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Philosophy Professor. INTJ. Reached the age of parrhesia but keeps most of her frank talk in her thought bubble.
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Pete Hegseth has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins

We need to stop using terms like surrender, capitulate, cave, give in, etc. and start naming what is really happening in colleges and universities, law firms, Senate offices, and elsewhere. Let's use with due deliberation all forms of collaborate, collaboration, collaborator, collaborating...

I would like to invite @sanders.senate.gov and/or @governorwalz.mn.gov to come to Maine's 2nd District to hold a town hall meeting. Our Congressional Representative, Jared Golden (D?--his voting record speaks for itself), is highly unlikely to meet with constituents, but he needs to hear from us.

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

Anyone else have concerns that there just will not be any midterm elections?

Buried below: since the accusations surfaced against this guy, at least a dozen (!) Dallas area pastors were also accused; and this guy was appointed by Greg Abbott to a task force on barring transgender people from bathrooms b/c of the threat to children. #notadragqueen

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

Executive orders are not laws. Letter to santa. Note from tooth fairy. Egg from Easter bunny. Not law

NEW: I just asked Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett if she had a message to Elon Musk. What would she say to him? Here was her answer: “Fuck off.”

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All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

General CQ Brown, recorded shortly after the George Floyd killing and public response. Powerful. (I do not recommend reading the comments below the video on YouTube.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPc...

I just heard that @joyannreid.bsky.social had her show canceled by MSNBC. This is devastating news!!! Her voice, and the voices of her guests, are indispensable. What a loss, but not surprising right now. Likely the first of many such moves.

Well, I just wrote to my Congressman, Maine’s 2nd District’s Jared Golden.

So, my thought was, maybe we're at the point where some white folks are ready to back up the cement mixer and start filling in the multi-cultural "pool" that we call American democracy rather than let black and brown people, LGBTQ+ folks, Jews, Muslims, and cis white women have any part of it. 3/end

It's about the willingness to make everyone worse off to avoid making others equal. 2/

Been thinking a lot lately about Heather McGhee's superb book, The Sum of Us. She begins with a story that serves as the template for the rest of the book: (over)simply put, white folks will fill in a public pool so that *no one* can use it, rather than integrate it. 1/

He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration

Anyone else have concerns that there just will not be any midterm elections?

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