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John Schaberg
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Good morning! 🌞

The fact that the literal seat of Wallstreet - the epicenter of capital - the city where Billionaire's dreams are made - Fox News is headquartered - & DJT was born - is now under the jurisdiction of a 34 yro Muslim Democratic Socialist is... laugh out loud funny.

Charming & absurd.
November 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Tomorrow is election day. There are no "unimportant" election. You need to vote. Every one of you! So make a plan today so you can vote tomorrow.
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Good morning.

Democrats have no obligation to vote for a budget that funds corruption and totalitarianism.

Trump is willing to do whatever it takes to destroy our democracy and pad the pockets of billionaires.

People don't want Democrats to wilt. They want us to fight.
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
Here’s video of the incident
October 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Based on news reports, the National Guard has not yet arrived in Memphis, but their deployment is being planned.

I’m wondering if they are ever going to deploy.
September 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#WeareAmerica
‘I protest against any theory that would make of the constitution a means of thwarting instead of securing the absolute right of the people to rule themselves.’
Teddy Roosevelt
September 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I have not seen troops deployed to Memphis.... Shouldn't this have happened by now? Is it possible that he is bluffing? Press releases of events that don't actually happen? Maybe this is a new level of crazy in this crazy time.
September 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
#WereAmerica
What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. - Adlai Stevenson
September 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#WeareAmerica
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
September 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
#WeareAmerica
"Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
John F. Kennedy
September 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
#WeAreAmerica
“The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood…Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own.”
September 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
#WeAreAmerica
“The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it… and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.”
- John Muir
September 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
#WeareAmerica
“We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom... Before the pen of Jefferson scratched across the pages of history the majestic word of the Declaration of Independence, we were here”. - MLK letter from Birmingham Jail
September 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
#WeAreAmerica

"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong".
- George Washington
September 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
#WeareAmerica
"our success or failure...will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage...? Secondly, were we truly men of judgment...? Third, were we truly men of integrity...? Finally, were we truly men of dedication...?" - John F Kennedy
September 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
#WeAreAmerica
The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world. - FDR
September 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#WeareAmerica
“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher…Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for the law: it invites every man to become a law unto himself, it invites anarchy.”
September 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Didn't realize this and embarrassed we didn't connect the dots when the FEC report came out.

Schwarzman has a history with Susan Collins: He spent another $2,000,000+ to elect her during the 2020 cycle. Also hosted her at his Park Ave apartment. tinyurl.com/4zhj7fxp tinyurl.com/yswjrnz2 #MEpolitics
September 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#WeareAmerica
... there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.
September 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
#WeareAmerica
There is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a strong democracy.

They are:
Equality opportunity for youth and for others.
Jobs for those who can work.
Security for those who need it.
The ending of special privilege for the few.
The preservation of civil liberties for all.
September 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
#WeareAmerica
Friends – I am embarking on a new project and I need your help. I will be posting POSITIVE quotes about America with the hashtag #WeareAmerica. Quotes that you can be proud to highlight. I need you all to repost them.
theresistersreport.substack.com/p/the-revolu...
The Revolution Will Be Small (And Everywhere)
Micro-networks of resistance: easy to start, impossible to stop.
theresistersreport.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Sadopopulism - by destroying government functionality, the present administration generates unnecessary suffering, which they then blame on migrants and African Americans.

Look on my works, ye Mighty
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Look on my works, ye Mighty
Labors of Destruction and Creation
open.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School.

A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country.

Our priorities remain idiotic.
August 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Rock and Roll Oracle for Wednesday, August 20, 2025

I want to say right now
I'm going to be around
When the walls and towers are crumbling down
And I will tune my spirit to the gentle sound
Of the waters lapping on a higher ground
August 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM