the_present_potter
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Making pots and growing stuff. Love not hate.
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No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
No health care, no deal.
Hey friends. The reason Dems can’t cave is because even darker stuff is on the horizon. Next up in Project 2025?
1. National Abortion Surveillance Database (Q1)
2. Adding minuteman nuclear weapons to another 450 missiles (Q2)
3. Elimination of Federal Public Transit Funding (Q2)
Fight Dems!
1. National Abortion Surveillance Database (Q1)
2. Adding minuteman nuclear weapons to another 450 missiles (Q2)
3. Elimination of Federal Public Transit Funding (Q2)
Fight Dems!
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Hey friends. The reason Dems can’t cave is because even darker stuff is on the horizon. Next up in Project 2025?
1. National Abortion Surveillance Database (Q1)
2. Adding minuteman nuclear weapons to another 450 missiles (Q2)
3. Elimination of Federal Public Transit Funding (Q2)
Fight Dems!
1. National Abortion Surveillance Database (Q1)
2. Adding minuteman nuclear weapons to another 450 missiles (Q2)
3. Elimination of Federal Public Transit Funding (Q2)
Fight Dems!
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November 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Me: "There are three years left in his term and he's only going to get worse. … I don't mean to be pessimistic on this. I think at the end of the day, we're going to survive this, but it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better."
George Conway: Trump is "only going to get worse" after election day thrashing
Tuesday's electoral wins for Democrats suggest that voters are souring on Donald Trump. A recent poll shows Trump's approval at its lowest point so far in hi...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Me: "There are three years left in his term and he's only going to get worse. … I don't mean to be pessimistic on this. I think at the end of the day, we're going to survive this, but it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better."
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All of the productivity benefits from AI are going to go to billionaires.
Even worse AI will take all your jobs and then you won't be paid anything either.
You should be asking why do we need billionaires if AI does ALL the work.
Even worse AI will take all your jobs and then you won't be paid anything either.
You should be asking why do we need billionaires if AI does ALL the work.
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
All of the productivity benefits from AI are going to go to billionaires.
Even worse AI will take all your jobs and then you won't be paid anything either.
You should be asking why do we need billionaires if AI does ALL the work.
Even worse AI will take all your jobs and then you won't be paid anything either.
You should be asking why do we need billionaires if AI does ALL the work.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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Maths...
If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.
If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.
Tax the rich.
If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.
If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.
Tax the rich.
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Maths...
If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.
If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.
Tax the rich.
If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.
If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.
Tax the rich.
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It is just totally unacceptable that the law has been interpreted to say no federal worker is allowed to get paid despite doing their jobs but that members of Congress can get paid just fine despite not doing anything.
November 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It is just totally unacceptable that the law has been interpreted to say no federal worker is allowed to get paid despite doing their jobs but that members of Congress can get paid just fine despite not doing anything.
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Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨
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It's so incredibly obvious that he had a stroke on top of rapidly worsening dementia and his home is being turned into memory care. The White House reporters are lying to you with every breath.
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It's so incredibly obvious that he had a stroke on top of rapidly worsening dementia and his home is being turned into memory care. The White House reporters are lying to you with every breath.
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Community note for the win
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Community note for the win
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This Is What Evil People Do….
The President of the United States was ordered by the court to feed starving kids and he’s fighting it. Let that sink in.
The President of the United States was ordered by the court to feed starving kids and he’s fighting it. Let that sink in.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This Is What Evil People Do….
The President of the United States was ordered by the court to feed starving kids and he’s fighting it. Let that sink in.
The President of the United States was ordered by the court to feed starving kids and he’s fighting it. Let that sink in.
OMG
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
OMG
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there is no system in place to protect you from corporations cutting costs and making things unsafe. they just get to do that. and you get to suffer because of it
*US DISMISSES BOEING CRIMINAL CHARGE OVER 737 MAX JET CRASHES
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
there is no system in place to protect you from corporations cutting costs and making things unsafe. they just get to do that. and you get to suffer because of it
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The corporate propaganda machine colluding with the Trump propaganda machine to lie to the American people about Thanksgiving.
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The corporate propaganda machine colluding with the Trump propaganda machine to lie to the American people about Thanksgiving.
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Pretty damn funny, I must say.
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Pretty damn funny, I must say.
Take a look at this friends. Disgraceful.
When you’re the most powerful country in the world, but another country has to pay the wages of some of your soldiers to prevent them from starving.
"Shutdown": The U.S. Army recommends that soldiers in Germany resort to food banks. However, Germany secured the wages of 12,000 local US Army employees amid a budget crisis in Washington. buff.ly/OxoHgv3
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Take a look at this friends. Disgraceful.
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Let’s rob em
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
November 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Let’s rob em
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This is wild.
The full quote is: “I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter.”
Just a…straight-up threat against a media outlet implying that the federal government would retaliate against them?
The full quote is: “I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter.”
Just a…straight-up threat against a media outlet implying that the federal government would retaliate against them?
“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:
We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This is wild.
The full quote is: “I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter.”
Just a…straight-up threat against a media outlet implying that the federal government would retaliate against them?
The full quote is: “I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter.”
Just a…straight-up threat against a media outlet implying that the federal government would retaliate against them?
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yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.
It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.
November 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.
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“Don’t get lost in the facts” has been the Republican motto since at least 2016.
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“Don’t get lost in the facts” has been the Republican motto since at least 2016.
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$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this
November 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this