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AnnA
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Environmental engineer. Former defense civil servant. Currently working in higher ed. Knows a few things. Happiest outside in nature.
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The House and Senate are both investigating Pete’s war crimes
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.
🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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The writers have done a spectacular job this season revamping their fascinating "Marjorie Taylor Greene" character. The suspense over what she will do next is compelling. A lot of things are going on with MTG, maybe some good, others bad, and we won't know exactly what for two or more seasons.
November 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Honestly, it's long past time.
At least 25 bills have been introduced this Congress to further limit lawmakers and their family members from trading individual stocks. Colorado's Joe Neguse is among the leaders pushing for further regulations.
coloradonewsline.com/2025/11/20/r...
Stock trading by members of Congress could be banned in bipartisan push | Colorado Newsline
At least 25 bills have been introduced this Congress to further limit lawmakers and their family members from trading individual stocks.
coloradonewsline.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.

In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Thomas Massie to his Republican colleagues: Donald Trump might be able to protect you now, but someday he'll be gone—and you'll have voted to protect pedophiles if you don't vote to release the files.
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.

So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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I would also add: "and when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP corporate LOBBYISTS and wealthy DONORS, and the Dems are afraid if pissing off the GOP corporate LOBBYISTS and wealthy DONORS..."
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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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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The majority of Americans are good. We have heart. We have compassion. When we see others struggle, we want to lend a hand.

For too long, we’ve been divided and pitted against each other by those who crave obscene wealth and power.

Let’s change that. One election at a time.
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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This coming from the man who’s literally pushing red states to gerrymander Democrats into oblivion so he doesn’t get demolished at midterms.

Prop 50 is merely self-defense.
November 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Back in the 90s, big healthcare ran an ad to scare Americans into opposing health reform. It ended in a famous line: “When they choose, we lose.” As millions of Americans face health insurance price hikes with impossible deductibles, I visited Harry and Louise in 2025 to see what they think:
November 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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That’s by design. Billionaires monetize rage bait, and it has the added bonus of keeping us fighting with each other while they rob us blind. But one day soon, all the anger from the culture wars they’ve cultivated to distract us from the class war will be turned on them.
One of the biggest revelations of the social media age imo is how much people are addicted to getting mad, so much so that they'll actively create reasons when there are none.
November 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Exactly right. Fighting to keep premiums from spiking is good, but they should really be fighting to truly fix this broken system. #MedicareForAllNOW
November 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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He's building a gold-guilded ballroom to host the foreign officials who come to bribe him, while denying millions of hungry kids food. Just how thuddingly obvious, how over-the-top, how florid & theatrical does this story have to get before the media starts honestly telling it?
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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My Manitoba Healthcare Story 🇨🇦

As part of my treatment plan for T2D, I get my A1C checked every 3 months

I went to my doctor this week to get my results. She gave me a new Rx, so I went to the pharmacy

I got a Flu & Covid shot while I waited

Total Cost $0*

*Vaccines & Diabetes Meds are free*
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Our health care system is so broken it’s insane.

Stop letting them make you believe a better one is impossible.

#MedicareForAllNOW
November 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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WATCH: “Are the reforms Dems are pushing for tinkering at the edges of a system that is inherently corrupt and not delivering?”

As Dems fight to stop premiums from skyrocketing, Kamala & Jon Stewart make the case for MEDICARE FOR ALL.

(without ever mentioning it by name)
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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FACTS about SNAP:

-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Millions of Americans are already learning that their health insurance costs for 2026 are going way up.

I want to hear from you so we can make this impossible for the GOP to ignore the consequences of their policies.

If your premiums are going up, reply below and please share your story.
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Folks who spend their time talking about US Politics and don't already have a good background in Latin American politics should try to fix that, because I think it's a lot more insightful than European politics at this particular moment.
October 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM