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Proud CT liberal, but pragmatic. Card-carrying member of the ACLU. Open to debate, but not with trolls. I’m old, so MAGA abuse is an instablock.
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We don’t need to guess what tariffs will do. We've seen this movie. Bush tried steel tariffs in 2002. Trump did it again in 2018. Both times, same plot: a handful of steel jobs saved, tens of thousands of downstream jobs destroyed.

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“Trump has more than doubled his personal wealth since starting his 2024 campaign. Billions of foreign dollars into his family’s real estate and crypto ventures… Our political system is being transformed into something that no longer serves the people.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

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Whenever law enforcement agents are given a quota of a specific number of people to arrest or detain, especially with the WH policy director screaming at their superiors to hit those target numbers, bad things are going to happen. Quotas always result in civil rights violations.

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I don’t think people should engage in violence and vandalism and I don’t think federal agents should provoke people to engage in violence and vandalism. Too many law enforcement officers sworn to protect and serve now look and act like they are in Fallujah.

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LOS ANGELES: Stay off the streets tonight. Stay home. Stay safe. Tom Homan says the National Guard might be deployed — and I’m telling you, he wants violence. They’re baiting us to react so they can escalate. Rule #1: Never protest at night. That’s when the worst happens—under cover of darkness.

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Bernie: "What that is all about is that if you're rich in America, you can make campaign contributions, you are entitled to massive tax breaks because you're superhuman beings. But if you're a poor working stiff, working at McDonald's, struggling to put food on the table, you're entitled to nothing"

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“One Big Beautiful Bill”? Try one big, bold-faced lie. They swore this mess wouldn’t add to the deficit…but the nonpartisan budget office says otherwise. $2.4 TRILLION added to the deficit—and for what? Tax cuts for the rich.

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The Department of Homeland Security put out a list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” in VA, including Martinsville County, which doesn't even exist! Per state law, there are no sanctuary cities or counties in VA. After I pointed that out, DHS deleted the list. Amateur hour.

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It’s called taxing the rich, buddy.

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At the core of MAGA is a deep insecurity about one’s own manhood and sexuality. That’s why all the muscle displays, military cosplaying and school yard bullying. Imagine any icon of manliness from Marcus Aurelius to Gary Cooper doing this BS. You can’t. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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Kudos to @amartinezla.bsky.social on NPR for squeezing this line in real quick this am: “Polls will soon close in South Korea, where the country is voting in a snap election for a new president. That’s what South Koreans do when a former president tries to overturn the constitution.” I see you.

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Joni Erst’s “we’re all gonna die” is a bizarre variant on the “let them eat cake” theme. It conflates shared mortality with a justification for why we shouldn’t expect better from our politicians and government.

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Just watched an over hour long debate featuring Curtis Yarvin during which he said approximately nothing.

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This part

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Our right to free speech is under attack by the Trump administration. Congress must vote NO on any bill that would let immigrants be targeted for their political speech.

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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

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