Joe Blanda
@joeblanda.bsky.social
supporting those who work to protect democracy from predators at home & abroad
music 🎸 books 📚 family & friends 👨👩👦 my cat 🐈 = antidotes to the insanity
#organize #innovate #resist #voteblue
🌻🌻 Ukraine 🌻🌻
music 🎸 books 📚 family & friends 👨👩👦 my cat 🐈 = antidotes to the insanity
#organize #innovate #resist #voteblue
🌻🌻 Ukraine 🌻🌻
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The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
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The Golden Age.
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Golden Age.
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Cassidy continues to pay lip service to the public health catastrophe he created with his cowardice.
December 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Cassidy continues to pay lip service to the public health catastrophe he created with his cowardice.
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Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map
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Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
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Turns out Representative tradwife is not so fun
December 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Turns out Representative tradwife is not so fun
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Senator suddenly wakes up to the prospect that if healthcare costs explode, his career will be caught in the blast.
December 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Senator suddenly wakes up to the prospect that if healthcare costs explode, his career will be caught in the blast.
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Nathan is the only TX Dem (running for ANY position, state or fed) I've heard speak out about this change from Acting Comptroller Hancock and yes: it's extremely disheartening.
If you are running for any txlege position, find your voice and speak.
If you are running for any txlege position, find your voice and speak.
Texas Republicans are breaking the law — again.
Without any legal authority, the Comptroller removed women and minorities from a state program supporting small businesses.
They're attacking hardworking Texans to destroy the separation of powers.
It's time for new leadership.
Without any legal authority, the Comptroller removed women and minorities from a state program supporting small businesses.
They're attacking hardworking Texans to destroy the separation of powers.
It's time for new leadership.
December 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Nathan is the only TX Dem (running for ANY position, state or fed) I've heard speak out about this change from Acting Comptroller Hancock and yes: it's extremely disheartening.
If you are running for any txlege position, find your voice and speak.
If you are running for any txlege position, find your voice and speak.
RIP Steve Cropper . . .
December 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
RIP Steve Cropper . . .
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All the more reason to shop at Costco over Target or Amazon.
December 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
All the more reason to shop at Costco over Target or Amazon.
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VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE THAT WILL WORK TO EARN YOUR VOTE
Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!
Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!
December 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE THAT WILL WORK TO EARN YOUR VOTE
Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!
Tomorrow is election day, TN-7, and I'm humbly asking for your vote. I promise to be accessible and only beholden to the voters of the district, never donors or special interests. Polls open at 7 AM & close at 7 PM. Let's go out and win this!
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Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
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Breaking: Costco is suing Donald Trump for his tariffs, declaring them illegal and demanding a “full refund” for raising prices nationwide.
December 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Breaking: Costco is suing Donald Trump for his tariffs, declaring them illegal and demanding a “full refund” for raising prices nationwide.
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
There's already a significant nursing shortage throughout the country. Now this fuckery . . .
Nursing is no longer classed a “professional” degree in Trump’s America. Good luck with that. #Trumpland #MAHA (h/t @marhicks.bsky.social) www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
What Is A “Professional Degree” And Why Does It Matter?
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Dept of Education proposes redefining "professional degrees" to exclude degrees in nursing, NP/PA, Public Health, PT/OT and more
www.forbes.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
There's already a significant nursing shortage throughout the country. Now this fuckery . . .
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Bohacek, who has a daughter with Down syndrome, says he’ll vote No on redistricting following Trump’s “retarded” slur at Gov. Walz.
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Bohacek, who has a daughter with Down syndrome, says he’ll vote No on redistricting following Trump’s “retarded” slur at Gov. Walz.
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David Glosser, Stephen Miller’s uncle, told CNN his nephew is an “immigration hypocrite”:
“Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would never exist” (2018)
“Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would never exist” (2018)
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
David Glosser, Stephen Miller’s uncle, told CNN his nephew is an “immigration hypocrite”:
“Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would never exist” (2018)
“Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would never exist” (2018)
"Individual states — either through their legislators or their citizens wielding ballot initiatives — have the authority to limit corporate political activity and dark money spending, because they determine what powers corporations have."
#EndCitizensUnited #TransparentElectionInitiative #Montana
#EndCitizensUnited #TransparentElectionInitiative #Montana
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way to get rid of Citizens United. Let me explain. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Individual states — either through their legislators or their citizens wielding ballot initiatives — have the authority to limit corporate political activity and dark money spending, because they determine what powers corporations have."
#EndCitizensUnited #TransparentElectionInitiative #Montana
#EndCitizensUnited #TransparentElectionInitiative #Montana
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I need to get back there. Back to the art of being grateful. Because without it, the fight consumes you. When you are grateful, you remember what you’re fighting for.
Happy Thanksgiving, friends.
Happy Thanksgiving, friends.
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I need to get back there. Back to the art of being grateful. Because without it, the fight consumes you. When you are grateful, you remember what you’re fighting for.
Happy Thanksgiving, friends.
Happy Thanksgiving, friends.
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I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
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I don't think we're going to have a successful Amazon boycott till we break their monopoly on indie books.
They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵
They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I don't think we're going to have a successful Amazon boycott till we break their monopoly on indie books.
They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵
They have a clever strategy to build their monopoly, which any functional government would have banned: if you want your indie book listed in Kindle Unlimited, you have to be exclusive. 🧵
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