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Elena Delavega

@mudkitten.bsky.social
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Fulbright Scholar & Professor of Social Work. My research centers on poverty and on how blaming the poor for their poverty results the erosion of the social system.

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Dr. K @katekaynak.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
E. Jean Carroll, one of my personal heroes, took on Trump and won. She’s one of the bravest people I’ve met. She shared some thoughts on Trump and Epstein’s awful friendship.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Union elections plummeted last year after Trump gutted the NLRB — while the cost of living soars and corporate profits hit record highs. Unions are the key to taking on corporate power and increasing working people’s standard of living. No wonder Trump wants to eradicate them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Renee Nicole Good was murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed. The next could be you. What’s at stake isn’t just American democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones. This is personal — to every one of us.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few. Democrats must remember this — and act on it.
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Saul Alinsky would approve
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
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The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Citation: The Panda’s Thumb, Part 4, ch. 13 “Wide Hats and Narrow Minds” (1980)
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The idea that they can avoid all suffering while gleefully leaving people behind to die horrible deaths tells you all you need to know about the cruelty of these Christians. #rapture and by the way, where are the #EpsteinFiles?
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Calling Trump “Hitler” is not exactly accurate. Sometimes he acts like Stalin.
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I would not be surprised if Kirk was murdered by his own side. He was a threat to those holding power and he is now a convenient martyr.
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"All who take the sword will perish by the sword" (Matthew 26:52). He who advocates gun violence will die by gun violence. I don’t like this world we live in, but this is what the Republicans have wrought.
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Lack of empathy leads you to commit the fundamental error that it can never happen to you.
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Houston Poverty Fact Sheet: www.uhd.edu/academics/pu...
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Houston Area Poverty Fact Sheets | University of Houston-Downtown
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Slavery as it existed in the South was the most brutal system of bondage the world has ever experienced. It was so horrific that its effects are felt to this day.
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The threat that taxing billionaires will make them leave is dumb. Without billionaires we can build small businesses, which are the backbone of the economy and without the unfair practices of billionaires, small businesses can actually thrive. Honestly, I can’t wait for billionaires to leave.
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Seadog Dean🦋💙 @seadogdean.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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Jodie 🇦🇺 @jodie.sheshed.rocks · 17/07/2025
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
People are going to die in the street. This is what y’all voted for. #BigUglyBill
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The excessive accumulation of wealth is mental illness. Why would anyone want more money than they can ever use?
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I know that is ridiculous to take such statements seriously but the fact that we are all going to die is exactly why everyone should have access to the best possible medical care regardless of income or employment status.
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The rich are stealing from everyone else. For great wealth to exist, great poverty is necessary.
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Tee Vixen Sutton @vixenbite.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This is an important article. We can protect our democracy! www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...?
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I’m A Psychologist Who Specializes In Narcissists. Here’s What We Need To Do To Stop Trump.
"The same patterns that destabilize families destabilize democracies."
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I'm giving you a mission for this Memorial Day holiday weekend. I want you to talk to two people—friends, neighbors, cookout attendees—about why Trump's proposed budget would be a disaster for American kids. We owe the next generation every chance, and this isn't it.
How the Trump budget bill would impact kids. (It would be a disaster.) 

* Drastically cut health care. 15 million Americans, including millions of children, could lose access through Medicaid cuts and ACA marketplace changes. 
* Increase food insecurity. Nearly 11 million people—including 4 million kids—could lose SNAP food assistance. 
* Make families poorer. The bill would kick 4.5 million American kids off the child tax credit.
* Leave AI dangers unchecked. The bill would freeze state-level AI regulation for 10 years, stripping states of the ability to protect kids from deep fakes, exploitation, and more.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Trump's big beautiful bill expands the estate tax exemption yet again. While millions will get kicked off healthcare and lose crucial food assistance, Republicans are enabling the super-rich to pass down their obscene wealth virtually tax free. We must stop this bill.
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A.Better.World @skyladsy.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19/05/2025
The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans. You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
They're arresting Members of Congress. Perhaps a sternly-worded letter is in order. Or, perhaps, it's time to play some damn hardball with the DOJ.
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SheepDog @lenny60.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Absolutely 💯
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Macron shook one hand.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Today marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, which began the American Revolution. Our nation was founded on resistance to arbitrary authority and monarchical power. We built a democracy in the face of impossible odds. We must continue to protect it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/04/2025
Glad House Dems are demanding a full briefing—because immigration agents showed up at L.A. elementary schools, and DHS lied about it. Watch the video. Hear the truth from L.A.’s superintendent. Then ask why the hell Homeland Security is targeting kids. Don’t let this go!!!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 12/04/2025
NEW: For months, @juliaangwin.com and I have been interviewing foreign dissidents and opposition leaders. Today The New Yorker published our practical guide to courage in Trump's age of fear. If you want to oppose authoritarianism, but fear for your job, freedom, or way of life, this is for you 🧵:
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So You Want to Be a Dissident?
A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear.
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Elena Delavega @mudkitten.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is unconstitutional! This is abuse of power!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.
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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"We now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will." — Martin Luther King Jr., March 31, 1968
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Gayle Harris @gayleharris.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Bernie is very wise.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Our economy is far larger than it was decades ago. Where have most of the gains gone? To the top. Any path forward must include a fight to restructure the economy toward more widely shared prosperity. This isn’t a blue state vs. red state phenomenon. It’s a class phenomenon.
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AMPTsuper @amptsuper.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
@brianstelter.bsky.social @cnn.com ya'll covering this? Massive crowds @betoorourke.bsky.social @timwalzparody.bsky.social
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.
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