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Veteran, mom, cancer survivor, social worker, proud bleeding heart liberal. I have decided to change the things I can no longer accept.
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Holy shit this cartoon.
February 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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January 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Just saying…
January 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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January 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
January 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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The Oval Office was for sale and here's who bought shares.

Now we need to identify the foreign share owners as well.

THEN we need campaign finance reform.
The Oval Office is back on the market…
January 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Enshittification Comes to Washington

Our tech overlords have ruined the online platforms that Americans depend on. Now, as Donald Trump returns to the White House with Elon Musk in tow, expect the same to happen to our government. https://buff.ly/40khGf3
Enshittification Comes to Washington
Our tech overlords have ruined the online platforms that Americans depend on. Now, as Donald Trump returns to the White House with Elon Musk in tow, expect the same to happen to our government.
newrepublic.com
January 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
January 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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This is the sort of change we need to get greedy, grubby swamp creatures out of the government. But just two years ago Biden declared we should ‘let …Congress determine what the rules should be.’

This is not lame duck policy. Why did it take electoral defeat for Biden to support limits like this?
Biden calls for ban on congressional stock trading
President Joe Biden has endorsed a ban on congressional stock trading in an interview that’s being released this week. It's the first time he's publicly backed the idea.
apnews.com
December 23, 2024 at 2:06 AM
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So spot on!!
December 16, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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This! Trump did not have a mandate!
Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.
December 14, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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Russia’s Interior Ministry has proposed new rules for who can freely enter restricted sites, like police stations, with proper identification — and lawyers aren’t on the list.
Russian law enforcement wants ‘carte blanche’ to keep lawyers out of police stations, constitutional rights be damned — Meduza
A draft decree from Russia’s Interior Ministry, recently published on the country’s legal portal, proposes new rules for access to restricted facilities. The document specifies who can freely enter…
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December 6, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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The founder of Vice "investigates disinformation" by promoting conspiracy theories, questionable sources, and right-wing narratives.

@annamerlan.bsky.social dives in.
Shane Smith is going down his own personal rabbit hole
The Vice founder has launched a show investigating “disinformation” that actually promotes it.
www.motherjones.com
December 6, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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Snark of the week.
November 29, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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She also wrote: “I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.”
November 30, 2024 at 3:13 AM
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But, you already knew that.
November 29, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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ENTER FASCISM
November 28, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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November 28, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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Usually in movies, she ends up dead.
November 25, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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It's 100% true.
November 27, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Poor Rudy Giuliani says he can't pay his bills after he was found liable for the defamation of election workers. Has he tried pulling himself up by the bootstraps?
November 27, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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November 27, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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So let me get this straight.

You need a background check to rent an apartment but not to be Director of National Intelligence?

Got it.
November 26, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 10:24 PM