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everyripple.bsky.social @everyripple.bsky.social · 54m

Republicans getting expensive!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h

Open enrollment for ACA plans began yesterday in Idaho.

One couple got notice that their monthly premium next year would jump from $51 to $2,232 as subsidies expire.

25,000 Idahoans are expected to be priced out of coverage.

This is what's at stake in Trump's shutdown.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23h

Uh, being compared to Marjorie Taylor Greene of all people on CNN? Not on my bingo card.

Real talk tho: Keeping our tax dollars here to feed kids, build schools, and provide healthcare instead of sending it abroad to subsidize genocide…should be standard DEMOCRATIC platform.

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System Working As Intended @systemnotbroken.bsky.social · 5h

Theft is theft, right?
Yes, it is. Unless we are talking about an employer stealing wages. Then it's "ok for a price" and in reality that price is... nothing.
Ah, and the Labour Party tried to add a tribunal fee. Of course for workers to pay.

System working as intended.

Employers Who Steal Wages Should Be Made Criminally Liable | Novara Media

A shocking investigation has revealed that employers who fail to pay wages simply get away with it. It’s time to make wage theft a criminal matter, argues Matthew Cole.

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everyripple.bsky.social @everyripple.bsky.social · 1h

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3h

Americans lost over $240 million of their hard-earned savings to crypto ATM scams this year.

The companies running these machines profit while doing little to stop it.

We need rules that protect people, not profits and scammers.

everyripple.bsky.social @everyripple.bsky.social · 1h

Impeach.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 2h

Make your demand on Saturday clear: Impeach, convict, remove. Whatever your issue, just add "and impeach."

✴️ Release the Epstein files and impeach.

✴️ End ICE and impeach.

✴️ Defend democracy. Impeach.

Share your #NoKings sign here! We 💖 art. Show us your best pro-impeachment takes.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 2h

282 former DOJ officials signed a letter sounding the alarm about "this administration’s degradation of DOJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it."

The fact that hundreds felt compelled to say this speaks volumes.

Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm'

Scores of officials who have resigned or been forced out of the Justice Department this year are speaking out against its "destruction."

www.msnbc.com

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everyripple.bsky.social @everyripple.bsky.social · 1h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · 23h

Volunteer Call Post
Join a nationwide team to help track the scale of the No Kings Day on Saturday, October 18! Interested?
Email [email protected] to reserve your time and platform! Training & support provided, no prior experience needed. Let’s make No Kings Day count, together

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h

Big news here: the White House has backed down from shutting down I-5 this weekend following our reporting last night.

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everyripple.bsky.social @everyripple.bsky.social · 13h

The businessmen running out country and our province never cared about us — it was all a shell game to profit their cronies with our money.

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 14h

Like all members of the armed forces, our executive director takes her oath seriously. Using the military as his own police force is just one of the many reasons to impeach Donald Trump. #NoKings

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 16h

🚨Jim Carrey’s fresh out of fucks, and we are here for it!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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everyripple.bsky.social @everyripple.bsky.social · 13h

You know what Canadians are missing that we’re all entitled to?

Equal representation in parliament for our vote!

Liberals’ve been blocking #Proportional_Representation elections, despite most Canadians calling for them, because Liberals thrive on getting seats that other parties earned.

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LindaFly @lindafly.bsky.social · 1d

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 19h

20 billion dollars from the US Treasury **was not enough**. So now it's 40 billion dollars! And why stop there?

All while the US government is shut down.

"America First," amirite?

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Bessent says bailout for Argentina will double to boost U.S. influence in region

The Trump administration is working to arrange private sector financing for Argentina that would double the total U.S. financial lifeline for the embattled Latin nation.

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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 23h

Governor Newsom's press office for the win.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 1d

Jean Smart

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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings

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Isabella @isabellabandaid.bsky.social · 23h

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everyripple.bsky.social @everyripple.bsky.social · 13h

America’s undemocratic FPTP election system only gave the illusion of democracy, easily manipulated by the business world to keep the plutocrats’ interests up front.

Proportional Representation elections — equal power in government for every vote — is the only real democracy & America’s only hope.

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everyripple.bsky.social @everyripple.bsky.social · 14h

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18h

Americans have gotten more than $21 billion back in their bank accounts after being cheated and scammed by big corporations, thanks to the CFPB.

But Trump and his Administration love grifters and scammers.

So they're trying to kill the agency holding them accountable.

everyripple.bsky.social @everyripple.bsky.social · 14h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

This is what "grooming" looks like:

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Rob: R-Tech Gaming @rtechgaming.bsky.social · 18h

She's the best witch. 😎

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everyripple.bsky.social @everyripple.bsky.social · 14h

Who says? The fascists? Why would we care.

The Toronto Star needs to stop giving Poilievre’s racist ideology a manufactured patina of legitimacy.

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