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I like old movies, watercolor painting, and presidents who uphold the US constitution. San Jose, CA
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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July 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.

So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Democrats at every level of power could simply repeat "he must resign" over and over and over again. It's what the GOP would do if the situation were reversed. Further erode his power by pushing him to lash out more.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
If you see this, post your bird art 🐦

#birds #watercolor
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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The move here for democrats is to make this the campaign ad for every single election but then also actually make it come true

KEY PART
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
#BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday November 8, 2025
#Evening #watercolor #gouache

"Look for Burrowing Owls on wide expanses of short vegetation. . . Your chances are best in early morning and late evening, when the owls tend to be more active." — Cornell Lab
November 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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For the record: I'm not tired of winning.
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Yes on 50. Let's go, California!
November 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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November 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
#BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday November 1, 2025
The theme is #Autumn
Watercolor from a b/w photo by Richard Avedon of Suzy Parker in Paris, 1951
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Anybody else get a trick-or-treater in a 67 costume tonight?
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I don't know, maybe it's just the Halloween of it all right now, but does anyone else see the similarity? #Taskmaster
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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It's Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I know I've said this before, and I'm not sure what good it does my saying it—because who cares what I think?—but with the void thus identified, I'm going to shout into it: people who do not believe in government should not be in government. Ever.
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The distillation of this is that your government is lying to you and plans to keep doing so.
Scoop: The Trump admin's videos boasting triumphs on immigration have used misleading footage from months ago or thousands of miles away

When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes"

wapo.st/4nuDGwf
Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations
Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was years old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.
wapo.st
October 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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GOV. WALZ: “This is not both sides. This is owned by Republicans. Dems are willing to come back and protect what passed, not let an authoritarian president do whatever he wants… people will be lined up to get food and we’re talking about a damn ballroom? DON’T LOSE THE PLOT.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Rainbow over San Jose, CA, 10/26/25
Very Roy G. Biv.
#dtsj
October 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM