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@pollymz.bsky.social

Old lady. Tired of bullshit. Retired teacher. “Everybody counts, or nobody counts.” Maker of soap and sourdough. alpacasoaps.com

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Latest posts by pollymz.bsky.social on Bluesky

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

03.11.2025 18:44 — 👍 26047    🔁 10313    💬 679    📌 484

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

30.10.2025 16:01 — 👍 39100    🔁 14771    💬 566    📌 657

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

25.10.2025 02:21 — 👍 32892    🔁 10986    💬 1103    📌 438

Your regular reminder that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics.

It is among the worst Supreme Court decisions in history.

It corrupts our political system every day.

24.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 23937    🔁 6857    💬 837    📌 287

or jizz

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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

30.09.2025 14:43 — 👍 49933    🔁 15601    💬 670    📌 724
Goose meme text:”training ground for what?”

Goose meme text:”training ground for what?”

30.09.2025 18:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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TENNESSEANS ARE BROKEEEEE 😭😭😭

Tennessee’s economy is “booming” — but we're broke. Housing up 70%, child care up 20%, wages flat. Why? Corporate greed + rigged rules. In Congress, I’ll fight to repeal Citizens United, close loopholes, & put working families first.

25.09.2025 00:26 — 👍 168    🔁 47    💬 9    📌 8
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Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

25.09.2025 04:40 — 👍 18293    🔁 7578    💬 579    📌 359
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

25.09.2025 18:03 — 👍 28228    🔁 14140    💬 5781    📌 4077

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences.

The modern American right in 2025, folks.

16.09.2025 03:51 — 👍 24471    🔁 4875    💬 731    📌 202

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

12.09.2025 10:24 — 👍 14776    🔁 2807    💬 160    📌 45
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It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

12.09.2025 01:32 — 👍 9204    🔁 2278    💬 65    📌 86
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CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else.

#USAnotRFK

Lets gooooo

28.08.2025 18:59 — 👍 13331    🔁 3362    💬 175    📌 185

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

22.08.2025 19:54 — 👍 56853    🔁 14268    💬 2541    📌 2814
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Trump To DACA Recipients: Get Out After claiming that he'd even reach out to Democrats to "work something out" for Dreamers, Trump is now telling hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who grew up here to self-deport.

Today marks 13 years since #DACA started accepting applications.

In December, Trump claimed that he wanted to “work something out” for the program’s beneficiaries.

Bullshit. His regime is instead telling them to deport themselves. No, really 👇🏽

open.substack.com/pub/americas...

15.08.2025 20:59 — 👍 46    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 2

"Dunn’s attorney says he tried to turn himself in, but instead, 20 officers came to his home to arrest him."

Just think about that for a minute.

15.08.2025 02:30 — 👍 1938    🔁 582    💬 20    📌 49

Curse you!

01.08.2025 21:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Needs more a lot more chili to be chili at my table

28.07.2025 00:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As someone who’s been a Democrat for only six weeks, I think this is such an important point. We’re either a big tent, or we aren’t. And if we are a big tent, that means progressives unite around a moderate nominee, and moderates unite around a progressive nominee. Period.👇

21.07.2025 16:44 — 👍 2414    🔁 394    💬 178    📌 93
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Cuomo: I am now running on affordability.

Also Cuomo: there is no “real answer” on affordability.

15.07.2025 13:50 — 👍 15196    🔁 3040    💬 616    📌 229
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Bass: I just signed an executive directive that puts all city departments and leadership on notice to protect Angelenos—essentially from the federal government.

We’re also filing a FOIA request because we want to know: Who are these masked men, and why are they masked in the first place?

11.07.2025 17:19 — 👍 29270    🔁 8727    💬 970    📌 599

Praying is the laziest thing anybody can ever do.

06.07.2025 15:00 — 👍 223    🔁 9    💬 7    📌 0

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

04.07.2025 22:28 — 👍 16029    🔁 3124    💬 423    📌 213

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

04.07.2025 01:40 — 👍 32853    🔁 9437    💬 376    📌 323

That Tr*mp took time to go to do a PR hit at the new concentration camp in Florida but didn’t pay respects to Melissa Hortman and her family after she and her husband were shot and murdered by one of his supporters is shameful. And not remotely surprising.

02.07.2025 00:47 — 👍 880    🔁 195    💬 20    📌 12

I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget

29.06.2025 01:06 — 👍 14111    🔁 3325    💬 240    📌 232

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