Steph Hope 🍉🌻 @stephhope8.bsky.social · 01/10/2025www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...dailykos.comHegseth’s racism is hidden in plain sightWe’ve already written about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s needlessly expensive rant at the nation’s military brass. But one detail has slipped past most observers—the racism behind his new prohibit... 000
Steph Hope 🍉🌻 @stephhope8.bsky.social · 01/10/2025The call to get rid of “beardos” in the United States military is coded racism. Black men are disproportionately affected by PFB, which is the biggest reason for shaving waivers in the armed forces. 000
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they 849421847468
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 27/05/2025💥 BREAKING: Shareholders of Merck & Co one of the largest pharma companies in the world, voted today to reject an anti-DEI proposal, 99-1 percent. Merck Board recommended shareholders vote against proposal that called for eliminating "discriminatory DEI milestones" from executive compensation. 14272741620
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Start every day with this reality: EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined. #LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable ballotpedia.org/United_State...ballotpedia.orgUnited States Congress elections, 2026Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics 594143745547
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Right now, Republicans in Congress are trying to push through a bill that would put millions of Americans at risk of losing their health care. They want to cut federal funding for Medicaid, take away tax credits that help more people afford coverage, and raise costs for working class families. 1107239527589
Steph Hope 🍉🌻 @stephhope8.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Hot Take: The NJ Transit strike is just a transportation department ruse … you’ll be so late to arrive at Newark airport that you’re relieved that your plane is delayed 5 hours!! 000
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/05/2025So many videos are circulating of ICE agents acting with cruelty and aggression. Behavior that eerily mirrors the “domestic terrorism” they claim to oppose. No one is forcing them to act this way; it’s a choice. 839240146211
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/05/2025"Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are permitted to enter 'any facility operated by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens.' The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..." www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...cnn.comHomeland Security Dept. accuses lawmakers of ‘storming’ an ICE facility despite oversight laws saying they could be there | CNN PoliticsThe battle over immigration came to a dramatic head Friday afternoon when Democratic lawmakers faced off with Homeland Security Department officers as they tried to visit a Newark, New Jersey Immigrat... 703262369174
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/04/2025If you wonder why men *obsessed* with the United States having more children are kidnapping children and sending them to other countries, those children were the incorrect color. 683228085551
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 26/04/2025Citadel founder Ken Griffin extended his criticism of the Trump administration’s trade policy, saying that tariffs won’t bring back American manufacturing jobs the way that the president anticipates and the country should play to its strengths instead.bloom.bgKen Griffin Criticizes Trump Tariffs: ‘These Jobs Are Not Coming Back’Citadel founder Ken Griffin extended his criticism of the Trump administration’s trade policy, saying that tariffs won’t bring back American manufacturing jobs the way that the president anticipates and the country should play to its strengths instead. 1717952
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Eagles Nation @phleaglesnation.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Howie Roseman says the #Eagles won't even scout players who have ever been violent with women: “I won’t even watch them. I don't even want to talk. I can't go 'He’s really good, he did it 10 years ago and he learned from it.” It just doesn't work for us." #FlyEaglesFly (🎥: The McShay Show) 628138791510
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks. 930441228338
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/04/2025It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less. 883262827909
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2025What’s really going on with the economy? I believe Trump and his billionaire buddies — the American oligarchy — have a plan. They want a recession. robertreich.substack.com/p/why-trump-...robertreich.substack.comWhy we’ll have a recessionTrump wants to get it over early in his term, so he and his fellow billionaires can buy up everything cheap and then enjoy the ride upward 1972388698
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 08/04/2025WHO estimates that six in 100 people, including children, with COVID-19 will develop Long COVID. In the U.S., one study estimates that 11 million people live with Long COVID. Symptoms can vary from mild to devastating and can persist for months or years. There's no cure. www.who.int/news-room/fa...who.intPost COVID-19 condition (long COVID)WHO fact sheet on post COVID-19 condition (long COVID), including key facts, scope of the problem, symptoms, treatment, self-care and prevention. 931884
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/04/2025America’s real national emergency is Donald J. Trump. robertreich.substack.com/p/america-is...robertreich.substack.comThe real reason we’re in a national emergencyTrump is creating national emergencies to gain more power. In the process, he’s subjecting millions to real harm. 852308511
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Planting lettuce requires precise work. A machine carrying 4-6 persons will drop the seedlings into pre dug holes in each row but there is a farm worker who follows behind to esnure the plants are grounded and also to catch any missed holes. #WeFeedYou 15533111
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com · 05/04/2025#HANDSOFF #NYC 10086796010487
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies. 18668284519371
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 03/04/2025This Saturday, April 5th, we make history. Over 1300 protests. Coast to coast. One message: #HandsOff our bodies, our rights, our jobs, our schools, our future. We’re taking our country BACK. Get loud. Get in Good Trouble. Be Sen Cory Booker. America—you’re about to hear from us. 🔥✊🏽 17709195
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/04/2025Take care of your neighbors and friends, you're going to need community more than ever. 16799551788
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over. 11424172711204
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/04/2025America just shot itself in the nuts to “own the libs” 1406385645884
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Stellantis says will temporarily lay off 900 U.S. workers following tariff announcement. Stellantis NV, maker of Ram trucks and Jeeps, said on Thursday it was temporarily laying off 900 workers at five U.S. facilities after Trump's tariffs were announced. #MomSky www.reuters.com/business/aut...reuters.comStellantis says it will temporarily lay off 900 US workers following tariff announcementStellantis NV, maker of Ram trucks and Jeeps, said on Thursday it was temporarily laying off 900 workers at five U.S. facilities after President Donald Trump's tariffs were announced, and temporarily pausing production at an assembly plant in Mexico and in Canada. 44523293
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Americans may not comprehend the gravity of our situation, the rest of the world most certainly does. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...open.substack.comThe American Age Is OverEmergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide. 51980231
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Dark Pence is back. 1650422979827
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻mooneyc4.bsky.social @mooneyc4.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Longest Senate filibusters ever: Strom Thurmond - opposing voting rights for black people Ted Cruz - opposing health care for poor people Cory Booker - opposing fascism #filibuster 9872071678
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Darcy 🖕🧊 @missc0nstrued.bsky.social · 03/04/2025bsky.app/profile/miss... 1685
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 03/04/2025Apparently there are 8 pro-labor Republicans in the House.govexec.comPro-labor Republicans push Trump to rescind order busting most federal unionsHouse lawmakers on Wednesday introduced bipartisan legislation to nullify President Trump’s executive order stripping two-thirds of the federal workforce of their collective bargaining rights. 520131
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/04/2025ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications. 8053780912262
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 01/04/2025I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:youtube.comLive: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory BookerYouTube video by Senator Cory Booker 107495078510424
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Thank you @booker.senate.gov for the life you’ve breathed into us for over 24 hrs. 💙 Signed, A grateful and beleaguered Nation 533129599
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Cory Booker ending his record-breaking speech on the Senate floor: “Let's get in good trouble." What a fantastic way to cap off his epic 25 hour and 5 minute speech. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 239251582994
Steph Hope 🍉🌻 @stephhope8.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Does anyone know where to get random things like vitamins if we aren’t shopping from Bezos, Walmart or Target?? 000
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 20/03/2025Thank you Sen Elizabeth Warren, a former teacher, for your unwavering commitment & courage. “To every student, teacher, and parent: this is our moment to stick together and fight back.”🔥🔥🔥 No more division. No more finger pointing. We must unite to prevail. @warren.senate.gov 32965337
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not. 589251866939
Reposted by Steph Hope 🍉🌻Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States. 9904144510581