June 9, 2026

Caregiver shortage is a healthcare crisis & a moral catastrophe Republicans refuse to address.

Republicans don’t care about any Americans that have disabilities that require treatment or special care. If they did put money into needed programs, billionaires might have to pay more taxes.

— @franklee246.bsky.social 2026-06-09T17:02:30.994Z

Trump froze Medicare enrollments for home health and hospice providers — immediately, no warning.

Seniors and disabled Americans needing care at home are now blocked from getting it.

Ht @nickknudsenus.bsky.social

— Mia Farrow (@miafarrow.bsky.social) 2026-06-09T22:54:50.659Z

Applegrove: are the oligarchs trying to separate all middle class and poor from their money? I mean this is supposed to be the richest dynamic to retire im US history. Maybe it is easier to take money by trashing government programs and get a stake in a health care corporation that charges $35/hrs for home healthcare for baby boomers than it is to build something. Cha ching!!! Cha ching!!!

June 9, 2026

They use disgust to play us off our leaders so:

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— Deborah Lynn (@mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social) 2026-06-09T19:00:52.317Z

Why do you think they harp on trans people to those who don't see them as just another variety of people? Why in Canada are there multiple facebook posts that start out with things like "I don't care what anybody says, I like Mark Carney"? And if you give it a thumbs up you feel a little dirty because you don't agree with the first part. It is disgusting being embedded in your feelings for Democratic candidates.

June 4, 2026

Biden was masterful as President. I mean his policies.

He lost charm as he aged and his gait changed to that of an old man. It did not inspire confidence. Like it or not you have to be attractive to the public when you run for president. A political family should have picked up on that, that he was not the candidate who won the first time.

When my dad died, I put up a recent nursing home picture of him on facebook that had him looking decrepid because all I could see in it was love and someone who had been amazingly kind to me as a kid and amazingly protective of me when life got terribly hard as an adult. It must have been a bad picture of him. Someone complained to my sister, who was not on Facebook, and she told me to take it down. I put up a picture of him when he was healthier.

No doubt Biden was not decrepid and still was himself but he lost something salient politically and the Bidens and the people close to Joe could not see it. I was particularly taken aback when during an interview, way after the debate, he was asked what if he lost the election? Biden said "we'll then we lose" or something like that. I was so upset for all the people whose lives would be (are being) destroyed by Trump and Biden did not think of Americans or put them first in his answer.

That being said, I have no doubt he could have produced more great policies for America if he had a second term. He may have remained masterful. But he needed to get elected and he failed at inspiring people and his family should have known that.

May 20, 2026

Maybe the impoverishment is about separating the poor

and the lower middle class, both struggling, from smartphones and the internet. Why else would they try and slow broadband, disallow price controls of it and reduce expendable income? Why are prices increasing every year while minimum wages stay the same? Is this so voters can't get to independent media as traditional media is captured by the right more and more?

https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-bell-ca-rvc3&source=android-browser&q=trump+broadband#lfId=ChxjMe

May 16, 2026

Strong people meme (how to redefine who should be admired in these political times):

BE KIND NOT WEAK!!

— #MadKingOfChrist👑🔥✨️ #MakeAmericaGodsAgain😇👑✨️ #SinisterMinister😈✨️ (@realkingresist.bsky.social) 2026-05-16T19:02:03.597Z

May 10, 2026

It is a GOP wedge so they like to keep it as a live wire.

They keep sending juice to trans issue.

May 10, 2026

I hate these memes that have a duel message

depending who you are. It is an attack for those of us who believe in equality and owns the libs that while it would reinforce those aleady vulnerable to believe in a misogynistic world.

There are tons of memes on Facebook in Canada that start out with a negative phrase and then say something positive about Mark Carney. Things like "no matter what you think of him, Carney is a strong leader". It is along the lines of "I don't care what everybody says about you, you are a good pal". Those messages about Carney are everywhere on Facebook forcing one to agree to the first thing is they want to heart or thumbs up the second. It is like a manufactured fault line.

I thought Facebook said Facebook in Canada was to be apolitical since they didn't want to have to pay for news content?

May 4, 2026

Making an ad of all the GOP tying themselves into pretzels

trying not to answer that question (did Biden win the 2020 election) would be good. Back to back to back.

May 2, 2026

Toon: the public always losses on tariffs

— William "Chip" Nagel (@cto1usn.bsky.social) 2026-05-02T15:52:48.512Z

Applegrove: Tariffs end up being a transfer of wealth from consumers to government to Corporations. Why does everything Trump does always end up as a transfer of wealth to the 1% from the people? Why is increasingly inequality their main goal?

May 2, 2026

Yes we consume a lot of American news. But our

policies on healthcare and college funding and minimum wages are way different. Why Trump didn't make any inroads with his talk of annexing us... who would give up good public schools and good healthcare? We see you struggling under Republicans when they rule and how you don't get to have 'nice things'. You are showing the world what the danger of illiberal rule is and, at the same time, showing us in the rest of the world how to fight back. I have been so impressed with DUers over the years and don't know why the MAGA base is so unimformed relative to you guys. How does that happen in the same country? But the world is wise to the fascists thanks to your suffering and how you share it, your intellects and knowledge of the world shine through but most of what I see on the DU every day is the compassion you have for people. I bet a Brexit would not happen again the way it did.... and even the far right parties in Europe are separating themselves from Trump. I'm just so sorry you are going through what you are going through and had to spend last year cutting and cutting your loses. Better times ahead this year I think. (((HUGS)))