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Disabled bisexual woman. Democratic socialist, partisan Democrat. Historical fiction reviewer.

Original sin is a right-wing idea.
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Everyone in the upper left quadrant has the potential to be in such a party:
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Ballotpedia says PA doesn't have recall elections, but the ACLU has drafted a state constitutional amendment.
Ballotpedia page: "Pennsylvania does not allow the recall of elected officials. In 39 states, local officials can be subject to recall elections. Of those, 19 also permit recalls of state-level officials. Eleven states do not permit recalls of elected officials at any level. Click here for more information."
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Why is "It's complicated; please summarize in 180 characters or less" not a standard option!
August 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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"Look at it closely with Hakeem Jeffries" doesn't make me all that confident or enthused, but....she did say something that named the problem directly, and gave a rationale for a counteroffensive.
New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul: "All's fair in love and war. We're following the rules. We do redistricting every 10 years," Hochul said during an unrelated event Thursday in Buffalo. "But if there are other states violating the rules and are trying to give themselves an advantage, all I'll say is, I'm going to look at it closely with Hakeem Jeffries."
July 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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June 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Media is in fact still both-sidesing all this...
Text of ABCNews.com article on their poll results: "Overall, 46% said they approve of the way Trump is handling immigration, while 53% said they disapprove. On one hand, that's a 4-point drop in approval from a Washington Post/Ipsos poll in February. On the other, it's Trump's best rating across seven issues tested in this survey, produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates, with fieldwork by Ipsos."
April 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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So, when I was saying this is the world the US just has to live in now, that didn't go over so well.

Trump needs to be opposed and defeated. But stating plainly that there are new realities now ... are only non-US people allowed to do that?
A post from Bluesky user "davidcccmccoy": "China's market is bigger, India's market is bigger, The EU market is bigger. You have zero manufacturing base, the lead time for which is 10 years from greenfield to mass production. You have alienated every ally you had. Hell, you've even made China, Japan, Sth Korea form an economic union of their own (and that ranks as something impossible even a week ago), one that the Philipines and other Oceanic countries will be anxious to join. The US is now an irrelevance to the world."
April 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Well, he just suggested that people like me caused a plane crash, after appointing a Cabinet secretary who doesn’t like the idea of the kinds of medications millions of people and I take, so…
#CripTheVote
One question from a Civiqs online political opinion tracking poll. “Generally speaking, do you think Donald Trump’s presidency is good for people like you?” Opinion options underneath are: No, not good; Yes, good; Neither good nor bad; Unsure. The radio button for “No, not good” is filled in in grey with a white checkmark.
February 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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The automated feedback email I received from Google, saying my suggestion that “‘the Gulf of America’ is inaccurate” is under consideration. The text that reads “If you are the authorized representative for Gulf of America” is underlined in shaky thin black e-marker.
February 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM