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Meta has amped up its push of far right accounts.

These two accounts have been pushed into my feed despite me following exclusively Dem and progressive accounts.

It’s giving X on Nov 2024
April 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Omg I JUST TEXTED SOMEONE THIS
March 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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In our current times can learn a lot from the persistent widow and unjust judge.
Luke 18 | NRSV The Parable of the Widow and the Unjust Judge 'Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. E? He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, 'Grant me justice against my opponent? * For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, 'Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, s yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming? " E And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says." And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? *I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
March 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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These comments are absolutely brutal and there’s over 1k of them on one photo alone.

Incredibly deep pain.
177 SENBRIANSCHATZ Posts SEN. SCHATZ: Comments aurora.aaron 14h You were supposed to represent the people. Instead you betrayed them. Reply 9 SENBRIANSCHATZ Posts © Watch more reels THEBULWARK Watch again Comments lifewiththesunas 8h You have brought shame to Hawaii. When Trump is congratulating you, you know you are not on the right side. Worse, you betrayed the hope of the people who didn't vote for this administration, which is most of your own people. I don't know how you recover from this or ever try to criticize anything they do, because you voted to give them that power. You sent a clear message today, the Dems are not willing to fight. You gave in and it's been all of two months. Reply 1|
March 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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People worked HARD to get these people elected, and they are ANGRY that they’ve turned on them.

It’s a deep betrayal. They treated their constituents like fools!

Below was commented on @schatz.bsky.social’s most recent IG photo.
marasingermedia 14h We will not forget any of you-especially those who asked your constituents to call, write postcards, and knock on doors. We, the people, asked one thing of you: to stand up for us. And you failed us miserably. There will be a reckoning. We will invest our hard-earned money and support in leaders who will actually fight for us. The time for new leadership in the Democratic Party is long overdue. Your votes-to keep the government open, to censure Rep. Greene, and to confirm unqualified cabinet members-will not be forgotten this election cycle. Assuming that you have our votes simply because we are Democrats is a grave miscalculation. We are looking to the future @repritchie @aoc @repjasmine #wearedemocrats Reply 93
March 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Someone need to show this like ratio to Schumer. Absolutely brutal.
March 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Wait sooooooooooo what are the senate Dems up to? I’m seeing Fetterman out there saying he will vote for the CR.

And then this nonsense this morning!? thehill.com/homenews/sen...
March 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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This is gaslighting
March 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Sharon McMahon is telling us that being reactive and angry on the internet is playing into their hands and damnit she’s right
IF YOU'RE EASILY OFFENDED, YOU'RE EASILY MANIPULATED @sharonsaysso WHEN YOU CONSTANTLY REACT TO EVERY SLIGHT, YOU ARE GIVING PEOPLE OR ENTITIES MORE FUEL TO USE AS AMMUNITION. @sharonsaysso THE MORE OFTEN THEY CAN GET YOU TO REACT, THE BETTER THEY BECOME AT PREDICTING YOUR BEHAVIOR. @sharonsaysso THE MORE ACCURATELY THEY CAN PREDICT YOUR BEHAVIOR, THE EASIER IT BECOMES TO MANIPULATE YOU. @sharonsaysso
March 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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“I sometimes fear that
people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.

Fascism arrives as your friend.

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I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up your neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you... It doesn't walk in saying, "Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution" "In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think is the absence of empathy. Quote: Captain G.M.Gilbert, the army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials.
March 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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I’m scared to ask what ppl think of this
Photo of Tim Walz TIM WALZ MIGHT RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2028 IF YOU ASK HIM NICELY By David Remnick NEW YÖRKER
March 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Vermont took us all to school this weekend.

Watch and learn y’all.
r/vermont 1h “And he's gone” with photo of a plane
March 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Facts Matter.

@repjasmine.bsky.social absolutely serves it.
February 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Have you called your house rep today to vote NO on the budget? There’s still time!

Call & leave them a voicemail! 5calls.org/issue/budget...
“If you make one call today, make it be to your House Rep to VOTE NO on the billionaire hand out budget resolution! Floor vote is Tuesday!!”
February 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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“A Fever In The Heartland” details all of this and is an incredible read. It’s true, they were unstoppable at a time.
Front cover of “A Fever In The Heartland” by Timothy Egan
February 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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I love these photo.

The men’s smirks and glowers while she speaks, the women looking at her with pride in their eyes.
A woman with brown hair standing up in a large gathering talking to a congressman and his aide.
February 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Republicans are calling at rates of 4-1 to Dems—at times up to 11-1.

We need CONSISTENT, sustained pressure. Join @5calls.org and call daily!
kayleetee07 7h They're also sorted by zip code and area code. She said that Republican callers generally outnumber Democrat callers 4-1, and when it's a particular issue that single-issue-voters pay attention to (like gun control, or planned parenthood funding, etc...), it's often closer to 11-1, and that's recently pushed Republican congressmen on the fence to vote with the Republicans. In the last 8 years, Republicans have called, and Democrats haven't. 5/11
February 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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🧵The best advice I’ve seen so far for calling your representatives:
3/3 (TY @ patrickintheworld on IG for sharing these & creating the graphic)
kayleetee07 7h F) They may get to know your voice/get sick of you — it doesn't matter. The people answering the phones generally turn over every 6 weeks anyway, so even if they're really sick of you, they'll be gone in 6 weeks. From experience since the election: If you hate being on the phone & feel awkward (which is a lot of people) don't worry about it — there are a bunch of scripts (Indivisible has some, there are lots of others floating around these day). 10/11 kayleetee07 7h After a few days of calling, it starts to feel a lot more natural. Put the 6 numbers in your phone (all under P - Politician.) An example is McCaskill MO, Politician McCaskill DC, Politician Blunt MO, etc., which makes it really easy to click down the list each day. 11/11
February 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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🧵The best advice I’ve seen so far for calling your representatives:
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kayleetee07 7h So, when you call: A) When calling the DC office, ask for the Staff member in charge of whatever you're calling about ("Hi, l'd like to speak with the staffer in charge of Healthcare, please") - local offices won't always have specific ones, but they might. If you get transferred to that person, awesome. If you don't, that's ok — ask for that person's name, and then just keep talking to whoever answered the phone. 6/11 kayleetee07 7h Don't leave a message (unless the office doesn't pick up at all — then you can — but it's better to talk to the staffer who first answered than leave a message for the specific staffer in charge of your topic). B) Give them your zip code. They won't always ask for it, but make sure you give it to them, so they can mark it down. Extra points if you live in a zip code that traditionally votes for them, since they'll want to make sure they get/keep your vote. 7/11 kayleetee07 7h C) If you can make it personal, make it personal. "I voted for you in the last election and I'm worried/happy/whatever" or "I'm a teacher, and I am appalled by Betsy DeVos," or "as a single mother" or "as a white, middle class woman," or whatever. D) Pick 1-2 specific things per day to focus on. Don't rattle off everything you're concerned about — they're figuring out what 1-2 topics to mark you down for on their lists. So, focus on 1-2 per day. 8/11 U kayleetee07 7h Ideally something that will be voted on/taken up in the next few days, but it doesn't really matter — even if there's not a vote coming up in the next week, call anyway. It's important that they just keep getting calls. E) Be clear on what you want - "I'm disappointed that the Senator..." or "I want to thank the Senator for their vote on..." or "I want the Senator to know that voting in _ way is the wrong decision for our state because... " Don't leave any ambiguity. 9/11 g
February 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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🧵The best advice I’ve seen so far for calling your representatives:
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1/10 kayleetee07 7h Advice from a former congressional staffer. Call BOTH offices every day. Don't write. A thread FOR THOSE OF YOU LOOKING TO TURN YOUR ANGER INTO ACTION, here's some advice from a high-level staffer for a Senator. Re-posting from a friend of mine: There are two things that we should be doing all the time right now, and they're by far the most important things. You should NOT be bothering with online petitions or emailing. 1/11 Q73 V kayleetee07 7h 1) The best thing you can do to be heard and get your congressperson to pay attention is to have face-to-face time - if they have town halls, go to them. Go to their local offices. If you're in DC, try to find a way to go to an event of theirs. Go to the "mobile offices" that their staff hold periodically (all these times are on each congressperson's website). When you go, ask questions. A lot of them. Push for answers. The louder and more vocal and present you can be at those the better. 2/11 kayleetee07 7h 2) But those in-person events don't happen every day. So, the absolute most important thing that people should be doing every day is calling. YOU SHOULD MAKE 6 CALLS A DAY: 2 each (DC office & your local office) to your 2 Senators & your 1 Representative. The staffer was very clear that any sort of online contact gets ignored & letters get thrown in the trash (unless you have a particularly strong emotional story - but even then it's not worth the time it took you to craft that letter). 3/11 g kayleetee07 7h Calls are what all the congresspeople pay attention to. Every single day, the Senior Staff and the Senator get a report of the 3 most-called-about topics for that day at each of their offices (in DC and local offices), and exactly how many people said what about each of those topics. 4/11 1 kayleetee07 7h They're also sorted by zip code and area code. She said that Republican callers generally outnumber Democrat callers 4-1, and when it's a particular issue that single-issue-voters pay attention to (like gun control, or planned parenthood funding, etc...), it's often closer to 11-1, and that's recently pushed Republican congressmen on the fence to vote with the Republicans. In the last 8 years, Republicans have called, and Democrats haven't. 5/11 l
February 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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“A failure to resist, however, could pave the way for authoritarian entrenchment—with grave and enduring consequences for global democracy.”
Done foreignaffairs.com Trump will be vulnerable. The administration's limited public support and inevitable mistakes will create opportunities for democratic forces—in Congress, in courtrooms, and at the ballot box. But the opposition can win only if it stays in the game. Opposition under competitive authoritarianism can be grueling. Worn down by harassment and threats, many of Trump's critics will be tempted to retreat to the sidelines. Such a retreat would be perilous. When fear, exhaustion, or resignation crowds out citizens' commitment to democracy, emergent authoritarianism begins to
February 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Oh honey, Jeffries, we’re gunna call even HARDER tomorrow.

*We the people* demand action and won’t give up that easy 😘 www.axios.com/2025/02/12/d...
= AXIOS Why it matters: Members of the Steering and Policy Committee - with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in the room - on Monday complained activist groups like MoveOn and Indivisible have facilitated thousands of phone calls to members' offices. • "People are pissed," a senior House Democrat who was at the meeting said of lawmakers' reaction to the calls. • The Democrat said Jeffries himself is "very frustrated" at the groups, who are trying to stir up a more confrontational opposition to Trump. • A Jeffries spokesperson noted to Axios that their office regularly engages with dozens of stakeholder groups, including MoveOn and Indivisible, including as recently as Monday
February 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Sorry this is a where is jack thread now. UPDATE
February 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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As always, @5calls.org is your friend. Here’s my count from the last 2 weeks. Can you beat me next week?
February 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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AOC says that the flood of calls has started to change the tide in congress but it has to CONTINUE.

Call every day. Dem OR Republican alike need to hear from you!

Republicans call more than Democrats, let’s change that!
February 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM