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West Coast Chick
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Keep calm and opposition-party on. NF writer-editor turned grad student. Fan of democracy & freedom, nature & conservation, potato chips, and cats. ******AGAINST EXTREME WEALTH INEQUALITY.******
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I have concluded, after learning about the history of the social safety net in the US, that the reason Republicans in Congress are doing zero zilch nada to stop Trump is bc he is accomplishing their longstanding dream of diverting all public monies into private profits.
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Maths...

If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.

If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.

Tax the rich.
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Political #corruption made Americans in the 1800s distrust social programs, a prob that continues today, when wealth inequality has grown to Gilded Age (1870-1910) levels. This is the time Trump wants to take us back to. #Dems in ofc should be loudly anti-corruption, pro social programs.
March 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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This experiment is very revealing about the antisocial effects of money.
youtu.be/Qri10wUxyos?... Watch this and then see whether you think the current number of #billionaires in the U.S. and elsewhere is good for the rest of us.
Monopoly Social Experiment - How Money and Power can Modify Your Mind
YouTube video by Randomer
youtu.be
September 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites
More from the scene
October 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social this reminds me of your cat's cat's cat. 😄
Don't talk to me or my son or my son's son or my son's son's son ever again
Post a green Transformer
October 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
October 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
We’re going to need a South Africa-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission when this is all over. (But with less amnesty for those who crimed.)
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
October 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Zohran Mamdani’s senses of morality and integrity is making a lot of powerful people realize how much they lack them and they hate him for it.
October 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
DAMN this is good.
If you think the problem in this city is that my rent is too low, vote for Andrew Cuomo.

If you know the problem in this city is that your rent is too high, vote for me.
October 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom
Tolkein continues to resonate. The new bank being set up by Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel is named Erebor after the “lonely mountain” in The Hobbit. This was also an interesting line in this rpt on the new bank by @tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/202d...
October 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Welcome back monarchs on Sunday,
No kings next Saturday.
A sign like this should work for both.
October 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I have four cats. But no children. I’m who JV Dance warned you about.
September 30, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.
September 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Not enough of you care about the 1859 Pig War and it sows.
the problem with doing WW2 revisionism on here is that everyone on this website is a thirty eight year old nerd who spent all of high school reading WW2 history books
September 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
youtu.be/Qri10wUxyos?... Watch this and then see whether you think the current number of #billionaires in the U.S. and elsewhere is good for the rest of us.
Monopoly Social Experiment - How Money and Power can Modify Your Mind
YouTube video by Randomer
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Get in losers, it’s avgolemono night!!! (Reposting bc I never knew how to spell the word correctly until now.)
It’s Avgolemono night, motherfuckers
September 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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It’s Avgolemono night, motherfuckers
September 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
We need a lot more folks in government who care about people more they care about power.
September 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
BRIL-LI-ANT !!!!!!!
This is a fake and I don’t know who made it, but it’s pretty funny.
September 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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No bending the knee
September 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Reading about the impact a deep sense of shame has on people’s behavior and am finding this lens is quite useful for understanding why so many are acting out in violent and other anti-social ways. #psychology
September 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Starting November 1st, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal childcare to all its residents.

It's expected to save families over $12,000 per child annually.

This is a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.
September 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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When calling someone “divisive” gets you fired, but proposing to murder homeless people keeps you going after an apology.
September 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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White on white crime is a tragic epidemic sweeping the country.

How many more will we lose to white gang violence and rightwing turf wars?

It’s the culture, you know. These white celebrities glamorize a criminal lifestyle & young inner-suburb kids get trapped in the school-to-influencer pipeline.
September 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM