Erica

Erica

@ermf.bsky.social

Go SF Giants! Favorites: fitness, chocolate, hiking, travel, family. Carpe diem.❤️

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Replying to @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

These people don't even want to pay *regular* taxes and they expect us to believe their little pyramid scheme will lead to universal basic income. Lol. Lmao.

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ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

theguardian.comICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

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We've got the threat of unbridled AI, the rise of fascism, a dangerous economic divide, worsening climate change, increasingly unstable geopolitics, and ongoing wars. And we've got the exact wrong people in charge to meet this moment.

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Replying to @sodrock.bsky.social

The court is captured! "A captured court is a judicial body that serves the political or ideological interests of a specific group, party, or leader instead of applying the law impartially."

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Every six hours there is an attack on healthcare. Our staff and the patients we care for witness this reality: airstrikes on our hospital in #SouthSudan, attacks in #Gaza and assaults on our teams in #DRC. Healthcare is #NotATarget. It’s time to hold perpetrators accountable.

and whittle away at public education, and take away our ability to obtain funding for domestic professional degrees that are predominantly held by women. I guess they want us barefoot and pregnant hoping that a man will care for us. 😭

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Asking people to understand that American dominance in women's soccer is a byproduct of Title IX, which helped foster high-level women's sports in this coontry, in stark contrast to most of the reat of the world. It's a systemic, structural thing we should be proud of.

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When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

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Replying to @atrupar.com

What the AF are we doing people! I'm so damn tired of being in flight or fight all the damn time. THIS is not ok, THAT was not ok, last week was not ok..... Remove the bastard.

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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."   - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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ken is one of the last true american journalists, who is actually doing what journalists are supposed to do. cancel your NYT/WaPo/Atlantic/<Whatever other blinkered and state-fellating “news” tabloid> subscriptions and give him that money instead

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social

Part of why I get so many leaks that major media don't is i'm not weighed down by corporate nonsense. The downside is I don't have corporate money - please consider chipping in either by subscribing or here: www.gofundme.com/f/bcatm9-tes...

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15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling. We must overturn Citizens United. Every day, it corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy.

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