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#Truth: If I could start again/A million miles away https://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI An optimist’s lore: “They are Americans awed by what has gone before, proud of what for them is still…a shining city on a hill.” & now no more.🫏✊🗽⚖️🇺🇸🇺🇦❌👑 My NYC photos: #NYC-eod
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Chuck #Schumer is NOT a leader whatsoever, and thus clearly the very wrong person for this extraordinarily dangerous era for democracy. We need FIGHTERS! Not old feckless men pining for a mythical Senate of yesteryear.
Elon Musk’s #Twitter is… real life?! NO!! It’s all bots and foreign-based grifters getting paid for high engagement/views. Case in point (note 2nd screenshot):
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Elon Musk’s #Twitter is… real life?! NO!! It’s all bots and foreign-based grifters getting paid for high engagement/views. Case in point (note 2nd screenshot):
I’m going to… nurse this drink for a little while:
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I’m going to… nurse this drink for a little while:
This is a beautiful moment.
For my love of Children & Dogs
Timeline Cleanse
Sweetness
Timeline Cleanse
Sweetness
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
This is a beautiful moment.
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Sent email to Chuck #Schumer & asked him to resign. I wrote: 1) his “No” vote was transparently craven, 2) he orchestrated this capitulation when #Trump was weak, 3) he is NOT capable of leading in this political moment, 4) Gov. #Hochul would appoint a FIGHTER! www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/mess...
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www.schumer.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Sent email to Chuck #Schumer & asked him to resign. I wrote: 1) his “No” vote was transparently craven, 2) he orchestrated this capitulation when #Trump was weak, 3) he is NOT capable of leading in this political moment, 4) Gov. #Hochul would appoint a FIGHTER! www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/mess...
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Barack Obama’s two biggest mistakes: 1) throwing a political lifeline to Hillary Clinton by making her Secretary of State, 2) doing the same for Joe Biden by selecting him as his Vice President. Ralph Nader committed far, far lesser sins by running for president in 2000. #Truth
Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Barack Obama’s two biggest mistakes: 1) throwing a political lifeline to Hillary Clinton by making her Secretary of State, 2) doing the same for Joe Biden by selecting him as his Vice President. Ralph Nader committed far, far lesser sins by running for president in 2000. #Truth
Something really changed tonight. Something really, really changed. We can take the country back. More and more people will be emboldened after tonight. Great night for small “d” democracy. #NoKings #Truth
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
So wait, Trump “cut a deal” with China to: buy the soybeans they were already buying before the trade war, but now China gets advanced AI chips too?? Where is the win??
October 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Trump is stealing from taxpayers. It’s maddening that our government allows for such thieving with no transparency, no checks and balances. The whole lot of these Republican politicians are craven and immoral.
Awful: Trump's $230 million shakedown from DOJ can be paid to him confidentially at first, without the public ever finding out about it until later, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me.
Raskin will formally demand full communications between WH and DOJ on this.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
Raskin will formally demand full communications between WH and DOJ on this.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
Trump’s Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse
It’s bad enough that Trump wants—and DOJ will likely fork over—this tribute payment. Now, get this: It can probably be done at first without even being revealed publicly.
newrepublic.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Trump is stealing from taxpayers. It’s maddening that our government allows for such thieving with no transparency, no checks and balances. The whole lot of these Republican politicians are craven and immoral.
It’s too bad that “the speech” is mostly remembered for Joe Biden plagiarizing it bc Kinnock was really cooking
October 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
An additional 6-7 million of us in the streets (on top of the 7 million protesting on Saturday) can take this orange son of a bitch down.
[In each case, civil resistance by ordinary members of the public trumped the political elite to achieve radical change.]
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
[In each case, civil resistance by ordinary members of the public trumped the political elite to achieve radical change.]
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
www.bbc.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
An additional 6-7 million of us in the streets (on top of the 7 million protesting on Saturday) can take this orange son of a bitch down.
[In each case, civil resistance by ordinary members of the public trumped the political elite to achieve radical change.]
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
[In each case, civil resistance by ordinary members of the public trumped the political elite to achieve radical change.]
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
October 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“Many [mainstream news] outlets have adopted policies that serve effectively as AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR REPUBLICAN APPARATCHIKS.” #Truth
Many of my liberal peers see clearly how mainstream outlets have ruined their already imperiled businesses by capitulating to bad-faith right-wing criticism. They have a harder time seeing that the Democratic Party has fallen victim to the same kind of self-sabotage.
Democrats Fell Prey To The Same Toxic Dynamics That Destroyed Mainstream News
Instead of fighting smears, they appeased the smear merchants.
www.offmessage.net
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“Many [mainstream news] outlets have adopted policies that serve effectively as AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR REPUBLICAN APPARATCHIKS.” #Truth
October 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Q: "Trump authorized military strikes...in the Caribbean. 20 people have been killed in six different strikes. Do you believe these strikes are legal?"
Sen. Rand Paul:" "No...These people have been blown up without us knowing their name or any evidence of a crime."
Sen. Rand Paul:" "No...These people have been blown up without us knowing their name or any evidence of a crime."
October 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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