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Casar: One of the most important things I learned is how so many of the most right-wing elected officials break things, do not want services to work, and then campaign on them being broken in order to gain political power.
March 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Trump: "We're gonna have tremendous goodies in the bag for women too. The women, between the fertilization and all the other things we're talking about, it's gonna be great. Fertilization. I'm still very proud of it, I don't care. I'll be known as the fertilization president and that's okay."
March 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Most of us think maga voters aren't worth our attention. In this thread, I explain why I think that's wrong. The key is this: don't try bringing them over. Instead, encourage them to give up on democracy. Don't attract them, demoralize them.
1. Last week, there was a story in USA Today about a Trump voter from Wisconsin who watched as ICE agents detained his Peruvian wife in an airport on their way back from their honeymoon in Puerto Rico. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a U.S. citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.
www.usatoday.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Donald Trump lied to Americans on the campaign trail.

He said a vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for a recession.

Instead, the opposite was true. We’re now barreling toward a recession with no end in sight.
March 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Have you heard about the SAVE Act? It's an anti-voting bill that is so strict, it could literally keep tens of millions of Americans from voting. I just signed up for this event to learn how we can fight this MAGA bill. Join me! social.redwine.blue/s/IlwDk2Iw
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March 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
It is despicable what this administration is doing. I will continue to speak out against the dangers it represents. I will continue to call my representatives and demand they stand up to this tyrant and his sycophants.
March 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Just saying.
February 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Have you heard about the SAVE Act? It's an anti-voting bill that is so strict, it could literally keep tens of millions of Americans from voting. I just signed up for this event to learn how we can fight this MAGA bill. Join me! social.redwine.blue/s/jxWsZZBP
Register here.
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February 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.

This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.

What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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February 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Ready to NOT SPEND MONEY tomorrow!! #resistance #trumpisafelon
February 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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For those of you who watched the video of an Idaho woman experiencing handmaid‘s tale treatment, now is the time to decide what you would do in that situation—whether it's you or whether you're nearby when this happens to someone else. We are in a moment where we all have to decide who we are.
February 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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DOGE recommended firing workers at:

-FDA, which oversees Neuralink

-FAA, which oversees SpaceX

-USAID, which probed Starlink

-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.

"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
February 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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He nails it.
February 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night.

800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream.

There is a movement to be harnessed here.

@sanders.senate.gov

(📸 Anna Bahr)
February 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Flu vaccine materials are now being taken down from CDC site too. bsky.app/profile/cram...
On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now

Meanwhile...
February 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Thank you to everyone who has joined the resistance! Our ranks grow stronger every day.
February 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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February 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"
February 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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We could have had Kamala Harris. Instead, we have the most immature, petulant, stupid, needy, incompetent dipshit to ever enter American politics.

What a tragically stupid country we are.
February 4, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Spend time with stories about how the Ivy League broke America, the private schools that breed entitlement, and more in this Sunday's The Atlantic Daily:
Six Stories on Elite Schools
Read about how private schools can breed entitlement, the issue with college admissions, and more.
www.theatlantic.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Seconding Josh, I wrote on the same thing yesterday, and would go an extra mile or ten to get these ideas in front of @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov, without their pollsters around. www.offmessage.net/p/a-sustaina...
February 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM