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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · 1d

We Were Never Meant to Have Universal Healthcare
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We Were Never Meant to Have Universal Healthcare

The long, deliberate history of exclusion that shaped our healthcare system

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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · 3d

Today is threads that must be read...

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 3d

🧵 A classic psychoanalytic phenomenon, "fear of breakdown," helps convey why it's essential––if we're to beat back fascism––to understand Trump not as the cause of democracy's destruction but rather as a symptom of it. We are on the edge of the breakdown of democracy, liberals say. Unity, not...

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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · 7d

Statue making a face with pinched face and open mouth. The word “WHAT!” Typed on the bottom of the image.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 7d

if you want to stay on twitter for some reason it's whatever i guess but you have to accept that people are going to call you a shitass baby brained coward and you can't bitch about it

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 7d

It's strange seeing the centre and the right mocking anyone getting excited about the Green Party. Maybe their ceiling IS 17%. Maybe it's a flash-in-the-pan thing. But we are allowed to get excited about feeling represented on the left after almost six years of being told "you're done, stfu".

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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · 11d

From the LA River... chuffed.org/project/1538...

From the LA River...

Donations from this fundraiser will go to support the Masafer Yatta Emergency Fund, which was created in direct response to urgent calls from the community. The ultimate use of the proceeds is decided...

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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · Sep 17

When people shake their heads about why folks don't vote, you need look no further than @lacountybos.bsky.social We vote for Measure R and J and both get hung up in court. The Board itself votes to close Mens Central Jail 5 years ago and today they are meeting to talk about new contracts there.

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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · Sep 16

commission is why. Every police killing you covered for decade after decade told the country it is open season on Black and Brown folks. You tell the country it’s ok for ICE, vigilantes, unhoused haters to do what they do. The LAPD Board of Police Commissioners is the watch dog of white supremacy.

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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · Sep 16

My public comment that was silenced today at LAPD Board of Police Commissioners - when I see the LAPD at the Home Depot stopping masked kidnappers, I will entertain that maybe you are enforcing the city’s CLEARLY IN NAME ONLY sanctuary city. Black people are being hunted in this country and this

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · Sep 15

Sure would have been nice if people cared enough about disabled people to normalize masking so that chronically ill and high risk people didn't have to deal with this kind of garbage.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Sep 14

ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false.

ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Sep 14

Hi

ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday

Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere

If you have any national platform at all

Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · Sep 4

Check out @docmellymel.bsky.social first article as a Los Angeles Sentinel writer! If I weren't already out in these streets with her, I'd be directly on my way after reading!
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Let Your Motto Be Resistance! The Fight for Freedom in Urgent Times! - Los Angeles Sentinel

We are living in a time of rising fascism and unmasked racism—a time that, for some, is paralyzing. A key tactic of fascism is to strike hard from all sides. The rapid-fire nature and constant barrage...

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Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social · Aug 31

I am a pacifist. I don't believe in violence but I also believe that women should have swords. Like if you are a woman you should be provided a free sword should you want one

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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Reparations Can't Wait; STOP the Study! STOP the Stalling! STOP the Sellout!

STOP THE STUDY; STOP THE STALL. SB437 by Senator Akilah Weber Pierson, Chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus, would WASTE millions of your tax dollars on an unnecessary 3-5 year study of Re...

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Aug 11

One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes

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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · Aug 8

More than anything, it’s the sellouts that always sting the most. And there are just so many of you. Like LA’s tiny mosquitoes, mosquitoes were supposed to be an east coast thing. Suppose sell outs were too. And here we are.

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kevin nye @kevinmnye.bsky.social · Aug 2

Faith in humanity restored at the Minneapolis Farmer’s Market

A Mexican food station at the farmer’s market with a cardboard sign that says “free burrito and drink for homeless only”

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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · Jul 25

Jim McDonnell as police chief and now a prosecutor as head of LAHSA. It’s so clear our DEMOCRATIC lead city’s plan for poverty is prison. When will we learn we have to stop electing democrats? We need a new attitude.

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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · Jul 23

Leaving Union Station going past men’s central jail just makes my blood boil that it is STILL NOT CLOSED!!!! How many more people must die before they take action on a 5 year old decision? @lacountybos.bsky.social IM ASKING YOU!

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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · Jul 11

HOW ARE PEOPLE STILL RUNNING AS DEMOCRATS!!!!!?????

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 11

Every Democrat in this photo would have you believe they’re standing up to fascism with all of their might.

Somewhere In ATX @somewhereinatx.bsky.social · Jul 11

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Wanted war criminal and genocidier Benjamin Netanyahu meets with a bipartisan group of senators at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · Jul 11

Who up stroking they sword while lamenting social realities

Engraved line of chinese poetry captioned
"Stroking the sword while
lamenting the social realities" (tE
剑伤世路），engravedbyShen
Qianqiu. Ming Dynasty (Fig. 14)

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Gina Viola @ginaviolapeake.bsky.social · Jun 22

We are winning LA!!! Imma tell you that!

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Jun 18

AI is not useful.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · Jun 18

I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…

Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com · Jun 17

The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love this one!

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · Jun 11

We respond to the acquittal of the killers of Tyre Nichols of Memphis

awkword @awkword.bsky.social · Jun 11

“The badge protects itself, even when it’s soaked in Black blood”

Remember Tyre Nichols, the 29yo Black man hunted down and murdered by Memphis police?

Well, the officers involved were acquitted

“And under a second Trump administration, don’t expect the DOJ to step in… We are on our own.”

Activists Outraged as Memphis Police Officers Acquitted in Tyre Nichols Case - Davis Vanguard

The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) expressed outrage over the acquittal of police officers involved in the killing of Tyre Nichols, calling the verdict a "public execution" and a reminder that the ...

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