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Jen OK
7 months ago
š° $2.4 trillion If you spent $1 million/day, every single day, it would take you 6,575 years to burn through $2.4 trillion. With that, we could: ⢠Rebuild every public school in USA & fix every pothole. ⢠Fund universal pre-K & community college for the next decade. ⢠Or⦠tax cuts for the top 1%.
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If I say āboysā 3 pets (2 dogs, 1 cat) will instantly start moving toward the back door to go outside.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
8 months ago
Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.
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George Takei
9 months ago
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
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Iām getting really fed up with the trade deficit I have with my local coffee shop. Iāve spent thousands in there over the years and they havenāt bought a single thing from me! Beginning tomorrow, Iām demanding a 25% surcharge added onto my coffee order. Thatāll show āem.
9 months ago
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I need Danny McBride to play JD when they inevitably make a movie about all this.
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Anna Holmes
10 months ago
Now that I am finished screaming into the void about schooling for kids with disabilities being assigned to RFK: understand what this means. Heās lumping accommodations into HHS, meaning those needs are now considered medicalized. Different from everyday education. This is eugenics.
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Just Jack
10 months ago
Openly ignoring and defying the Judiciary. Breaking his oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States. Granting himself unchecked power. This is authoritarianism.
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Timeline cleanse.
10 months ago
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Krassensteins
10 months ago
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The center of gravity in Evangelical theology is Jesus āpaid a debt he didnāt owe.ā He āwent to the cross with you in mind as the ultimate sacrifice.ā If you genuinely believe that (and I believe many do) then you should loudly reject the āempathy is a sin/weaknessā narrative with your whole chest.
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The Tennessee Holler
10 months ago
āI wonāt forgetā ?
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Valorie Bridges Fant * Author of * Go Back to Your Country *
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Pete Buttigieg
10 months ago
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isnāt whether heās lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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Mark Cuban
10 months ago
This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
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The Tennessee Holler
10 months ago
āDO YOUR JOB!ā TEXAS: @RepKeithSelfās turn
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Ashley Lynch āļøšļø
10 months ago
I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable. 2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.
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Rick
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Mark Cuban
10 months ago
Yes
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James Donald Bowman cosplaying a tough guyā¢ļø while berating and insulting an *actual* leader is just the thing my blood pressure didnāt need today.
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Robert Reich
10 months ago
So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is āsocialismā? But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"? Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.
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Robert Reich
10 months ago
The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979.Ā Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth.Ā Trickle down economics was always a hoax.
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Itās obviously Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Wile E. Coyote.
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Ron Filipkowski
10 months ago
Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.
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Krassensteins
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I guess Iām an Eagles fan now? 42 years of being a Cowboys fan hasnāt give me much to cheer about. ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
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Fred Wellman
10 months ago
Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it
open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
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This is the most dangerous move yet
The canary is gasping for air
https://open.substack.com/pub/fpwellman/p/this-is-the-most-dangerous-move-yet?r=3vp7b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Aaron Rupar
11 months ago
Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.
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Aaron Rupar
11 months ago
Trump calls himself āTHE KINGā
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Pete Buttigieg
11 months ago
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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George Takei
11 months ago
Why does a 38-year old U.S. Attorney in SDNY, who is also a die hard conservative, have more guts and integrity than the entirety of the GOP Senate Conference combined?! Shame on the shameless sycophants and enablers there, who canāt find the spine to stand up to common MAGA bullies.
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Rebekah is Pro-Choice
11 months ago
Yesterday I did a rewrite on a blog post for an eye care tech company. I pulled the CDC and NIH links in the original, replaced them with research journals and non-profit health orgs. US gov data is no longer the gold standard - or even consistently available. How far we have fallen, and how fast.
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Andrea Junker
11 months ago
DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Peter Morley āæļø
11 months ago
Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
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southpaw
11 months ago
We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
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Venezuelan Migrant Sent to GuantĆ”namo Bay Is āNot a Criminal,ā Family Pleads (Gift Article)
Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could āgive everything to his son,ā said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to GuantĆ”namo.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/world/americas/luis-castillo-venezuela-migrant-guantanamo-bay-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wU4.eCDH.fKOVfFbzEKCQ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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MN Mame (she/her)
11 months ago
ELON cancelled a check already in the bank using private information about NY from Treasury
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Robert Reich
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Patton Oswalt
11 months ago
The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that:
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**Saquon Barkley bear-hugs his coach on the sideline after winning his first Super Bowl** Tom Brady: Reminds me of the time I won my first Super Bowl as a young Black man.
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George Takei
11 months ago
Great point.
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**Equipment manager brings water onto the field for players** Tom Brady: I remember when I took a drink of water on the field in 2007 when we were playing the Giants in New York and I had just led our team down the field for our third score of the quarter and then Iā¦.
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Fred Wellman
11 months ago
He is describing a dictatorship. One key difference between the US and Hungary has to do with that first bunch of Constitutional amendments.
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Aaron Rupar
11 months ago
this is the sort of thing you post when youāre ramping up to defying lawful court orders
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