Alison Bush

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

A sidewalk with mown brown grass on either side, trees in the middle and far distance. Blue sky with white clouds. The shadows of a person and dog stretch up the sidewalk .

A small black dog with a white chin and pointy ears lies in a patch of green leafy weeds.

Two different puppy pics from the weekend.

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class.

You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

Dear Newspapers:

If you want my subscription money, you're going to have to start kicking ass.

#booksky

I learned so much from this book.

The 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.

Today someone asked how much I would pay in taxes to ensure everyone had housing & healthcare

I don’t know, whatever I could? This isn’t the “gotcha” folks think it is

If we taxed the rich properly, the rest of us wouldn’t need to pay exorbitant taxes to ensure every single person was provided for

The best thing about having both my young adult kids home this past week - getting my "good night"s in person instead of text. 🥹

Anxiety is like having the zoomies while sitting completely still.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Right vs Left
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What we want is in alignment. Who we want it for and who is responsible for why we don't have it, not so much.
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(thefemalesupremacist on TT)

A man and woman facing away from the camera by a street with a pickup truck and car passing hold protest signs supporting trans rights A group of people holding protest signs are across the street from them.

Great turnout today in Longmont, CO. My favorite photo.

A frame from Schoolhouse Rock's cartoon, "No More Kings", showing a group of people laughing as George Washington kicks King George III in the rear.

Schoolhouse Rock ❤️

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Along with abolishing ICE we should abolish all for-profit prison companies in the country.

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work.

You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.

Get your lies straight.

If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

Healthcare for seniors is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.

Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.

A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.

Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.

To our Government,

Leave LGBTQ people the hell alone.

Sincerely,

The American Majority

Next time you want to tell someone to "fuck off" instead try saying "awwww, go read a book!" It's actually quite effective.

Purple and white viola flowers with green leaves.

These were on clearance at the garden center because they were "distressed", but they're perfect. Made me think of Mom.

I have never waited this long for a direct deposit tax refund.

A small brown bird on the ground sitting amidst a grid pattern of shadows.

Waiting to fly at DIA.

April 29, 2025 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt popularized the idea that the first 100 days of a presidency established an administration’s direction.

April 29, 2025
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The America I loved is gone It was a nation of dreams, built for the screen. Then it shattered

This is my love letter to an America I can no longer visit, an elegy in the form on an essay. So glad the @guardian published it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

We are atheist UUs. But we did do egg hunts because, fun. At about 5, my son asked what Easter meant. I told him about ancient celebrations of spring and rebirth, and the Christian story of Jesus dying and coming back to life. My son, the little cogs in his brain grinding, said "As... a... rabbit?"

Crowd of protesters on all sides of a street intersection. Many carrying signs or large and small American flags.

Longmont, CO, April 19, 2025