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LauraFT

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LWV; Take Action; Dem; Vaccinate; Register, Volunteer, Vote; 🟦 🌈 🌻☘️☮️✌️🇺🇸#ReproRights #GunSafety #EdEquality #ERA #DEI #Climate #Justice Pls follow @lwvwilliamsburg.bsky.social

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 13h

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LauraFT @lauraft27.bsky.social · 1h

We knew this then.

LauraFT @lauraft27.bsky.social · 2h

Hey Rog- Know you guys don’t really follow rules, but at least learn what they are. Nominations are accepted beginning mid-Oct with a deadline of Jan 31 so start writing. But keep in mind, they value people who protect Democracy, not those who destroy it.
www.nobelpeaceprize.org/nobel-peace-...

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LauraFT @lauraft27.bsky.social · 2h

Add @npr.org to the list of those who will not sign. 🇺🇸

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4h

Nothing stops authoritarians in their tracks like organized people power — and we're organizing it in communities throughout the country. #NoKings

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Kathryn Rushent 🌊🐱🍁 @krushent.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone in DC have sufficient courage to bring up the 25th Amendment? www.msn.com/en-ca/news/p...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h

Pres. Obama to Marc Maron: "If you're a business, you say, 'You know what? We think it's important … to hire people from different backgrounds. And we're not going to be bullied into saying that we can only hire people or promote people based on some criteria that's been cooked up by Steve Miller.'"

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 6h

George Stephanopolous did what every anchor and host should have been doing since Bush 2000: Rejecting the bullshit, gaslighting, and rude, evasive filibustering the GOP has perfected to hide their lies.

NO MORE BULLSHIT.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 4h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

OBAMA: “Better’s good… we’re not gonna get to perfect. Do I think single-payer with no profit motive would’ve been smarter? Absolutely.”

President Obama tells Maron the ACA was a compromise because he didn’t have the votes for what he really wanted. #MedicareForAll

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3h

The White House move to lay off roughly 4,000 government workers amid the shutdown is expected to affect everything from financing community development to supporting special education.

The Agencies Hit Hardest by Shutdown Layoffs

The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, one of the programs hit hardest, had bipartisan support.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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LauraFT @lauraft27.bsky.social · 4h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h

"Support the troops, y'all!"

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16h

“I am counting on millions of Americans proving on Oct. 18—and beyond—that they will not let down all those who have sacrificed to sustain our system of self-governance and the ideals for which our republic stands.”

www.americaamerica.news/p/what-we-sh...

What We Should Demand, What We Should Oppose

Reflecting on a president's obligations and what history tells us about rejecting tyranny and injustice

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 18h

We are getting poorer

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LauraFT @lauraft27.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, wasn’t thinking about that. But we’re hoping to increase the # of Dems in House of Delegates!

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

Work harder and die

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14h

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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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 17h

Sorry not sorry. Your dear leader destroyed the relationship, not us.

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Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h

Let us translate Mike Johnson's comments about Obamacare for you www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

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