Angi's Tone Shears
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Artist/writer/graphicser. Geek/nerd/cat person/ska-core fan. Occasional gardener. Complete mess. Autistic/ADHD. Sister of a beekeeper. She/her.
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Trump has set up a new club where CEOs, tech bros, and foreign oligarchs can pay $500,000 to join in order to get access to the Trump Cabinet who will all be there regularly.
Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.
Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.
April 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Trump has set up a new club where CEOs, tech bros, and foreign oligarchs can pay $500,000 to join in order to get access to the Trump Cabinet who will all be there regularly.
Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.
Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.
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🚨 I have just introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump.
Donald Trump is not above the law, and when he ignores the constitution, he should be held accountable.
Donald Trump is not above the law, and when he ignores the constitution, he should be held accountable.
April 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
🚨 I have just introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump.
Donald Trump is not above the law, and when he ignores the constitution, he should be held accountable.
Donald Trump is not above the law, and when he ignores the constitution, he should be held accountable.
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Everything Trump touched dies: Conservative Party in Canada edition. :)
🚨 The Liberal Party will lead Canada's next government.
CBC just called it; too early to know if it'll be a majority or minority government.
"A stunning reversal," says the CBC: Conservatives led by *huge* margins throughout 2024, but Trump's arrival was a big factor in changing everything.
CBC just called it; too early to know if it'll be a majority or minority government.
"A stunning reversal," says the CBC: Conservatives led by *huge* margins throughout 2024, but Trump's arrival was a big factor in changing everything.
April 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Everything Trump touched dies: Conservative Party in Canada edition. :)
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People forget that Cancer (the disease) donated like $300,000 to the Trump inauguration fund
NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.
April 29, 2025 at 4:03 AM
People forget that Cancer (the disease) donated like $300,000 to the Trump inauguration fund
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Trump is the first US president to lose a Canadian election. #cdnpoli #ElbowsUp #NeverPoliviere #never51state
April 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Trump is the first US president to lose a Canadian election. #cdnpoli #ElbowsUp #NeverPoliviere #never51state
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--Single 50-yr old earning $30K/yr: From $51/mo to $142/mo
--Single parent earning $40K/yr: From $62/mo to $185/mo
--Family of 4 earning $60K/yr: From $87/mo to $270/mo
--64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr: From $644/mo to $3,113/mo...nearly *$30,000 MORE per year* for the same coverage.
--Single parent earning $40K/yr: From $62/mo to $185/mo
--Family of 4 earning $60K/yr: From $87/mo to $270/mo
--64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr: From $644/mo to $3,113/mo...nearly *$30,000 MORE per year* for the same coverage.
April 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
--Single 50-yr old earning $30K/yr: From $51/mo to $142/mo
--Single parent earning $40K/yr: From $62/mo to $185/mo
--Family of 4 earning $60K/yr: From $87/mo to $270/mo
--64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr: From $644/mo to $3,113/mo...nearly *$30,000 MORE per year* for the same coverage.
--Single parent earning $40K/yr: From $62/mo to $185/mo
--Family of 4 earning $60K/yr: From $87/mo to $270/mo
--64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr: From $644/mo to $3,113/mo...nearly *$30,000 MORE per year* for the same coverage.
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🚨 HEY #CONNECTICUT:
Republicans are targeting 322,000 of you on Medicaid via ACA expansion, but don't forget the 147,000 who are *also* at risk of seeing their health insurance premiums SKYROCKET starting in January 2026 if they allow IRA subsidies to expire.
acasignups.net/25/01/23/how...
Republicans are targeting 322,000 of you on Medicaid via ACA expansion, but don't forget the 147,000 who are *also* at risk of seeing their health insurance premiums SKYROCKET starting in January 2026 if they allow IRA subsidies to expire.
acasignups.net/25/01/23/how...
April 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
🚨 HEY #CONNECTICUT:
Republicans are targeting 322,000 of you on Medicaid via ACA expansion, but don't forget the 147,000 who are *also* at risk of seeing their health insurance premiums SKYROCKET starting in January 2026 if they allow IRA subsidies to expire.
acasignups.net/25/01/23/how...
Republicans are targeting 322,000 of you on Medicaid via ACA expansion, but don't forget the 147,000 who are *also* at risk of seeing their health insurance premiums SKYROCKET starting in January 2026 if they allow IRA subsidies to expire.
acasignups.net/25/01/23/how...
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Fascism isn’t coming.
It’s here.
Anyone telling you you’re overreacting is complicit.
It’s here.
Anyone telling you you’re overreacting is complicit.
April 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Fascism isn’t coming.
It’s here.
Anyone telling you you’re overreacting is complicit.
It’s here.
Anyone telling you you’re overreacting is complicit.
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The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy.
These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.
If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.
If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
April 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy.
These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.
If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.
If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
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Ice seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to deport or prosecute
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ice seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to deport or prosecute
Moves sparking fears of a crackdown on such children and prompting alarm about ‘backdoor family separation’
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Ice seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to deport or prosecute
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
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anyway good night
April 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
anyway good night
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Please try to get your moderate relatives to understand that this setback will almost certainly, in the long term cause millions of cancer deaths that would have been curable under the 2024 status quo trajectory. They might die, you might die, of what would have been a treatable cancer.
NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.
April 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Please try to get your moderate relatives to understand that this setback will almost certainly, in the long term cause millions of cancer deaths that would have been curable under the 2024 status quo trajectory. They might die, you might die, of what would have been a treatable cancer.
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Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States
April 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States
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If your vote threatens someone's right to exist, then yeah I judge you based on your vote.
April 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
If your vote threatens someone's right to exist, then yeah I judge you based on your vote.
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firmly believe they can’t round up the “millions of criminals” they promised because they simply don’t exist — so we get this hamhanded shit as they flail around trying to meet ridiculous quotas
ICE threatening charges against people for asking supposed officers to show their badges is weakness. Not succeeding where they hoped to, left relying on threats that likely won’t go anywhere in court (harassment isn’t nothing, but it’s limited).
It’s a sign to resist their abuses more, not less.
It’s a sign to resist their abuses more, not less.
ICE says they will bring charges against the two Immigration Rapid Response Hotline volunteers who demanded that agents show their badges before seizing two men from the Charlottesville courthouse. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
April 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
firmly believe they can’t round up the “millions of criminals” they promised because they simply don’t exist — so we get this hamhanded shit as they flail around trying to meet ridiculous quotas
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www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, (D-NY), Sen Cory Booker, (D-NJ), hosted hundreds of supporters at the Capitol on Sunday, sitting on the steps in protest of maga’s push to pass a budget reconciliation bill they hope will cut $1.5 trillion in federal spending...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, (D-NY), Sen Cory Booker, (D-NJ), hosted hundreds of supporters at the Capitol on Sunday, sitting on the steps in protest of maga’s push to pass a budget reconciliation bill they hope will cut $1.5 trillion in federal spending...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Sen. Cory Booker host a sit-in on Capitol steps over the GOP budget plan
Booker and Jeffries have hosted a number of Democratic lawmakers on the steps of the Capitol throughout the protest.
www.nbcnews.com
April 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, (D-NY), Sen Cory Booker, (D-NJ), hosted hundreds of supporters at the Capitol on Sunday, sitting on the steps in protest of maga’s push to pass a budget reconciliation bill they hope will cut $1.5 trillion in federal spending...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, (D-NY), Sen Cory Booker, (D-NJ), hosted hundreds of supporters at the Capitol on Sunday, sitting on the steps in protest of maga’s push to pass a budget reconciliation bill they hope will cut $1.5 trillion in federal spending...
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I am so over the media's framing of these kinds of issues. Who effing cares if the Trump administration wants to "make" Canada a state?
The correct framing here is: "Is the United States' position that it will no longer be adhere to international law when it comes to Canada?"
The correct framing here is: "Is the United States' position that it will no longer be adhere to international law when it comes to Canada?"
WELKER: Does the US still want to make Canada the 51st state?
MARCO RUBIO: I think the president has stated repeatedly he thinks Canada would be better off as a state
MARCO RUBIO: I think the president has stated repeatedly he thinks Canada would be better off as a state
April 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I am so over the media's framing of these kinds of issues. Who effing cares if the Trump administration wants to "make" Canada a state?
The correct framing here is: "Is the United States' position that it will no longer be adhere to international law when it comes to Canada?"
The correct framing here is: "Is the United States' position that it will no longer be adhere to international law when it comes to Canada?"
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I think this issue (talking to strangers on airplanes) is really, REALLY gendered. I have had some lovely conversations on airplanes, but if you (female) find yourself next to a creep with no way to escape, it's unmitigated hell.
I'm unsure whether guys commenting on this are thinking of this.
I'm unsure whether guys commenting on this are thinking of this.
Thinking about this more and man I really think disagreeing with Nancy is an incredible red flag for anti-social behavior. De-atomizing society requires people be both willing to talk to strangers and receptive to strangers talking to them. And it’s so easy to practice this in your daily life.
Unpopular opinion: I know it's cool to wear your earbuds and carry a book while pasting a disinterested, don't-talk-to-me expression on your face, but I like to talk to the person sitting beside me on airplanes. I liked it when we were willing to be inconvenienced by strangers.
April 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I think this issue (talking to strangers on airplanes) is really, REALLY gendered. I have had some lovely conversations on airplanes, but if you (female) find yourself next to a creep with no way to escape, it's unmitigated hell.
I'm unsure whether guys commenting on this are thinking of this.
I'm unsure whether guys commenting on this are thinking of this.
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Why was Kristi Noem carrying $3,000 in her purse?
April 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Why was Kristi Noem carrying $3,000 in her purse?
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Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries started a sit-in protest on Capitol steps 4 hours ago just the two of them streaming at t.co/0AW2Jy3HmK and now looking like this….if you’re in DC go down there to help them out….way better than a "strong letter" from Chuck Schumer that Trump will toss in the trash
April 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries started a sit-in protest on Capitol steps 4 hours ago just the two of them streaming at t.co/0AW2Jy3HmK and now looking like this….if you’re in DC go down there to help them out….way better than a "strong letter" from Chuck Schumer that Trump will toss in the trash
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NEW: Crowd now growing at the Capitol where Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the steps.
Is this building into something?
If you’re in DC, they’re encouraging folk to come down there & support.
#Resist
(📸 Sen. Brian Schatz)
Is this building into something?
If you’re in DC, they’re encouraging folk to come down there & support.
#Resist
(📸 Sen. Brian Schatz)
April 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
NEW: Crowd now growing at the Capitol where Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the steps.
Is this building into something?
If you’re in DC, they’re encouraging folk to come down there & support.
#Resist
(📸 Sen. Brian Schatz)
Is this building into something?
If you’re in DC, they’re encouraging folk to come down there & support.
#Resist
(📸 Sen. Brian Schatz)
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The interesting power analysis around all of this RFK stuff AND the lady who is mad you won't talk to her on an airplane is that "weird" (ie non-normative) people have a lot more power in society now than we did when I was growing up.
April 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The interesting power analysis around all of this RFK stuff AND the lady who is mad you won't talk to her on an airplane is that "weird" (ie non-normative) people have a lot more power in society now than we did when I was growing up.
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1) So if someone is trying to get me to submit to their demands for sexual contact, I must comply?
2) Ah, yes, nobody ever talks with strangers the way they did back in the old ways - oh wait:
2) Ah, yes, nobody ever talks with strangers the way they did back in the old ways - oh wait:
April 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
1) So if someone is trying to get me to submit to their demands for sexual contact, I must comply?
2) Ah, yes, nobody ever talks with strangers the way they did back in the old ways - oh wait:
2) Ah, yes, nobody ever talks with strangers the way they did back in the old ways - oh wait: