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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
—Voltaire
Guess that makes me part of the resistance.
—Voltaire
Guess that makes me part of the resistance.
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Today the Supreme Court granted review in an important case for the outcome of the 2026 elections. At stake is the fate of tens or even hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots. No one is covering this as completely as Democracy Docket. Please support its work by subscribing today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Today the Supreme Court granted review in an important case for the outcome of the 2026 elections. At stake is the fate of tens or even hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots. No one is covering this as completely as Democracy Docket. Please support its work by subscribing today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
👇This. Fscking 💯💯 this.👇
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
👇This. Fscking 💯💯 this.👇
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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Since January, Trump's Treasury has quietly gutted enforcement of the corporate alternative minimum tax — a huge boon for big business and wealthy investors.
Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.
Reverse Robin Hood.
Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.
Reverse Robin Hood.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Since January, Trump's Treasury has quietly gutted enforcement of the corporate alternative minimum tax — a huge boon for big business and wealthy investors.
Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.
Reverse Robin Hood.
Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.
Reverse Robin Hood.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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It’s not that we didn’t want the shutdown to end, it’s the fact that millions of people suffered throughout this shutdown and it was for nothing. That’s the most upsetting part.
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
It’s not that we didn’t want the shutdown to end, it’s the fact that millions of people suffered throughout this shutdown and it was for nothing. That’s the most upsetting part.
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Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.
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In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬…
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 12:25 PM
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬…
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ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.
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Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.
November 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.
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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
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Watching RFK jr run away from someone collapsing feels like a harbinger of things to come
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Watching RFK jr run away from someone collapsing feels like a harbinger of things to come
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‘Rare vascular & inflammatory conditions such as blood clots, myocarditis, & pericarditis occur more often in children after COVID19 infection than after vaccination against the disease, UK researchers suggest in study published @thelancet.com.’ cidrap.bsky.social
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Data: Risks of vascular, inflammatory conditions in kids higher after COVID infection than vaccination
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
‘Rare vascular & inflammatory conditions such as blood clots, myocarditis, & pericarditis occur more often in children after COVID19 infection than after vaccination against the disease, UK researchers suggest in study published @thelancet.com.’ cidrap.bsky.social
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/dat...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/dat...
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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.
November 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
👇💯👇
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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each of them represents one of the five elements: Fire, Metal, Air, Water, and Anti-Trust.
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will turn to veterans of City Hall, nonprofit executives and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission — all of them women — to lead his official transition effort, he said on Wednesday. nyti.ms/4nHdyOP
November 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
each of them represents one of the five elements: Fire, Metal, Air, Water, and Anti-Trust.
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A sample of 65 yr+ Covid survivors show "immune exhaustion or maladaptive remodeling of lymphocyte populations". This could contribute to "impaired immunosurveillance and increased vulnerability to secondary infections or chronic inflammatory conditions"
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Investigating apoptosis in peripheral blood mononuclear cells among the elderly in the post-COVID-19 era - BMC Immunology
Background and aim The COVID-19 pandemic has left a lasting imprint on immune function, particularly in the elderly—a population already vulnerable to immunosenescence. While acute and long-COVID immu...
bmcimmunol.biomedcentral.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A sample of 65 yr+ Covid survivors show "immune exhaustion or maladaptive remodeling of lymphocyte populations". This could contribute to "impaired immunosurveillance and increased vulnerability to secondary infections or chronic inflammatory conditions"
bmcimmunol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
bmcimmunol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Until they swap soldiers & police for AI and robots, billionaire oligarchs rule by illusion, not strength.
Smoke, mirrors, tricks, grift. Understand🔻.
The real obstacle?
People who can’t tell lies from truth.
There’s still time to correct our course. #WealthTax #Limitarianism #EndOligarchy
Smoke, mirrors, tricks, grift. Understand🔻.
The real obstacle?
People who can’t tell lies from truth.
There’s still time to correct our course. #WealthTax #Limitarianism #EndOligarchy
How Larry Ellison got so rich | ft. @GenericArtDad
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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November 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Until they swap soldiers & police for AI and robots, billionaire oligarchs rule by illusion, not strength.
Smoke, mirrors, tricks, grift. Understand🔻.
The real obstacle?
People who can’t tell lies from truth.
There’s still time to correct our course. #WealthTax #Limitarianism #EndOligarchy
Smoke, mirrors, tricks, grift. Understand🔻.
The real obstacle?
People who can’t tell lies from truth.
There’s still time to correct our course. #WealthTax #Limitarianism #EndOligarchy
Donald Trump.
Turn. The. Volume. Up.
…You come for any of us, you go through all of us.
Turn. The. Volume. Up.
…You come for any of us, you go through all of us.
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Donald Trump.
Turn. The. Volume. Up.
…You come for any of us, you go through all of us.
Turn. The. Volume. Up.
…You come for any of us, you go through all of us.
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this is genuinely wild
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
this is genuinely wild
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It’s Election Day. 🗳️ It’s not a presidential or mid-term election, but don’t be fooled or complacent—these elections absolutely matter. Change comes in all shapes and sizes, from grassroots and the ground up.
Your vote is your voice. Make it heard. Make it count.
Your vote is your voice. Make it heard. Make it count.
November 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
It’s Election Day. 🗳️ It’s not a presidential or mid-term election, but don’t be fooled or complacent—these elections absolutely matter. Change comes in all shapes and sizes, from grassroots and the ground up.
Your vote is your voice. Make it heard. Make it count.
Your vote is your voice. Make it heard. Make it count.