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My challenge to you all starting today:
Practice being purposely empathetic. Could be towards someone at work you dont usually talk with, or a person in a store.
Learn something about them outside of politic-related topics.
Empathy is real & it must be purposeful for us to connect as community.
Practice being purposely empathetic. Could be towards someone at work you dont usually talk with, or a person in a store.
Learn something about them outside of politic-related topics.
Empathy is real & it must be purposeful for us to connect as community.
September 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My challenge to you all starting today:
Practice being purposely empathetic. Could be towards someone at work you dont usually talk with, or a person in a store.
Learn something about them outside of politic-related topics.
Empathy is real & it must be purposeful for us to connect as community.
Practice being purposely empathetic. Could be towards someone at work you dont usually talk with, or a person in a store.
Learn something about them outside of politic-related topics.
Empathy is real & it must be purposeful for us to connect as community.
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Please join us for this fantastic film, and please spread the word!
August 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Please join us for this fantastic film, and please spread the word!
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Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures.
Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims.
Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims.
Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
September 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures.
Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims.
Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims.
Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
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CHILDREN.
Dumping little kids with no guardianship into another country without any semblance of due process or care after the fact, on a long weekend no less, is sooo far removed from Pro-Life or Christian to be laughable if it weren't so TRAGIC.
Dumping little kids with no guardianship into another country without any semblance of due process or care after the fact, on a long weekend no less, is sooo far removed from Pro-Life or Christian to be laughable if it weren't so TRAGIC.
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
August 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
CHILDREN.
Dumping little kids with no guardianship into another country without any semblance of due process or care after the fact, on a long weekend no less, is sooo far removed from Pro-Life or Christian to be laughable if it weren't so TRAGIC.
Dumping little kids with no guardianship into another country without any semblance of due process or care after the fact, on a long weekend no less, is sooo far removed from Pro-Life or Christian to be laughable if it weren't so TRAGIC.
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So awkward to be living through a dystopian novel about techno-fascist billionaires who have banded together with white supremacists, Christian nationalists, and international dictators in an attempt to overthrow democracy and commit genocide, all to establish tech-enabled fiefdoms in their wake.
August 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
So awkward to be living through a dystopian novel about techno-fascist billionaires who have banded together with white supremacists, Christian nationalists, and international dictators in an attempt to overthrow democracy and commit genocide, all to establish tech-enabled fiefdoms in their wake.
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“Algorithms isolate us and deprive us of information that is useful for our collective life. The techlords and their ideology are mortal enemies of humanity and will stop at nothing to impose their dystopias…. trying to prevent us from stopping the collapse of all human civilisations.”
August 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“Algorithms isolate us and deprive us of information that is useful for our collective life. The techlords and their ideology are mortal enemies of humanity and will stop at nothing to impose their dystopias…. trying to prevent us from stopping the collapse of all human civilisations.”
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DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
August 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
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A whistleblower revealed that DOGE put the personal data of millions of Americans onto a vulnerable cloud server.
If this data is leaked or hacked, the government could be forced to reissue every American a new Social Security number.
This should be a national scandal.
If this data is leaked or hacked, the government could be forced to reissue every American a new Social Security number.
This should be a national scandal.
August 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A whistleblower revealed that DOGE put the personal data of millions of Americans onto a vulnerable cloud server.
If this data is leaked or hacked, the government could be forced to reissue every American a new Social Security number.
This should be a national scandal.
If this data is leaked or hacked, the government could be forced to reissue every American a new Social Security number.
This should be a national scandal.
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August 23, 2025
August 23, 2025
“It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wr...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
August 23, 2025
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It happens every few generations: the Confederates who attempted succession in the 1860s; the robber barons who murdered union organizers and catapulted America into the Great Depression; and it’s why wages stagnated post-Reagan.
The rise of oligarchs. https://trib.al/BE72ash
The rise of oligarchs. https://trib.al/BE72ash
The Billionaire Hoarders: How the Wealthy Became Our Biggest Threat
How a sick obsession is killing workers, democracy, and our planet.
trib.al
June 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It happens every few generations: the Confederates who attempted succession in the 1860s; the robber barons who murdered union organizers and catapulted America into the Great Depression; and it’s why wages stagnated post-Reagan.
The rise of oligarchs. https://trib.al/BE72ash
The rise of oligarchs. https://trib.al/BE72ash
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"Let's call this what it is—theft."
'Call This What It Is—Theft': Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History | Common Dreams
"The people stealing from Americans are not folks with tattoos and hoodies—it's people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins, sitting in this Capitol right now," said Rep. Maxwell Frost.
www.commondreams.org
May 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Let's call this what it is—theft."
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"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down." – Eleanor Roosevelt
#AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen
#AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen
May 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM
"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down." – Eleanor Roosevelt
#AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen
#AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen
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So the GOP thinks we can afford $45M for a parade to fan Trump's ego but not health care and food for kids?
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Price tag for Trump’s military festival could reach $45 million
Soldiers will be housed in U.S. Department of Agriculture and General Services Administration buildings for days, an Army spokesman said.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
So the GOP thinks we can afford $45M for a parade to fan Trump's ego but not health care and food for kids?
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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May 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Fascism is here.
It’s too late to prevent its arrival, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a great deal you and I can do to slow its spread, dilute its power, and derail its mission.
Here are ways of reaffirming your agency and flipping off the fascists.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/5-ways-to-...
It’s too late to prevent its arrival, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a great deal you and I can do to slow its spread, dilute its power, and derail its mission.
Here are ways of reaffirming your agency and flipping off the fascists.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/5-ways-to-...
5 Ways to Give Fascism a Middle Finger
Fascism is here.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Fascism is here.
It’s too late to prevent its arrival, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a great deal you and I can do to slow its spread, dilute its power, and derail its mission.
Here are ways of reaffirming your agency and flipping off the fascists.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/5-ways-to-...
It’s too late to prevent its arrival, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a great deal you and I can do to slow its spread, dilute its power, and derail its mission.
Here are ways of reaffirming your agency and flipping off the fascists.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/5-ways-to-...
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Excellent @hcrichardson.bsky.social time capsule/history lesson. Both Trump and Bobby Jr are unmoored. Dangerously so. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-4-2025
May 4, 2025
In an interview aired today on NBC News’s Meet the Press, reporter Kristen Welker asked President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Excellent @hcrichardson.bsky.social time capsule/history lesson. Both Trump and Bobby Jr are unmoored. Dangerously so. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-4-2025
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Y’all, I think I found that welfare state the right wingers keep crying about
April 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Y’all, I think I found that welfare state the right wingers keep crying about
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Glorification of ignorance as a central tenet of one's political ideology is certainly a choice. Not a good one, but a choice nonetheless.
April 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Glorification of ignorance as a central tenet of one's political ideology is certainly a choice. Not a good one, but a choice nonetheless.