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Gary is Vietnam vet from Wright County who’s fed up with seeing his friends suffer while politicians like Ashley Hinson play politics with their healthcare.

Reading Your Way Through Salman Rushdie | A Guide Few contemporary writers have reshaped world literature as profoundly as Salman Rushdie. To celebrate the release of his latest book, The Eleventh Hour, we’ve built a chronological guide to his works,...

@tertuliabookshop.bsky.social - I appreciate another resource for adding to my TBR lists!

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/IVwcRr8l

Done! Thanks for this action step @indivisible.org

Lina Khan is brilliant. In short, bigger is not better...monopolies mean more billionaires, more concentration of wealth & power, less innovation, suppression of wages, increased prices, food deserts, environmental exploitation, more corruption. Time for a change. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.”

Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

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Defend the Affordable Care Act

Because you won’t like what comes after (hint: nothing) Losing the tax credits too.

Call Congress. 202-224-3121

Swamp them with letters. Use @resist.bot text ‘sign PQAFUW’ to 50409

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Week 6 of the shutdown and we want solutions – not images of Trump's Halloween party or an empty House chamber.
 
People are missing paychecks, losing healthcare, and struggling to feed their families.
 
It's time Republicans get back to Washington and do their jobs.

Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading.

From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.

Maine Rejects Anti-Voting Ballot Measure, Reaffirms Voting Access Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Maine voters rejected a Republican-backed ballot initiative Tuesday that would have imposed new photo ID rules and severely limited mail-in voting — a decisive win for voting rights advocates who said the measure threatened to upend the state’s tradition of accessible elections.

New Poll: Voters Prefer Democratic Candidates Approach To Trans Rights Over Republicans A new poll, which surveys voters who will partake in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races, found that voters were not impressed with Republican anti-trans positions.

wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱
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Repro wins so far:

- Virginia protected its status as the last abortion access haven in the South

- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court retained the three Democratic justices needed to protect abortion

- New Jersey elected a Dem governor (vital as one of the few states w/zero abortion restrictions)

Welcome (back) to the era of the perpetual gerrymander What was once a once-a-decade occurrence has morphed into a standing political arms race

Welcome (back) to the era of the perpetual gerrymander

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Thanks for sharing with us @attorneybencrump.bsky.social - crucially important to have the Black Press telling the truth!

This 1964 photo of the Starship Enterprise studio model used in filming Star Trek was taken outside the production model shop in Burbank, California. It was commissioned by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, a Texan who was born in El Paso in 1921.

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Thanks for sharing your brilliant idea @drharmony.net !

@warren.senate.gov
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@trahan.house.gov

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

Argh! Here we go again with “establishment” news - so sorry @leximcmenamin.com - keep us posted on your next moves!

@erininthemorning.com please take note too!

"Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings." ~ Nelson Mandela

Fund SNAP. Reverse the Medicaid cuts. Restore USAID.

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@resist.bot at it again!

Done, @resist.bot !

Yes, @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social !

The failure of the Democratic Party will be…

Sudan Isn’t a Civil War. It’s an Empire-Fueled Genocide. A guest post by Mo Seifeldein, a Sudanese-American refugee and attorney

If you want clear and accurate info to understand what is happening in Sudan, and how you can help stop this genocide, here is the piece that will provide you that clarity.

This is a guest piece by Sudanese-American attorney Mo Seifeldein. Please read & share.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/sudan-isnt...

Trump could easily release SNAP funding, but had to be taken to court. He must immediately release the contingency funding instead of forcing Americans to go hungry since he refuses to negotiate and open the government.

Sign this petition - let’s get a vote to release the Epstein Files!