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Unreasonably Optimistic.
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat.

The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.

Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
December 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”

Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%

Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%

Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.

As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Young American men volunteer for military service, knowing they may have to sacrifice their lives for their country.
But they didn't volunteer to sacrifice their futures to protect the President or Secretary of Defense from being convicted of crimes.
That's not the service for which we thank them.
December 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!
Tell Congress: Require ICE to unmask and display clear identification
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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As it turns out, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun *isn’t* a good guy with a gun—it can be a good guy *without* a gun. Just another NRA lie.
December 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Whoa … this is really strange.

Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.

🎁 link ⤵️

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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What a strange coincidence
December 8, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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From t.me/Pravda_Geras...

🇨🇿🇨🇿Echoes of 1939: #Czech President Urges #Europe Not to Appease #Russia

“If we allow #Russia to emerge from this conflict as the victor, we will all lose,” #Pavel stated in an interview with #The_Sunday_Times.

Even #Putin's account of the start of the war reminded him
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Health insurers are jacking up premiums while raking in billions in profits.

Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases.

Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Today we remember the thousands of Americans who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor 84 years ago. Nearly half of those lost were aboard the USS Arizona, and I remember what a moving experience it was when Gabby and I visited the memorial. We’ll never forget their sacrifice.
December 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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The United States is now a Russian satellite state. For the 1st time in our history our government is successfully being influenced by a hostile foreign adversary. This is THE "will cause grave damage to the security of the United States" moment that I was warned about in my service to my country.
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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🚨🚨🚨Senator Mark Kelly with a special announcement. 1/2
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I’m sure the self-proclaimed ‘most transparent White House in history’ won’t mind a thorough investigation into the second strike.

Sen Mark Kelly:

“You do not execute survivors who are clinging onto a side of a ship.”
December 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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He's got a gun, a bullet-proof vest, who knows what other weapons and he's wearing a mask - and he's scared shitless of a CAMERA.

What a f'n bullying COWARD.
December 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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You have the right to record ICE.

You have the right to film any operation happening in public as long as you do not interfere or impede it.

Your camera is proof, but keep a safe distance. KEEP RECORDING.
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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We have to get lobbyists and corporate $$$ out of politics. They are killing us.
November 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I'm amazed that McConnell was able to be elected for decades despite doing nothing to not make Kentucky a total shit hole.
November 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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We're the only country where the NRA can funnel 30 million into the GOP from Russian oligarchs & have zero consequences.

But the beneficiaries like
Manafort
McConnell
Graham
Trump are cool with it.
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The NRA was heavily infiltrated by kremlin backed interests and hate groups. Ask Maria Butina
November 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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We’re the only country that lets the gun lobby write the laws and then pretends to be shocked when children end up in coffins.

NEW UPDATE:

The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office has announced that four of the victims shot in the Stockton mass shooting were ages 8, 9, 14, and 21.
November 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM