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Democracy might be dead, but we're still here (for the moment)! Protect your heart & those that care about you.
#TrumpVotersAreNotYourFriends
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To all my "friends & family" that AGAIN voted for Trump:

I was wrong.

After 8+ years and 3 elections, I FINALLY heard you, Trump voters. I listened...really listened...to his message, over and over, just like you. I saw what he did, just like you. I heard his message, which became your message.🧵
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This is my friend.

His name is Christian Smalls.

He founded the Amazon Labor union

Not as a professional activist, but as a worker who decided he’d had enough.

Recently, he was beaten and detained by the IDF

And no one in the MSM is talking about it.

paydayreport.com/amazon-union...
July 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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😕
July 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I created & posted this on my other SM accounts as a sarcastic alternative to "Happy 4th."

A friend said I was being "hyperbolic."

I would challenge anyone to ask the new & future residents of "Alligator Auschwitz" if they view this as "hyperbole."

Check your white privilege, folks.
July 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"And I'm proud to be a Trumpublican
Where at least I know I'M free!
And I don't care 'bout the immigrants.
They mean nothing to me.
And I'll gladly stand up for bigotry
Send all foreigners on their way!
'Cause there ain't no doubt, they've got to go!
Make white my USA!"
June 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers.

Easy money, no risk.

Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime.

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.
June 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.
June 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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May 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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The world needs more of this and less of most other things
May 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Reporter: I was watching your face during the meeting.. what was going through your mind when the President talked about erasing the border..

Carney: I’m glad that you couldn’t tell what was going through my mind

Reporter: Oh I could
May 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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April 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I just can't anymore. The blatant stupidity is physically painful. 🤦
April 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.

1362 Days to go...
April 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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My Facebook DMs are full of fans like Chris Elliot. Know what I do when I get a message like this? I spend the time to track them down and then send the message to their mothers and sisters and daughters.

If you’ve got the energy to send this shit to me, I’ve got the energy to out you.
April 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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worth every second
April 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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This is really really scary and bad

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
April 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Some more good news…👇

Enjoy. 😎✨
April 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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We cancel research and education grants, then spend money on this:
U.S. immigration detention is a profit-driven enterprise. Private corporations like GEO Group and CoreCivic receive billions in federal contracts, earning daily revenue per detainee. The more migrants detained, the greater the profit—turning human suffering into a business model.
April 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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president of el salvador is literally dripping with anger in this post with how it’s worded he was forced to have any level of accountability to prove a guy accidently sent their wasn’t murdered
April 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Ukraine is beating Russia—sinking their fleet without a navy, killing 800,000+ invaders, and holding the line for 3 years.
Donald Trump wants to save Putin.
He won’t say Russia is the aggressor.
Let’s be clear: there’d be a cease-fire if Russia…stopped.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/ukraine-is...
Ukraine is Winning. So Why is Donald Trump Trying to Help Russia?
America Is quickly becoming the people we read about, and hated, in high school history.
adamkinzinger.substack.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit.

ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
April 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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In short:

1. It's unconstitutional
2. It's lawless
3. It's criminal

Let's please start talking about it that way, instead of accepting the framing being given to us (that's for the media!)
April 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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We are nearing the end.
April 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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38 of the 43.

"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.

"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM