aucoon.bsky.social

aucoon.bsky.social

@aucoon.bsky.social

Progressive, proud to be woke, vegan, atheist, mother to 6 amazing adults, 2 dogs, and 1 semi-feral cat. Love to read, bike, hike, and playing in the dirt. Cubana. 🚫DMs please #BlueResisters

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Who can afford boots?

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

John Bisognano@johnbisognano.com

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

And don't forget the Great Gatsby ball. What a slap in the face of all Americans struggling right now.

Shimanti@humanconsequences.com

JD's family has spent $35M on vacations. Kash Patel used a $60M FBI jet to go on a date. Trump spent $98M to golf for 24% of the days of this term. All our tax dollars. But you think single moms getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?

Exactly I'm proud to call myself Antifa

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me zeteo.com/p/mehdi-conn...

Today in USA

Andrea Junker@strandjunker.com

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Fuck all those people who said we were overreacting! This is America 's gestapo

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

Interesting

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective… You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.