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here is the thing about the “argument” that democrats should have run roughshod over the law when they had the chance: it is much easier to break the law to destroy a program than break the law to create one.
February 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Not to point out the obvious, but if political scientists had proposed the sort of life-size stress test of institutions that the US is currently undergoing, they would never have gotten it past the ethics committee
February 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Listened to Blink 182 all the way home from Los Angeles, nostalgic for when Bush was the bad guy and McCain the worst case scenario
February 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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🚨 Don’t say DOGE ("dowzh"). Fascists like Musk and Trump are using propaganda to manipulate public discourse. Here's how we can fight back—with humor, mockery, and critical language.

Let’s call it "doggie" and undermine their narrative.

Read more here:
Don't Say DOGE: How Fascists Manipulate Our Language to Gain Power
When we use the words that fascists weaponize, we help them legitimize scams and propaganda.
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Can we get a recount?
Pick your battles
Can we object to electors under 14.3?
Pick your battles
Can we vote against Rubio for SoS?
Pick your battles
Demand volume II of the report?
Pick your battles
Call for SCOTUS expansion?
Pick your battles

Okay but could you pick like ONE battle? ANY battle?
January 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman
January 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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give me coffee for the things i can change and a sledgehammer for the things i can’t.
January 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Of course ending birthright citizenship is blatantly unconstitutional. So is a third term in office.

But I thought the same thing about presidential criminal immunity and holding office after inciting an insurrection.

The obvious is not so obvious anymore.
January 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Trump’s Pardoning of Insurrectionists will Lead to More MAGA-Inspired Violence
youtu.be/rwzNSot1nCo
Trump’s Pardoning of Insurrectionists will Lead to More MAGA-Inspired Violence
YouTube video by Kristofer Goldsmith
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January 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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The Fraternal Order of Police doesn't have a comment on Trump's pardon of hundreds of violent criminals that assaulted police. Chicken shit cowards. www.rawstory.com/fop-trump-pa...
'We don't have a statement': Massive pro-Trump police union ducks comment after J6 pardons
The Fraternal Order of Police, one of the nation's largest labor organizations for police officers, endorsed President Donald Trump — but now that he has pardoned hundreds of people convicted of attac...
www.rawstory.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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"It wasn't a seig heil"

Hey man, I'm gonna be honest. I get that it's possible that you're that stupid, but I'm not.
January 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Let’s all take a moment to remind #Democrats saying they lost because the party was “too woke” what Dr. King said about white moderates.
January 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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From a Scottish paper in '17. Still holds up.
January 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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it feels like TikTok got bitten by a zombie and is hiding the bite
January 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Cashier: And how are you today?

Me: Incandescent with rage. You?
December 22, 2024 at 3:05 PM
This tiktok ban back-and-forth is giving my serious flashbacks to a very traumatic childhood. Have a feeling I'm going to need to call on that resiliency in the coming years.
January 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM