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Trying my best to not be another annoying old man
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Jimmy Cliff, Guns of Brixton. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck1Z...
Jimmy Cliff - Guns of Brixton
YouTube video by ReggaeNeration
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I knocked a few hundred doors for a school board candidate this past November. He won ousting the moms for liberty incumbent by 74 votes! I’m going to continue to focus my efforts to help these candidates. They don’t have a lot of volunteers or a big pot of money.
November 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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New reporting on homeless encampment sweeps. Includes quotes from Josh Barocas and cites our study on sweeps, overdose, and mortality among unhoused people.

Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way. tradeoffs.org/2025/11/20/h...
Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way.
Several cities and counties are addressing street homelessness with a new approach, which experts say can clear encampments while protecting the health of people who are forced to move.
tradeoffs.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."

I chose Larry Summers.

Better late than never.

Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
@coolauntclaire.bsky.social look what Beth got today at the Brattleboro coop
We chatted about our mutual admiration of you
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
@coolauntclaire.bsky.social nice wins for us Vermonters and our cheese people
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Hey Megyn Kelly,

14-year-old Eloise would like a word:

“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”

Sound up! 🔥🔊

1/2
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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The Clash’s Paul Simonon, running into some young street musicians, will make your day. 💕 🎸

@theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants air traffic controllers who are not being paid to "show up because it's their job." How about Congressional Republicans show up and do their job by ensuring all federal workers are paid, travelers are safe, and our healthcare is protected? seiu.co/482c2SH
What to know about the nationwide FAA-mandated flight reductions
The FAA has ordered a 4% reduction in operations at 40 major airports starting Friday, which will ramp up to 10% by Nov. 14.
seiu.co
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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The SNAP contingency fund holds around $6 billion.

Trump refuses to spend it on the American people.

The same guy who just fast-tracked $40 billion to Argentina.

Trump thinks Argentina deserves our money while he lets Americans starve.
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 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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It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]
October 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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During the shutdown, Trump could find $40 billion to bail out Argentina & $300 million for a ballroom to host dinner parties with billionaires, but he won’t tap emergency funds to prevent millions of American kids from going hungry?

How cruel is that?
October 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Today is Larry Itliong Day in CA, honoring the Filipino American labor leader whose union members began the Delano Grape Strike on 9/8/65. They asked Cesar Chavez’s National Farm Workers Association to join their picket lines. The rest is history.

More: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
October 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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"In settlement and compromise of the Released Claims in this Agreement, UCLA shall pay the United States the sum of One Billion Dollars ($1,000,000,000.00), payable in equal
installments."
Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure.

Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.

EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
ucop.edu
October 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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There is a lot of awful in the world so it’s so refreshing and nice to see good shining through.
October 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM