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James Gordon
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🖋️Author 💙🏳️‍🌈Adult Sexuality Educator 🏳️‍🌈💙 Progressive Beltway Insider 🚫Fascism 🦎🐶cute animals - I FOLLOW BACK

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James Gordon @jamesgordon.bsky.social · Feb 12
You've SEEN how democracy becomes FASCISM. UNDERSTAND how Fascism gives way to violence and chaos. Through Feb 28, ALL PROCEEDS from sales will be donated to gsanetwork.org GSA Network for trans + queer youth BUY/REVIEW - tinyurl.com/4xr7srbj
#queerAdultSFF #dystopia #scifi #books #sff #book 📢📚🪐💙
Cover shows two women with a child, waving a flag in front of armoured vehicles bearing white nationalist insignia. Title 2033: The Year Things Fell Apart. Sidebar has this text: A disputed election…a terrifying future! Em, with her partner Ava and stepdaughter Sophia, left a tiny East Coast apartment for a lucrative IT job in Louisville that could fund their future. A disputed 2032 U.S. election and the rise of a powerful neo-fascist demagogue lays waste to her dreams while Em struggles to survive in the belly of the beast itself. Her government contract job brings her into contact with the most hated media figures of the new regime. She can hurt them, but at what risk in a place where her family’s queer identity makes them a target? In the rising fire of a Civil War, Em must struggle to survive and preserve something of her hopes, her family, or even herself. https://tinyurl.com/4xr7srbj 2033: THE YEAR THINGS FELL APART Presents a realistic and chilling look at a world that may lie just around the corner. Beltway insider and political wonk James Gordon is writing again with Alternative Sexuality Educator Rebecca Doll to present a sobering look at a future that may be too close to our own for comfort. Available at Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/2033-Year-Things-Fell-Apart/dp/B0CSTBRS31
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For the 4th of July maybe watch some classic feel-good but still relevant and timely movies from back in the good old days that focus on the core values of our Republic ? I'm thinking "Soylent Green" and the original Carradine "Death Race 2000," then maybe "Rollerball."
July 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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I'm not a Trump fan, but I think we need to be clear here. Musk is mad at him for not screwing average Americans over ENOUGH in favor of billionaires. It's two crocs arguging, and Musk is the croc that wants to eat us completely not just rip off our legs.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump and Musk’s feud blows up again with threats of Doge and deportation
Reignited quarrel centers around Musk’s opposition to the president’s signature tax bill as it moves through Congress
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July 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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“I think the world needs many more young angry women, to be honest,” said Thunberg. “Especially with everything going on right now. That’s the thing we need the most of.”

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‘We did nothing wrong’: Greta Thunberg accuses Israel of kidnapping yacht crew
Swedish activist says ‘12 peaceful volunteers’ did not break laws during attempt to bring symbolic aid shipment to Gaza
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June 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Los Angeles responds with roaring backlash to Trump’s dramatic escalation
The president vowed to crush opposition to his immigration raids – but his attempted show of force may have awoken something else
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June 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Stop bending the knee to Trump: it’s time for anticipatory noncompliance | David Kirp
US institutions have been doing Trump’s bidding before he even comes after them. Here’s the counterstrategy
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June 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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1) I've been donating to Sanders and AOC. I'll donate to the party again when we don't hear Ken Martin sniveling in public about credibility and recognize that David Hogg represents the future and that we SHOULD be primary testing our tired, over-the-hill, candidates. #democrats #dnc
June 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Good. Democrats need new Leadership. Full Stop.
Ken Martin privately expressed doubt about ability to lead DNC, blaming David Hogg
Martin expressed frustration and self-doubt in an internal meeting with other party leaders, according to a two-minute recording obtained by POLITICO.
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June 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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"Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?"

Yes there haven't been any shootings, yet...but there's no question of the intent in this case.
Los Angeles protests live: First troops arrive in LA after Trump signs order to send 2,000 National Guardsmen
California officials, including Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass, have described the move as
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June 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Uruguay's José Mujica, world's 'poorest president', dies
The former guerrilla who governed Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 earned his nickname because of his modest lifestyle.
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May 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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“I will not yield because it was a terribly disrespectful comment, and I will not yield to disrespectful men,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
May 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Glad to see from this morning's email that the big boys are getting traction on their efforts to keep everyone well prepared in our changing work environment.
May 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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If you don't know how hard the DNC has made it for primary challengers...they have. And it explains a lot about having geriatric leadership that lost to Trump.
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David Hogg-run group announces $20M initiative to support primary challengers to House Democrats
Leaders We Deserve, a group led by David Hogg, announced it will spend $20 million to help younger candidates and primary challengers to House Democrats
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April 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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www.politico.com/news/2025/04... “The people are sending Democrats a message about the direction they would like to see,” Sanders adviser Faiz Shakir said in a post on X.
Ocasio-Cortez raised $9.6 million in 3 months, smashing her own record
It’s a massive haul for the progressive lawmaker who has been barnstorming the country with Bernie Sanders.
www.politico.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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www.politico.com/news/2025/04... “They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,” If you wanted to make sure the US lost its edge in international conflicts, there would be no better way to go about it.
April 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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TL:DR - War with Iran - "the Wall Street Journal editorial board, possessed by the Trump frenemy Rupert Murdoch (who is also pushing war with Iran behind the scenes, one prominent Trump interlocutor told me recently). "- Curt Mills editor of the Am. Conservative.

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The 2028 Republican Primary Will Be Over Economic Nationalism
Ted Cruz fired the first broadside over Trump’s tariffs. But he’s not alone in positioning himself for the next GOP nomination fight.
www.politico.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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In Today's good-ish news. People are learning that "eating faces" was not a metaphor. I mean it is regrettable more people don't care about the threat to send American Citizens to concentration camps in other countries, but you know a pfennig is a pfennig. www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/p...
‘Political poison’: Enten explains why independent voters are turning on Trump | CNN Politics
CNN’s Harry Enten says that President Donald Trump has lost the approval of many independent voters in the United States because of his economic agenda.
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April 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Just a reminder this is happening!
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Bernie Sanders rally in LA draws thousands to protest Trump: ‘We can’t just let this happen’
US Vermont senator’s tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes has been drawing record-breaking crowds since February
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April 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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...not that it's surprising they just make shit up. But this probably isn't *new* www.bbc.com/news/article...
British man's tattoo wrongly linked to Venezuelan gang in US government document
A tattoo belonging to a man from Derbyshire has appeared in a US government document used to identify members of Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang, despite the man having no connection to th...
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April 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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"The Republican anxiety comes in the wake of a landslide defeat in a Wisconsin Supreme Court race and double-digit underperformance in two Florida special elections."

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Republicans are increasingly anxious about a midterms wipeout
Across the party, there's a push to refocus on economic issues even as some worry the president's tariffs could cause short-term harm.
www.politico.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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HMS Bouncy Castle
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-to-i... best of yesterday's crop. Does anyone remember the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadno... ? - inappropriate today, but historically interesting.
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April 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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And on the heels of a win in Wisconsin, in two solidly GOP districts "Democrats can nonetheless boast of outperforming expectations, having cut the GOP's margin of victory in both districts roughly in half from 2024."
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Live: Liberal wins Wisconsin supreme court race, GOP holds Florida congressional seats
Liberal judge Susan Crawford won Wisconsin's state Supreme Court race, while Republicans held two Florida congressional seats in Tuesday's election.
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April 2, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Breathing a little easier now....

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Liberals will win majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, CNN projects | CNN Politics
Democratic-backed candidate Susan Crawford will win Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, CNN projects, maintaining the liberal majority on the court in a key battleground state less than three months into ...
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April 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Shock and failure to understand that Sanders and AOC are about creating a movement, not just figuring out who will claim an empty title. Legitimate politics looks weird today, even on the Democrat side. #AOC #progressive #Democrats
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The problem for the Bernie Sanders movement is what happens when he’s gone
Sanders isn’t interested in running for president again. It isn’t clear if Ocasio-Cortez wants to, either.
www.politico.com
March 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I think The Atlantic standing their ground fits my "good news" criteria!
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
The country’s most powerful institutions are bowing to Trump. The Atlantic just backed him into a corner.
The president has used a strongman playbook to bring universities, news organizations and law firms to heel. That didn’t work on The Atlantic.
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March 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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In the mid-2000s, Obama turned the GOP into a powerhouse. But it didn't happen overnight. The Left is coming. Swing voters aren't "turned off" by the left. They're "turned off" by a party that tells them nothing is wrong and seems out of touch.

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What the Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mega-rallies are really about
The two progressives are bringing energy to a party that has been exhausted and furious in the second Trump era.
www.politico.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM