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Posts by Erika Brechtel

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A birth certificate AND your marriage license.

If you changed your name after you got married, like the First Lady, the 'SAVE America Act' will demand you provide BOTH documents in order to prove your identity and vote in the next election if you don’t have a passport.

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Tell Your Senators: Vote NO on Voter Suppression | Indivisible

One of the new goals of the far right is to make it harder for women to vote.

The SAVE Act, which the Senate is debating now, would be a major vehicle to achieve that goal.

Spread the word about why we need to stop SAVE. indivisible.org/actions/stop...

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Business owners: stand for something and consumers will stand with you.

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America’s Top 25 Philanthropists — And The Richest Not On the List MacKenzie Scott was the nation’s top philanthropist in 2025 and ranks third behind Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates in terms of lifetime giving.

How Melinda French Gates Plans To Fund “Chronically,” “Unconscionably” Underfunded Programs For Women And Girls

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Summary: she knows they’re awful but seems pretty ok with it.

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How to billionaire

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A bunch of folks have asked me what this looks like in local currency terms. Here's the chart.

It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~

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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

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Pope Leo:

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Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says Exclusive: Special rapporteur for poverty cites mainstream parties’ ‘extremely dangerous’ them-or-us dialogue Decades of efforts by mainstream politicians to roll back welfare programmes have given rise to an “extremely dangerous” discourse that has helped fuel the rise of the far right and rightwing populists in countries around the world, a top UN expert has told the Guardian. From London to Lisbon, politicians from centre-right and centre-left parties alike have steadily eroded social programmes, fostering a sense of scarcity and creating fertile ground for the stirring up of anti-migrant sentiment, said Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Continue reading...

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says

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My daughter is considering going to university in the UK (we live in LA now). This is really helpful and such an interesting read. Thank you!

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Guys, I’m starting to think all of Trump’s talk about protecting young women was insincere.

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in all seriousness the next president needs to be an elementary school teacher who can help this country regain its footing in reading, kindness and science

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Just a reminder that while her ex nonstop soils himself in public with tasteless displays of wealth and look-at-me, thirsty nonsense, Mackenzie Scott has given away close to $20 billion to 1,600 charities, no strings attached and without any need for recognition.

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LA #nokings #losangeles

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Agreed but want to point out it’s still quiet and peaceful here except for a few blocks in DTLA. Took my daughter to a birthday party yesterday across town, she’s off to school near USC today, we’re going to a Sparks game in DTLA tonight. The suggestion that we’re under a “migrant invasion” is wild.

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I hope you continue to post for the rest of us

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I am sad for this author who appears to be over-“thinking” what is meant to be a “feeling” experience. Enjoy it, be kind, take a break, expand, have gratitude. It’s not that complicated

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What a line from Warren Buffett this morning:

“Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer."

[applause] 🙏🏼

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Enjoyed seeing Beto fired up!

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Interesting read!

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Pope Francis was an advocate for the homeless, the marginalized, the vulnerable. We need more of this in our world to push back against the cruel and spiteful who abuse their power to make our world poorer.

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That is the worst part of it. It turns my stomach and breaks my spirit. Who are these people? How did we get here? Would 51% of us really laugh at this? If not, where is everyone else, where is the outcry?

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Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed

Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?

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Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague

"Indeed, the rightwing critique of empathy is not an attempt to find a better way to achieve altruistic ends; it’s an excuse to turn away from altruism entirely. We are witnessing the construction of the ideological architecture to excuse violence and suffering on a mass scale."

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Cream Shiba Inu puppy smelling purple flowers

Cream Shiba Inu puppy smelling purple flowers

I have a cream Shiba puppy and I too have been amazed at her navigational ability. Twists and turns yet she always knows which way is home (because she pulls me back home whenever she can)

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In this case “moving fast and breaking things” is destroying the lives of every day Americans and this great country.

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LA #handsoff

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Hands Off! Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...

I’ll be at the DTLA protest this afternoon. It’s been frustrating to feel so ineffective and hopeless, and it was @booker.senate.gov who inspired me to sign up, stand up, and just do something.

There are over 1300 protests planned around the country. Find yours: Handsoff2025.org #handsoff

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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

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