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Jeff Hirst

@jeffhirst.bsky.social

A passionate progressive voter dedicated to advancing social justice, climate action and equitable policies. Always advocating for a fairer, more inclusive future where every being has the opportunity to thrive. LGBTQIA+. He/him

114 Followers  |  510 Following  |  30 Posts  |  Joined: 13.11.2024  |  1.7305

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Trump sets 7,500 annual limit for refugees entering US. It'll be mostly white South Africans The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States to 7,500 and they'll be mostly white South Africans.

Reducing the cap on refugee admissions to 7,500 in no way meets the urgency and need of the current moment. This will have immense humanitarian impacts on the children, women and men who are fleeing persecution and who we have a responsibility to protect.
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Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

03.11.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes."

β€” Fred Rogers

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Does he not realize that this type of nonsense only serves to further fire us up?

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Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are melting down over "No Kings" success Trump posted an AI video of himself dropping raw sewage on the protesters from a plane. Yes, you read that right

Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are melting down over "No Kings" success www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Recent LA transplant quits job, starts nonprofit to pick up trash across the city After his initial L.A. dream fell through soon after moving here, Juan Eduardo Naula says he found therapy in cleaning up the streets.

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13.09.2025 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Admin Circulating Plan to Transform Depopulated Gaza Into High-Tech Cash Cow | Common Dreams Under the proposal, the US would take control after "voluntary" relocation of Palestinians from the strip, where proposed projects include an Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone and Gaza Trump Riviera ...

www.commondreams.org/news/great-t...

Genocide City

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A Guide to the Everyday Acts That Can Gum Up the Fascist Machine Inspired by a Danish anti-Nazi list of 10 commandments, a group of artists and organizers made their own list to encourage ordinary people to resist the Trump administration.

www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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When Trump Rails Against DC Crime, the Call Is Coming From Inside the House | Common Dreams Why then is the press mesmerized by the declining street crime in DC, luridly inflated by the serial prevaricator, Trump, without so much as a mention of serial White House and K Street crimes? ​

www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

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Here is an image of the crowd of people that chased a dozen ICE agents out of Columbia Heights yesterday. I don’t see one β€œelderly white hippie” there.

I do see a wide variety of ages, genders, and races; DC residents united in disgust at what Miller is cheering on.

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The Low Road | Marge Piercy

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12.08.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Four Virtues That Our Leaders Need Research suggests that cultivating character promotes a flourishing lifeβ€”and leaders with character help build a flourishing society.

Four Virtues That Our Leaders Need greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

30.07.2025 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The kindness of strangers: I thought my wages would be docked but the customer I’d overpaid returned The till was $20 short – almost a week’s pay. It meant I’d have no money for the Christmas period

What the world needs now: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Love is the greatest power.

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Trump’s Crackdown on L.A. Protests Contrasts With His Jan. 6 Response

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...

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Interesting that Trump never ordered the National Guard to quell the J6 attack on our nation’s capitol, never called it a β€œriot” or β€œrebellion” and never labeled the protesters as β€œinsurrectionists.” He simply sat back and enjoyed watching the J6ers on Fox News β€” and eventually pardoned them.

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Science is the only thing that stands between us and climate disaster. We do not have time for denial, we need to #StandForScience NOW.

bit.ly/standforscie...

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Tell Your Senators: Stop Trump's Cruel Bill Trump's

Tell Your Senator: Stop Trump's Cruel Bill

Take action with @GreenAmerica: greenam.org/4kooRL3

04.06.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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21 Laws of Nature as Interpreted by My Children - Orion Magazine "If you can’t make a new ant, don’t kill an old one."

#18: The more money you have, the less you pay attention to plants and birds.
orionmagazine.org/article/21-l...

01.06.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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In Emaciated Children, Gaza’s Hunger Is Laid Bare

No words.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/w...

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I adore this!

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It depends on who replaces him.

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Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

Rich supporters of Trump are apparently above the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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Simple Was Satisfying url:http://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=2743

27.05.2025 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell your Republican Senator(s) You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks Republicans in Congress are trying to ram through the Trump Tax Scam, a bill that makes extreme cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential programs to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. Under ...

Tell your Republican Senator(s) You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks act.indivisible.org/petition/no-...

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Defend Public Broadcasting! Public broadcasting provides Americans with access to local news, educational programming, and independent journalism without corporate and political influence. Public broadcasters like PBS and NPR ar...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...

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β€œThe arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.πŸ•ŠοΈ
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