about paid protesters. Now, judges are receiving violent threats online.
Follow the money and see where it goes. Nothing like buying our Congress. Musk has made the maximum allowable donation to members of Congress who support impeaching federal judges who are impeding actions taken by Trump.
20.03.2025 01:46 β π 7445 π 2020 π¬ 177 π 88This is disgraceful and un-American. The Trump administration defended its removal of articles highlighting the achievements of minority service members, including Navajo code talkers, Marines at Iwo Jima, and famed Black baseball player Jackie Robinson.
19.03.2025 21:30 β π 8113 π 1565 π¬ 233 π 73You should laugh at anyone who says the president should have unlimited power because he was elected. His power has to be limited *because* he's the president. This is fifth grade level social studies
18.03.2025 16:43 β π 19129 π 2371 π¬ 110 π 107We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!
17.03.2025 21:53 β π 82617 π 14976 π¬ 1252 π 668#NotMyJoker π
16.03.2025 21:30 β π 13345 π 1390 π¬ 377 π 76CNBC is calling it the Tesla Chain Saw Massacre.
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He was always a used car salesman at heart.
11.03.2025 21:23 β π 41142 π 4958 π¬ 1057 π 270Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.
11.03.2025 20:39 β π 45364 π 7425 π¬ 1049 π 355benion Grieving a wasted life At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to re-elected in contrast to standing up for the reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades greater good? were devoted to protecting America. Sacri A compromised Supreme Court recently fices were made both by myself and my fam- trotted out a shallow token standards of Ily in military service. The tip of the spear: conduct for themselves. Apparently it's Countless weeks over the years were spent not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people? living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since. way?" The purpose: if required, be airborne Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un- in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly: of interest abound. The rule of law is situ- ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet- ational if adhered to at all. America can no nam provided a brief interlude, but overall, longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of this long line of silent sentinels stood firm power and wealth driven by unquenchable to protect America by deterring external greed has left service above self and Con- threats to our freedoms and way of life stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued Recently the VA said exposure to Agent with a sense of service. Orange is the probable cause of the can- I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than military pilots to have significantly higher founded on mere beliβ¦
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
11.03.2025 22:04 β π 26442 π 9665 π¬ 1076 π 1151There is a reason Elon Musk and Donald Trump LIE about Social Security.
12.03.2025 15:57 β π 5618 π 1164 π¬ 140 π 58Ukraine's most vital piece of battlefield infrastructure, the Starlink satellite, isnβt controlled by the government. Itβs owned by Elon Musk. History shows a dangerous pattern: When private industry embeds itself in war, it starts steering the fight to its own interests. Brian OβNeill explains.
12.03.2025 16:11 β π 422 π 141 π¬ 21 π 7Elon Musk is pushing to end phone services at Social Security, which 73 million retired and disabled Americans rely on to apply for and access their earned government benefits.
12.03.2025 16:33 β π 7699 π 2502 π¬ 430 π 259Trumpty-Dumpty is a bull. The American economy is his china shop.
11.03.2025 22:22 β π 20754 π 2045 π¬ 696 π 95Funny....All of a sudden, no one's performing arbitrary sex-change operations on unexpecting grade-schoolers anymore.
12.03.2025 00:28 β π 73578 π 13994 π¬ 1782 π 441@curmudgeonswife.bsky.social here and waiting in anticipation π€£π
11.03.2025 15:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0AP jaw-dropper: βIn some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word βgay,β including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japanβ apnews.com/article/dei-...
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