Aaron McCall

Aaron McCall

@aaronmccall.bsky.social

I fight for clean air, clean water and to protect our homes, open spaces and futures! - my block hand is swift and unapologetic. 🏳️‍🌈 & deeply in love with my husband Ari

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Hi! My name is Aaron McCall & I organize in California (and most often in Orange County Ca)! I work with California Environmental Voters and our California Federal representatives to fight for clean air, clean water, public spaces, and a strong & fair democracy! Follow along for climate action!

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More from today. Don’t let the mainstream media fool you into thinking that people wanted Donald Trump in Alaska. Did you notice how they didn’t release say much about him coming up here? The proof is in the signs. #AlaskansTakeAStand.

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Republicans defend every corruption scandal with the same shrug: "Nothing to see here." A president making billions while prices rise. A cabinet cashing in. A party shielding it all. Nothing to see, nothing to fix, nothing for you. #CostOfCorruption

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Trump thinks he’s the second coming of Teddy Roosevelt. What a joke. TR protected 230,000,000 acres for the public forever. Meanwhile, Trump wants to hand a corner of Yosemite to a buddy of his to build who knows what. You can’t make this stuff up.

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CA families are paying more for home insurance as wildfires and other extreme weather drive up costs. We need a new approach: make the fossil fuel companies that helped fuel these disasters pay their fair share -- not leave families to foot the bill. https://bit.ly/4xCPnWX

bit.lyCalifornia FAIR Plan Announces 29.1% Rate Hike for Homeowners This Fall | KQEDNearly 700,000 customers will see the largest rate increase in the insurer’s recent history.

This is absolutely terrible! Not only is this just a violation of people’s rights that are participating in a representative democracy - but there are DIRECT health impacts that we all face because of quickly built and poorly operated data centers! Leaders are calling for a moratorium!

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Trump’s Little Johnson (R-LA) says the Pentagon is demanding $350 billion to “fight Communism on our own shores.” Welcome to McCarthyism and the Red Scare 2.0 Stop weaponizing our military against us and #FundHealthcareNotWars you sycophantic bootlicker.

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Speaker Johnson frames reconciliation as debt reduction. It cuts taxes for the wealthy and slashes healthcare for everyone else. That's not debt reduction. That's redistribution. #FundHealthcareNotWars

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If you're "writing" and submitting "A.i." generated trash to literary publications, you are bad and you should change everything about how you interact with the world.

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American citizen, Andrea Valez was slammed to the ground by ICE agents and arrested. She was just on her way to work. If it can happen to her, it can happen to you. Speak up. Share her story widely. Call Congress and demand accountability for #ICELawlessness at 202-224-3121.

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I am in need of help. The last few months have been very challenging for my mom and I. As her caretaker, I have been at her side nearly every single day navigating the challenges she’s having with her heart. She has been off work and I am desperate for help. www.gofundme.com/f/help-steve...

gofundme.comDonate to Help Steven & Mom Stay Housed After Heart Trouble, organized by STEVEN R. MARTINMy mom and I live together, and we both have chronic cancer. I rece… STEVEN R. MARTIN needs your support for Help Steven & Mom Stay Housed After Heart Trouble

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There are real people suffering real consequences under Donald Trump’s reign of terror and errors hurting the American people. Trump’s heartless cuts to healthcare and exploding cost of living have created a crisis for many families. For those that can, please help those in need. 🙏🏼❤️

Steven Martin@stevenmartin.bsky.social

I am in need of help. The last few months have been very challenging for my mom and I. As her caretaker, I have been at her side nearly every single day navigating the challenges she’s having with her heart. She has been off work and I am desperate for help. www.gofundme.com/f/help-steve...

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Democrats stood behind affordable housing. Trump blew it up for his pay to Vote SAVE Act scam that he currently doesn’t have the votes for. This is Exhibit A of his contempt for working families struggling with the high cost of living in America today. #TrumpsHousingCrisis

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Something Trump and Republicans can’t say with a straight face about the war or anything else… “It's clear that House and Senate Democrats are on the side of the American people.” ~ Hakeem Jeffries

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It won’t just ruin the paint job. It’s going to have to be emptied again to strip the paint off because it’ll start clogging the drains and polluting the water even more. He just created a little environmental disaster.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social

Not believing in science really comes back to bite you, doesn’t it?

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Someone asked a bunch of kids what the first thing was that cane to mind when they thought about Trump. Their answers are priceless. Check out the video.

Distrust in institutions is now at an all time high & California is in trouble: We either have a race with two MAGA, a race with a billionaire & demoralised voters, or a race with a candidate that MANY powerful orgs endorsed against. & the party refuses the Catharsis needed to heal and build trust.

My weird take is, authenticity is difficult because society is so obtuse between someone saying something dumb or insensitive, and people using full on slurs regularly.

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Replying to @gregpak.net

Schiff is a CA senator. He seems AWARE of the terrible harms these "A.i." companies are inflicting on us, and he's taking stabs at addressing them. But he's still pushing "A.i." into schools and seems to me to be pulling his punches with these (mostly CA-based) "A.i." billionaires.

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They never want to talk about the guns. Ever. Under any circumstances.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BRENNAN: The shooter had multiple weapons. You said he traveled from CA across the country by train. How did he do that? BLANCHE: This isn't about making laws more restrictive BRENNAN: I'm asking about crossing state lines w/firearms BLANCHE: I don't think that's something we should be focused on

I fear I am becoming a “process focused” person over an “outcome focused” person mostly because the outcomes are so shortsighted. “Winning an election” - isn’t enough if we don’t build trust in or democracy and strengthen unions, organizations and our communities in the process.

This isn’t to say all processes are created equal bla bla bla. But there is a level of “I just need this thing right now.” That doesn’t include quality or sustainability and that shit is a mess.

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Republicans are funding Trump’s war in Iran with over 1 trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid. His stupidity is costing more than 15 million people their healthcare coverage. Let that sink in for a minute. We deserve better than this. Vote them all out of office in November! #HealthcareNotTrumpsWar

If you want dems to hold people accountable you need to call their offices, go to the the fundraisers and rallies and bird dog them to hold Trump and his admin accountable. Priorities aren’t magical, they’re the result of constant pressure.

I am so excited about @stevenmartin.bsky.social ‘s new substack taking about the American health care system! He is a fierce fighter, an unending advocate and a voice worth listening to! Check it out, subscribe and share!

Steven Martin@stevenmartin.bsky.social

Living with Leukemia-CML this past 10 years has been quite the journey. Now Im putting my thoughts together on my new Substack your support would mean the world. My first Article for Care, Or Something like it is Live! You're Not Bad at Taking Care of Yourself substack.com/@stevenrmart...

We know money in politics is bad, we know that congress is misaligned with public opinion, however incumbents have a massive reelection rate. There is a cognitive dissonance that cannot be explained entirely by money in politics.

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We need to do more than win in November. We need a massive blue wave. The only way to stop the MAGA shenanigans of the Trump regime is to win big, limit their power, and then do it again in 2028. Please follow the people on this list who are on the frontlines fighting for US. go.bsky.app/K6JGV3h

I actually think if you can take the time to make the caveats around indigenous communities, you can take the 3 seconds to say that Black American’s ancestors where systemically targeted and trafficked when you say “we’re all immigrants”.

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Replying to @mikelevin.org

Republicans in Congress separately voted to strip public broadcasting of its funding, and that damage is real. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has kept local stations on the air for decades, is gone.

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A federal judge ruled Trump’s attack on NPR and PBS unconstitutional. The First Amendment is clear: the government can't cut funding to a news organization simply because it dislikes their coverage. That is textbook viewpoint discrimination. The court called it out. But here is the hard truth.