Shari in MD

@minimom617.bsky.social

Mom, bleeding-heart liberal 💙, prefers animal over people🐾, addicted to reading 📖 and coffee ☕️, F-bomb enthusiast 💣, Peloton fan 🚲, Orioles Fanatic 🧡🖤, recent convert to atheism 🥳 NO DMs

@rbreich.bsky.socialReposted by @minimom617.bsky.social

Wall Street profits and bonuses are poised to hit a record high. CEO pay is up. Corporate profits are skyrocketing. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. Meanwhile, inflation eats up the paychecks of working people as the social safety net is cut out from underneath them. Trumponomics.

bloomberg.comWall Street Eyes Record Bonuses as Profit Heads Past $90 BillionA blockbuster year for New York’s trading and investment-banking firms is poised to deliver record earnings for the industry, with profit on pace to exceed $90 billion, and bonuses expected to reach a...
@cwebbonline.comReposted by @minimom617.bsky.social

THE SOUTH CAN’T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS You don’t get to profit off Black athletes on Saturday, then spend the rest of the week gerrymandering Black political power out of existence. We know what’s up! Hakeem Jeffries makes the connection perfectly.

@muellershewrote.comReposted by @minimom617.bsky.social

Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.

@shefali.bsky.socialReposted by @minimom617.bsky.social

Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional.

This is the first suit of its kind.

19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...

19thnews.orgTierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken PaxtonThe case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
@marcelias.bsky.socialReposted by @minimom617.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: Missouri’s Supreme Court held the state’s top election official in contempt Thursday for defying its order not to use a gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comMissouri’s top election official held in contempt for defying court’s gerrymander orderThe development was the latest embarrassment for Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R), after being thwarted in his attempt to force the gerrymander on Missourians.
@rbreich.bsky.socialReposted by @minimom617.bsky.social

Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?

@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.socialReposted by @minimom617.bsky.social

Devastating allegations surface against Pete Hegseth.U.S. Representative Pat Ryan has just revealed that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reportedly ordered American military members into an active warning zone in Kuwait with ZERO defense against drone attacks.

@rbreich.bsky.socialReposted by @minimom617.bsky.social

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.

youtube.comThe Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert ReichI’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations ransacked our system. In 1952,
@rbreich.bsky.socialReposted by @minimom617.bsky.social

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

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