Deb Turi-Smith

Thank you Sassy 😊
Stronger together 💪 💙
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Mascara, megachurches and a Charlotte empire Plus: Top news of the week—Primary voters oust longtime local Democrats; I-77 South toll lane plans delayed; Gas prices rise; PTO president charged with embezzlement; Panthers to play in HoF game

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I bought my sister one of the “I ran into Tammy Faye at the Mall” T-shirts for my sister after my daughter and I literally did. Actually, she ran into us and left without apologizing. My daughter said loud enough for her to hear, “She was RUDE!” I 💙 Tammy Faye now.

Broligarch autocratic kleptocracy monopolists worldview:

➡️Patients cured are patients lost.
➡️Death=profit.
➡️Educated citizens are bad.
➡️Chaos distracts the masses.
➡️Dignity and freedom are privileged commodities to be bought, sold, and traded.
➡️Girls are born to be sex objects and incubators.

Barack Obama is one of those rare orators who can make a single story feel like a mirror on the whole country.

Here, he turns one arrest for reading in a whites‑only library into a roadmap: courage, economic justice, and a “send me” faith that still challenges us.

Evidence suggests the deadly blast at an Iranian school was likely a US airstrike Satellite images and videos of an Iranian girls school damaged by large explosions at the start of a U.S.-Israeli airstrike campaign targeting the Islamic Republic indicate a targeted attack from the ...

FFS!

The US bombed the girls school in Iran killing 165 people

Trump & Hagueseth did this!!!

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92,000 Americans lost their jobs in ONE month while this administration plays golf and picks trade wars. Unemployment hits 4.4% and nobody’s being held accountable.

ENOUGH.
#TrumpsJobsSlump
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

How much sicker can America get? Idk and I don't want to find out!

Contact your senators and tell them to vote against Dr Influencer!

#SheShed

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US crude just posted a 35% weekly gain, the biggest since 1983.
Qatar's Energy Minister just went on the record with the Financial Times and said: ALL Gulf energy exporters *will* shut down production within days.

Global economy is about to hit a wall.

Yam tits' response: UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.

S＆P 500 down.
Dow tanking.
NASDAQ bleeding.
Gas up 60¢ in ONE week.
92,000 jobs gone.
This isn’t bad luck — this is the direct result of reckless, chaotic leadership. Your wallet is paying the price.
#TrumpsJobsSlump​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Poisoning the city, one lot at a time. Mike, Mike Mike..... And who pays for this?

Healthcare professional Eunice Lehmacher runs to unseat Sheri Biggs U.S. Rep. Sheri Biggs will face a Democratic challenger in the 2026 midterms. Democrat Eunice Lehmacher announced her campaign on March 4.

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Let’s be honest. How corrupt do you have to be for Indonesia to walk away from you????

FOX NEWS is reporting it. 92,000 jobs gone. Unemployment rising. An economy gutted by chaos, cruelty, and zero strategy.

Turns out scapegoating immigrants wasn’t an economic policy after all.
#TrumpsJobsSlump​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

It was a beautiful service, fitting for a man of peace.🙏🏼

The US economy lost 92,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate rose to 4.4% Hiring at US businesses unexpectedly plunged last month as employers shed an estimated 92,000 jobs, according to new data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists were expecting a gain of 60,000 jobs. Screenshot from CNN

92,000 Americans lost their jobs in ONE month while this administration plays golf & starts wars. Unemployment hits 4.4% & nobody’s being held accountable.

We’ve seen ENOUGH! Republicans can’t be trusted to govern.

#TrumpsJobsSlump

FOX NEWS is reporting it. 92,000 jobs gone. Unemployment rising. An economy gutted by chaos, cruelty, and zero strategy.

Turns out scapegoating immigrants wasn’t an economic policy after all.
#TrumpsJobsSlump​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Another terrible monthly jobs report for the Trump Administration and they don’t have a pandemic to blame it on.

92,000 jobs lost in February. One has to wonder how much worse it really is?

These folks need to hear from you yesterday 👇

#MorningVibe

Enjoy the Resistance Revival Chorus singing with Rhiannon Giddens: All You Fascists Bound to Lose. 🎵

#ArtAsActivism

🚨🚨HOLY SHIT‼️ A Marine Corp Veteran was protesting the war in Iran and how we shouldn’t be fighting on Israel’s behalf when Senator Tim Shelby (R-MN) steps in and fucking breaks dudes hand!

Looney Luna needs to be replaced. @brandtforcongress.bsky.social is an educator, focused on affordable housing, healthcare for all, teaching truth & public education, environmental justice, & our freedoms & civil rights. Check him out! brandtforcongress.com

Nick's been showing up to listen to OR HD 52's rural & urban residents. That's why he's focused on affordable housing, healthcare for all, fair wages & economic development, & protecting Oregon’s environment. Swing district HD52 could decide control of the OR House.
www.nwpfororegon.com

#orpol

We all need access to healthcare—and Nick Walden is running for Oregon House District 52 to fight for it. Grassroots campaigns need grassroots funding. If you can, donate and help power this campaign.
www.nwpfororegon.com/about

#Voices4Victory
#USDemocracy
#sheshed
#orpol

Democrats don’t have to agree on everything. We just have to agree on one thing:

It’s time to win the general.

House Ethics panel launches investigation of Tony Gonzales The announcement comes as the Texas Republican fights for his political life in a primary runoff.

House Ethics panel launches investigation of Tony Gonzales #TonyGonzales
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What if someone comes and abducts your family members?

It could happen.

There are untrained & unidentified thugs abducting, threatening & brutalizing immigrants as well as US citizens.

Couldn't anyone pretend to be an ice agent & kidnap people.

Yes! (See thread🧵)

Call Congress at 202-224-3121!

Thank you Gov. Gavin Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social for your leadership as our CA Governor! I loved hearing Newsom speak about his life, time in office, resistance to Trump/GOP at his book tour for “Young Man In A Hurry” moderated by Crooked Media’s Tommy Vietor & Jon Favreau at the Ebell Theater!

Congrats to all of the Democrats winning &/or running! Ds continue winning or overperforming in key races!

Some of the D nominees:

U.S. Senate North Carolina - Roy Cooper

U.S. Senate Texas -
James Talarico

Texas Gov. - Gina Hinojosa

A Dem flip - Alex Holladay WINS Arkansas House District 70!

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BREAKING: James Talarico is officially our Senate nominee in Texas.

It's time to put our differences aside, come together, and flip Texas blue.

Let's get it done.

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