Quatrain Gleam
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Quatrain Gleam
@quatraingleam.bsky.social
Pro-Human

Fixing America can't happen without undoing Citizens United.

Corporations are not people, money is not speech, Congress can govern money.

Human rights are for humans. If you don't breathe you don't "speak" "believe" or "bear arms".
Pinned
It's only helpful if we do something to improve the next election.

Here's the plain truth, zero speculation, it is technically impossible to have both secret ballots (which we clearly need) and secure electronic voting.

100% cannot do both. (The logic behind this is the incompleteness theorem.)

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He effing stole the Resolute Desk.
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Normal isn't coming back so get off your knees and fight back - what they have planned for us is far worse than anything they've already done.
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Our President Hates US
Ingraham: "To raise wages for American workers, you can't flood the country with…foreign workers."

Trump: "I agree, but you also do have to bring in talent."

Ingraham: "Well, we have plenty of talented people here."

Trump: "No, you don't."

Ingraham: "We don't have talented people?"

Trump: "No."
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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The end result was 3,642 bags

Enough to cover almost the entire elementary school cafeteria, plus half the school gym floor, plus a couple hundred bags pre-loaded in the delivery trucks:
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Imagine how insanely competent and professional a woman has to be to lead navy SEALs. And because she’s a woman, Hegseth said “no not her” this is peak incompetence. The opposite of DEI on meth.
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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A recent leak from an ICE detention facility near Houston shows hundreds of detainees packed into a shared room without beds or bathrooms. The footage highlights allegations that the facility's air conditioning is kept on maximum, intentionally subjecting occupants to freezing conditions.
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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If you’re on the ACA, you *must* read this amazing work by @charlesgaba.com. With subsidies under threat, it’s vital that folks find as much value as possible in the available plans. Comparing them all is complex and brutal. Charles points the way to potential savings.
UPDATE: Post now live:

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📣 OK, I'll be posting a longer thread version about this post tomorrow, but since I've been promising it for days now I wanted to at least get it out there:

There Will Be Graphs: A deeper dive into how 14 states are dramatically mitigating the expiring tax credits.

acasignups.net/25/11/11/the...
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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We don't know all the details of Ed Martin's Jan 6 efforts because he defied a subpoena by the Jan 6 Committee, didn't show. But Ali Alexander did, and in his testimony you can see Ed working - not just giving rally speeches but lobbying Congressmen. The pardon Ed arranged was for himself too. 4/
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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ICE GOONS posing as police forcibly removed Juanita Avila, a green card holder, from her car in Cottage Grove, Oregon.
“You deceived me when you claimed to be police officers!” “Who are you?”
“Why did you pull me over?” They finally released her after her daughter provided proof of her legal status
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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To all of the haters out there. Sarah has been right repeatedly. For years. Go back and read “Hiding in Plain Sight.” Or listen to old @gaslitnation.bsky.social episodes. lt’s all there. As are the warnings about what today would look like.
September 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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www.rawstory.com/the-whole-th...
“Kevin Roberts is threatening violence to anyone not following his dear leader,” former Republican and former U.S. Congressman Denver Riggleman wrote. “Every network should cover this."
‘The whole thing is imploding’: Chaos erupts inside America's top right-wing think tank
Founded in 1973, the Heritage Foundation has become what its president, Kevin Roberts, now hails as the “intellectual backbone” of the conservative movement. It crafted the policy blueprint that power...
www.rawstory.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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News coverage of this has focused on the pardon of those involved in the fake electors plot.

But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia

My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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First, Trump pardoned the "boots" of the insurrection, and now he's pardoned the "suits" of the insurrection substack.com/@glennkirsch...
Trump's pardons of his January 6 unindicted co-conspirators is a recruiting call to interfere in upcoming elections!
So we just learned that Donald Trump pardoned a bunch of people, including his unindicted co-conspirators in the now-defunct federal prosecution of Trump for attempting to overturn the results of the ...
substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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because he's made it is signature issue, but saying Gavin throws "homeless under the bus" is nonsense.

Permanent encampments are dangerous to the people who live in them and the cities/counties forced to host them (law, waste, public health, gang-rule)
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November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Feckless Eight
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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I have friends who couldn’t pay their mortgage. FUCK EVERYONE who did this to them FOR NOTHING
They shut down the government for nothing. Literally nothing.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Trump supporters are already taking a victory lap over on X.
x.com/greatunclero...
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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ICE Agents kidnap workers in Chicago in BROAD DAYLIGHT, leaving equipment running behind
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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This on top of the rumor that Senate Republicans want to pass a federal abortion ban tells you what they see women for. Making babies and breakfast.
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM