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Leaving toxicity of X.
Part of the Resistance. 🌊 Anti-facism.
Animal advocate. Science believer. Democracy fighter in California. Grateful to veterans and unions. Supporter of disadvantaged communities and their allies. 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 #TeamJoe #TeamKamala
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Morning thought about 2024 election: Biden made us so comfortable in our country again, that it was not forefront in everyone's mind to vote. Not to mention people's memories of a pandemic so poorly handled in 2020, they just didn't show up because Biden fixed about everything, albeit quietly.
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Man @gavinnewsom’s team doesn’t mess around
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I know you’re a bodybuilder, but use your noggin this time. Nearly half of those who receive food stamps work. Of the rest, most are over 65 or disabled. Wages are too low for tens of millions, and Social Security isn’t enough for many elderly.
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Normalizing the idea of a third Trump term, even as a ‘theory,’ is wildly irresponsible. We need reporters who challenge authoritarian impulses, not those who entertain them.
Q: One theory on how you might try to serve a 3rd term is that you could run at the vice president

TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.
October 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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It has been great hearing from Jack Smith lately.

Trump paid for a coup on January 6. He resisted leaving the White House for as long as he could and in every way he could think of. He paid for and fomented an illegal coup. He urged his MAGA fanatics to march to the Capitol and "fight like hell".
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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New Jersey! Excited to join @mikiesherrill.bsky.social for a rally on 11/1.

Make a plan to vote early or on Election Day. mikiesherrill.com/vote
October 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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This.👇
October 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Families are paying over $200 more a month this year compared to last year.

Meanwhile, Republicans are increasing your healthcare costs and pausing SNAP benefits.

Democrats are coming back this week to fight for healthcare, lower costs, and an end to the Republican shutdown.
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Wow !!
Humanity at it's BEST
PLEASE
Check out both posts
October 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Venezuela claims it has captured CIA-linked mercenaries plotting a “false flag” attack to justify US military action.
October 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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What’s a “routine” MRI scan?
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Trump sycophants and ICE official Tom Homan got caught taking a $50,000 bribe but is being protected by the Trump regime and the corrupt DOJ.

He is now threatening to flood New York City with ICE thugs in an effort to intimidate New Yorkers from voting for Zohran Mamdani.
October 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Lest you think I'm exaggerating, this is just a sample.
October 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
October 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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"Reform of ICE can start with firing every one of the unqualified thugs hired between 2025 and 2028; if you joined during the Trump administration and consider yourself a solid civil servant, you’d be welcome to reapply. And wearing masks should be barred."
ICE is out of control and beyond repair
This agency needs to be stripped down to the studs. Dems should start preparing now.
www.publicnotice.co
October 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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There are good people amongst us.
If you are a furloughed government worker
In the Baltimore area
This popular restaurant
EKIBEN is offering free meals just bring your government I.D.
Thank you
We're all in this together
October 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Trump regime ICE thug smashes a US woman to the ground, 2025. ICE has increased its use of violence against its victims and US citizens alike.
October 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Millions of Americans are already learning that their health insurance costs for 2026 are going way up.

I want to hear from you so we can make this impossible for the GOP to ignore the consequences of their policies.

If your premiums are going up, reply below and please share your story.
October 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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In the US, school children are distributing whistles and information on how to resist the Trump regime’s ICE ethnic cleansing operations.
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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i just need people to know it's not hypocrisy when Devout Christian Mike Johnson cuts off SNAP benefits. it's not a lack of "christian charity" to make kids starve; it's because the christian right wants to control who gets food, through churches, so they can deny queers and sluts at will
October 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I see that the United States' peculiar brand of Christian Nationalism includes judging the poor for needing SNAP benefits (judging is something Jesus said *not to* do) but not helping the poor with SNAP benefits (helping the poor is something Jesus told them *to* do).
October 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Maybe they’re just looking for a heart.
Even if you are leader of the free world, you don’t just get an MRI without a clear reason to do so.

There’s no such thing as a “screening” MRI.
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Republicans control:

- The House
- The Senate
- The White House
- The Supreme Court
- Corporate Media and big tech social media platforms like TikTok and Twitter

Why can't they open the government and help Americans?

I thought they had the mandate, right?
October 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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State Sen. Willie Preston said he’ll oppose any new map that dilutes Black representation: “If that map dilutes Black votes, I’m not only a no, I’m going to lobby other Black, Latino and my white colleagues to vote no.” trib.al/Y1MLy9D
US House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries brings his redistricting push to Illinois
State Sen. Willie Preston, who serves as chair of the Illinois Senate Black Caucus, said he'll oppose any new map that dilutes Black representation: “If that map dilutes Black votes, I'm not only a no, I'm going to lobby other Black, Latino and my white colleagues to vote no."
trib.al
October 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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It's up to US as American citizens to speak out for those who cannot.

Also, exercise your second amendment rights before Trump tries to determine who's "loyal" enough to keep them!
A Silicon Valley firm has contracted with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build out a social media surveillance dragnet.

Critics say that the AI-driven software will target immigrants for political speech.
ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media
A Silicon Valley firm has contracted with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build out a social media surveillance dragnet. Critics say that the AI-driven software will target immigrants for political speech.
jacobin.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
October 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM