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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

—FDR, 1944
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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He doesn’t care about you. At all.
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Cold blooded murder.
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Everything wrong with the last almost 6 years right there.
November 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?

CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@steveinskeep.bsky.social stop calling the girls abused by Epstein “underage women.” They were children when they were trafficked. There’s no such thing as “underage women.”
@npr.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Think back to how you felt a year ago when Trump was reelected.

Now think about how you feel after last night's election.

You volunteered. You went to protests. You didn't check out.

You put in the work required for our democracy — and it's paying off.

Remember this.
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!
Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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FBI: "We didn't zip tie children."

REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old."

FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."
October 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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The President just announced he is giving $20 billion of taxpayer money to bail out Argentina. That’s outrageous. If he was willing to spend that money in America - to keep American health premiums from skyrocketing, the shutdown would be over tomorrow.
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.
October 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
In front of a town hall in Connecticut today. It breaks my heart to see people rallying for “Trump 2028” and “Trump is your king”. America has no king.
October 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued.

Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially.

Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.
September 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
@gregggonsalves.bsky.social do you know anyone who can help the CT DOH with their social media? They could do so much more and gain more traction with a little attention to how they’re presenting themselves: www.facebook.com/share/1BCVht...
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September 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin
July 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Part of why we got ours a few weeks ago. There’s a wave starting and who knows what this government will be up to by October
June 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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BREAKING: I will object to Republicans moving forward on their Big, Ugly Bill without reading it on the Senate floor

Republicans won’t tell America what’s in the bill

So Democrats are forcing it to be read start to finish on the floor

We will be here all night if that’s what it takes to read it
June 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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You know what would encourage people to get more physical activity? No, it is not wearable fitness trackers. It is:

1. A liveable wage so people have time for it

2. Safe parks and other infrastructure for such activity

But that’s too hard.
June 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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A student doing work this shoddy for a class presentation would fail. Shouldn't the standards be even higher for people making decisions about the health of all Americans?
Slides posted for thimerosal presentation at ACIP included citation of study that appears not to exist

“I don’t have a publication in Neurotoxicology by that title,” the apparent lead author told us

Slide has since been removed

First spied by @drboulware.bsky.social

www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/h...
June 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.
Masked ICE agents spotted swapping out license plates this morning in Bell Gardens, CA
June 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM