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@itisthatsimple.bsky.social
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Former federal employee; extremely proud of the important work we did to protect public health. I retired just before the sh!t-storm. Now it’s time for all of us to turn the storm around! Storm the Bastille? Nah, storm the bastards!

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IndivisiblePHL ❌👑 @indivisiblephl.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#IndivisiblePhiladelphia is pleased to share that Philadelphia’s Police Department reported ZERO incidents during today’s #NoKings Rally & March despite 25000+ in attendance. #GOBIRDS #IndivisblePA @indivisible.org @indivisiblepa.bsky.social
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Gotta go cleanse my internal feed...........gonna stare out the window at my garden, at the birds, at the trees, at the sky, and at the rain.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 07/04/2025
My favourite library quote is from newsman Walter Cronkite: ‘Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation’
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
What makes this visual even more stunning is that it was made possible by people who said their #1 concern when voting was the economy. What idiots.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I didn’t want this to happen. I voted for the smart black lady.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less.
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
West Chester on Saturday! Makes me PA proud (even tho I'm a Jersey girl) #WestChesterPA @indivisible.org @indivisiblechesco.bsky.social #HandsOff @maddow.msnbc.com @gerstkitty.bsky.social
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
All who showed up in West Chester on Saturday, your signs were 🔥! #WestChesterPA @indivisible.org @indivisiblechesco.bsky.social #HandsOff @maddow.msnbc.com @gerstkitty.bsky.social
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Tough to pic a fav sign at the HandsOff protest in West Chester on Saturday! The signs were 🔥! #WestChesterPA @indivisible.org @indivisiblechesco.bsky.social #HandsOff @maddow.msnbc.com @gerstkitty.bsky.social
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Sending all my love to all who showed up in West Chester on Saturday! Your signs were 🔥! #WestChesterPA @indivisible.org @indivisiblechesco.bsky.social #HandsOff @maddow.msnbc.com @gerstkitty.bsky.social
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It's been a couple of weeks, but when @karaswisher.bsky.social was on @maddow.msnbc.com she said a couple of amazing things: they (tech bros?) are ".....frequently wrong but never in doubt" and Trump is a "coin-operated president". Thank you both for a great interview. #VoteTrumpOut
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John Stone @jdstone.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
FYI
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Just burn a cardboard one. Please. Thanks.
Listen.  I bought my Tesla 6 years ago, b4 Elon went full micro dosing.  Back then, the only other EV was a, frankly, ugly Nissan Leaf.  In addition, we were moving to a state where you have to pump your own gas. Gasoline fumes make my lungs burn and itch. And if I get it on my skin, I get bad hives.  So, my choices were limited. There’s better protest things to do than set cars on fire.
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#stockmarketmanipulation
Trump is clearly going to “milk the market” 
for him and all his rich friends.  Drive the market down as far as possible, then all the rich people can buy waayyy more stocks than they could before, and then they’ll reap all the money - mmmmmm, all that milk - as the stock market goes back up.  “We can’t lose” ?   Who’s “we” butt-munch?
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
If you get out there and protest no matter the weather, if you write emails and letters to your Congress people, if you leave your representatives voicemails, if you call the White House, THANK YOU. And I love you.
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This s some gestapo-type shit.
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
And he continues to do things for which he should be convicted.
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
americansfortaxfairness.org/undocumented...
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How Undocumented Immigrants Contribute to Our Economy & Pay Higher Tax Rates Than Many Major Corporations - Americans For Tax Fairness
In 2022 America’s 10.9 million undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in taxes.  That included $19.5 billion in federal income taxes and $32.3 billion in federal payroll taxes.  On a state and loc...
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In 2022, undocumented immigrants paid a higher tax rate than 283 Fortune 500 corporations. The immigrants paid $96.7 billion in taxes. The corporations paid just $3.7 billion in federal income tax on $200 billion of profits. Immigrants aren't the problem, corporations are.
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Ummm. Isn’t it both? @georgetakei.bsky.social
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
He woulda been good to have in the Ministry of Happiness. A good counterpoint
George Carlin picture and quote: “Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election" ~ George Carlin It’s what we do BEFORE and AFTER the election that counts.
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
If only George was still alive ❤️ "If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain" ~ George Carlin
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Please do your homework before you come for my Tesla. I bought mine over 5 years ago. I’m a registered Democrat. And I fucking hate Trump, Elon, the silent Republicans, the silent (probably rich) Democrats, and what they are all doing to my country.
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
March 20, 2025 what are we gonna do to get there? www.un.org/en/observanc... @unesco.org unescobmw.org/2025/03/04/i...
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International Day of Happiness- 20th March, 2025 | UNESCO Body & Mind Wellness Club
The Origin The International Day of Happiness, celebrated annually on March 20th, underscores the importance of happiness and well-being in people’s lives. It traces its roots to Bhutan, where King Ji...
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Cabinet is FULLof #ultracrepidarians
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Conditions at FDA are a collective microcosm of our entire government leadership. Broken, missing, and cramped. 💔 🇺🇸 💔
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Nauseatingly outrageous 🤬😡🤮🤢🤬😡
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Been taking a break from all news. Til now. Watching John’s Monday show. Ummm. Shorts? Gym? Inhibitions? What the complete and actual fuck, Chuck? Fav quote: Don’t you have to start it in order to keep at it?!?!?!???!?!
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Thank you Brandon. Philly, South Jersey, and all the Eagles fans love you so much. 💚🦅💚 @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social @phleaglesnation.bsky.social @6abcactionnews.bsky.social
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Perhaps all that rotted food should be scooped up with front end loaders and dumped on the lawn in front of the Capitol. And/or the White House, if there’s enough.
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Yahoo. Yahoo. Yahoo. Sometimes that’s the only fun I have all week.
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Uhhhhh. What ? www.yahoo.com/news/donald-...
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Donald Trump, of All People, Says It ‘Should Be Illegal’ to Criticize Judges
The president has routinely lashed out at judges, and his White House team keeps doing so now
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮 If you can’t take criticism, you pussy, then get out of politics. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-c...
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Trump Calls to Jail Opponents, Says Negative Press Coverage Should be ‘Illegal’ in Dark Speech at DoJ
Trump previously threatened to use presidential power against his enemies and reiterated complaints about CNN, MSNBC and newspapers The post Trump Calls to Jail Opponents, Says Negative Press Coverage...
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
It’s just one WTF after another Keep your filthy hands off my data. www.yahoo.com/news/19-old-...
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A 19-year-old who was reportedly fired from an internship for leaking internal information to competitors is now a DOGE ‘senior advisor’ in the State Department
Edward Coristine was most recently in his freshman year at Northeastern University, where he studied engineering.
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Just another WTF. Tech bros who don’t know how to read data. Dumbasses www.yahoo.com/news/doge-st...
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DOGE staffers at Social Security have access to Americans’ personal data as Elon Musk hunts for dead people
At least seven DOGE employees were granted access to ‘personally identifiable information,’ government lawyers say
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“The results of background checks for two of the 10 DOGE employees are still pending…” ?!? WTF? I had to go through background checks before I could do ANYTHING in my gov’t job. www.yahoo.com/news/doge-st...
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DOGE Staffer Broke Treasury Rules Transmitting Personal Data
(Bloomberg) -- A staffer for the Department of Government Efficiency violated Treasury Department policies when he sent a spreadsheet containing personal information to two other people in the Trump a...
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
#HitlersPlaybook = #TrumpsPlaybook If ya can’t teach old dogs new tricks, try the old tricks. They seem to work just fine. Damnit www.yahoo.com/news/heres-t...
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Here's A Timeline Of Hitler's First 53 Days In Office — Let Me Know If You Notice Anything Familiar
"The Nazis would use the electoral process of democracy to destroy democracy."
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Yo Philly. You know what to do. You know when. You know where 👇🏼 @jawnphilly.bsky.social #philly #philadelphia #jawnphilly
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Time for more distractions. Look over there. While I fuck up shit at home.
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
As a former federal employee, I went through a shutdown. It was not that bad. And if a shutdown ensures a dangerous law/policy doesn’t get put in place, it’s damn well worth it. There’s NO contest between a a few days/weeks’ shutdown and a years-long awful law/policy. It IS that damn simple.
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
You might have to listen to this a few time to get it all. But it’s worth a listen. Thanks @bennjordan.bsky.social youtu.be/gqtrNXdlraM
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You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“Weasel words” is an Americanism that paints a vivid picture of cowardly deception. “Politicians, in particular, are well-known for making use of equivocal language as a way of hiding their true actions.” www.dictionary.com/browse/Wease... @dictionary.com www.dictionary.com/e/weasel-wor...
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Weasel Words And Other Ways We Avoid Telling The Truth
Sometimes a lie isn't a lie, it's an avoidance of the truth. People have learned many ways to skirt the direct truth, and we're here to expose them for you.
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We need to elect people who want to work, to serve, & not spend their time getting re-elected “According to federal records, the House works about two days a week and the Senate works a little more than that.” www.thoughtco.com/average-numb... your thoughts @chrislhayes.bsky.social ?
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How Many Days Do Members of Congress Work in a Year?
Find out how many days Congress works in a year. See how the average workweek for Congress compares to that of the average American worker.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
In a nutshell.
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Stand&Fight A CALL TO ARMS (to hold up protest signs). If you got fired, are unemployed, or retired, get out there and shout for your rights!! Turn off the TV, get off social media, and find your local chapter of @indivisible.org @aclu.org @aarpfoundation.bsky.social Or just @runforsomething.net
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
@politico.com @maddow.msnbc.com Children and other immature people are running our country. What would your boss, coworkers, or customers say if you did this?!?? bsky.app/profile/madd...
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
#FreeKhalil He is a permanent, legal resident of the United States and has not been charged with a crime (cuz he hasn’t committed one!) #ProtestingIsNotAcrime #FreeSpeechIsARight @jamieraskin.com.web.brid.gy @scanlon.house.gov
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itisthatsimple.bsky.social @itisthatsimple.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Ww should pronounce “DOGE” like “dodge”….Like dodge accountability, dodge transparency, dodge the law, dodge reality, dodge decency, dodge maturity, dodge integrity, dodge honesty, dodge accuracy, dodge competence, & dodge trustworthiness @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social @spotlightondoge.bsky.social
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