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Retired Math teacher. Music and laughter soothe my soul. CommonSense-trist at heart.
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This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.

YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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"It’s an indictment of mainstream media that this process keeps getting worse. There’s no learning curve. The operating principle seems to be: MAGA Republicans have lied to us for a decade, but we have to pretend they might be telling the truth this one time."
www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-news-c...
How news coverage eases us into tyranny
When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
www.stopthepresses.news
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
In reference to an earlier post, I suggested those Senators that voted with Republicans should either have their constituents spit on them or they shouldn't be surprised if their constituents spat on them. I retract that statement. Nobody should be spat upon. I apologize for my vulgarity.
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
All of the bad shit you are reading today will continue thanks to the 8 (?) or 10 (?) Democrats that decided to give in to the Republicans thereby doing away with the ACA subsidies and making health care UN-affordable. Dems need to say goodbye to 2026 and hello fascism.
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
After CNN had George Santos on, there's no way in hell I'd watch them again.
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I’m a NO on the Senate’s so-called “deal.”

It does nothing to address the GOP health care affordability crisis crushing families.

There is money to build ballrooms, there is money to help Argentina, but suddenly nothing can be done to help Americans struggling to keep up with healthcare costs.
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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NOT DEMOCRATS
EIGHT
EIGHT
EIGHT
jfc
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Any Democrat who "trusts" notoriously deceitful Republicans to keep their word on an ACA vote deal is too naive/stupid to be in office.

Let's fix that next time they are up for election. #PrimaryTheIdiots
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Woke up this morning to freezing temps, falling snow, and news the Dems caved. What a morning. Are the 10 that voted with Republicans so stupid that they think a vote on extension of the ACA subsidies will make it so, since Thune has already said Republicans won't agree to it, just a vote, which is
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I always liked Steve Martin. Now I know why.
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Why in the world would CNN ask George Santos to come on their show. That's the problem. They give these fucks credence when they are not due any.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Who benefits from 50 year mortgages: banks, developers, realtors, estate lawyers.

Who gets screwed: everyone else.
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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REMINDER: President Biden NEVER cut SNAP payments, never even had a government shutdown.

In fact, he cut child poverty in half.
He cut child hunger, too.

I miss having a REAL President.
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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🧵Let's talk about the obvious:

Where in the fuck did all the historic artwork and priceless furnishings go, including the gold leaf Steinway piano that was presented to FDR from the Steinway family?

Did Trump steal all this when he demolished the East Wing?

Why aren't Dems demanding to know?
October 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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A copy or did he steal the real one?
Trump has a copy of the Resolute Desk on display in the Mar-a-Lago lobby
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Are we great yet⁉️
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Anyone else ready for a #LudditeRevolution?

We Xennials spent our formative years in analogue. We can survive on terrestrial radio, CDs & DVDs. We can read maps. We can pay in cash. Whatever these soulless billionaires are selling, we don’t need to buy it.
#DVDsForTheRevolution
#PunishTheOligarchy
Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.
Palantir CEO Karp twice slams short sellers as stock suffers worst week since April
Palantir CEO Alex Karp twice confronted short sellers this week as the company's shares suffered a double-digit drop.
www.cnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Here's an idea. In the "old" days, stores gave struggling customers "credit" so they could have something to eat. No interest charges. Pay when you can. If you show your grocery your SNAP card, you should be able to get some food. Okay, yeah, it's a dumb idea. Problem solving isn't easy.
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
According to the NYT the Supreme Court doesn't give a shit about people going hungry. They sided with Trump on stopping the use of funds to help SNAP recipients. I want to know their rationale. How do they justify that? It has become so political it needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from scratch.
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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… so what did he do this year?
November 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I'm sure I read something this morning about Trump having his hush money conviction moved to Federal Court? Does that make sense? Once you're convicted in one court how is it legal to move it to another? I mean State to Federal and visa versa.
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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JUST IN: Judge Immergut renews her block on President Trump’s National Guard deployment to Portland, saying her three-day trial showed there was no credible evidence justify Trump/Hegseth’s incursion on Oregon’s sovereignty. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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He’s a con.
He’s always been a con.
Here’s CBS before it became the
Con
Broadcasting
System.

youtube.com/shorts/nMUsZ...
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM