Reposted by Phaedra BlockerDrHello @drhellodarkness.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Doge wasted $22 billion. Thanks, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social . www.inc.com/chris-morris...inc.comDOGE Is Accused of Wasting $21.7 Billion in Just 6 MonthsHere are five takeaways from Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal's new 54-page report accusing DOGE of waste. 32989373
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerCAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 13/05/2025Even if you're on private insurance, the Republican budget will screw you over too, @aoc.bsky.social explains. #NoMedicaidCuts 152068507
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerSocial Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 13/05/2025WATCH: @aoc.bsky.social explains how the Republican bill will: - Gut Medicaid - Increase premiums for private health insurance - Force rural hospitals to close All to give a giant tax handout to billionaires. 11051881564
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Back-to-back headlines on Washpost homepage tonight 39981264
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerDiane Langberg, PhD @dianelangberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2025How people habitually respond to the poor in their midst will always be revealed in a crisis. When a crisis comes, people simply do what they practice. 0857
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Because facts matter. substack.com/@nathanjun/n...substack.comNathan Jun on SubstackThe part that I hate is the this is not complicated. This is 9th grade economics that 33% of Americans refuse to look into. 010
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 12/05/2025substack.com/@thisisrobin...substack.comRobina Qureshi on SubstackIn Tel Aviv last night, a quiet protest is growing. Each week, a group of Israelis gathers to hold photographs of Palestinian children killed in Gaza. No chants, no speeches—just the faces of those er... 020
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerThe Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 07/05/2025The most important lesson in macroeconomics: There’s a big difference between “B” and “T” Trump must’ve been out sick that day at Wharton 1221958
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 06/05/2025substack.com/@politicsusa...substack.comTruth Matters on SubstackThis is EXACTLY how they are going to cut Medicaid under the guise of handing it to the states. I’ll let @GregLandsman explain, because he’s on the Energy &Commerce Committee where it’s all going to ... 010
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerBeth Loves to Travel @skywalkerbeth.bsky.social · 06/05/2025It was Mark Twain who said "war is how you teach Americans geography" Well, Donald is how you teach Americans how the government works and now how tariffs work. 1142771
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 05/05/2025substack.com/@politicsusa...substack.comTruth Matters on SubstackOnce you decide you are going to take food from the mouths of poor children to feed the rich, you know you are lost in the wilderness of GREED. This is a government that is making Darwinism Great Aga... 000
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 05/05/2025substack.com/@bluepowerde...substack.comAUTHOR KRISTEN STAFFORD -HOWE on Substack 000
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 03/05/2025substack.com/@politicsusa...substack.comTruth Matters on SubstackI’m afraid to say we are crossing into the Twilight Zone. The Republican Party should henceforth be called the Cruelty Party. NEVER has a Party become so disconnected from those they represent. Repub... 000
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 03/05/2025substack.com/@v1per4/note...substack.comRemy Calix | V1PER-4 on Substack 000
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 03/05/2025substack.com/@politicsusa...substack.comTruth Matters on SubstackWhat was it the late great John Lewis said? “The women will save us”. Rep Sydney Kamlager-Dove is saying in her special way is WTF???? If there were ever a time when the rights of a U.S. citizen n... 000
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/05/2025Trump’s proposed budget slashes billions for essential programs that millions of Americans rely on—just to hand over $1 trillion for military spending overseen by Pete Hegseth and help give massive tax breaks to the wealthy. 26135021445
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerJorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Those who can, shld donate like crazy. It’s a very visible form of resistance. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...npr.orgTrump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBSIn an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters. 24487161
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Let's be clear. It's not "deportation." U.S. citizens can not be deported. It's kidnapping and expulsion--most likely to for-profit torture prisons like CECOT. substack.com/@beverlystei...substack.comBeverly on SubstackBreaking: republicans voted that Trump can deport citizens 000
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 30/04/2025open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...open.substack.comApril 29, 2025President Franklin Delano Roosevelt popularized the idea that the first 100 days of a presidency established an administration’s direction. 000
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 29/04/2025substack.com/@badchoicesm...substack.comBad Choices on Substack 000
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 29/04/2025substack.com/@thisisrobin...substack.comR Qureshi on SubstackHero. 000
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 29/04/2025substack.com/@brcremer/no...substack.comRev. Benjamin R. Cremer on SubstackRemember in 2016 when an armed Christian man, stormed into a Washington D.C. pizza shop convinced that there were trafficked children in the basement because of the PizzaGate conspiracy theory only to... 000
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerDiane Langberg, PhD @dianelangberg.bsky.social · 29/04/2025It misrepresents God when we tell victims of atrocious, life-changing abuse to simply forgive and forget. Forgiveness of any wrong, let alone a life-shattering one, is never a “just do it” task. 06917
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/04/2025For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.bit.lyFor nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their familiesFor nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. 8617351265
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 27/04/2025For all the folks who thought it was only going to happen to the Brown people... substack.com/@pissedlibta...substack.comThe pissed Libtard Snowflake on SubstackAmerican Citizens Being detained on a roadway!!! Not border 000
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerJewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 25/04/2025Starving children to death is not a Talmudic instruction The UN World Food Programme says it has depleted all its food stocks in Gaza, where Israel has blocked deliveries of humanitarian aid for seven weeks. "Today, WFP delivered its last www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4wvvn… 1/2 1119
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 26/04/2025This. substack.com/@desireebste...substack.comDesireé B Stephens on SubstackI hear your longing for solidarity — but I need to be very clear: Solidarity is not possible without accountability. You can’t skip the rupture-repair cycle and expect a real foundation to hold you.... 000
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 25/04/2025This is a major change in how the government presumes to protect news media right to obtain info through leaks, effectively stripping protections. I should add it was pretty quickly leaked to me 10638186
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Newsom: In 2023, Californians contributed $83.1 billion more to the federal government than we received back. And for your viewers: that other state—Texas—took $71.1 billion more than it contributed to the federal government. California: $83 billion, contributor. Texas: taker. 731213047183
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 24/04/2025substack.com/@bookersquar...substack.comElizabeth Booker Houston on SubstackThe truth about this autism database proposed by RFK Jr… 000
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 23/04/2025substack.com/@politicalwi...substack.comPolitical Witch on Substack 000
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 23/04/2025substack.com/@thisisrobin...substack.comR Qureshi on SubstackFor over 50 days, Israel has not allowed a grain of wheat or a drop of water into Gaza. It has murdered four water engineers trying to repair the very desalination plant it previously bombed. The fa... 000
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/04/2025This, as the Department of Education, now on life support, will use its remaining power and staff to begin collecting on student loans paused since the pandemic. 802551791
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerJose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 21/04/2025"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States. 2605153314213
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerMelanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 21/04/2025The difference between Christianity and Christian Nationalism is a Pope who advocated for our most marginalized and a woman who considers him evil for doing so. 938139323130
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerMachine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 19/04/2025We could have been talking about $25K down payment assistance for new homeowners in a thriving economy right now, but here we are. 342159353147
Reposted by Phaedra Blockerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/04/2025they want us poor, sick and desperate 921233526475
Reposted by Phaedra Blockervictorienne.bsky.social @victorienne.bsky.social · 17/04/2025@aoc.bsky.social @briantylercohen.bsky.social @beschlossdc1776.bsky.social @weissmann.substack.com @hcrichardson.bsky.social @corybooker.com @repjasmine.bsky.social PLEASE spread the word. www.change.org/p/save-ameri...change.orgSign the PetitionSave Americorps NCCC 5361161
Reposted by Phaedra Blockerscha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 17/04/2025"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News 385281147304
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 17/04/2025substack.com/@regenfuturi...substack.comBian Li on SubstackMy great-grandfather & most of his family were executed without trial—for being wealthy. My maternal grandparents were imprisoned for 2 years—for being professors. My paternal grandmother was beaten... 000
Phaedra Blocker @pdblocker.bsky.social · 16/04/2025substack.com/@phaedrabloc...substack.comPhaedra Blocker on SubstackThe waste of time, money, and platform is astounding. 😑 000
Reposted by Phaedra BlockerGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Never forget. 6844281362
