billiebun.bsky.social
@billiebun.bsky.social
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Retired teacher. Child of children of the Depression- glad they aren't alive to see what has become of this country. A Robert Lafollette kind of Wisconsinite.
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Love to see it….tourists that are stuck in Jamaica are helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Melissa 💪
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If you delete the SNAP contingency fund language from the USDA site, what you’re really saying is that you know that you could feed people and you’d rather not.
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Heading out, but want to remind you that you can post comments live here tonight during “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein “ on MeTV- use the hashtag #svengoolie and remember to time travel by turning your clocks back tonight!
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It might be helpful to just go ahead and cut to the chase:

The more bodies they have the more money they make.

The private prison industry donates heavily to Republicans and helped usher in Donald Trump with their donations.
Private prison companies positioned to benefit from increased deportations - OpenSecrets News
As the Trump administration is ramping up detentions and deportations of immigrants living in the United States, it is also…
www.opensecrets.org
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There’s no opt-out, no warrant requirement, and almost no oversight. In a nation built on personal freedom, the idea that the government can identify, track, and store your data simply by pointing a phone at your face should alarm everyone citizens and non-citizens alike.
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We need to find the people behind this stuff, and we need to yell at them until someone else joins us yelling at them, and then we pass off the yelling.

Like a baton during a relay, except we keep doing it,society wide, until they shut this shit down.
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THIS MOTHERFUCKER HELD A GREAT GATSBY PARTY WHILE 43 MILLION PEOPLE GO HUNGRY AND HEALTHCARE COSTS KEEP RISING.
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People on SNAP will need all our support.

Donate to food pantries and mutual aid groups.

Volunteer at soup kitchens, food banks, and school programs.

Map drop sites and rideshares for distribution days.
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Food banks were already struggling to keep with demand. Then, Trump slashed $1 billion from crucial USDA programs supporting them.

Now, thanks to his shutdown, food assistance for millions of Americans is about to try up.

The perfect storm of cruelty.
Food banks were ‘operating on fumes’ even before SNAP chaos • Stateline
Even before the federal government shutdown posed an unparalleled challenge for food banks, nonprofits across the countr
stateline.org
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Science did this!
Stopping the funding for NIH and independent labs stops research for life saving breakthroughs like this!
#StopTrump
#StopTheGOP
WOW!! Gila Monster venom contains a compound called exendin-4, a structural analog of human Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 This connection led to development of synthetic GLP-1 like exenatide, used to treat type 2 diabetes. Some newer GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic, Mounjaro are also being used for weight loss.
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They lied to her and didn't know she is a lawyer.
This badass women didn’t back down 👏
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If climate policy had a “best buy,” it might be methane cuts

Global methane mitigation has a benefit–cost ratio >6:1, even before accounting for near-term climate feedbacks

A strong case: it’s among the most efficient levers in climate policy

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Global methane action pays for itself at least six times over
We provide a comprehensive assessment of the economic benefits and costs of global methane emissions abatement, anchored on the Global Methane Pledge. We use an integrated assessment model to estimate...
www.science.org
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Release the un-redacted #EpsteinFiles
Every day, more details come out that show just how deep this plot to protect the wealthy and powerful goes.

They are being shielded from justice. Rep. Thomas Massie and I are fighting to bring them to justice and release the files.