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Barbra Smith

@mstwiitt.bsky.social
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Dog lover, Never trump, Democracy Defender and Love Bluesky 💙

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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Republicans hid many destructive things in their budget bill. One of them is a hefty national voucher program. $5B/yr in tax credits to subsidize private & religious schools-$20B over 4yrs. Public $$, zero oversight. A backdoor defund of public education masked as “choice.” #HandsOffPublicSchools
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
From MAGA to MAHA… “Our propaganda is not about persuasion. It’s about disorientation. Our real opposition is the media: the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with crap.” -GOP strategist Steve Bannon
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/05/2025
"Everywhere else you look, the Trump administration seems determined to harm our long-term competitiveness and capacity for innovation; the attacks on universities and the dramatic rollback in federally funded research will probably put a damper on our national economic dynamism for decades to come"
publicnotice.co
The Republican budget is an attack on the American economy
Everywhere you look, it delivers blows to America's economic future.
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
CEO median pay $17.1 mm, ⬆️9.7%. surveyed employee median income $85,419 ⬆️ 1.7% yr over yr The S&P 500, ⬆️ 23% in 2024. Co. Profits in the index > 9% Warren Buffett’s compensation- $405,000, only 5x that of a Berkshire Hathaway employee Pay ratios tend to be highest in industries with low wages
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CEO pay rose nearly 10% in 2024 as stock prices and profits soared
The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 10% in 2024 as the stock market enjoyed another banner year and corporate profits rose sharply.
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NYCBlueLady @newyorkcitygirl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
@emgee55.bsky.social @blueskypeg.bsky.social @ronniblue2.bsky.social @sierraheart.bsky.social @anitammartinez.bsky.social @jozefimrich.bsky.social @abbarsha.bsky.social @terasghost.bsky.social @boldsea.osky.social
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corgirules2.bsky.social @corgirules2.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Seems chickening out is becoming a theme in the administration....🐔
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 27/05/2025
Thank you Sen. Elizabeth Warren for sounding the alarm: Trump’s “big beautiful bill” will slam families with an average of $400 more a month in student loan payments. That’s rent. Groceries. Survival. All so billionaires can keep dodging taxes. That’s not policy—it’s punishment.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Her stats line up with CDC data…
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
A lot of states are passing laws that target the LGBTQ+ community — but these 15 are the absolute worst.
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What states are the most dangerous for LGBTQ+ people? Here are the worst 15
A lot of states are passing laws that target the LGBTQ+ community — but these 15 are the absolute worst.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Pentagon power struggle puts Defense Secretary’s future at risk: insiders twp.ai/4imwyb
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Pentagon power struggle puts Defense Secretary’s future at risk: insiders
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 27/05/2025
Pete Hegseth’s own lawyer floated illegal wiretap claims—then denied he ever said it. Trump’s inner circle is eating itself alive. Even his advisers say they “no longer have any idea who or what to believe.” Calling it a clown show would be an insult to clowns. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
If you’re feeling despair about what’s happening, one way to regain control is through action. Here you’ll find steps you can take to resist the Trump regime’s unlawful actions and help protect our democracy.
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Action Alerts: Midweek Edition
More Opportunities for Activism
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Trump administration orders US embassies to stop student visa interviews. Directive could severely delay visa processing and hurt universities that rely on foreign students for revenue. #Pinks #Voices4Victory www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Trump administration orders US embassies to stop student visa interviews
Directive could severely delay visa processing and hurt universities that rely on foreign students for revenue
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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🧵 There’s a new Covid variant, and it’s here… the symptoms are similar to previous variants, but it’s more transmissible. What we need to face now, is the fact that the trump administration WANTS another pandemic situation. How do we know, and why would they? + www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...
cbsnews.com
COVID variant NB.1.8.1 hits U.S. What to know about symptoms, new booster vaccine restrictions
As the Trump administration moves to limit COVID booster vaccines for some, here's what to know about the latest variant NB.1.8.1 and its symptoms.
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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The New York Times, especially Zeynep Tufekci and David Leonhardt, helped make this outcome of needless child COVID-19 deaths a reality. They should be ashamed of themselves and ridiculed whenever they dare to show their faces in public. Pitiful pieces of anti-vax garbage.
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Congressman Glenn Ivey (MD-04) @ivey.house.gov · 26/05/2025
Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.
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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy rotten system.” Meet Catholic anarchist Dorothy Day. Day founded the Catholic worker movement and aimed to emulate Jesus by serving the poor and fighting for social justice. 🙏🏻@jeremyalder (IG)
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Armed Maidan: Ukraine Resists ruzzian Genocide @armedmaidan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Thanks for sharing this! “They hit us with everything. Even a fucking KAB" The Dronho drone unit miraculously survived a KAB bomb & drone strike They lived but their equipment is gone Please join the Wild Hornets drones raffle to urgently rearm them EEEpic prizes!⤵️ bsky.app/profile/arme...
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
“The fear to speak. In America?” CBS’ Scott Pelley asked. “If our government is—in Lincoln’s words—‘of the people, by the people and for the people’—then why are we afraid to speak?” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-s...
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Snapshot: Scott Pelley Tells the Truth
The CBS '60 Minutes' correspondent did not hold back in his Wake Forest commencement address, providing another powerful and necessary pushback
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Lisa Kornkven @lisakornkven.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Not one single comment about the service or sacrifice of US soldiers no longer with us in Trump's "Memorial Day" rant. Such an awful man.
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
White House stunned as Hegseth inquiry brings up illegal wiretap claims. Trump advisers lose confidence in Pentagon leak investigation Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
White House stunned as Hegseth inquiry brings up illegal wiretap claims
Exclusive: Trump advisers lose confidence in Pentagon leak investigation Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
#Project2025 Even as we fight and try to stay positive, it's critical that we prepare for the worst. We don't have time for head-in-the-sand optimism. Here are things that are already a reality, things they're attempting to do, and some crucial steps everyone must take NOW:
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Barbra Smith @mstwiitt.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
So sorry, Hope god gives you the strength to carry on. I know that’s what Bode wants you to do. There’s no love like a dogs love. ❤️
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Republicans called cancelling student loan debt a “giveaway” to the working class, so Trump is restarting predatory student loan repayments to fund tax breaks that are giveaways to corporations and the super-wealthy. This what an oligarchy robbing us blind looks like.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/05/2025
Spare us. Trump was buddy-buddy with Putin, then acts shocked when his dictator friend acts like… a dictator.
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Joseph In THEE OC 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈 @ocjoseph424.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I just saw an electronic billboard slamming Young Kim for voting to cut Medicaid and Snap benefits. I’m glad someone had the money to do it and I hope that more go up either near or in CA40.
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Rotimi Adeoye @rotimia.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Obama being more Irish than JD Vance is funny lol
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The Ukrainian president has more respect for America's war dead than the U.S. president.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
This Memorial Day I am thinking of the lives lost in service to our country, and I encourage you to honor the sacrifices so many have made to defend our freedoms.
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🦋❄️🍁Baron🍁❄️🦋 @baron333.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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Annette ☮️ (annettebeebe.bsky.social) 💙 @annettebeebe.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
@annettebeebe.bsky.social Thank you ray! @raykwong.bsky.social @sallywho.bsky.social @mandywhite.bsky.social @mandywhite.bsky.social @irisheyes353.bsky.social @jaxhuddles.bsky.social @jag032507.bsky.social @amybaugh16.bsky.social @dmrh0720.bsky.social @annettebeebe.bsky.social
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Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion @nateturner.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
"We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator.…we take an oath to the Constitution.…and we're willing to die to protect it" - Mark Milley, 2023 #MemorialDay
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Why is a 5-time draft dodger allowed to be Commander-in-Chief of the US armed forces? Explain it to me like I'm 10 years old.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
#ResistanceRoots Sally Ride was born on this day in 1951 in Los Angeles. In 1983, Ride became the first American woman and youngest American astronaut to fly in space. She flew on the space shuttle Challenger as operator of the robotic arm used to deploy and retrieve communication satellites. /1
Sally Ride communicates with ground controllers from the flight deck during the STS-7 mission. Photo credit: U.S. National Archives and Records.
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Sheryl with an S @beachblond52.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
#ProudBlueVets #ResistanceUnited It saddens me on this somber day as we honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for our country, that the man who calls himself President would say this. It is infuriating and embarrassing. It is he who is destroying our country. A man so full of hate.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Instead of simply wishing people well this Memorial Day, here are five concrete policies that will protect servicemembers abroad and on the home front:
I’m in a green coat and holding a sign reading, “Infrastructure needs repair. Vets need good jobs. Hmmm…” next to a woman holding a sign reading, “FULLY FUND AND FULLY STAFF V.A. HOSPITALS”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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Maca Iglesias @rotterdamvvg.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
On Memorial Day, we remember all who gave their lives for our nation—including generations of Hispanic Americans who served with valor and pride. Their courage is woven into the fabric of our freedom. We honor them today and always. #MemorialDay #OnYourSide #ATuLado
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
These 50501 Protest Signs 😂
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The American Resistance is rising. Bonespurs Trump’s unhinged Memorial Day rant serves to remind us just how little respect he has for our military. youtu.be/ZOvHC5pOjNg?...
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Trump DERANGED Memorial Day Message is OUR CALL TO RESIST
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
‘Terrifying’: Trump cuts CDC’s drowning-prevention team The loss of the CDC’s drowning-prevention unit is one that water safety advocates fear will have a direct impact on children’s safety.
politico.com
‘Terrifying’: Trump cuts CDC’s drowning-prevention team
The loss of the CDC's drowning-prevention unit is one that water safety advocates fear will have a direct impact on children’s safety.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Should Never Have Been Allowed To Run! Merrick Garland You Could Have Stopped This From Happening….
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Man @kateshaw.bsky.social is very smart and her writing on the Supreme Court is excellent www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/o...
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Memorial Day is always a time that I take a pause and think of the ones I lost in service. Not just my own men but family and my Iraqi partners who risked their lives for me. I went for my traditional hike today. Now I’m grabbing a cold one and lunch. Here are a few of the men I’m thinking of today.
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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
We can only hope this MONSTER pays a horrible price someday for the horrific crimes he’s committed against our people. 👨‍✈️ ☠️ 🚔
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/05/2025
This is completely false and not From Liz or me.
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Americans deserve the freedom to make their own vaccination choices—not have them dictated by the Trump regime. As a new, more contagious COVID variant spreads with moderate symptoms, the regime is restricting access, limiting vaccines to those over 65 or with underlying conditions.
cbsnews.com
COVID variant NB.1.8.1 hits U.S. What to know about symptoms, new booster vaccine restrictions
As the administration moves to limit COVID booster vaccines for some, here's what to know about the latest variant NB.1.8.1 and its symptoms.
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