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JJ Johnson 🍉🏳️‍⚧️✊🏼🌈🙀🦋🌁
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When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

Desmond Tutu
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“How can a people who claim they have an historic and biblical bond to the ancient land of Palestine, as Israelis have, completely destroy the ‘Holy Land’ of the West Bank (Israel calls Judea and Samaria) and Gaza, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world?” @charleskeener
Wow, so sketchy. Maybe ActivityPub is the way after all.
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Their answer was, "I can't answer that"
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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You ever call a senator's office and ask the staffer who picks up what it's like to work for someone without a spine?

10/10 recommend.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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I really hope that we can help this amazing family get secure shelter.
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Ours is going from $401 to $1951. I have no fucking idea what we are going to do.
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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The Dems sabotaged public trust. Poll after poll suggested most of the blame was on Trump. Last week’s elections suggested the shutdown was a legitimate resistance to illegitimate rule. Pressure was mounting. Rs were sweating. Trump was calling for the end of the filibuster. Then Schumer caved.
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown something something...
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 2:36 AM
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Similar horror story here. We have a major surgery in our family coming up and have to decide whether to be financially devastated now or later.
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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$160 to $1280 here.

It's octoupling 🐙
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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The Democrats encouraged Trump’s crime spree. Weakness in the face of lawlessness does not appease it. It endorses it. That’s what these eight Democrats, plus Schumer, have done. Trump was already hurting people to avoid compromise and force the Democrats into submission. Now he knows what works.
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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And insists he has “true patriots” lined up to fill those ATC jobs and do them “better.” Unbe-🤬-liveable.
Sean Duffy’s been telling us for months that we have a critical shortage of air traffic controllers in this country which is causing serious safety issues in air travel, then Trump comes out today & calls them a bunch of traitors if they took a day off & encourages them to quit.
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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(Jim Obergefell’s husband had ALS and they got crowdfunded for a medical transport to a legal state where they got married on the tarmac and after his death his husband kept fighting to get recognized as his husband on his death certificate!!)
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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In a single day, two different federal officers point guns at two different @chicagotribune.com photojournalists in and around Chicago. This is dangerous stuff.
1/2 Are there any experts out there who can correctly identify the weapons being pointed directly at these two @chicagotribune.com photojournalists?

What type of gun is this?

cc: @mandophotos.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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“I think right now the greatest thing going in the favour of fascism is that our journalistic institutions are so cowardly, weak and/or oblivious to what’s happening."

"I don’t know what they think happens to them once fascism is the law of the land. Maybe they haven’t read enough books.”
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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From ABC15 Arizona: U.S. Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva expected to be sworn in this week, ahead of House vote on funding bill, Scripps News has confirmed.
#SwearHerIn
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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"This isn’t a maintenance bill. It’s a systems-building bill. And it positions Illinois to do something few American states have attempted: build a modern, frequent, interconnected railway network that treats mobility as essential infrastructure rather than a social service."
A striking innovation in the Illinois Transit Bill is the explicit embrace of “regional rail”—a term that signals a complete departure from the commuter rail model that has defined suburban train service for over a century www.hsrail.org/blog/illinoi...
Illinois Quietly Rewrote the Rules: Intercity Rail is Now Transit | High Speed Rail Alliance
This new bill positions Illinois to build a modern, frequent, interconnected railway network that treats mobility as essential infrastructure
www.hsrail.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Jelani Cobb, the acclaimed journalist and dean of the Columbia Journalism School, has just published a new collection of essays, “Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here.”

www.democracynow.org/2025/11/10/j...
How We Got Here: Jelani Cobb on Rise of Trump & White Nationalism After Push for Racial Justice
Jelani Cobb, the acclaimed journalist and dean of the Columbia Journalism School, has just published a new collection of essays, “Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here.” The book collects ...
www.democracynow.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM