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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

In 2023, a program connecting Utah farmers and ranchers to free therapy vouchers was so successful, the federal money ran out in four months.

“I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.”

(Published April with @sltrib.com)

Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.

Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

www.propublica.org

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sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 14m

Can someone please post the name of the solar firm in the comments? Wanting to see if it’s the one reported to BBB

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 8h

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sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 24m

Yep

sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 28m

Again, follow Dave’s post to Hochul👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2h

time once again to ponder the missing second part of the “bad apples” adage

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 32m

Gross

sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 33m

Well, this is Disgusting. Follow the thread to article because they Do name names , which is important information. Apologies don’t cut it. These vile comments illustrate how they think, how they feel, and how they’d like to behave. Atrocious. Humans. The worst examples of humans here.

TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 2h

Here is GOP Rep. Mike Lawler, all smiles with the Chair of the NY State Young Republicans Peter Giunta who:

*Said ‘I love Hitler’

*Referred to blacks as ‘the watermelon people’

*Said ‘if your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there.’

#NY17

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sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 55m

Ya, the thumbs up is completely off the table. Including the emoji.

sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 1h

The epoch times? Complete bullshit propaganda. Like an April Fools edition. Only not just for April🤦🏽‍♀️

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Terri Resists @terriresists.bsky.social · 1h

Pete’s boycott list. Saves me so much time.

Thank you, @psychopete.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 4h

The boycott guide is fully updated—worst of the worst included. If you haven’t read it yet, now’s the time. Substack version is current too. Starve the beast. Repost widely. Donations welcome (fuel for the mutual aid/resistance hub) but not required or expected: buymeacoffee.com/psychopete

Psycho Pete

Fighting fascism with commentary and satire.

buymeacoffee.com

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sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 1h

Nice Work!😃

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1h

In honor of Charlie Kirk, the alleged free speech champion, Trump's State Department has revoked the visas of foreign individuals who made critical, disparaging comments after his assassination.

What weak, pathetic snowflakes and hypocrites.

Fragile, porcelain tea cups.

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sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 4h

Came here to say this👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Esme del Jardin @esmedeljardin.bsky.social · 5h

It's not American Idol, the Nobel committee literally does not care how many people dial in for Trump to win.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15h

NATO Secretary General Rutte:
…Now there is hardly any Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean left

There is a lone&broken Russian submarine limping home from patrol.What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October.Today, it seems more like The Hunt for the Nearest Mechanic

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 8h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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sk8rbelle.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social · 21h

You mean ‘president miller’?

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 22h

I spent my afternoon making & passing out Yes on 50 flyers in front of Walmart & other stores in English & Spanish, and you can do it, too.

If you wanna save democracy, you'd better put your all into it!
I know that's high pressure, but this is high stakes!

The Spanish flyer is in the next post.

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jim-nys.bsky.social @jim-nys.bsky.social · 22h

You're supposed to grip tighter and break that fake machismo grip. It's common hand shake etiquette.

Weak grip is a weak man, a tight grip is a over compensating man, a long grip is a controlling man, and quick grip is a frightened man.

It's supposed to be firm grip, up once and down once. Done.

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@tristansnell.bsky.social @trixie57.bsky.social @meidastouch.com @meidaskiesha.bsky.social @meidasjordy.bsky.social @sk8rbelle.bsky.social

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 22h

Femonomics by Corinne Low: What does heteronormative marriage do for women? The answer here is damning

Low strips away the myth of marriage as a natural haven for ambitious women in this exhilarating read

www.irishtimes.com

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Rosegarden54 @rosegarden54.bsky.social · 22h

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 1d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 22h

Four cemetery workers, all U.S. citizens, arrested during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that crossed over onto the private Concordia Cemetery in the west suburban village of Forest Park.

Forest Park cemetery workers recount traumatic clash with ICE; mayor calls for crackdown to end

‘If this is happening to me, a U.S. citizen, what are they doing to the other individuals?’

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

Let's be clear: If North Carolina Republicans gerrymander their already illegal map further, they will be sued and they will lose.

I never bluff and I usually win.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander