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Vaquera Elisa
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Daughter of the American West. For Union and for Liberty. No Kings But Christ.
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You WILL pay your fair share of taxes

You WILL take a govt job through a 3rd New Deal program

You WILL attend a mainline lib church

You WILL respect trans people's pronouns

You WILL turn off the podcasters, Twitch streamers, and op-ed columnists

You WILL be imbued with republican civic virtue
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the vigil was pretty affecting. it was great to see all the support from a pretty white rural community, for them to hear the story a daughter told of her green-card holding mother being brutalized, knelt on, and interrogated while the DHS guys tried to make them admit her REAL ID was fake
I'm going to a vigil tonight that will almost certainly be under DHS surveillance to show solidarity with families whose loved ones were kidnapped in broad daylight what the fuck is Sheldon Whitehouse doing to face these 'dangers' of which he speaks, huh?
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Getting talked to by the people's police isn't so fun now is it you stupid bastard
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."

For once, I believe him.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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the mayor: the town is organizing an emergency food drive with the food pantry, the BoE, and the Y to ensure everyone has enough to eat in our community

the catholics, the protestants, the jews: [shoulder to shoulder to collect $ and food]

the evangelicals: (vague complaint about taxes)
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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so my town has been hosting an emergency food drive for snap recipients. the town, high school clubs, the Y, the churches (Episcopal, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, Unitarians, and the Catholics) & the synagogue, are involved.

You know who isn't participating? the fucking evangelicals.
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
BELIEVE IN THINGS

THIS IS A THREAT

BOTTOM TEXT
Also worth repeating: Mamdani's greatest power isn't something just anyone can learn or emulate. He's got an entire PHILOSOPHY and MORAL CORE based on care over punishment that informs everything he says and does. Without that, the charisma means nothing.

blacksky.community/profile/did:...
This is absolutely Mamdani's not-so-secret secret power: he knows who he is and what he believes and he wants to help ALL of us. So you can't trip him up with a trick question; you can't get a fake note out of him. BECAUSE HE HAS NOTHING TO HIDE AND HE'S DONE THE READING AND HE'S HERE FOR US.
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Hi, Jean. My friend is a Nigerian prince who needs to urgently retrieve $1,000,000 from an abandoned trust from his father.

If you can wire $5,000 today, you will be entitled to 35% of the trust. Please reply at your earliest convenience.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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I think this is good insight into cop brain bc no fucking way they knew what USIP was and had any opinions on it, they're just losers excited to "raid" something
BREAKING update to my lawsuit against DC Metropolitan PD for body cam footage from USIP raid —

We've submitted our response, including sworn declarations from *six* USIP workers, 1 of whom says he "observed members of MPD giving each other high-fives and fist bumps" after removing staff from bldg.
Former USIP security chief says MPD gave 'high-fives and fist bumps' after raid
The latest on the lawsuit to get MPD's body cam footage released.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
It’s not even fun to post this anymore why do I bother
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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I've had an uptick in orders for this print recently, for reasons which are not particularly mysterious to me
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Real “Biological Anarchism”
Hours who up
mr president what exactly is your plan of victory here
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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he's going to ask Vought to nuke SNAP even after the government reopens, isn't he
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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ngl i really hope schumer steps down as leader next december, him and durbing leaving at the same time would be good for the caucus imo
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Remember when they got mad because Michelle Obama said that ketchup wasn’t a vegetable?
Rep. John McGuire: "We need to rethink healthcare in America. It needs to be a preventative healthcare system, not a reactive, put-a-bandaid-on system that we have...you cannot exercise your way out of bad nutrition. Eat right, exercise right, lead a healthy lifestyle, & maybe have early screenings"
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
And concepts of a plan
Binders full of women.
Mike Johnson on the Republican healthcare plan: "We've got notebooks full of ideas."
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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the secret is that its all of those thing
"Would you say that the Democratic Party today is more of a..."

Mainstream Liberal Party: 37%
Socialist Party: 34%
Moderate Party: 28%

Harvard-Harris / Nov 6, 2025
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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intrepid reporters might ask Durbin how many terrorized Chicagoans equals one Republican handshake
Dick Durbin suffers from a terminal case of Senate Brain, in which the big prize is a handshake deal with your distinguished colleagues where they'll allow you to hold a meaningless vote that you can then point to with pride to your constituents as they go broke from crushing medical bills.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Dick Durbin suffers from a terminal case of Senate Brain, in which the big prize is a handshake deal with your distinguished colleagues where they'll allow you to hold a meaningless vote that you can then point to with pride to your constituents as they go broke from crushing medical bills.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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You didn't get a vote. You got a "promise" of a vote. From a party who is disappearing nannies & gardeners and zip-tying children. A party who has flushed Due Process in America down the toilet. Who has subjugated its Congressional duties to an autocrat. That's what everybody sees, Tim.
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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“antisemitism isn’t a serious problem on the left”
*two minutes later*
“everything is an aipac conspiracy”
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Minority Leader Charles Schumer at this hour confirms he is scouting former Navy Lieutenant Peter Ince as potential candidate, successor—“as a fictional character who can be consistently relied on to buckle under pressure, I can count on ‘Weps’ to be just the right man for the job,” Schumer said.
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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oh my god
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM