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Insisting on a better world. Building better communities thru Parks & Recreation accessible to all. Learned thru experience as wife, mom, executive, friend and world traveler. Hoping to help the USA recover after the next +4 years. 🙏 💙🙏 #resist #voteblue

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.
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Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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Left-Coaster @left-coaster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why did I just see a commercial during a college football game featuring tRump and his campaign promises with the by-line "Paid for by the U.S. Government?" WTF? Our tax dollars??? Oh, hell no. I want a refund.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AI advocates say we have no right to stop innovation in the free market. Hogwash. We don’t allow corporations to come up with new nuclear weapons or varieties of cocaine or biological pathogens. We protect the public from certain kinds of innovation. We need guardrails on AI before it’s too late.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Reminder: progressive is mainstream
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65yearcitizen @usa24freedom.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Take 20 seconds , read the whole thing.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/07/2026
We watched Trump's dangerous and deranged speech so you don't have to. Here are the moments you need to know about:
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.
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Gordon Wark 🤬💥😡🔥🕗🕕🕓🕖 @1stwark.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Cartoonists Are The Only Real Journalists Left In The USA.
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Left-Coaster @left-coaster.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Oh I'm feeling this! The hypocrisy is deadening.
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Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026
When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.
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𝔻𝕒𝕟 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥 💙 🇺🇸 @danblueheart.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
From Minnesota Indivisible Alliance: What if the most powerful thing we can do right now… isn’t just march? What if it’s showing the people running this country that we control something they can’t take away: Our labor. Our money. Our participation. Minnesota already proved it. <1>
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/04/2026
WE NEED TO KEEP CALLING THIS OUT BECAUSE IT MATTERS: California is the 4th largest economy on Earth, and the most populous state in the country. This isn’t a place for amateurs. Becerra has the experience for a state this big, this complex, and this consequential. 🧵
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SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"This is an important thing to think about."
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
My Saturday morning thought... If the 75,017,626 people who voted for Kamala would just show up together on one day, this shit would be over.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
AOC: “The mistake that I made, you know, from all the movies that we see growing up about heroes & villains — is that I thought that fascist takeover attempts were going to be architected by evil geniuses — I was not expecting how unearned, nepotistic, mediocre, & just dumb the architects would be”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 06/04/2026
“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.'" These words — spoken by MLK Jr. shortly before he was killed on this day in 1968 — ring just as true now. Let's honor his legacy by continuing the fight for social and economic justice.
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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
War, what is it good for? 🙌🏽 Absolutely nothing‼️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Springsteen aka The Boss still knows how to shake the ground & remind us what really matters. 💃🏽🤘🏽🎸🕺🏼
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Boricuabc2 @boricuabc2.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Let’s be clear. Trump says WE CANT INVEST IN AMERICA cause we are fighjting wars. ONE PROBLEM with that . Six weeks ago we were NOT fighting wars and YOU STILL DIDNT WANT TO INVEST IN AMERICA. SO your logic is WRONG. AGAIN
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
You live somewhere. You care not only about there, but about elsewhere. You care about your home, neighborhood, state, country, region, continent, and world. A violation anywhere pains you. To help overcome violations everywhere attracts you. That is internationalism. It’s exemplary
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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
But we know a president is not a king unless we bow. A dictator is not a dictator unless we bow. Our knees, your knees are not made for bowing to power drunk neo-fascists. We stand and speak truth to power...-Rev. William Barber MARCH 28TH WE MARCH! NO KINGS 3.0 www.nokings.org
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As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
An excerpt from Jesse Jackson’s powerful speech to the Democratic National Convention on July 19, 1988. May he rest in peace.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
gotcha... lol lol lol
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Left-Coaster @left-coaster.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is worth the read from a combat veteran. Is ICE on a mission or a bunch of mercenaries?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸
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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
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Left-Coaster @left-coaster.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
"January 6th didn't fail. It just took five years to succeed."
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Left-Coaster @left-coaster.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
These people are lawless. Soulless. Ungovernable in the most literal sense. They are destabilizing the entire world.
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time? Really American FB
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
We must hold ourselves to the fundamental truth that sovereign nations are sovereign. We must respect and maintain rules-based order. Anything else will lead to chaos and another world war. Congress must act and act swiftly.
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Left-Coaster @left-coaster.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"It was the best attack on sovereignty..." is the punchline that will be used at Trump's trial at some point, hopefully sooner rather than later.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I hear: Maduro deserved it. I answer: That’s not how the law works. That’s how mobs work. I hear: You’re defending Maduro. I answer: No. I’m defending the rule of law. Those are not the same thing. Whether Maduro is good or evil is irrelevant.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Ellen Hopkins @ellenhopkins.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
You know, I'm 70 years old, and I've been thru hell, climbed close to heaven, and touched back down here on Earth, which had everything necessary for humans to thrive. Greed has destroyed much. Maybe it's too late to save it. But we need to try.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12/12/2025
Here’s Zelenskyy, freely walking in Kupyansk that Russia claimed to have occupied. So when we talk about “occupied territories in exchange for peace”, what exactly are we talking about.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Every other high-income country looked at the U.S. model and said, “Absolutely not.” They studied it. They compared outcomes. They saw: ✅highest costs in the world ✅worst equity ✅mediocre health outcomes ✅massive administrative waste ✅medical bankruptcy as a normal life event And they said, No!
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Left-Coaster @left-coaster.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
It seems this Admiral may be a DEI hire - Dangerously Entitled Ignoramus...and now a war criminal.
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Left-Coaster @left-coaster.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Who wouldn't want this in their town? Reading and movies and beauty with enough commerce to keep it running. What a brilliant repurposing!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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Clarefella @clarenafo.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I can't put into the words the visceral hatred I feel towards the administration in the US. The pain their behaviour is causing to Ukrainians is unforgivable. Ukrainians have russians terrorising them with missiles & drones. Now the US is terrorising them with russian demands for capitulation.
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Left-Coaster @left-coaster.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
You go, girl!
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