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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · Sep 3

I spoke about @generalstrikeus.bsky.social at the Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day Rally. I was nervous, but I did it! We must come together during this time. We have the power to shut everything down and make them listen to us. ✊

Mellie D. @notoriousnefarious.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Every worker deserves dignity. Every employee deserves a life where they aren’t chained to 8, 10, even 12-hour days just to scrape by. We deserve rest. We deserve time with family. We deserve the free...

TikTok video by Strikeback

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6h

This Supreme Court case in Louisiana is about one thing, and one thing only: reinstituting Jim Crow by way of ensuring that Black Americans are taxed without receiving representation in Congress.

Everything else is noise and bluster.

This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 20h

The Boston Tea Party was a No Kings protest

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 3h

Trump is giving Argentina $40 billion while we have people paying for GROCERIES WITH CREDIT CARDS

Argentina First? Trump Treasury Sec Reveals Bailout Amount Has Doubled

Scott Bessent announced Argentina is getting even more money from Donald Trump.

finance.yahoo.com

elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 3h

It has been so interesting to watch her speak out against her party

Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 3h

Even Marjorie Taylor Greene is blaming her own party for the shutdown. When MTG admits Republicans screwed up, you know it’s bad. She knows healthcare is on the line—and so do we.

#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

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Wendy Suares @wsuares.bsky.social · 4h

A religious test? When contacting your elected representative?
This email exchange led one Oklahoman to file a complaint. #oklaed genxpletives.substack.com/p/when-an-ok...

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 7h

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

Vic Mensa, an American rapper born and raised in Chicago, breaks down ICE raids and the politics of division.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 18h

We are paying for ourselves to be attacked by the government. We are only 9 months in.

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 23h

Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way🇺🇸

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 21h

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 21h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, didn't they sue Facebook?

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 20h

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 20h

People are paying for groceries with credit cards. This is beyond unsustainable. We have to come together and take care of each other. #GeneralStrikeUS

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Stevens: There’s $1.3 trillion of credit card debt. There are people putting grocery bills on credit cards and then paying interest on them. We are in an affordability crisis. Coffee is up 20%, beef is up 16%, bacon is up over 10%. And now we’re going to see health care costs skyrocket.

elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 20h

The Boston Tea Party was a No Kings protest

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 1d

It's a Tulsa frog. They're spreading everywhere!

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 1d

Photo of the Portland frogs
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...The frogs shall come upon you and on your people and on all your officials." Exodus 8:2-6

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1d

TikTok is more than an app. TikTok is an opportunity for 47 to bestow great wealth—& considerable media power—on a clique of allies & insiders.

The details of this gift are taking shape out of the public eye.

Gift link.

Trump’s Dodgy Plan for TikTok

The details are murky, but it looks like the president is about to further enrich and empower his friends.

www.theatlantic.com

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 1d

They are claiming that a 13 year old had a rap sheet and had weapons on him?! This is fucking ludicrous! They can't even be normal evil. They must be over the top absurd while they are doing it.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio • 6h
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Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 1d

So scary! 😱

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 2d

“The water situation in South Texas is about as dire as I’ve ever seen it,” said Mike Howard, chief executive of Howard Energy Partners, a private energy company that owns several facilities in Corpus Christi. “It has all the energy in the world, and it doesn’t have water.”

Exxon and Tesla.

This Texas Town Is an Energy Powerhouse. It’s Running Out of Water.

A severe drought has Corpus Christi scrambling to meet growing demand from companies like Exxon and Tesla that have invested billions of dollars in the region.

www.wsj.com

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 1d

You can't keep regular planes from crashing into each other and you want to put a base on the moon?!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy: "If we go to the south pole of the moon, we can set up a base. We want to put up fission power. We think we can have longterm stays on the south pole of the moon."

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine making six figures to not do anything you were entrusted to do.

…getting paid to not work while thousands of civil servants around you were getting fired.

…betraying those who counted on you to represent them, all to appease a wannabe dictator.

The GOP Congress is a helluva thing.

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elphabaforgood.bsky.social @elphabaforgood.bsky.social · 2d

We've been conditioned to think that we have no power. We have the power to build the world we want to live in. We need to come together and take care of each other to make it happen.
generalstrikeus.com
#GeneralStrikeUS

Old men sitting at a monopoly table that is placed on people's backs
All we gotta do is stand up and it's game over!

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 3d

My fellow Americans
what are we even doing here bruh

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