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Susan Pashkoff
@susanp64.bsky.social
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Political Activist and Marxist Economist; blog writer and voracious reader. Socialist Feminism, anti-disabilism, anti-racism, Economic Policy and theory researcher. Ecosocialism, Anti-Facism

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susanp64.bsky.social
For profit healthcare, means exactly that. Even when they offer lower prices, they still charge. www.propublica.org/article/fede...
These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills.
Federally funded community health centers receive grants in exchange for serving patients regardless of their ability to pay. But ProPublica found at least five across the country garnishing patients’...
www.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
if it ruins their disgusting narrative that costs of benefits are spiralling out of control that justifies spending cuts on disabled people's benefits, cut the data ...

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/watchdogs-si...
Watchdog’s silence after removing figures that showed social security spending is not ‘spiralling’
The government’s “independent” spending watchdog has refused to explain why it removed figures from its crucial budget forecast report that proved spending on social security is not spiralling out …
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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New York narcotics officers raided Alberta Spruill’s home, shattering her door and detonating a flash grenade. Spruill, a 57-year-old city worker, went into cardiac arrest and died two hours later.
Episode Seven: Dirty Information
Years before the police killing of Breonna Taylor brought “no-knock” raids into the national spotlight, the NYPD mistakenly raided Alberta Spruill’s home — and literally scared her to death.
interc.pt
December 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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tickedoff.bsky.social
yo America--see what's happening here? Any of us could be targeted for "anti-American sentiment." We're mere months away from citizens being threatened with jail.

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Leaked Memo Shows Pam Bondi Wants List of 'Domestic Terrorism' Groups Who Express 'Anti-American Sentiment' | Common Dreams
Leaked memo reveals US Attorney General's directive to target organizations with purportedly extreme views on immigration, gender, and anti-American sentiment.
www.commondreams.org
December 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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jjtubs65.bsky.social
Gestapo.
#FuckIce
#AbolishICE
#FuckTheFascists
clancyny.bsky.social Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2d
Not including Border Patrol, ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records.

This data is compiled by ICE internally and was obtained by
UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project via a lawsuit.

ICE is currently holding 65,000 migrants in detention centers around the country.
ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows
The figures do not include arrests made by Border Patrol, which has launched aggressive immigration operations in several cities in recent months.
www.nbcnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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rankuaz.bsky.social
so.... this is what? collective punishment for.... the president calling people garbage? #abolishICE
unicornriot.bsky.social Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 2d
About 100 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population.
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ICE Targets Somali Community in Minneapolis - UNICORN RIOT
ICE agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population.
unicornriot.ninja
December 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
Not surprising, they were only in prison to pretend that accountability existed. When a country commits genocide, why pretend? They're not planning to put members of the IOF in prison who've committed genocide; why keep far-right Jewish terrorists there?

www.972mag.com/hidden-list-...
The hidden list of Jewish terrorists Israel’s far right wants to free
Ministers and activists are pushing to release dozens of prisoners who attacked Palestinians. The state won’t disclose their identities.
www.972mag.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
In the Alameda in Mexico City
December 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
Tonight's ACM by Greenandblue talking about the need for ecosocialism & to stuff the nonsense about resilience in the garbage. It is the capitalist system that is responsible for the environmental catastrophe destroying our planet and our lives.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Resilence
Even with predators, plagues, plate tectonics, volcanoes, meteorite and asteroid strikes, space weather, and everchanging terrestrial climate, all of which have contributed to our existence and condit...
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December 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-adm... #disability
McFadden admits ministers are working on ‘key areas for improvement’ after years of DWP deaths
The work and pensions secretary has admitted to MPs that his department has identified “key areas for improvement” in how it protects benefit claimants from harm, following years of deaths linked t…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
privatisation has destroyed the service while making it more expensive & increasing exploitation of people working for Royal Mail. To make higher profits, quality & quantity of service is destroyed & workers are increasingly exploited.

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End the Royal Mail privatisation experiment now
Ofcom is consulting on stamp prices. It is time to demand that they end Royal Mail privatisation.
weownit.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
things no longer hate crimes but merely potentially divisive? It may just be me, but swastikas & nooses mean Nazis & KKK. A bit more than potentially divisive; like the jackboots coming through the door, concentration camps and potential murder & death. WTF?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
NY Brit Expat on the importance of solidarity with Refugees & Migrants. The UK Home Secretary said that refugees are causing division in the UK; is this refugees or the far right that are causing division?
www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...
Anti-Capitalist Meetup: In Solidarity with Refugees and Migrants
One of the most grotesque discussions that we are hearing from politicians recently relates to migrants and refugees. Many right-wing racist arguments are openly repugnant and easily dismissed � as .....
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November 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
This is exactly what needs to be done. Boycott all Israeli owned and produced goods and services. Teva is obvious, their products are sold all over Europe. Replace their meds by other producers, most of their product are commonly prescribed medications.

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BDS Groups Mount Pressure Against Teva
Europe’s Palestine Solidarity Movement Calls to Boycott Israeli Pharmaceutical Company
savageminds.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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sabuch.bsky.social
#AuthoritarianRegime is trying to buy our votes and loyalty for $2000.

#GuardiansOfPedophilia #EpsteinBallroom #StrongerTogether #WeAreTheResistance #AbolishICE

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Trump Says Americans Will Receive $2K Each From Tariff Push
(The Hill) — President Trump said Sunday that each American will receive at least $2,000 from tariff revenue collected by the administration. “A dividend of at $2000 a person (not including high incom...
ground.news
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
NeverEverAgain continues their examination of the influence of right-wing Christian religious sects on US politics. No established church or religion & the separation of church and state, freedom of religion also means freedom from religion.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Theocracy behind the curtain part IV
This is the fourth installment of my Theocracy Watch. The first three are here, here and here. Although I am attempting a thorough “deep dive” in our Theocratic Autocracy, every article seems to screa...
www.dailykos.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
Please sign this petition demanding that Tont Blair is not appointed to any positions in relation to Gaz, he is not an independent person and gets funding from wealthy zionists as well as being far too close with Israeli politicians. c.org/mv9YS5BnTc
We Can Make an Impact.
Oppose Tony Blair's appointment to Gaza administration
c.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
Greenandblue returns to the discussion of how technology & the capitalist system increase the speed our lives, our work and production of goods & services are adjudicated by the needs of the system & constant turnover of capital, good & service production.
www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...
Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Need for Speed
Trained to have to have it , to put it funkadelicly. This is a follow on from my two ...
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November 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
It was known that she was murdered by the Israeli military, of course it was a cover-up -- this is Biden covering up the murder of a journalist and this is a recurrent problem that happens irrespective of who is in the white house

www.democracynow.org/2025/10/31/s...
Did U.S. Cover Up Shireen Abu Akleh Killing? Whistleblower Speaks Out
A retired U.S. colonel who investigated the death of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has gone public to accuse the Biden administration of “inaction” and a possible “cover-up.” Steve...
www.democracynow.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwps-plans-i...
DWP’s plans ‘in tatters’ as McFadden scraps white paper on further disability cuts
Ministers have dumped plans for a major white paper containing a swathe of further cuts and reforms to disability benefits, following months of activism by disabled people and allies that forced th…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
www.democracynow.org/2025/10/29/g...?
“Groundhog Day”: Israel Breaks Ceasefire Again, Kills 104 People in Gaza Including 46 Children
Israel launched major airstrikes on Gaza, killing at least 104 people, including 46 children, in the deadliest attacks since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire was announced. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
www.democracynow.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
susanp64.bsky.social
Although ICE made the investment, this will not only be used by ICE ... increasing your protections online would be a good idea

www.visaverge.com/news/ice-inv...
ICE Invests Millions in Zignal Labs Social Media Surveillance AI
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations awarded a $5.7 million, five-year contract in September 2025 to Zignal Labs for an AI-driven social media surveillance platform. The system ingests over 8 billio...
www.visaverge.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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blueinmo1957.bsky.social
Despite repeatedly promising not to cut Social Security, the Trump Administration is reportedly preparing a proposed rule that could reduce the share of applicants who qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) by up to 20 percent,

www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
Trump Administration Plans Deep Cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance, Particularly for Older Workers
Despite repeatedly promising not to cut Social Security, the Trump Administration is reportedly preparing a proposed rule that could reduce the share of applicants who qualify for Social Security...
www.cbpp.org
October 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
Tonight's ACM is by Annieli discussing rentier capitalism, technofascism, and the debate on whether there is the recreation of "feudalism" in a capitalist economy relying on markets? Also, more destruction of the commons; so little is left at this point!

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Rentier capitalism, technofascism and destroying the common(s)
A new article takes on some big topics that have been relatively understudied: rentier capitalism, technofascism, and commons destruction. Is rent�the form�of ‘fixated� surplus profits ’ and is ...
www.dailykos.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
susanp64.bsky.social
If you are Jewish and are against the genocide in Gaza, plese sign this petition; join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org
Jews Demand Action
jewsdemandaction.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM