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gisele600.bsky.social

@gisele600.bsky.social
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90-year old Holocaust survivor, Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. I have strong opinions about politics, economics, societal problems and a life well lived.

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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 3h
$750,000 to replace a roof?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
WHERE IS JAMES TALARICO? #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If they are removed from the rolls and they are citizens, they need to get their birth certificates or their passports and get reinstated. Saving democracy is not a spectator sport, voters have a responsibility in these dire times to do their part. #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every stitch tells a story of love, community, and remembrance. Volunteers across MN created the "Stolen Neighbors Quilt" with 11,000 squares to honor Minnesotans detained by ICE. Each fabric square represents a neighbor, a family member, and a life impacted by deportation. We stand for Justice!
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MUST WATCH: Incredible video by my friend and colleague about a revolutionary way to solve America's economic problems for the benefit of all: docs.google.com/videos/d/159... #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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Intro to the FFP
The Financial Freedom Plan answers our nation's toughest economic problems. It provides real solutions that would vastly improve the lives of all Americans at different economic levels.
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There are 3 things that CONGRESS can do by itself: Add 4 members to SCOTUS & impose term limits; repeal Citizens United; eliminate gerrymandering & members' ability to invest in stocks. If they do this on Day 1, they'll transform our political system. #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I also read that 5000 recipients of food stamps are in the Armed Forces. That is beyond the pale. Not to mention that we taxpayers subsidize American industries to the tune of hundreds of $billions and that’s what we call capitalism. #following #news #EconSky #AcademicSky
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OMG. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Two million likes on TikTok… and counting.
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is what a general strike could look like if the election is either not certified or Mike Jackson refuses to seat the newly elected Dems. No one buys anything for a week. In America only money talks. #news #following #EconSky #AademicSky
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We want real change. Add four justices to the Supreme Court and impose time limit, eliminate gerrymandering and congressional stock trading and repeal citizens United for a start. #news #following
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Don’t pay attention to the polls that have been wrong so many times starting in 2016. REGISTER TO VOTE AND THEN DO IT!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I just heard Talarico’s rousing speech in Plano, TX on YouTube & his first actions one day 1 in the Senate will be repeal Citizens United, eliminate gerrymandering, forbid Congress members from trading stocks, and reform SCOTUS. My agenda exactly! #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here is the agenda: Add 4 members to SCOTUS (Congress changed their number 6 times since 1789)and institute term limits; repeal Citizens United; eliminate gerrymandering & the ability for members of Congress to invest in stocks. These are systemic changes that it can make. #news #following #EconSky
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 07/09/2026
Evidence doesn't mean shit to these people. They call states the labs of democracy, do strict work requirements and we all see it utterly fail, but they keep pushing for what doesn't work while watching successful experiment after experiment of UBI, and lie about them failing and then even ban them.
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
George Carlin quotes never get old.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Unions power the economy. Unions build the middle class. Unions fight for fairness. I'm so honored to be endorsed by strong Michigan unions.
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Such a good point! I ask myself the same question.
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I love that song!
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
He admitted to spending decades trying to pull us into war with Iran. He finally found someone stupid enough to do it.
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
One more reason for a blue wave: TFG won’t be able to replace Alito and Thomas with 40 year olds. #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
That’s why the Dems need a Project 2029 that falls in the purview of Congress: Add 4 Supreme Court judges and impose time limits, repeal Ciizens United, eliminate gerrymandering, forbid members of Congress to trade stocks, and get serious about reining in AI. #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The number of SCOTUS members has been changed by Congress 6 times between 1789 and 1869. It's time to add 4 members since there are now 13 federal circuit courts. This is not a radical idea, it's a practical, logical one. #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Watch this 2WAY debate about UBI hosted by Michael Moynahan: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxFT... #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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AI, Job Loss, and UBI: The Fight Over the Future of Work
YouTube video by 2WAY
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As the battle royale about AI data centers rages on, keep in mind the finding of this report and check out how your job will be affected: basicincometoday.com #view #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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Home Page - Basic Income Today
Universal Basic Income, Explained Debated Implemented Calculated Learn More Learn More AI is changing everything. Now what?Learn what this means to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxFT0s-1pjI HIG...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social is simply 1 of the greatest, most inspirational candidates to emerge in years, running against Ken Paxton, one of the most disgracefully corrupt politicians of all-time. So the Texas GOP responds by doing what comes naturally to them, of course: CHEATING! 🤮
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
He's the real deal and can flip the Senate seat in Texas. For the sake of our country, contribute to his campaign. #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ken Paxton has spent more than a decade running from debates. He said he’d debate James Talarico. Then he missed deadline after deadline. Today Talarico accepted CNN’s invitation. Paxton still hasn’t. A coward who won’t stand on a stage and answer questions isn’t ready to represent Texas.
