GramLee ☮️♀️🎨💙

GramLee ☮️♀️🎨💙

@gramlee.bsky.social

NJ grandma, liberal, traveler, dancer, artist, atheist. Hoping to leave a better world to our kids and grandkids.☮️ 🌊🎨💃🌈♀️⛳️🌎

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GramLee ☮️♀️🎨💙 reposted

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

GramLee ☮️♀️🎨💙 reposted

A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.

"A movement cannot win by welcoming only the people who agreed with you from the very beginning. You can only save democracy with a majority, and you build a majority by making room for people the moment they’re ready to walk through the door."

GramLee ☮️♀️🎨💙 reposted

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

GramLee ☮️♀️🎨💙 reposted

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

Yep!

Mostly True News@mostlytruenews.bsky.social

Is Trump going to address the nation and talk about the children that are hungry because of him? NO. Is he going to talk about the people paying too much for gas because of him? NO. He's going to talk about fantasies of election crimes in his head while not talking about real crimes he did.

GramLee ☮️♀️🎨💙 reposted

Australia, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, South Korea, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark all have mail-in voting and it works well in those countries. Authoritarian states generally don’t do mail-in voting.

GramLee ☮️♀️🎨💙 reposted

If you had to prove citizenship today in order to vote, would you have one of these? 📌US passport: $165 📌Certified birth certificate: $10 to $35 (varies by state/county) 📌Naturalization or citizenship certificate: $555 (replacement fee)  REAL ID doesn’t prove citizenship. #SAVEActIsPayToVote

#TaxTheRich

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich — not the poor or immigrants or any other group of people vilified as scapegoats. The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has yacht and private jet tax deductions. Hello?

GramLee ☮️♀️🎨💙 reposted

Two pages. The same story. SNAP cuts: American children are losing food assistance and going hungry. USAID gutted: Children overseas are dying after humanitarian aid was cut. History won’t remember the excuses. It’ll remember who let children suffer. #RepublicansStarveChildren

GramLee ☮️♀️🎨💙 reposted

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM: All of the countries playing in the World Cup have universal healthcare EXCEPT for the US. We have other priorities, like pointless wars, golden ballrooms, terrorizing our people on the streets, concentration camps, and ruining reflecting pools by painting over marble.

The most shocking stat to me is that typical worker hourly pay in today's dollars was $25 in 1968 and $36 today. Only $11 increase in almost 60 years!

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Do you know how much the typical worker would be making today if their wages had grown as much as CEO pay? This graph holds the shocking answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lPPsrAMtTI

I miss having a president with intelligence, compassion, dignity, and morals.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Obama: I am not immune to anger or doubt. But I do know this when we lose faith in each other, when we stop believing that voting matters… we open the door to the most ruthless or the most careless, or the most fearful among us who see some groups and some people as more equal than others

"Your resistance is everything." ☮️

bethbramble.bsky.social@bethbramble.bsky.social

Jane Fonda just laid out how authoritarianism operates: war is a distraction technique to strip rights at home while focusing eyes abroad. Manufactured conflict is about power consolidation. If you cannot see through the blatant playbook by now, you are willfully blind.

GramLee ☮️♀️🎨💙 reposted

Fonda: This isn’t the first time that Americans’ rights have come under attack. But this time, what is really different from the last century is that the attacks are coming from every part of the government: the executive, the legislative, and the Supreme Court.

Excellent essay!

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com

Real strength protects the weak. Real men punch up, not down. Real masculinity doesn't need to keep a woman small to feel big. We know the difference. It's time to say so. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

##TaxTheRich

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

The world’s ten richest people — almost all Americans — saw their collective net worth increase by $220 billion in May. These ten people are now worth a combined $2.9 trillion. The bottom 50% of U.S. households, is worth $4.3 trillion. Wondering if inequality is out of control?

GramLee ☮️♀️🎨💙 reposted

Shoutout to every single BLUE dot 🔵 in deep RED states 🟥. Your vote carries outsized power — and it’s making a real difference. Thank you for fighting where it matters most. You’re true heroes. We see you. We appreciate you. Keep showing up! 💙 #VoteBlue