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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."
January 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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44 Republicans Voted Against Forest Management Wildfire Prevention in December

The funds allow states like California to create barriers to stop the spread of fires
44 Republicans Voted Against Forest Management Wildfire Prevention in December
The funds allow states like California to create barriers to stop the spread of fires
meidasnews.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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BRODY IS MISSING IN BROOKLYN: last seen at Fulton and Washington. He's 6 pounds and chipped: 985111000188231. If you've seen or found him please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT BRODY!
January 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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MAGA: We want all the immigrants deported & eggs to be cheaper! America first!

Trump: Actually, we’re gonna hire immigrants for all the tech jobs & it’s too hard to make groceries cheaper, but we are gonna take over Greenland & Canada to help Putin!

MAGA: Works for me!!!

(Fucking idiots).
January 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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(Eddie Murphy voice) Merry New Year!!! Salute to the legend Isiah Whitlock for the best 2025 greeting so far 🏆💥💥💥
January 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Real life Sophie’s Choice will play out in *2025.*

When I was a young girl, I thought the future would be about innovation, space cars, and oh yeah, the whole “my children will be anything they want to be.”

It was all bullshit.

The GOP are fucking monsters.
The Trump admin will detain undocumented families, and give undocumented parents a "choice" of being deported with their kids who were born in the US, or without them.

Back to squalid conditions without access to bathrooms, showers or running water.

Back to adults and children dying in custody.
December 28, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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“Upon not enrolling [in college], [Elon] Musk would have had to leave the country…He would not have been allowed to work.

While overstaying a student visa is somewhat common and officials have at times turned a blind eye to it, it remains illegal.”

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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They defunded schools, underpaid teachers, let kids get shot, told you college and healthcare for all is a scam and can’t be free—and now you’re blaming immigrants?

The real thieves are laughing at you.
December 28, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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Should we continue to encourage kids to go to college ? Or push them to take up a trade ?

I believe in college. Learning how to learn, IMO, is a critical life skill. Being exposed to people of different backgrounds, makes yiu wiser

Qualifier- it should be a school you can afford.
December 28, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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"On some level, it appears that MAGA leaders and messengers understand that their vision of heterosexual life is not persuasive to women, which is why they often start entertaining the use of force."

www.salon.com/2024/12/27/t...
Tradwives, incels and cat ladies: The year MAGA broke heterosexuality
Republicans idealize "traditional" marriage, but their actions make the straight life a bad prospect
www.salon.com
December 27, 2024 at 11:40 AM
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AWESOME!
Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn Black history lessons their schools don’t teach.
Since Faith in Florida developed its own Black history toolkit last year, more than 400 congregations have pledged to teach the lessons, the advocacy group says.
apnews.com/article/flor...
Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn Black history lessons their schools don't teach
Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found.
apnews.com
December 23, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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Let’s keep this in mind, devout Christian Speaker Johnson tried to keep the house from releasing this report because he wanted Gaetz to be attorney general.

Typical
December 23, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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So I visited the Oval Office this week, and I took my dad with me.

open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
Dear Dad, your blabber mouth baby girl got to visit the Oval Office.
And I brought you with me.
open.substack.com
December 22, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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Them: ‘Dana, now that the orange felon will be back in office, maybe you should tone down the gay a little.’

Me heading into 2025: ‘We ride at dawn!’
December 17, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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Hey corporate media,

Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
December 16, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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I’m old enough to remember when Trump raised over 100m for his first inauguration and most of it went missing. He doesn’t even need a Tom Barrack or a Vanky this time. He has direct deposit.
December 13, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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“These are the shoes I wore when I broke the record for fastest time from floor to bunker in Senate history.”
December 12, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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If you need a laugh, Congress's biggest stunt queen, Nancy Mace, forgot to log out and log back in on one of her sock puppet Nancy Mace fan accounts to talk about her fake attack.
December 12, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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“If they say they have a warrant, ask them to slip it under the door. If you open the door, you are giving them permission to
enter your home. This is why it is important to keep your door closed during the entire interaction with ICE.”
“ICE cannot enter your home unless they have a warrant signed by a judge … Most of the time ICE agents will only have warrants signed by ICE officers, and those warrants do not give them permission to enter your home.” maketheroadny.org/deportation-...
Deportation Defense Manual - Make the Road New York
Achieving Dignity and Justice
maketheroadny.org
December 10, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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A propos of absolutely nothing, what if someone compiled all the ICE detention center and office locations in a handy spreadsheet? And what if that person was me on my lunch break? Maybe you want to share it? Maybe I'll make a map of it later. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ICE Field Offices and Detention Facilities
docs.google.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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The people of WNC need homes, roads and businesses rebuilt. The R’s in the NCGA have used our neighbor’s struggle to grab power.

Please reach out to friends and bring them to the Capitol 12/9 at 5:30 to send the message that we support the people of WNC.
#ncpol #ncga #demcast #indivisible
December 8, 2024 at 11:41 PM