paulculnan.bsky.social
@paulculnan.bsky.social
Kamala Harris got the third most votes among all presidential candidates in the history of US presidential elections. Not too shabby.
I have the same indignation but from a different point of view. It assumes the way Dems "ran on democracy" in 2024 is the only way. Maybe there are smarter ways to tie American values to everyday lives

Also defining "working" against election results rather than Harris's vote totals is simplistic
i’ve seen the “running on democracy didn’t work in 2024” line so many times the last 10 months and it is so emblematic of everything wrong with the dem party. abandoning something that fundamental because it didn’t work *one* time in one the weirdest elections this century
October 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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"You don’t have to turn your back on the big issues, but you also don’t have to import the entire national crisis into your personal one.

You just have to think for yourself."
You don't have to swallow frogs
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
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October 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Oh good Christ
Go to www.hud.gov right now. Just trust me.
September 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"
September 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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If you don’t think it’s fair to call Trump/MAGA fascists read this and then get back to me
September 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Seems to me that socialism is govt interfering in private enterprise to benefit the vast majority of the governed, and what we have now is govt interfering in private enterprise to benefit the oligarchs.
And it dates to slavery, when pro-slavery forces equated the abolition movement with socialism, or redistributing slaveholders' property. Here's arch slavery defender George Fitzhugh in 1857:
September 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.

the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.

do not offer it to them.
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Oil & gas fracking pollutes CO communities: toxic emissions that cause neurological, respiratory, and reproductive problems, cancer, and death. Sign the Letter to stop the expansion of fracking. Our health & climate can't wait! #Safe&HealthyColorado #FrackingHurtsHealth #NoNewFracking2030 #CleanAir
September 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.
September 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.
June 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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this administration is affirmative action for guys who killed ants with a magnifying glass as kids
May 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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I’ve watched too many of these raids to count. This one is one of the most infuriating in recent memory.

Appropriate that we learn about it on the same day SCOTUS hears oral arguments for a case that may remove the last remaining way to hold federal agents accountable for this kind of terror.
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Despicable!
This is the single bleakest thing I’ve heard any Trump oligarch say yet.

“You can all toil away in the factories with no hope of advancement, for you, your kids, and generations after.”

Almost cartoonish in its abject villainy.
Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."
April 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal.

Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.

See how this works?
April 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Only a good guy with a billionaire can stop a bad guy with a billionaire?
We need to ban billionaires.
Some of y’all aren’t understanding where we are. Saying “he can’t do that” no longer applies. This is now a dictatorship. Not a democracy/republic. Congress won’t act. The AG won’t act. Unless he is removed by force, he can and will do whatever the fuck he wants and *no one* will stop him.
April 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
"We can have a livable planet or we can have billionaires." This is the most succinct statement of our current situation.
April 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Need power, but want it cheap? Try solar + batteries!

Need power, but want it fast? Try solar + batteries!

Need power, but want it reliable & grid-friendly? Try solar + batteries!

Need power, but want to boost national security & reduce imports? Try solar + batteries!
April 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Everything you need to know about Trump's tax cuts.
March 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The problem is, they're not looking for fraud. They're looking for heresy. And it only takes a zealot to recognize that, not an expert.
I you want to find fraud, you don't bring in juvie hackers who don't even have college degrees. You bring in experienced accountants & financial auditors.

Elon's aim is simply to take a sledgehammer to our whole civil service.
'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”
www.thenerdreich.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM