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Peggy Schaffer

@peggyschaffer.bsky.social
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Former political activist, broadband leader, community organizer. Now mostly retired. Knowledge base 5 miles wide, 3 feet deep. Smart and opinionated.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Bad 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.
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Waterville Maine. Sunny. Chilly @velshi.com
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
WHILE 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!!!
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Sean’s Pen {technically speaking} @seangon.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Another 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 🙄
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The Sec of Defense is not the job for “rookies”. www.rawstory.com/hegseth-2671...
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Hegseth's Signal leak is 'raising serious questions' as 'rookie mistakes' pile up: NYT
According 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...
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I hope Greenland gives Vance a Vermont welcome.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Call your Senator. Ask them to put Schumer in a nursing home.
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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
HEY 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.
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Obeying in advance. No longer part of the resistance.
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Kathy W @jabber-wocky.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Last 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.
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greenilady @greenilady.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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Steven 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-...
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What Does Defiance Look Like?
A Saturday Prompt
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
@senjoniernst.bsky.social You got played….
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Pete Hegseth Fires Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Navy’s Top Officer
Adm. 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.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The good people running our government for the people.
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Maybe 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?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/02/2025
Blumenthal: "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"
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
They lie. All. The. Time.
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Democrats 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.
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Mike 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.”
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Hostile Takeover
“Department of Government Efficiency” Hijacks The Federal Government
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The leaders of the coup.
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Did anyone notice we did a bomb strike in Somalia today?
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Speaking the truth.
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Amen. 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.
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
A great summation of Musk, Zuckerberg and Trump.
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Why would a state ban a predominantly cleaneconomic engine creating jobs and investing capital?
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
bsky.app/profile/jael...
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Amen! Someone who believes in government and its role in helping everyday Americans.
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Andrew Kinsey @andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Arguably 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.
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
House 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.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/12/2024
Don’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.
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This is the real narrative that the media is ignoring about the election.
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Times to end huge tax breaks to people with all the money and for corporations to pay their share.
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Sean Casten lays it out pretty plainly here…
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
In any sane world, this would get him fired.
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
THIS 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.com
Social Security Fairness Act petition passes 10,000 signatures
There is a limited amount of time for lawmakers to pass the bill.
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hey! 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?
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Bingo
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/11/2024
the 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
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Where would Musk be if not for taxpayer subsidy?
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The Musk rat
Friends,
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Elizabeth @underthesea62.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#PardonHunter Do it Joe!
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
It’s super cool how the media is all just pretending Tulsi isn’t an Assad/Putin asset and apologist.
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I am sorry. I don’t remember this clown being elected to anything! WTF!
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Elon Musk Met With Iran’s U.N. Ambassador, Iranian Officials Say
The 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.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
This wasn’t about eggs. youtu.be/1O16BKJf6uk?...
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November 13, 2024
YouTube video by JoJoFromJerz
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Bingo. First to go? Either Musk or Kennedy.
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Peggy Schaffer @peggyschaffer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Waiting for coffee to brew sometimes works out.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I’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.
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