Angela Marx | Angie in WA State

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Proud member #RebelScum #LLAP 🖖🏼 #BuildABetterFuture Born at 317 #CO2 ppm Cancer survivor #democracy is ALWAYS worth fighting for

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Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jul 15

👋 @jimacosta.bsky.social Watched you with @nicollewallace.bsky.social & you noted the best midterm participation was maybe 50%. In the modern era, it's more like 40%. But look at the era when you walked or rode a horse for days to get to town to vote: 1840-1910 👉 65 to 70%!

Courtesy FairVote.org
Graphic shows Voter Particpation rates, as a percentage of the U.S. Census identified Eligible Voting population, from 1789 to 2020.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jul 15

When a department of a U.S. Federal Agency becomes the place rogue, masked, murdering "agents" are working out of? It is the sworn Duty of every member of Congress to FIX THAT PROBLEM, yesterday. #AbolishICE /1 history.house.gov/Institution/...

The Congressional Oath of Office, sworn by every sitting member of the United States Congress.

https://history.house.gov/Institution/Origins-Development/Oath-of-Office/

The Form of the Oath
The founders decided to require an oath for federal and state officials—absent a religious test—in the Constitution, but the specifics—such as the wording of the oath—were left to the First Congress (1789–1791). In its first act, Congress specified the wording: “I, A.B. do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States.” This oath was used for all federal officials except the President, whose oath was prescribed specifically in the Constitution (Article II, section 1, clause 8).

The form of the oath has changed several times since that first act of Congress. During the Civil War, Congress mandated that the oath bar from office anyone who had been disloyal to the Union. Eventually, those elements of the “iron-clad” oath were dropped during revisions in 1868, 1871, and 1884. The oath used today has not changed since 1966 and is prescribed in Title 5, Section 3331 of the United States Code. It reads: “I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” In contrast to the presidential oath, where it’s used only by tradition, the phrase “so help me God” has been part of the official oath of office for non-presidential offices since 1862.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jul 15

If you look at the history of the Top Marginal Tax rates since the Fed Gov't instituted it permanently (not just to pay off the costs of the last War) in 1913, it becomes crystal clear. 1932 to 1963 top rates were 81% to 94% THE ENTIRE TIME. The wealthy did just fine in those years, too.

Shows the history of the Top Marginal Tax rates from 1913 to 2020.

You can view it online here: https://taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-highest-marginal-income-tax-rates

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jul 14

Sounds like my kind of story 📚 Big fan of @www.joditaylorbooks.com Chronicles of St Mary's & The Time Police Just picked up #TheAccidentalTimeTravelers 👍 Thanks for posting here or I might never have found you. Reach more BlueSky folks with a #BookSky hashtag!

Image is screenshot from Amazon, where I just picked up The Accidenal Time Travelers to read on my Kindle.

You can find the book at this link to the Kindle Books store at Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BN55WWS9

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jul 12

I know you all have used @wikipedia.org this year, just like every year. Please consider helping keep Wiki available, donate any amount, like I just did ($10.00). wikimediafoundation.org

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jul 12

No matter what you hear about the Nov 3rd elections, remember this, above all else, because it has been true every day since I cast my first vote in 1980:

Meme, shows a portion of a US Flag in motion on the left, and this text on the right:

If your vote wasn't important, Republicans wouldn't work so hard to steal it.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jul 10

Top Marginal Tax Rate FULL history 1940 to 1963 (23 years) one of the biggest US economic expansions. Those rates were 81% to 94% the entire time. LET'S DO THAT AGAIN. It helped us recover from the Great Depression. It can help us recover from Trump's #Grifting, too.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jul 8

Congrats to Kelsey Pfandler! Her record breaking voyage reminds me of this meme...

Meme:
Shows woman in superhero costume holding hand of girl in superhero costume, text reads:

Here is to Strong Women
May we Know Them
May we Be Them
May we Raise Them

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jul 7

Believe @fairvote.bsky.social These two charts both cover Vote Participation rates as a % of the U.S. Census eligible voters population. For a century in Midterms about 2 out 3 eligible voters DOES NOT VOTE. Every time. 2018 in Trump's 1st Term, see uptick? We need 2026 to be 80%.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jul 4

They can acknowledge their active duty status and branch of the Service. They just can't wear the Uniform while participating in partisan political activities. Both Dept of Defense & #UCMJ prohibit it.

https://dodsoco.ogc.osd.mil/Portals/102/Documents/Political%20Activities%20Docs/2024%20FAQs%20_Military.pdf

Document describes the issue of Active Duty members of the Armed Forces and Political Activities and Poltical Speech

Background and Policy Overview
Q1. What rules and regulations govern political activities by members of the Armed
Forces?
A1. Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) 1344.10 lays out the rules and policy concerning
political activities by members of the Armed Forces.
Q2. What is DoD policy regarding participation in political activity by members of the
Armed Forces?
A2. It is DoD policy to encourage members of the Armed Forces to carry out the obligations of
citizenship such as voting. However, active duty members are specifically prohibited from
engaging in partisan political activity, and all members of the Armed Forces should always avoid
actions that could reasonably be perceived as implying DoD sponsorship, approval, or
endorsement of partisan political activity.
Defining Terms
Q3. Who are included in the definition of “members of the Armed Forces?”
A3. As defined by DoDD 1344.10, members of the Armed Forces include members on active
duty, members of the Reserve Components not on active duty (including members of the
National Guard when in a non-Federal status), and retired members.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jul 2

🖖 great message because this is as true as the day I first cast a ballot in 1980...

Graphic showing part of a US Flag in motion, on the left 1/4 of the image, this text on the rest of it:

If your vote wasn't important,
Republicans wouldn't work so hard to steal it.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jul 1

The 1st Amendment. constitution.congress.gov/constitution... "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" Not free will if the school forces you to read it. www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/980... A WALL between Church & State AS INTENDED

Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists
Jan 1, 1802:

Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists
The Final Letter, as Sent
To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.

Gentlemen

The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.

Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jun 30

yay! I've loved that character and feared they were really killing him off in that 3rd film. 🫶

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jun 29

When I was 8 yrs old, I read my KJV Bible and went to my family's Lutheran Sunday School and asked the teacher about who those people in Nod were, and where did they come from. My parents were told I was excused from further attendance. I've been an atheist ever since.

Text from King James Version of the christian bible
Genesis 4:16 & 4:17

16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jun 29

An actual poster from the Young Republicans Labor Cmte in 1956. I found it nearly 20 years ago. See the address at bottom, I did some research years ago and that was the location in D.C. of the RNC during Eisenhower's re-election campaign. 1625 I St. NW (the street was formerly called "Eye St")

Poster from the Young Republican Labor Council in 1956

lists things you might find progressive Democrats supporting in the 2020s:

Young Republicans Support Labor!

Union Membership increases
Expanded Social Security

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jun 18

Many generations before him, was #FrederickDouglass Who said, from having lived in mid-19th century America as a Black Man: "If there is no struggle there is no progress." www.libraryweb.org/~digitized/b...

The image is a screenshot of part of a Frederick Douglass speech, linked in post:

Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. In the light of these ideas, Negroes will be hunted at the North and held and flogged at the South so long as they submit to those devilish outrages and make no resistance, either moral or physical. Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get. If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jun 17

All the media wants to talk about is how #ElonMusk is now a Trillionaire. But in the background, MULTIPLE investigations national and International are on-going:

A search returned from googling:
Did france ban Elon Musk from entering their country

Talks about international investigations into Elon Musk and his companies

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jun 17

This meme first showed up clear back in the first Obama campaign for president, iirc. Want to #BuildABetterFuture for all of our families? THIS IS THE WAY brought to you by @occupydemocrats.bsky.social

Meme from OccupyDemocrats.com:

Restore the Middle Class
Raise the Minimum Wage
Save Social Security
Tackle Climate Change
Repair Roads and Bridges
Reduce the Deficit
Unburden our Students
Return to Tax Fairness

