2026-10-28 17:28 UTC
We then heard from a couple of local Dem candidates who are likely to win their races. That will be exciting! In the primaries we got ourselves some real fighters who join us at protests all the time. We were cheering loudly for them.
The union leadership got up and asked everybody to turn their red heart shaped glow stick on. He said he'd start listing a bunch of awful things Trump has done and asked us to turn out sticks off as he listed something that affected us directly.
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social 2026-10-28 17:30
Well, the first thing was DOGE, and that could have been cause to turn off every glowstick right off the bat. They stole all our Social Security numbers, FFS. But I kept my glowstick on in consideration for the civil servants who lost their jobs. I eventually turned mine off when it got to the cuts in healthcare, because my ACA plan got more expensive. I'm lucky I'm still covered, though I had to switch providers. Then the union leader told us as we stood there in the dark...