Reposted by Peggy SchafferJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. The first story is fear; the second is how economies work. 7033831125
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Waterville Maine. Sunny. Chilly @velshi.com 030
Reposted by Peggy SchafferFred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026WHILE EVERYONE IS NOW FOCUSING ON THE VENEZUELA DIVERSION, PLEASE DO NOT FORGET THAT JANUARY 6TH, THE ANNIVERSARY OF THIS PRESIDENTS ORGANIZED ATTACK ON WASHINGTON DC, IS ONLY THREE DAYS AWAY!!! 511327472
Reposted by Peggy SchafferSean’s Pen {technically speaking} @seangon.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Another Starlink outage just as the Trump regime is making states re-do their broadband expansion plans to move $$ away fr fiber builds to lining Elon’s pockets with tax dollars for satellite Internet And they call it they’re calling it the “benefit of the bargain” with a straight face 🙄 021
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025 The Sec of Defense is not the job for “rookies”. www.rawstory.com/hegseth-2671...rawstory.comHegseth's Signal leak is 'raising serious questions' as 'rookie mistakes' pile up: NYTAccording to a report from the New York Times, Pete Hegseth's tenure as defense secretary can, at best, be described as a series of "stumbles," with the latest scandal over blurting extraordinary sens... 010
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I hope Greenland gives Vance a Vermont welcome. 010
Reposted by Peggy SchafferaltNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Call your Senator. Ask them to put Schumer in a nursing home. 31772105
Reposted by Peggy SchafferMikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday. 403302998503
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Obeying in advance. No longer part of the resistance. 110
Reposted by Peggy SchafferKathy W @jabber-wocky.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Last night: I watched this video into the wee hours. Took notes. Triggered more insomnia. Today: Amplifying in every way I can. Please watch. May it shape your entire outlook and approach to fighting the fascist Regime 2.0 like it did for me. We are the opposition. We must own it. 48952
Reposted by Peggy SchafferSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22/02/2025“Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it—and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so.” —the defiant Maine Gov. Janet Mills www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...americaamerica.newsWhat Does Defiance Look Like?A Saturday Prompt 421361307
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025@senjoniernst.bsky.social You got played….nytimes.comPete Hegseth Fires Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Navy’s Top OfficerAdm. Lisa Franchetti spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet. 020
Reposted by Peggy SchafferChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office! 985179994899
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025The good people running our government for the people. 000
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Maybe I missed it, but AI development isn’t free. Who is paying to develop the AI for all the systems Musk and his teenage werewolves are putting in place? 000
Reposted by Peggy SchafferAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/02/2025Blumenthal: "It would be one thing if we had some disinterested, impartial business person -- highly successful -- looking at ways to make our govt more efficient and save money. That's not what's happening here. Elon Musk is doing a power grab & information heist, the biggest in American history" 397125483519
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Democrats message: Republicans get NO help until the law breaking stops and you get Musk’s hands out of the till and our social security benefits. No help at all. 000
Reposted by Peggy SchafferMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025“Make no mistake, what’s happening right now is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private agency operating with a broad mandate and no concerns for the stability of the United States or the interests of the average American.”avindman.comHostile Takeover“Department of Government Efficiency” Hijacks The Federal Government 29982362840
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Did anyone notice we did a bomb strike in Somalia today? 000
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Amen. The R’s have tossed out the traditional rule book. Time for the D’s to act like a minority party and block, block block. Everything. Just say no. 000
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 12/01/2025A great summation of Musk, Zuckerberg and Trump. 000
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Why would a state ban a predominantly cleaneconomic engine creating jobs and investing capital? 000
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Amen! Someone who believes in government and its role in helping everyday Americans. 000
Reposted by Peggy SchafferAndrew Kinsey @andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Arguably one of Jimmy Carter's greatest achievement is bringing the world to the brink of eradicating the Guinea Worm. From 3.5m cases a year in the 80s to less than 15 the last few years. It's an astounding public health achievement. 289263553375
Reposted by Peggy SchafferHakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 19/12/2024House Republicans have been ordered to shut down the government. And hurt the working class Americans they claim to support. You break the bipartisan agreement, you own the consequences that follow. 27949881491
Reposted by Peggy SchafferChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/12/2024Don’t worry—Donald Trump put together a team of rich people to fix the system that’s rigged against everyday working people. Good job, America. 711443448
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024This is the real narrative that the media is ignoring about the election. 110
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Times to end huge tax breaks to people with all the money and for corporations to pay their share. 000
Reposted by Peggy SchafferNick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Sean Casten lays it out pretty plainly here… 571374353
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024In any sane world, this would get him fired. 000
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024THIS is why we (Democrats) lose. Rumors are Schumer will not take up the Windfall Offset, which passed the R House with 337 votes. Screwing over 3 m public servants. Teachers, firefighters, food inspectors, park rangers, UNION MEMBERS. Solidly middle class workers once again abandoned by the D’s.newsweek.comSocial Security Fairness Act petition passes 10,000 signaturesThere is a limited amount of time for lawmakers to pass the bill. 100
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Hey! The first place DOGE (Department of Gigantic Egos) can cut! Investigate the 2020 election? Why don’t they just burn taxpayer money on the front yard of the whitehouse? 000
Reposted by Peggy SchafferKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/11/2024the white male billionaire owners of consolidated media like all this stuff. the tax cuts. the deregulation. the evisceration of the regulatory state. the destruction of the social safety net. And reporters (with occasionally exception) don't survive long at these outlets unless you please ownership 2515
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Where would Musk be if not for taxpayer subsidy?open.substack.comThe Musk ratFriends, 000
Reposted by Peggy SchafferElizabeth @underthesea62.bsky.social · 19/11/2024#PardonHunter Do it Joe! 0457
Reposted by Peggy SchafferAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 17/11/2024It’s super cool how the media is all just pretending Tulsi isn’t an Assad/Putin asset and apologist. 2035486827
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I am sorry. I don’t remember this clown being elected to anything! WTF!nytimes.comElon Musk Met With Iran’s U.N. Ambassador, Iranian Officials SayThe tech billionaire, a top adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, was reported to have discussed ways to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States. 110
Reposted by Peggy SchafferJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024This wasn’t about eggs. youtu.be/1O16BKJf6uk?...youtu.beNovember 13, 2024YouTube video by JoJoFromJerz 991524291
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Bingo. First to go? Either Musk or Kennedy. 130
Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Waiting for coffee to brew sometimes works out. 050
Reposted by Peggy SchafferKeith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 09/11/2024I’m trying to build up my community here. My name is Keith Edwards. As a pro-democracy American, I have devoted my life to defending our nation against the rise of right-wing extremism. If you’re with me, consider giving me a repost and a follow! We’ve got to stick together. 53576180