Vote Democrat

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jun 16

2/ So you don't have to read that very long story if all you care about is the question in my prior comment? Screenshot from the linked story at The Maine Monitor:

Screenshot from story at The Maine Monitor linked in prior post, this is the text shown on the image:

Under the pre-Trump rules of American politics, those posts might have doomed Platner. The same goes for his Nazi-linked tattoo. In 2006, after participating in brutal fighting during his time as a Marine in Iraq, Platner and fellow machine gunners got drunk and wandered into a Croatian tattoo parlor, intent on getting something to memorialize their experience and the U.S. fighters who didn’t survive. They saw a skull and crossbones option and decided to get it — because, as one of the gunners, Phil Proschko, told me, “We weren’t gonna get matching fucking unicorns.”

Proschko and Platner both said they were unaware that the skull and crossbones was a Totenkopf, a symbol adopted and worn by the Nazi SS. And Platner said he didn’t know what it was until it became an issue during this campaign. Even when someone working with his campaign told him there was a rumor going around that he had a white supremacist tattoo, he said he didn’t connect it to the skull and crossbones on his chest. “I was like, ‘Well, that’s the fucking most retarded shit I’ve ever heard in my life,’” he told me. “‘No, I don’t have a white supremacist tattoo,’ and I never thought about it again. And then it came up later on, and I was like, ‘God fucking damn it.’” (He had the tattoo covered in late October.)

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jun 8

absolutely the basic issue is #VoterParticipation or lack thereof for the past century image courtest @fairvote.bsky.social

Graphic which displays Voter Particiption rates (based on Census date of Eligible Voters) from 1789 to 2020.

The past century Midterm participation is under 50% and since the 1970s it's usually been just about 40%.

Meaning during the lifetime of most Americans now, 2 out of 3 eligible voters have sat out EVERY Midterm election.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jun 8

Can we blame them for this, though? Under #FeloniusDon the US Military DID target and destroy that school and murder those innocent children. We are now the people my grandfather FOUGHT in WII, the evil fascists. This guy:

Local Wisconsin newspaper image from the 1990s featuring my late Grandfather, Eugene E. Marx. POW of the Nazis in WWII.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jun 7

A graphic from that story:

Graphic showing status of US Key Munitions, from URL: https://www.csis.org/analysis/last-rounds-status-key-munitions-iran-war-ceasefire

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jun 6

2/ Screenshot of the story, to give you an idea of what it's about. I believe that you will see common thread in this part of the story, which informs the point the author is making...

Screenshot of the story linked in the comment previous, a small bit to show what the full story covers:

A year and a half-ish into Donald Trump's second term as the nation's foremost disgrace, we now have a clear picture into what the ailing narcissist believes the United States government was built for. It isn't complex; even running down a partial list of departments and agencies will reveal it soon enough.

• Trump believes the purpose of the Department of Justice is to manufacture scandals against his enemies.

• Trump believes the purpose of the FBI is to manufacture scandals against his enemies.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jun 4

My dad's entire family was from Sparta, Wisconsin. One of the greatest things I've ever seen was in 2011 when people of good will in Wisconsin, in the dead of winter, marched round the Capitol against fiendish Gov. Scott Walker, who tried to break the Unions. AP / #AndyManis photo

AP / Andy Manis photo taken the winter of 2011 in the Wisconsin Capitol, Madison. When Gov Scott Walker tried to break the Unions.

Thousands, maybe as much as 100K people marching in the dead of winter, in freezing snow, to protest his attempt to break the Unions.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· Jun 2

o m g That even a MAGA sycophant thinks that a president getting a MENTAL FITNESS test #EveryDay is a good thing? The fall of the GOP will be historic, in line with the fall begun in 1931, which didn't end until 1995.

Screenshot from congress.gov showing the Majority Party in each House of Congress from 1931 to 1995.

Highlighted years are those the Republicans held a Majority during these 64 years.

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· May 31

Text of the Declaration of Independence from the Federal Archives URL:
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

Angela Marx | Angie in WA State@angelakmarx· May 31

Excerpt from the story linked above www.unchartedblue.com/ballroom-rep...