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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · 16d

Medicare Adv plans often include much more than Medicare. With my MA plan I get $280/yr for OTC meds, $300 for vision/dental, free gym membership (over $550,) gift cards for completing preventative care, etc. Switching to Medicare would still cost more. Dems need to be shouting this everywhere!

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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · 20d

I won't know if it's a favorite until 9:30 tonight. It's The Mortal Storm, starring Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. It came out in 1940, before the US entered WWII, but it's an anti-fascist movie. Praise be to independent movie theatres! But also Roman Holiday for beautiful actors:)

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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Sep 11

I hope I live long enough to get back to disagreeing with George Conway and Bill Kristol again.

Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Aug 4

It's time for younger Dems to run with full support of the party. (I can say that, because I'm on Medicare!)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 4

🔥 “Respectfully, he’s making up some shit.”

Rep. jolanda jones, a lawyer, says Gov. Abbott threatening House @texasdemocrats.bsky.social with felonies is “smoke and mirrors”

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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jul 26

Meanwhile, SEPTA...let's get stuff done on that, Governor! Real pain coming for Philly families as they get ready for school!

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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jul 26

🤣🤣 I rarely post, so I won't cut into your scrolling time.

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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jul 26

I'm impressed you took the time to answer a question I posted. Would not expect you to follow me:)

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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jul 4

Well, if they keep deporting working people, Social Security will be insolvent before 2030.

Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jul 4

I thought the Social Security tax was a $6K credit for 4 years? I was planning on donating whatever we got to food banks.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Jul 4

He has refused his Assent to Laws…

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world…

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury…

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences…

A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jul 2

You deserve a fun and cool birthday celebration! 🎉

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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jul 2

PA-01 has a much stronger DEM candidate in 2026 than they had in the past few cycles!

Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jul 1

We need a mensch-in-chief. You'd be perfect!

Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jul 1

When I read that quote, dealing with stuff right away has a different meaning. Although maybe this is what Homan means.

Women and children in lines at Auschwitz waiting to be sorted in work or gas chamber lines.

Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jun 29

Much more helpful. I'm American and I've never been to SLC, Tallahassee, or Des Moines. But London is my vacation spot. 🙂

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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jun 27

Uberschadenfreude! 🤣

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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jun 25

Given this east coast heat wave, I think ICE should be allowed to wear their summer uniforms.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · Jun 14

Jesus.

The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

10:30am:

"Brevard County Sheriff Sheriff Wayne Ivey: "If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at, because we will kill you graveyard dead."

10:49am:

law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jun 14

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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jun 12

I'm 66 and I say drag the shit out of those Democrats.

Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thanks for this. It's a much better lens to look at news coverage.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jun 11

Without comment. Keep hammering this.

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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jun 6

Locking workers indoors? Call the fire department! That shit went out in 1911 after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in NY.

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Mary Reilley @maryreilley.bsky.social · Jun 1

I was in Slovenia in Oct, & Poland in Nov when Trump won. Small sample, but the educated young men I met were shocked by Trump, but the native born cab/Uber drivers loved his "strength." (But most of our Uber drivers were Ukrainian, self-exiled Belarusians, &/or PhD students, and not Trump fans.)

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