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WV Populist
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Populism - "A political philosophy or movement that represents the interests of ordinary people especially against the Establishment" (Merriam Webster)

West Virginia born and bred. 🇺🇲🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦 Montani Semper Liberi.
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From the Coal Wars to the teacher strikes in 2018, Mountaineers have a strong history of protesting. We once again see Mountaineers protesting today on #NoKingsDay in Charleston, Morgantown, and Clarksburg.

Montani Semper Liberi.
June 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Stealing food and baby supplies from corporations is never unethical.

#populism
Futurama two panel screenshot meme. First panel, Amy asks Leela, Hermes, and Fry (looking away): "Did you see someone stealing food and baby formula?" Leela, Hermes, and Fry turn around, revealing they have no eyes: "We didn't see anything..."
March 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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You know #Trump has fucked up the #economy when Dollar General is saying they're feeling the economic squeeze.
#WestVirginia #populism #DollarGeneral
Tweet Screenshot CNBC @CNBC Dollar General CEO warns consumers 'only have enough money for basic essentials' Nubyjas Wilborn @nwilborn19 If Dollar General is saying they're noticing their already mostly poor customers are broker than normal that should be a sign.
March 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Leaked email from WVGOP Supermajority. The WVGOP has done nothing this session except erode rights and harm the public health.

#WVGOP #WestVirginia #Pollution #Polio #Measles #WV
Email draft screen New Message To: hr@opm.gov Subject: Five Accomplishments Dear Elon, As some of your biggest fans, we wanted to voluntarily send five bullet points of what we have accomplished in the last week: • Took steps towards reviving polio and measles • Pushed to bring back corporal punishment in school • Advanced measures that will worsen our water quality • Introduced ban on opioid treatment programs • Ignored real constituent needs At your service, WVGOP Supermajority Send
March 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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In today's age, it's more important than ever to be accepting of the LGBTQ+ people in your life. Let them know you are here and you are on their side.

#LGBTQ+ #TrevorProject
Rainbow background with black text. Having one accepting adult in a LGBTQ+ young person's life reduces their suicide risk by 40%. BE THAT ADULT! Source: Trevor Project
February 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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For centuries, the real polluters have been big businesses and the ultra rich. They used marketing to convince us that we could all save the planet by recycling, but they never stopped polluting.

Because of them, microplastics are part of every living thing on earth.

#Pollution #Taxtherich
Black text on white background above two images Left section, above a picture of Willem Dafoe in Life Aquatic. He is young, clean shaven and sportily dressed. The image is bright. He is half kneeling, staring off camera: Me when I thought recycling would save the world. Right section, above a black and white image of Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse. He's a grizzled old man with a beard wearing a toboggan or cold weather beanie: me after I found out that plastic corporations invented plastic recycling to put the responsibility onto the consumer even though they knew plastic recycling was both chemically and financially not feasible, and now I have plastic in my brain, lungs and testicles
February 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Concerned about the state of Trump's America?

Screw calling or writing your congresspeople, FAX THEM! Don't own a fax machine? Use FaxZero to send it!

#Congress #populism #UnitedStates

faxzero.com/fax_congress...

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February 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Remember, always record cops, especially when they tell you not to.

#police #policestate #policethepolice #fuckthepolice
White background with black text. Cop on the left wearing a mask, person recording on the right, facing each other. Cop: I see you are recording but you don't have to worry about it. I am recording this on my body camera for both of us. Thanks officer but there is a big difference. The difference is I control this footage, not you or your department. It won't mysteriously disappear and I get to decide when to release it, not you, your department, or your police union. My footage will go viral on the internet, your footage might not be available to the public for years. @policethepolice
February 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Musk is an unelected foreign-born national executing a coup. He is the antithesis of the democratic process envisioned by our forefathers. The US elected Trump, as shit as it is, but it didn't elect Elon.

#Trump #UnitedStates #MuskCoup #fuckelonmusk
Tweet from @whstancil So apparently the word in the tech world is this: Elon's embrace of Trump is because Elon thinks he can essentially run the White House while Trump rots in front of Fox News. It's a way to circumvent the "natural born citizen" requirement and let Musk serve as de facto president. Posted 4:44PM 10/7/24 2.3 Million Views Below it: Eric Columbus This tweet sure held up
February 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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We need to end corporate residential property ownership and end the landlord class. They contribute nothing for society and prevent low and medium income families from purchasing homes and land.

#UnitedStates #Populism #Landlords
Photo of a cottage looking home with nice flowers, a tree in bloom, and a tree in the background. Text is in Impact (the meme font) Top Text: Homes are for living Bottom Text: Not generating income
February 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Every major city in the country should be primarily using public transportation to get to work. Our failures to build and maintain sustainable public transit have handicapped our nation into needing cars to travel anywhere. We must right this wrong.

#publictransit #trains #UnitedStates
Map of the United States titled "Most common means of transportation to work by county" The legend depicts four options: Drove alone Walked Taxi/Motorcycle/Other Public Transportation Three counties in Alaska walk, one takes Taxis/Motorcycles/Others. One county in California, where San Francisco is, uses public transportation. Two counties around the area of NYC use public transportation. Data from 2019, thanks to The World in Maps
February 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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What "small government" really means is dictatorship.

#populism #congress
4 panel comic in grayscale 1. Man speaking to a full congress with multiple pews full of people and four facing the audience with him: Government should be smaller! 2. Same man speaking to the same space, but most of the pews are half full and no one is sitting in front of him anymore. "Smaller!" 3. Same man speaking to a table of 6 people from a new lectern without surrounding seats. "SMALLER!" 4. Same man sitting on a throne, flanked by guards. "Perfect." Credit: Private Eye. Issue 1640. @ahoy_universe
January 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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#Taxtherich #billionaires #populism
The world is 700% richer than in 1970, but the average person is only 8% richer. Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer. We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is. It will never reach you.
January 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Environmental Regulations work when the government hasn't been completely bought by corporations.

#Enviroment #ClimateChange #OzoneLayer
January 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Multifunctional fixes to existing issues are the green way of the future.
Imagine solar panels over the sidewalk outside your house. In the summer, you get power. In the winter, it keeps snow and ice off the ground.

#populism #solarpower #greennewdeal
January 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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This is a great year to start a community garden project, to make friends at the farmers market, and to start community action groups.

#populism #community #UnitedStates #societalcollapse
January 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Elon Musk really is the new Henry Ford.
January 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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My father is older than Ruby Bridges, your grandparents are probably older than her. Do not let those who accepted atrocities author history.

#populism #USHistory
January 22, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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For every issue we've had in the last 40 years, there's a video of @sanders.senate.gov warning us about it 10 years beforehand.
Biden: An oligarchy is forming in America Me: (Picture of Bernie Sanders) "DAMN, IF ONLY WE HAD SOMEONE TELL US THAT 9 YEARS AGO!"
January 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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We have more vacant homes in the US than we do homeless folks, the solution is simple, but instead we have corporations sucking up houses to rent out, flip for a profit, or use as an AirBNB. It's time for the end of commercial ownership of residential properties.
#populism #housing #homelessness #WV
The only anti-homeless architecture that works is affordable housing.
January 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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With the emerging megaregions around the country, we have an opportunity to not only connect the cities with light rail, but to connect these supercities with high-speed rail, taking you from NYC to LA cheaper and greener than by plane.

#populism #railroad #trains #highspeedrail #supercity
Map of the United States (with some Canada and Mexico) illustrating the metro area populations in the country. They are divided into Cascadia in Washington and Oregon Northern California Southern California The Arizona Sun Corridor (extending into Mexico) The Front Range in Colorado and New Mexico The Texas Triangle in east Texas The Gulf Coast region Florida Piedmont Atlantic, with north Georgia and the Carolinas Northeast from Richmond to Boston Great Lakes, around Chicago and Michigan.
January 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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This country is saddled with an overwhelming amount of medical debt, not only hurting Americans, but hurting the economy as a whole. It's long past time we come together for universal healthcare.

#medicareforall #populism #singlepayerhealthcare #medicaldebt #insurance #luigi
January 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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We must build our future not just looking at electric vehicles, but by looking at mass transit options for both people and goods. A perfect example of this is #WVU 's PRT system which can bus students around town faster than you can drive in the traffic.

#populism #traffic #publictransit
January 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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This is a map of abandoned and out of service rail lines in the US and adjoining regions.
This is millions, if not billions of dollars of infrastructure that if restored, would reduce highway congestion and reduce bulk good transportation costs.
#populism #trains #railroad
January 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Water is a human right. We must guarantee free clean drinking water to all Americans.

Tens of thousands of West Virginians live without clean drinking water at their tap. Thousands more get their water by trucking it to their cisterns.

mountainstatespotlight.org/2024/10/31/w...

#populism #water
January 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM