Kim

Kim

@planet12steps.bsky.social

Project USA. Bring it all back. No more tyranny. No more totalitarianism. No more trampling human rights. No more oligarchs stealing OUR money. No more betraying the ideals on which we were founded.

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Kim
@planet12steps.bsky.social

Project USA. Time to launch our project to take back America from the fascists. Bring back: Honor. Decency. Science. Truth. Fiscal responsibility. Functional EPA. FEMA. CPSC. CDC. FBI. DOJ. DOE. FAA. Etc. Impeach and replace Roberts. Thomas. Gorsuch. Kavanaugh. Share and add to the list.

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Kim
@planet12steps.bsky.social

Viking: Worst. Travel. Experience. Ever. Food poisoning. Canceled excursions. Travel by bus not ship. Crappy air conditioning. Mediocre guides. Uncomfortable beds. Horrible travel arrangements by arrogant, rude, meddling Viking staff who completely messed up our airline travel.

Kim
@planet12steps.bsky.social

So my sister, who is slowly dying of pancreatic cancer, has a few months to live, cannot get Aetna to approve the only pain drug that helps her function, helps her deal with the chemo that prolongs her life. She can’t afford it without insurance. Medicare Advantage: privatized death panels.

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
@ketanjoshi.co

"Refusal is active. Angry. It demands struggle. An attachment to the righteousness of fossil fuel lifestyles, and to all the hierarchies that depend upon fossil fuels, produces a desire to not just deny, but to refuse climate change, and a willingness to engage in authoritarianism to do so"

Simon Ferrigno@brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social

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autonomy.workPetro-masculinity and the politics of climate refusalWriter in Residence Cara Daggett explores how 'climate refusal' is being created by new violent forms of petro-masculinity.
Kim
@planet12steps.bsky.social

The United States seeks world domination. It is an enemy to basic human rights and fundamental freedoms. Will the world’s democracies will declare an economic war to attempt to minimize the US threats? Will China and India ultimately join the US in a triumvirate of world totalitarianism?

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The Atlantic
@theatlantic.com

"The White House and congressional leaders I regularly brief know that Washington's debt path is unsustainable. They also expect to be out of government when the bill comes due and see no reason to anger voters in the meantime," Jessica Riedl writes:

bit.lyCongressional Republicans Might Set Off the Debt BombTheir new budget framework is the most irresponsible in modern history—and will put the American economy on a very dangerous trajectory.

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The Lever
@levernews.com

INVESTIGATION: Trump’s administration halted a probe of surveillance pricing — now “price optimization” consultants are helping corporations weaponize Trump’s tariffs to jack up prices on consumers. “Now is the time to take advantage,” said one consultant www.levernews.com/how-trump-is...

levernews.comHow Trump Is Helping Price Gougers Exploit His TariffsEmboldened by the new administration’s regulatory reprieve, “price optimization” consultants are showing corporations how to weaponize import levies to fleece consumers.
Kim
@planet12steps.bsky.social

We are all so screwed.

NPR@npr.org

A recent court ruling cleared the way for the firings, which follow a memo from the bureau's chief legal counsel outlining the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new priorities. By @laurelwams.bsky.social

npr.orgThe CPFB starts to lay off staff as the agency plans a shift in its focusA recent court ruling cleared the way for the firings, which follow a memo from the bureau's chief legal counsel outlining the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new priorities.

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Mondoweiss
@mondoweiss.net

READ: They’re deporting pro-Palestine students, flirting with annexing Canada, and turning Gaza into a resort. It’s not satire. It’s the Trump doctrine: chaos, white supremacy, and genocidal theater. Rev. Graylan Hagler says: stay angry, stay loud, stay in the fight. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/cont...

mondoweiss.netContinue to fight, even when you are wearyThe first months of the Trump administration have been an assault on everything that those who work for justice hold dear. Yet, it is in times like these that our movements have brought down mighty…
Kim
@planet12steps.bsky.social

“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.” Ghandi

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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social

“Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions execs at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.”

propublica.org“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
Kim
@planet12steps.bsky.social

Disgusting.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

New @propublica.org reporting reveals that Blue Cross denied payments for thousands of procedures involved in breast reconstruction. But it approved special deals for executives’ wives. www.propublica.org/article/blue...

propublica.org“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.