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Talarico accepts CNN debate invitation. Will Ken Paxton join him?
Paxton’s campaign says he plans to debate, but he has not publicly committed to the invitations Talarico has accepted.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
TEXANS, VOTE FOR TALARICO!
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
No matter how good a president he was, he did 2 unforgivable things that got us into the nightmare we are living in today: he appointed Merrick Garland as AG and he refused to step down in time as he had promised. #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Imagine if we did as John Rawls posited in ”A Theory of Justice” and, operating under a veil of ignorance that kept us from knowing who we would be, then chose organizing principles for the world we would live in. It would look very different from our current reality. #news #following #AcademicSky
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 29/08/2026
I finally got around to watching this video by @barryseconomics.bsky.social about UBI and it's superb. It feels like a video informed by multiple articles I've written, especially my rats in cages one. I'd go so far as to say it's among the best UBI videos ever made. A++. Watch and share widely.
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Why The Rich Think The Poor Are Lazy
YouTube video by Barry's Economics
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
That’s a cop out! What effect does supporting down ballot candidates in Texas “who don’t have the money” have on the fate of our country? Unlike all the other Dems who lost important primaries, she refuses to campaign for James Talarico. She’s a sore loser. #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
NO, not restore, transform. Our ancient, perverse and deficient political system had better be completely overhauled because it stopped serving We the People a long time ago. And if the Dems don‘t understand that, all is lost. #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Really??? Texas down- ballot races are more important than flipping the Senate? As we are staring in the face at the demise of our Republic, that’s “a perfectly reasonable approach? She’s a sore loser. #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thomas Massey keeps talking about reading the names in the Epstein files out loud on the House floor because Congressmen are thus exempt from libel laws. He hasn’t done it. Why doesn’t a Democrat?
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP Dolly Parton. She was an incredible woman who, when fire devasted the town of Gatlinburg, TENN in 2016, provided families with UBI - no questions asked. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kInU...
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The Great Equalizer: What Dolly Parton & a Tennessee Wildfire Can Teach About Universal Basic Income
YouTube video by In The Mesh
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton also provided universal basic income to families devasted by fire in Gatlinburg, TENN in 2016. She was a visionary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kInU...
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The Great Equalizer: What Dolly Parton & a Tennessee Wildfire Can Teach About Universal Basic Income
YouTube video by In The Mesh
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
He’s not going to be Speaker of the House.
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
NOT FOR LONG!
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
And in the meantime, contribute to his campaign - our lives depend on it.
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
JASMINE CROCKETT, TAKE NOTE! Your lack of support for James Talarico is going to cost Dems the Senate seat in Texas. Get out there for the good of the country.
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Way to go, James! Bluesky, donate to his campaign. Remember that Beto O'Rourke lost to Ted Cruz by 2.6% points in 2018 and Ken Paxton ain't a Ted Cruz. #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just imagine 5000 men and women, many of them very young, being trapped like sardines in bunks they share on shifts for 9 months. This is concentration camps conditions for the very people who are willing to put their lives on the line for YOU. #news #following #EconSky #Academic#sky
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
LABELS, LABELS, LABELS - It's amazing that we still cling to them even though they don't mean anything anymore. Also true of isms - so retro. #news #following #EconSky #AcademicSky
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I know I've got a special bottle set aside for the occasion. 🎉
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My husband died of pancreatic cancer in 1987 when he was 54 and 31 years later my son died of the same disease at the same age even though it’s not hereditary
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 13/08/2026
Those who benefit most from the system want you to believe that the problems with the system are not systemic problems and are instead the fault of individuals and groups operating within the system. And the best way to avoid systemic reforms is to get those individuals to blame and hate each other.
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