Melanie D’Arrigo

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:17 UTC

The Heritage Foundation president saying the coup part out loud: “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:14 UTC

Donald Trump: I’m going to do authoritarianism Republicans: We’re going to do authoritarianism Project 2025: Here’s our plan for authoritarianism Democracy is at stake. We should exhaust every option to save it. POTUS needs to break out his Executive Order pen and expand the Court.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:29 UTC

If a single billionaire can legally dump $100 million into an election, when the legal maximum an individual can donate is $3300 — that’s not democracy or a free and fair election, that’s an oligarchy and an auction. The corruption is killing our country.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:24 UTC

I’m really tired of living through the “How America Fell Into Fascism” chapter of my future grandkids’ history textbooks.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:34 UTC

The Supreme Court just ruled that our Democracy can be a dictatorship if we decide to elect a wannabe dictator. This ruling is why right-wing billionaires rigged the Supreme Court, because fascism protects billionaires at the expense of morality, democracy and everyone else.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 11:25 UTC

There’s a reason Donald Trump doesn’t talk about how his policies will help the working class —because they won’t. All of his policies are put up for auction for corporations and billionaires to bid on. He’s the official spokesperson for corporate greed.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 11:06 UTC

The Chevron deference was a safeguard against Project 2025 and a complete corporate lobbyist takeover of our government. It was overturned because right-wing billionaires bribed the right-wing Supreme Court Justices. 👉🏻 Make Judicial Reform the priority.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 23:17 UTC

Newsweek published an op-ed written by the 1950’s patriarchy. And conservatives wonder why women won’t date them.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 13:35 UTC

Criminalizing homelessness without criminalizing poverty wages, and the commodification and price gouging of basic necessities like healthcare, housing and food that lead to homelessness is an absolute moral failure now owned by the right-wing justices on the Supreme Court.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:18 UTC

We can’t restore Roe unless we unrig the Supreme Court. If a member of Congress or candidate doesn’t support Judicial Reform, then they don’t support reproductive rights — it’s that simple. Get your reps and candidates to support it on the record.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 12:05 UTC

We force people into poverty… then criminalize poverty… then put people in the for-profit prisons wealthy people invest in… while those imprisoned are used as slave labor for private companies, to cut down their costs and increase profits…

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 11:39 UTC

1️⃣ Republicans do something to distract from negative news 2️⃣ Republican billionaire-owned Sinclair Broadcast Group legitimizes it by pushing it on its 185 TV stations 3️⃣ Republican billionaire-owned social platforms amplify it 4️⃣ Repeat Step 1️⃣

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 23:11 UTC

Nassau County Exec Bruce Blakeman chose Pride month to attack trans women, because he cares more about promoting hate for headlines than he does about doing anything to actually help Nassau County families. He’s a small, evil, hateful man.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 11:43 UTC

Billionaires are using teacher pensions to pay for their flights on their private jets they write off on their taxes.

And teachers are paying for their school supplies, which they can only write off $300 of on their taxes, because of billionaire lobbying.
www.levernews.com/why-are-teac...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 11:34 UTC

It’s easy to hate oil and gas companies for their lies and destruction in super-charging our climate crisis, but have you also tried hating them for their lies that put microplastics in our food, water and bodies? They are killing us from all angles.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 15:25 UTC

The secret to success for Fortune 100 companies is that their CEOs work, on average, 320x harder than their employees. Also, their “no strings attached” political campaign donations and lobbying have magically resulted in deregulation and tax breaks that increase profits. 🫠

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 22:58 UTC

Both. Neither one should exist. Healthcare and education should never be for profit, and we shouldn’t let corporations force people into crippling, generational debt for wanting either. This isn’t a “radical” take, it’s a moral one.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 19:49 UTC

The indoctrination and grooming of kids isn’t coming from drag queens or DEI programs. It’s coming from Republican Christian nationalists.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 12:03 UTC

Juneteenth is a federal holiday. But in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas; Republicans have passed laws to prevent teachers from teaching kids why.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 02:12 UTC

No one: Roger Stone: Here are the crimes I’m going to commit… He’s like a cartoon supervillain explaining his dastardly plan in detail beforehand. All he needs is a monocle and a handlebar mustache to twirl.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 12:15 UTC

Murder ⬇️ 26.4% Rape ⬇️ 25.7% Robbery ⬇️ 17.8% Property Crime ⬇️ 15.1% Crime is down. Lying and fear mongering about crime to scare voters, race bait and get clicks is way up.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 11:42 UTC

The only people being held accountable with our climate crisis, and its death and destruction, are the people protesting — not the people causing it. The oil & gas industry has already spent $101,809,942 on the 2024 elections to keep it that way.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 11:49 UTC

When corporations pay less in taxes, the rest of us are forced to pay more and lose services. Republicans want to slash the corporate tax rate again, then cut Social Security and Medicare to cover the difference. There’s a reason corporations funnel billions into elections.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 11:47 UTC

All you need to know about this year’s congressional baseball game is that it’s sponsored by a bunch of companies and lobbyists who want favors from Congress. These companies have already donated $78,311,842 to their 2024 reelection campaigns. America’s pastime indeed.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 01:52 UTC

Who would have thought that the wife of a Supreme Court Justice who ruled that businesses could discriminate against LGBTQ people would be a homophobe? (Everyone)

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 17:55 UTC

I would love to see what working 3,769x harder than the average employee looks like. Just your reminder that it’s the workers who create the value with their labor.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 11:36 UTC

If you accepted millions of dollars in bribes at your job, you’d be fired, and likely end up in prison. If you’re Clarence Thomas, who has accepted millions of dollars in bribes at his job… nothing… nothing happens. The Supreme Court won’t police itself. Unrig it.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 02:32 UTC

They’re not “gifts.” They’re bribes. Clarence Thomas took $4 million in bribes from billionaires. Everyone understands this, and yet he still holds a lifetime position as one of the most powerful people in our country. Unrig the Supreme Court.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 01:06 UTC

47 Senate Republicans refused to protect a person’s right to birth control, in case you were wondering what the “moderate Republican” position on birth control is.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 12:12 UTC

It’s not a “trans culture war.” It’s bigotry. Republicans are protecting bigotry. Labeling equality as a “culture war” issue diminishes its importance and harms marginalized communities.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 11:56 UTC

Higher prices. Less service. More red tape. Private equity firms, insurance companies, and Big Pharma are buying up in-home care companies because they’re most profitable when they’re forcing us to choose between death and debt. Pass Medicare for All.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 11:32 UTC

Rent prices Gas prices Food prices Prescription prices Utility prices When prices go up and profit margins stay flat — that’s inflation. When prices go up, and profits hit record highs — that’s greedy CEOs price gouging us. Never accept exploitation.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 17:31 UTC

Taxpayer money meant for public education shouldn’t fund private religious schools, for the same reason that taxpayer money meant for public parks shouldn’t fund private pools in a megachurch pastor’s backyard. If religious schools want taxpayer money, they should pay taxes.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 12:04 UTC

Remember when they blamed inflation on a one-time $1200 Covid stimulus check? “the companies behind the country’s 10 largest grocery and restaurant brands have together returned or pledged to return more than $77 billion to shareholders”

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 11:48 UTC

Trump doesn’t reward hard work.
He rewards loyalty.

9 witnesses in the cases against Donald Trump received large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and shares and cash from his media company.

www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 02:04 UTC

I want a world where the greedy CEOs price gouging parents for baby formula are locked up, and the baby formula isn’t.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 17:56 UTC

Pride didn't start as a 🌈 Pride started as a riot. The rainbow came after the storm. So love who you want to love, and be who you want to be. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♥️ Happy Pride Month

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 12:46 UTC

Dear corporations,

Skip your #PrideMonth posts this year if you’re donating to elect the Republicans erasing and harming the LGBTQIA community.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ in your social posts doesn’t show solidarity, your actions do.

Sincerely,
Everyone tired of your harmful BS.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 11:51 UTC

I'm old enough to remember when being convicted on 34 felony counts would hurt you with “law and order” voters in a Presidential campaign.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 11:50 UTC

This is the Dumb and Dumber reboot we didn’t ask for.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 11:38 UTC

Climate action isn’t “radical” or “woke.” Oil and gas companies have spent billions paying conservative politicians to call it that to protect their profits. This is your reminder that lobbying isn’t considered bribery because the politicians taking the money write the laws.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] May 29, 2024 at 22:05 UTC

Samuel Alito thinks men should be empowered to regulate a woman's healthcare choices, but he should be powerless to regulate his wife's flag flying choices. Unrig the Supreme Court.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 11:44 UTC

Not a coincidence: Suicide prevention policies are also “protect the working class from being crushed by capitalism and greedy CEOs” policies. That’s why lobbyists pay politicians so much money to say that they’re “radical” instead of “overwhelmingly supported by voters.”

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 13:52 UTC

NBC News is owned by Comcast, which spent over $787,500 since Jan 6th, 2021 to re-elect seditionists to Congress. Imagine if fascists didn’t have the financial and institutional support of major corporations who see fascism as a means to profits.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 15:23 UTC

Weird... I keep hearing that progressive policies are "radical" and "politically unpopular" but keep seeing that the majority of Americans support them. Just remember that the Congressional "center" isn't the moral or American center.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 11:54 UTC

$1.2B spent on lobbying in Q1 — to block climate action block universal healthcare keep wages low keep drug costs high keep billionaire's taxes low protect union busters sell more weapons If a politician says a necessary policy is "radical," it's because they're paid to say it.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 21:43 UTC

Maybe, and hear me out… an insurrection sympathizer, who has received lavish gifts from right-wing billionaires in exchange for rolling back freedoms and rights, shouldn’t be a Supreme Court Justice. Which one am I talking about? Take your pick.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 21:27 UTC

Kids are kicked off their parents’ health insurance at 26, but can be forced to take on their parents’ medical debt for the rest of their lives. This is why insurance lobbyists shouldn’t be allowed to buy the politicians who write our healthcare laws. Pass Medicare for All.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 12:20 UTC

Taxpayers pay hundreds of millions of dollars each year for police settlements because of qualified immunity. Last year, NYPD settlements cost taxpayers $115 million. This year, NYC had to cut $58.3 million in funding from public libraries.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 11:29 UTC

Military contractors donated $3.8 million this year to members of the House committee who oversee Pentagon spending. They're adding 2 provisions to an upcoming bill that lets military contractors price gouge taxpayers. If this isn't corruption, what is?

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