Ana M Rivera

Ana M Rivera

@amsrivera.bsky.social

Wife, mom, lover of life! Blue all around!💙

959 followers492 following324 posts

Americans turning on Americans struggling!☹️☹️

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S. AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers. Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

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I created a page on my website just to sell Jacket Mama jackets! 🧵🪡 Only a handful up there currently. They take time to curate. And they're hard to let go of once done! www.lisacatara.com/jacket-mama

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Lisa Catara (official)💎@lisa-catara.bsky.social

#ArtsThread At 13, my grandmother bought me a sewing machine. Today, it has over 250k miles on it. 🧵 Lately, I've shopped local thrift stores to rescue textiles otherwise landfill-bound and resurrect them into unique, original, & stylin' wearables. 🧵🪡 Music: Extreme Workout Musician: MusicLFiles

Who said young people don’t see what’s hampering our societal progression!

Lisa Catara (official)💎@lisa-catara.bsky.social

The young man makes a rational, compelling debate for what he believes in /against (and reasons why), and the guy is self-righteous, condescending & deflects considering any part might be true. When you're confident in what you believe, there is quietness & calmness about it. No matter the belief.

Yeah, she said it!!

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo. Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.

Democrats, listen up! Perfection gets you no where! Fighting with all our might and together as a full force!

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This party needs to wake up. These guys aren't screwing around... They're assassins when it comes to the way they weaponize grievance and the way they play politics. Enough! What more goddamn evidence do we need? They have rolled back the last half century in real time!"

Know the news source! It’s that important! Question the delivery and be open minded.👇🏽👇🏽

Outdoor Solace@outdoorsolace.bsky.social

Not only Fox. OANN, Sinclair. CBS/Paramount now that they have a Trump “editorial monitor.” Wash. Post & Bezos. Social media: X, Meta, Truth Social etc. It’s part of the racist x-tian right’s “Seven Mountains” strategy that coincides with Trump’s narcissistic need for ego boosts & oligarch greed.

How is this ok??

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social

Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:

This is now the USA!!

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

MUST WATCH: Oceanside CA: Militarized DHS (HSI) smashed windows, assault rifles drawn, tossed flashbangs and sent drones into the apartment which had 2 kids inside. They then told neighbors they were going to use tear gas, and they’d probably be exposed. Please share widely. WTF

Tired of hearing history repeating itself?👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Jeff Yang@originalsp.in

This passage from @michelleyoung.bsky.social’s amazing book THE ART SPY, about foreign Jews being summoned by Nazi-collaborating French police for “status review”—only to be arrested and sent off to internment camps—should sound *horrendously fucking familiar* to all of us living in Trump’s America.

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THIS!

KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸@kdnerak33.bsky.social

The same people who say Adriana Smith should stay hooked up to machines so a fetus can gestate inside her dead body for 7 months because “it’s a sacrifice a mother would make” can’t fathom a mother crossing the border with her children in hopes of providing a better life for them.

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20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant. They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear. They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings. The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore. kfor.com/news/local/w...

kfor.com'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspectsA woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!

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There is absolutely no doubt that Elon Musk is a Nazi and an anti-semite -- and he is the President-elect of the United States. This is beyond concerning. I beg you to re-post this so that every single American is aware of the fact that Musk is a Nazi and that his colleagues are, too.

The power of the people! Our purses and wallet can go where our money contributes to businesses that improve our local economy, our diverse, equitable snd inclusive neighborhoods! Target fafo. Hopefully the pressure continues.🙏🏽🤞🏽

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This from a senator!😞

LorennaCleary.bsky.social@lorennacleary.bsky.social

There is nothing comforting about “I’m just as scared as you” coming from the legislative branch that’s supposed to keep checks and balances on the executive. While she thought it was relatable, it is actually mortifying.

While we still can, get in good trouble!! Thank you senator @corybooker.com

Stephanie Kennedy@wordswithsteph.bsky.social

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is meeting this perilous moment in American history — taking an exceptional stand for ALL of us. The United States is a nation in crisis, and Sen. Booker is standing and speaking out in fierce opposition to an onslaught of evils being perpetrated by the…

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A federal judge in California — who sentenced Jan. 6 defendant Benjamin Martin to three years in jail for an unrelated gun crime — appears to have withdrawn from the case (left) rather than grant DOJ's request to release him from prison. The chief judge (right) did it instead.

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Y’all, Doug Jones is with us on BlueSky and he has some advice for Democrats in DC. Watch and give him a follow. “Go to where people are. Have testimony from folks being affected by these cuts …all politics is personal and how it affects individual people.” @dougjones.bsky.social

Doug Jones@dougjones.bsky.social

Folks are frustrated with Dems in Congress right now. Here’s my solution - get the hell out of DC and hold some hearings. I love town halls, but we need to focus on people right now. Have folks come testify about how these cuts are affecting them. Get local media there. Make it real.

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So likely the world’s first Trillionaire Elon, who received $36 Billion in govt subsidies and contracts to generate his wealth, is telling the people who built this country what they can live without, as he giggles with his chain saw. Something ain’t right

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Exactly right

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

Is it unreasonable to expect most Americans of good conscious to rebuke these actions by this administration? All of it, such a display of disregard for our civil society and the constitution we so revere! Can we all agree this is not the way to approach dealing with government waste fraud and abuse