Morning Bluesky ☕️ ✌️💙 Not sure why exactly, but I thought this might be appropriate for today...🤔

Tax. The. Rich.

Shitty people like shitty people.

Our healthcare system is so broken, I don't know if there is even any way to fix it at this point. Especially since the only ideas that Republicans have are horrible ones meant to punish people they don't like, and democrats are so ineffectual that they can't even pass gas, let alone legislation.

The worst angle for a picture of a seal

The election in Romania was annulled because Putin's army of disinformation agents manipulated voters and installed a Russian puppet as president.

They did the same thing in the US. Trump is Putin's sock puppet.

Wake the fuck up, America! Before it's too late.

Hundreds of mass shootings later, and people still say "Thoughts and prayers."

Stop it. Prayer obviously doesn't work.

Or are you praying for more mass shootings?

A photo of a man lounging next to sacks of money while a robot serves him.

A photo of a hog, smiling in a suit.

I only remember a handful of Tweets from over the years. But one that will stick with me forever is when someone once said:

We have enough money in this world to feed every man, woman, and child.

But we'll never have enough money on this planet to satiate the insatiable appetite of billionaires.

Democrat Frost slams DOGE: Billionaires ‘cosplaying as government officials’ Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) criticized President-elect Trump’s choices to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying it’s “two billionaires who are co…

DOGE is nothing more than two billionaires cosplaying as government officials. I’m all for making government for efficient, but these guys just want to slash resources for agencies that help working people.

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The same Republicans trying to put a man accused of child sex trafficking at the top of the DOJ and an anti-vaxxer atop HHS, are telling us that the reason they’re banning drag queens, gender affirming care & books with two mommies is because they want to ‘protect our kids.’

Bullshit.

We've done the research. We know what we're up against. Here's what we're expecting from Project 2025.

Corporate Profit Over Worker Power Making it harder for workers to unionize, easier for businesses to fire workers who try to engage in collective action, and allowing states to prohibit private sector unions Reducing overtime pay by returning the overtime threshold to what it was under the first Trump administration (the threshold was recently raised under the Biden-Harris administration so that more workers are guaranteed time-and-a-half pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week) Helping employers avoid labor and employment laws by reinstating a first Trump-term rule that makes it easier to misclassify workers as “independent contractors”

Attacking Public Education Eliminating the Department of Education entirely and ending Head Start Ending student debt forgiveness programs, and phasing out income-driven repayment plans Stripping students of federal civil rights - including disability rights - protections by eliminating the Dept. of Ed’s Office for Civil Rights and ending enforcement of civil rights violations in schools

Attacking Public Education Excluding nonbinary students as a category from civil rights data collection, and encouraging school employees to misgender students Reinstating anti-survivor regulations created with the help of “men’s rights” activists, and redefining “sex” to mean only “biological sex recognized at birth, by bringing back Trump’s Title IX rule

Project 2025 can now be known as the roadmap for Donald Trump’s second term. This agenda threatens to dismantle protections against discrimination, limit access to health care, infiltrate our education system with misinformation, and bolster tax cuts for the rich at the expense of working families.

Attacking Reproductive Freedom Increasing denials of emergency abortion care by expanding so-called “conscience laws,” which allow providers to deny patients the care they need based on their personal beliefs instead of what is best for the patient Expanding federal surveillance of pregnant people by proposing a federal mandate for state reporting on abortion data — including the state of residence of the person receiving abortion care and the reason they sought care

Attacking Reproductive Freedom Banning abortion nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone and misoprostol, the most common form of abortion in the US Criminalizing the mailing of medication abortion pills via enforcement of the Comstock Act, a centuries-old relic written in 1873 Eliminating birth control coverage protections and allowing your employer or school to deny contraceptive coverage

Demonizing Queer and Trans People Dismantling the ACA’s protections against sex discrimination in health care Weakening nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQIA+ students by reversing the Biden administration’s Title IX rule Gutting LGBTQIA+ workplace discrimination protections under Title VII

Demonizing Queer and Trans People Creating draconian restrictions on gender-affirming care, casting supportive parents and health care providers as engaging in “mutilation” and “child abuse” Calling for the federal government to follow a “biblically-based” definition of marriage and family, clarified as “heterosexual, intact marriage” — and treating other families as threats to a “healthy society’ Reinstating Trump’s ban on trans people in the military Equating materials that acknowledge the existence of queer people with pornography — and outlawing them, calling for people who make this material available to be imprisoned and for teachers who share it to be registered as sex offenders

Information is the first part of preparing for this fight. We have the preview of what we’re up against. We are prepared to push back on these unlawful and frankly violent plans to destroy our families and communities. We’re in this together. We protect us.

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