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Julie A. Su @juliesulabor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Too many working people struggle just to get by. Too many people work full-time, year-round and still can’t afford the basics, much less live a life of real security and comfort, while others want a good job and can’t find one. (🧵1/4) #workers #union

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What Cuts to the Department of Labor Will Mean for You

Imagine this: Thirteen-year-old children working the night shift cleaning the kill floors of meatpacking plants, their small hands barely able to hold the

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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Hegseth now says he doesn’t know who started the war between Ukraine and Russia. Senator Duckworth shows receipts that he does know but won’t admit it now.

Hegseth standing next to a screen with a map of Ukraine and the chyron says, “Breaking News Tracking Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” Fox News.

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Doing nothing is taking a side

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Scot Fishman @scotwith1t.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Scary AF. Make these bad actors famous.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Wow—Trump is firing and banning all trans people from the military, per DoD memo. “Military service by members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.” Part of memo:

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Service Members and Applicants for Military Service who Have a Current Diagnosis or History of, or Exhibit Symptoms Consistent with, Gender Dysphoria
1. Policy. It is DoD policy that:
a. Service in the Military Services is open to all persons who can meet the high standards for military service and readiness without special accommodations.
b. It is the policy of the United States Government to establish high standards for Service
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gender dysphoria or who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria.
c. Military service by Service members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service. Service by these individuals is not in the best interests of the Military Services and is not clearly consistent with the interests of national security.
d. Individuals who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are no longer eligible for military service, except as set forth in sections
4.1.c. and 4.3.c. of this attachment.
e. Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria will be processed for separation from military service in accordance with section 4.4. of this attachment. Characterization of service under these procedures will be honorable except where the Service member's record otherwise warrants a lower characterization.
f. The Department only recognizes two sexes: male and female. An individual's sex is immutable, unchanging during a person's life. All Service members will only serve in accordance with their sex, defined in Executive Order 14168, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to

i. Absent extraordinary operational necessity, the Military Services will not allow male Service members to use or share sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated for females, nor allow female Service members to use or share sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated for males.
j. No funds from the Department of Defense will be used to pay for Service members' unscheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with facilitating sex reassignment surgery, genital reconstruction surgery as treatment for gender dysphoria, or newly initiated cross-sex hormone therapy.
k. Consistent with existing law and Department policy, commanders shall protect the privacy of protected health information they receive under this policy in the same manner as they would with any other protected health information. Such health information shall be restricted to personnel with a specific need to know; that is, access to information must be necessary for the conduct of official duties. Personnel shall also be accountable for safeguarding this health information consistent with existing law and Departmental policy.
2. Applicability. This policy guidance applies to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Military Departments, the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities, and all other organizational entities within the DoD.

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VegasJake @vegasjake1.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Consumer Confidence is going down faster than Boebert backstage at a Klan Rally.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Thread on Gene Hackman👇

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Bunny 🕊️ 🦋 🌊 🔔 🌈 🌲 💙 🌊 @pittsburghlady.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Congress man, Why your scared for me to vote? 🚨Reps voted to strip away voting ✨rights away from women &✨ Voting Rights & ✨Rightsaway from poor people✨

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Q: How evil do you have to be to cut a Dolly book program? A: Pretty f*cking evil. Solution: Dolly for Prez! Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton... cc @drjengunter.bsky.social

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Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library

The country singer started the “Imagination Library” nearly 30 years ago to encourage early literacy.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

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onefinekitty.bsky.social @onefinekitty.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Live: Dow drops 600 points as investors dump stocks on worries over the state of the U.S. economy www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/s...

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Dow tumbles 800 points as market sell-off gains steam: Live updates

Stocks were lower Friday as investors neared the end of a rocky week on Wall Street.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Important for understanding implications of the Defense Department purge. Who will be their replacements? Recall this report from December: "Prospective occupants of high posts inside the Pentagon" were asked "whether they believed the 2020 election was stolen."

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Want a Job in the Trump Administration? Be Prepared for the Loyalty Test.

Applicants for government posts, including inside the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies, say they have been asked about their thoughts on Jan. 6 and who they believe won the 2020 election.

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Scot Fishman @scotwith1t.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

One of the most inspiration clips I've seen in the past month. Find that man's name, thank him, and make him famous.

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Scot Fishman @scotwith1t.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In case anyone is wondering whether this was a clever, well-thought out, strategic plan...it was not.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

More of that free speech absolutism for which he is so renowned.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This guy was once banned from Twitter by Musk for posting child exploitation photos. He spread the crazy conspiracy that Hillary Clinton & Huma Abedin raped/abused little girls & used their skin as masks. Now he’s invited to the Trump White House. No words. You can’t even do an ‘Imagine if Biden…’

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Scot Fishman @scotwith1t.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Thanks to @gmf1369.bsky.social for including me on this great list. Please follow and repost! 👇 #bluecrew #bluestorm bsky.app/profile/did:...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/02/2025

They are angry that a judge restored a public website providing life-saving resources from the CDC, FDA, and HHS.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/02/2025

🚨🚨🚨 Trump just fired USAID inspector general Paul Martin—one day after he exposed how Trump’s foreign aid freeze & mass firings have made it easier for U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund terrorist groups like Hamas & ISIS.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2025

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

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Scot Fishman @scotwith1t.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

And his staff is already trying to walk it back. 🤦‍♂️

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