OldHippieChick
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Comrades, it is still OK to leave me behind. I'm still not as fierce as you but after following you all this long it's mostly because I'm tired.
Since a lot of people seem to be justifiably disgusted with Democrats today, may I present an alternative?
I live in a deep blue closed primary state so I change affiliation back to Democratic during primaries - check the deadline! - to have a say in who holds statewide office.
workingfamilies.org
I live in a deep blue closed primary state so I change affiliation back to Democratic during primaries - check the deadline! - to have a say in who holds statewide office.
workingfamilies.org
Working Families Party - Fighting for an America that works for the many, not the few.
WFP is building a political home for all of us who see bigotry, bailouts, and business as usual in our political system and ask, "Is that the best we can do?"
workingfamilies.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Since a lot of people seem to be justifiably disgusted with Democrats today, may I present an alternative?
I live in a deep blue closed primary state so I change affiliation back to Democratic during primaries - check the deadline! - to have a say in who holds statewide office.
workingfamilies.org
I live in a deep blue closed primary state so I change affiliation back to Democratic during primaries - check the deadline! - to have a say in who holds statewide office.
workingfamilies.org
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Really. You're going to tell us what to do?
We're the ones paying the bill.
Whose lives are on the line.
Who are being abducted and deported.
Who keep showing up to fight ICE
We are the 7+ million who showed up and then voted
Get rid of Schumer.
Clean your house, get it in order, then listen.
We're the ones paying the bill.
Whose lives are on the line.
Who are being abducted and deported.
Who keep showing up to fight ICE
We are the 7+ million who showed up and then voted
Get rid of Schumer.
Clean your house, get it in order, then listen.
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Really. You're going to tell us what to do?
We're the ones paying the bill.
Whose lives are on the line.
Who are being abducted and deported.
Who keep showing up to fight ICE
We are the 7+ million who showed up and then voted
Get rid of Schumer.
Clean your house, get it in order, then listen.
We're the ones paying the bill.
Whose lives are on the line.
Who are being abducted and deported.
Who keep showing up to fight ICE
We are the 7+ million who showed up and then voted
Get rid of Schumer.
Clean your house, get it in order, then listen.
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Momentum is a real thing.
Democrats finally had some, after massive turnouts for #NoKings and resounding wins in both red and blue states last week.
The majority of the country, rightfully so, held Trump and the GOP accountable for the government shutdown.
1/6
Democrats finally had some, after massive turnouts for #NoKings and resounding wins in both red and blue states last week.
The majority of the country, rightfully so, held Trump and the GOP accountable for the government shutdown.
1/6
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Momentum is a real thing.
Democrats finally had some, after massive turnouts for #NoKings and resounding wins in both red and blue states last week.
The majority of the country, rightfully so, held Trump and the GOP accountable for the government shutdown.
1/6
Democrats finally had some, after massive turnouts for #NoKings and resounding wins in both red and blue states last week.
The majority of the country, rightfully so, held Trump and the GOP accountable for the government shutdown.
1/6
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Seriously, what the fuck Kaine. What the fuck is wrong with all of you. This is the reality for many of us and our family's.
Hey @kaine.senate.gov:
What the actual fuck have you done?
My wife has brain cancer and I'm her care giver. She's on medicare & my only option was the ACA.
I write this on day 5 of her latest hosp stay.
You're our representative and my only question is...
Should we just go ahead and die now?
What the actual fuck have you done?
My wife has brain cancer and I'm her care giver. She's on medicare & my only option was the ACA.
I write this on day 5 of her latest hosp stay.
You're our representative and my only question is...
Should we just go ahead and die now?
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Seriously, what the fuck Kaine. What the fuck is wrong with all of you. This is the reality for many of us and our family's.
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Live in these states? Call these Dem Senators.Tell them to protect healthcare and not cave to Republicans on the shutdown.
NV: Jackie Rosen, Catherine Cortez Masto
NH: Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen
VA: Tim Kaine
PA: John Fetterman
ME: Angus King
IL: Dick Durbin
Senate Switchboard is 202-224-3121
NV: Jackie Rosen, Catherine Cortez Masto
NH: Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen
VA: Tim Kaine
PA: John Fetterman
ME: Angus King
IL: Dick Durbin
Senate Switchboard is 202-224-3121
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Live in these states? Call these Dem Senators.Tell them to protect healthcare and not cave to Republicans on the shutdown.
NV: Jackie Rosen, Catherine Cortez Masto
NH: Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen
VA: Tim Kaine
PA: John Fetterman
ME: Angus King
IL: Dick Durbin
Senate Switchboard is 202-224-3121
NV: Jackie Rosen, Catherine Cortez Masto
NH: Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen
VA: Tim Kaine
PA: John Fetterman
ME: Angus King
IL: Dick Durbin
Senate Switchboard is 202-224-3121
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If you think the people throwing Great Gatsby-esque parties for themselves, while millions were denied their food assistance, are all of a sudden going to grow a conscience and save affordable healthcare, you clearly have not been paying attention.
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If you think the people throwing Great Gatsby-esque parties for themselves, while millions were denied their food assistance, are all of a sudden going to grow a conscience and save affordable healthcare, you clearly have not been paying attention.
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A charming essay by the former chair of Africana studies at Bowdoin College about the New York Times crafting elitist propaganda.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A charming essay by the former chair of Africana studies at Bowdoin College about the New York Times crafting elitist propaganda.
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Re-upping this one as a reminder
October 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Re-upping this one as a reminder
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November 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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He probably doesn't have to Google it anymore. His characteristic lazy and sloppy jurisprudence made his name synonymous with fascist assaults on people in the United States, citizen and not. It's his legacy in the history books, he earned it, but as ever he thinks it's everyone else's fault.
November 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
He probably doesn't have to Google it anymore. His characteristic lazy and sloppy jurisprudence made his name synonymous with fascist assaults on people in the United States, citizen and not. It's his legacy in the history books, he earned it, but as ever he thinks it's everyone else's fault.
Today in lying liars who lie news.
During a press conference, Kristi Noem claimed that ICE has not detained or arrested any US citizens. This isn't true.
The reality is that at least 170 citizens have been held by immigration agents, including two kids with cancer.
The reality is that at least 170 citizens have been held by immigration agents, including two kids with cancer.
More than 170 US citizens have been held by immigration agents
ProPublica uncovered that Americans have been kicked, dragged, and detained for days.
www.motherjones.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Today in lying liars who lie news.
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Today was a hard day. Regulations that we passed unanimously last year, after 7 years of advocacy, were largely gutted. The FCC capitulated to the correctional telecom industry in roughly doubling rate caps for prison and jail calls. I'm truly sorry.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Today was a hard day. Regulations that we passed unanimously last year, after 7 years of advocacy, were largely gutted. The FCC capitulated to the correctional telecom industry in roughly doubling rate caps for prison and jail calls. I'm truly sorry.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers"
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers"
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The Jan 6 insurrection was successful, & now it gets to be preserved as a success by this administration it brought to power.
October 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The Jan 6 insurrection was successful, & now it gets to be preserved as a success by this administration it brought to power.
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This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.
October 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.
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All these political leaders and capitalists who are tossing aside their obligations to slow climate change are directly implicated in the record hurricane that is right now hitting Jamaica.
October 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
All these political leaders and capitalists who are tossing aside their obligations to slow climate change are directly implicated in the record hurricane that is right now hitting Jamaica.
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Of trees, tenderness, and the Moon – Japanese artist Hasui Kawase's stunning century-old woodblock prints www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/22/h...
Of Trees, Tenderness, and the Moon: Hasui Kawase’s Stunning Japanese Woodblock Prints from the 1920s-1950s
Sylvan sublimity between the heavens and the deep blue sea.
www.themarginalian.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Of trees, tenderness, and the Moon – Japanese artist Hasui Kawase's stunning century-old woodblock prints www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/22/h...
Whatever the man's politics, no one in the US should be "deported" without due process and sending someone to prison in a country they have never lived in isn't deportation; it's kidnapping.
🚨 He believed Trump would “fix the country.” Instead, he was labeled a murderer, shackled, and dumped in a maximum-security prison — 8,000 miles from home. What happened to Roberto Mosquera is a nightmare no American should ignore.
ICE Barbie’s Deadly Mistake: Trump Fan Deported 8,000 Miles Away to a Prison in Africa
For most of his adult life, Roberto Mosquera called America home.He raised two daughters in South Florida, paid his taxes, ran a small plumbing business, and posted photos of Donald Trump with capt…
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October 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Whatever the man's politics, no one in the US should be "deported" without due process and sending someone to prison in a country they have never lived in isn't deportation; it's kidnapping.
Really excellent summary of Amendments 1-4.
Seriously!
That's why the first 4 amendments to the Constitution are:
-We'll say whatever the fuck we want
-We get to have fucking guns
-Stay the fuck out of our houses
-No, really, stay the FUCK out of our houses
That's why the first 4 amendments to the Constitution are:
-We'll say whatever the fuck we want
-We get to have fucking guns
-Stay the fuck out of our houses
-No, really, stay the FUCK out of our houses
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Really excellent summary of Amendments 1-4.
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
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"We would have cheaper groceries if we let 40 million people including children starve" is a hell of take.
October 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"We would have cheaper groceries if we let 40 million people including children starve" is a hell of take.
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Thucydides thought that one of the causes of the Peloponnesian War was that a new generation of young men in Sparta and Athens had never had the experience of war, and were therefore eager to try one of their own.
April 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Thucydides thought that one of the causes of the Peloponnesian War was that a new generation of young men in Sparta and Athens had never had the experience of war, and were therefore eager to try one of their own.
The gang of lying liars who lie are at it again.
Mike Johnson is lying. Karoline Leavitt is lying. The Trump administration is lying. The money is there to pay for SNAP. They simply don’t want to.
Now if Argentina needs another 20B? That’s another question. Priorities, amirite?
Source: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Now if Argentina needs another 20B? That’s another question. Priorities, amirite?
Source: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
October 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The gang of lying liars who lie are at it again.