Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. 466203147273
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialCory Booker @corybooker.com · 28/10/2025Something to think about. 26341128
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialIndivisible Oregon ❌👑 @indivisible-oregon.bsky.social · 16/10/2025(Sound up 🎶) 🎸 The Ballad of the Portland Frog Brigade 🐸 🎶 “Ribbit, ribbit, let freedom sing — ain’t nothin’ so strong as a silly thing!” 🎶 #WarRavagedPortland youtu.be/QGtBfOdnG24youtu.beThe Ballad of the Portland Frog BrigadeYouTube video by Hot Garbage Productions 617671
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2025AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them. 745362509776
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialCory Booker @corybooker.com · 17/10/2025This is a beautiful truth. 28838296
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialCongresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 20/09/2025The most corrupt administration we have ever seen. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t... 23548651773
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2025While 🇺🇸 farms go under… 2869118004564
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act. 17356057017512
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18/09/2025This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy. 1045172584416
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialWriters Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18/09/2025WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! 842264198716
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialLuca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Austin Labor Day: really catchy music and great energy! Really love the vibe! 3255641346
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.social🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 02/09/2025A comfortable life used to be the American Dream. Not being a financial mogul. Not fighting for the top spot on the food chain. Working to get your share of the pie with the whip cream on top. Grabbing enough food to fill your plate, but leaving plenty on the table for others. Let’s do that again. 11856111012
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 10/08/2025 A bit of Marcel Proust today on this Sunday: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." let us try each day to awake and look out into the world and at other human beings with new eyes and with empathy, kindness, and understanding. 1426043
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/07/2025NEW statement from Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal: "We have full confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reporting, and will vigorously defend against any lawsuit." 494194183382
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialLaurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Inhumane, degrading, idiotic mass firings of career diplomats is par for the course in Trumpworld www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...nbcnews.comVeteran U.S. diplomats baffled after mass layoffs at State DepartmentCurrent and former foreign service officers gathered outside federal buildings on Friday to "clap out" their colleagues who had been laid off. 40851581640
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialFrank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 10/07/2025The Financial Times, on Trump's tariffs: 062
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/07/2025Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.newyorker.com4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a MomentIn the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system. 24368881854
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸 999587279048
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025I used to think of vice signaling as a minor point about political communication. now I wonder if we need to develop it as a core aspect of political theory, at least as far as the Americas are concerned 2074823977
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025happy bday Canadian-born American writer Saul Bellow, b.1915. “Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.” “A man is only as good as what he loves.” “Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.” 1660191
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialFrank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Madeline Albright was born #OTD 1937. 02812
franceslouise.bsky.social @franceslouise.bsky.social · 08/05/2025www.youtube.com/shorts/Mj6N-...youtube.comRonald Reagan on TariffsYouTube video by Pitchfork Economics 010
franceslouise.bsky.social @franceslouise.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I’m realizing that Trump knew as much about our Constitution as he did about “groceries.” 010
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialRobert M. @rmincal.bsky.social · 11/04/2025When stocks go down and bonds go up, that’s normal. When stocks go down and bonds go down, the world has lost confidence in the U.S. and its credit. Trump caused that. The world knows Trump’s an idiot. We can either go down with him or repudiate him. Impeachment is the only way out. Remove Trump. 1240245
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialFrank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 08/03/2025"Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them." -- William Howard Taft, who died #OTD 1930 310530
Reposted by @franceslouise.bsky.socialMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Nailed it www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...nytimes.comOpinion | This Never Happened With an American President BeforeTrump’s behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky was an unparalleled break with American foreign policy. 1746313835860