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Vocal Visions
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Let your light shine. Have courage, be brave. Musician, author, educator (vocalvisions.net), Jazz journalist and sound healing facilitator. Pro democracy 💙 Music heals our heart, soul and brain. 💥🌏🌈
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Vocal Visions @vocalvisions.bsky.social · 12d
New Seeds of Kindness: Lifting Each Other Up 🌱
The power of seeing each other. A kind word. A gesture of support. Letting someone know they matter.
When we lift others, we rise too.
Who needs to be seen today? We grow best when we grow together.
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Seeds Of Kindness: Lifting Each Other Up
Be the light that helps someone else bloom.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 23h
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d
Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.
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Rep. Steven Woodrow @woodrowforco.bsky.social · 4d
I refuse to pretend that claiming “both sides” are the problem is a sign of intelligence.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d
Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
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Wiley Miller @wileymiller.bsky.social · 5d
To paraphrase the Declaration of Independence...

We hold these truths to be self evident, that if you can rent the city of Venice for your wedding party, you can afford to pay your employees a decent living wage.
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💙FoolAmongstMany💙 @foolamongstmany.bsky.social · 5d
Proper directional discernment is a prerequisite to make this true, however.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d
Cycling Solidarity is a group of cyclists in Chicago that goes out daily to buy all the food from street vendors. This effort allows the vendors to finish their shifts early, enabling them to return home safely to their families.
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 5d
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d
What did people do before SNAP?”

They died.

Healthcare, vaccines, disability support, education & food assistance are vital to our survival.

They’re why the average lifespan isn’t 35 anymore

The mark of a good & decent society is whether it sees the value in helping others.
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Vocal Visions @vocalvisions.bsky.social · 5d
Best of luck to you! We need imaginative, intelligent and humble leadership. 🌹
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 5d
He's taking away healthcare for millions. He gets a thrill out of killing people on the open seas. He wants you to hate. Dwell on that – he wants you to hate. He's demanding our justice department pay him $230,000,000. He thinks he owns the country.

He is a clear and present danger.
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𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔 @gmf1369.bsky.social · 5d
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d
The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow

'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'
As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void
The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5d
The oligarchy wants full control of what we watch and read.
A tweet from Robert Reich states: “The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?”
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Vocal Visions @vocalvisions.bsky.social · 5d
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lvnvrcd.bsky.social @lvnvrcd.bsky.social · 6d
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Vocal Visions @vocalvisions.bsky.social · 6d
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6d
Stop trying to sweeten the deal, Andrew. I'm already voting for Zohran!
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Eric Rosen @erosen1.bsky.social · 6d
The United States is the cruelest place on earth. It has the wealth to care for millions upon millions in need and it chooses not to.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 6d
Corporate media is utterly in the tank for Trump and complicit with fascism.

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Mark Thompson’s D.C. Drop-In
CNN’s chief has Washington talking about his private meeting at the White House—following which he urged the network to ease up on coverage of Trump’s East Room demolition, Status has learned.
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Vocal Visions @vocalvisions.bsky.social · 6d
No, let’s keep daylight savings time so we can have more light at the end of the day. Actually California voted for that and we still haven’t seen it applied.
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 7d
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Vocal Visions @vocalvisions.bsky.social · 6d
They don’t care. They’ve gone beyond the rule of law. We are in a real constitutional crisis and a rule of law crisis. We’ve got to start getting creative here, folks.
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ICE Facility unlawfully denies routine visit from Member of Congress
Congressman Horsford about the incident: "What are they hiding? You don't get to slam the door on a Member of Congress during a routine ICE visit.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7d
ICE Facility unlawfully denies routine visit from Member of Congress
Congressman Horsford about the incident: "What are they hiding? You don't get to slam the door on a Member of Congress during a routine ICE visit.
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