Doug Grinbergs

@ShutterbugDoug@mstdn.social
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Hike, bike, snowshoe, XC ski. iNaturalist, OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia. #VisionZero. #MedicareForAll: healthcare where and when you need, Uncle Sam pays the bills: USA Uncle Sam's #AmeriCare. I support Bernie, FDR Wallace progressive populist New Deal Dems. History interests incl. Boulder photographer Rocky Mountain Joe Sturtevant, Doc Susie, Ivy Baldwin, Lutie Stearns.

If #Democrats wanted to appeal to #leftists, they'd talk about #EndCitizensUnited, #RankedChoiceVoting, #UniversalHealthcare, and #UniversalBasicIncome, but they don't want to talk about any of those things because they aren't profitable for Corporations. That is a FACT!

#CitizensUnited #UBI #uspol #politics #liberal #left #bernieWouldHaveWon #BernieSanders #socialism

Dem Sens. Cory Booker and Alex Padilla introduced a bill that would require immigration enforcement officers to display “clearly legible identification.” It would also prohibit officers from wearing “non-medical face coverings.”

Padilla said: “We’ve all seen the videos: masked ICE agents in plainclothes and unmarked vans, grabbing people off the street. No more hiding.”

More here:

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-new-white-house-meltdown-and-more

A New White House Meltdown and More Bad News For Trump

I cut through the lies, so you don’t have to

The Dworkin Report

Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding | Texas floods 2025 | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/ted-cruz-trump-weather-forecasting-cuts

Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding

Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics say

The Guardian
Establishment Democrats are scared. They know that democratic socialism is a winner once people finally hear the truth about what it is, and they're scared of candidates like Zohran Mamdani, AOC, and the like. They should be. Better yet, get with the program. #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #DemocraticSocialism #Socialism #ZohranMamdani #AOC #US #USpol #NewYork https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/nyregion/mamdani-cuomo-adams-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U08.M2Ji.xdXn-8XRHH6E&smid=url-share
After Mamdani’s Win, Some Democrats Are Determined to Stop Him

Though Zohran Mamdani scored a resounding victory in New York City’s Democratic primary, some in his own party are strategizing about how to defeat him in November.

The New York Times
ICE Said They Were Being Flown to Louisiana. Their Flight Landed in Africa

An investigation by The Intercept reveals that ICE officials deceived eight men now expelled to South Sudan.

The Intercept
Type louder.

Trump2 tax law: $1 trillion less for Medicaid, $75 billion more for ICE
https://19thnews.org/2025/07/trump-big-beautiful-tax-law-numbers

* tax breaks for wealthy
* slashes Medicaid/food aid
* expands immigration enforcement
* threatens health care, nutrition, safety nets for millions

Spending $200 Billion on ICE Is a Terrible Idea
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-deportation-trump-miller-big-beautiful-bill-200-billion-spending-increase
* covered federal law enforcement for 2 decades. Here are the things that worry me most

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #transgenocide

🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

More good news! Another government is freeing itself from tech giants and vendor lock-in. The Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is dropping Microsoft Office/365 and moving to #LibreOffice, to get back control: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/08/danish-ministry-switching-from-microsoft-office-365-to-libreoffice/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
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