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Artist, dog lover, and avid reader. That was the suggested text. I do love dogs
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News Eye
2 months ago
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting Iāve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News.
#Gaza
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No Kings Raleigh today. People up and down Capital Blvd. Had to do 3x speed to capture the whole thing in under 2 minutes
#nokings
#nokingsraleigh
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Itās time to get into the streets!! Find a Hands Off event near you this Sat April 5th
www.mobilize.us/handsoff/?ut...
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Hands Off! Join the National Mobilization to Fight Back Ā· Hands Off on Mobilize
Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Hands Off.
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/?utm_source=indivisible
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Jonathan Ladd
7 months ago
I canāt emphasize enough that cynicism is a dictatorās best friend. Stay outraged. Believe in and work for democracy.
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates
7 months ago
A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. Itās like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity. Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
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Shoshana š³ļøāā§ļø
7 months ago
Walmart called the police on a cis-woman using the women's bathroom. Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'" š” š” š”
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Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out (exclusive)
āThe only men in the womenās restroom were the cops,ā Kalaya Morton said.
https://www.advocate.com/news/lesbian-mistaken-transgender-arizona-walmart
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The greatest tweet ever, and it was their first post on Bluesky.
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Tiffanyāøāø
8 months ago
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
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Riki Wilchins
8 months ago
Take away my pronouns, my passport, my prison cell, my hormones, & my bathroom, I'm still trans. I'm still here. I'm not going anywhere. And tomorrow there will be more like me. I'm not scared, I'm fighting mad. You can't have my life. It's mine. Because we are
#WhatTheFutureOfGenderLooksLike
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Dunkinā Donuts weaves a Web of Lies. Krispey Kreme forever!
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The man who Trump just endorsed to take Matt Gaetzās seatā in Jan 2024 initiated bill to use $5M in Florida state funds for Trump legal fees
floridapolitics.com/archives/654...
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Jimmy Patronis touts bill to give $5M to Donald Trump for āpolitical discriminationā
'The Left is really good at weaponizing the courts.'
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/654313-jimmy-patronis-touts-bill-to-give-5m-to-donald-trump-for-political-discrimination/
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Mehdi Hasan
11 months ago
Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
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RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdiās deep dive
YouTube video by MSNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0f3yZ9jJPY
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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE
11 months ago
āa better future isnāt possibleā is explicitly a right wing view and everyone needs to do a better job rejecting it for themselves and drumming it out of younger people
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Good deep dive from PEW April 2024
www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
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1. The partisanship and ideology of American voters
Registered voters are evenly split between the two parties: 49% are Democrats or lean Democratic, 48% are Republicans or lean to the GOP.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/the-partisanship-and-ideology-of-american-voters/
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Matthew Yglesias
11 months ago
A lot of asymmetries in American politics are just downstream of the fact that self-identified conservatives badly outnumber self-identified progressives or liberals, so Democrats need to win self-identified moderates in a lopsided way to win elections.
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Gwen Snyder is undead
11 months ago
TIL that the CEO of Bluesky is legally named Bluesky
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