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Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

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Flagrant in your face discrimination

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The aspiration must be to purge the Republican Party of those hostile to democracy by all available means.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

I don’t mean to be rude about this, but since Musk isn’t the DOGE administrator, under what authority is he ordering this? If this is an order from Trump, where is it written up and why isn’t it implemented via Cabinet secretaries?

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This is what Musk did when he bought Twitter Why are Republicans letting Musk act like he just bought the US government? Is that what happened? Did Musk buy the US government from the Republicans?

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YES!!! This!!

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My ultimate goal here is to say that Musk is leading an internal insurrection against the Constitution of the United States, and anyone who collaborates with him, accommodates him, or fails to act on their authority to arrest or stop him, has violated their oath under Section 3, 14A.

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www.youtube.com/shorts/sLn8G...

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Call it what you want but I think if someone needs money and I have money I have an obligation to share some of what I have. It’s not an obligation I always fulfill, but I do try to fulfill it routinely Whether you conceptualize the obligation as charity, mutual aid, tzedekah, etc fine by me

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I am honestly shocked at how angry most Democrats are at congressional Dems. Just wow

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This sounds a lot like what the Republicans are doing right now!

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Yes! Last week I went to a little protest with a friend and then on the bus ride home another woman asked us for more info

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Like it’s real weird to see how many folks go fuck Jeffries but not fuck the Dems who voted for Laken - Riley

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Black voters are the largest most reliable Democratic voting bloc in the country aka The Base Democratic politicians and their campaigns HAVE to be engaged with Black communities and generate enthusiasm and turnout or we will lose It’s that simple, and I want to win!

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I do not understand how one can look at Israel inflicting mass starvation and leveling of Gaza and not go “this is an unjustifiable horror and the US shares in responsibility for sending billions in arms, fuel, etc”

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Tlaib is probably the most generous Palestinian American politician the Democratic Party will ever have lol

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I appreciate this thread by Marco. Only thing I’ll add is it doesn’t take much. Part of what radicalized the VC class was the small amount of power workers got during COVID with increased worker protections and money to take care of their kids from the recovery act.

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Context for what’s happening here. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 8 hours ago • 33 comments

“You can’t build a pro-democracy coalition by excluding the most vulnerable or marginalized members of society. You can’t define democracy down to exclude groups that are politically inconvenient.” goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/parties-co...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

This really does encapsulate the point that authoritarians depend on us giving them power they don’t have. Immigrants just simply not answering their door when ICE knocks is slowing down mass deportations.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Being unauthorized in the country isn’t a crime, and Republicans won’t make it a crime because that would mean they’d have to give them due process rights like an attorney so instead they talk like it’s a crime and deny them rights.

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SORRY INTERRUPTING US DOING SHOTS TO SAY EAT MY ASS CHILDREN’S WE WON!!!!! KIDDOS WILL BE RECEIVING THEIR GENDER AFFIRMING CARE AGAIN!!!! TALK SHIT GET HIT BABY!!!!!

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

This magnitude of a purge will probably do more to incapacitate the US military than provide loyalty

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

Partner: we saw Riker in that Christmas special! Me: like an episode of Lower Decks? Partner: no, he was like the tour guide Me: (realizing they’re describing Christmas at Biltmore) Oh, Jonathan Frakes - yeah! Partner: NERD Me: LOL, he is a nerd 😂 Partner: I meant you 🤣

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again: "ICE operates by Vampire Rules" is an objectively true and also funny statement

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“MAGA stands for resegregation and racism”

submitted 21 hours ago • 53 comments

so like the "rural trump voters still deserve mail service" thing goes hand in hand with "don't misgender people even if they're assholes" and "the unhoused guy who street harassed you still deserves housing" and "your cousin who stole 5k from his parents still deserves affordable psych meds" etc

Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

Flagrant in your face discrimination

The aspiration must be to purge the Republican Party of those hostile to democracy by all available means.

I don’t mean to be rude about this, but since Musk isn’t the DOGE administrator, under what authority is he ordering this? If this is an order from Trump, where is it written up and why isn’t it implemented via Cabinet secretaries?

This is what Musk did when he bought Twitter Why are Republicans letting Musk act like he just bought the US government? Is that what happened? Did Musk buy the US government from the Republicans?

YES!!! This!!

My ultimate goal here is to say that Musk is leading an internal insurrection against the Constitution of the United States, and anyone who collaborates with him, accommodates him, or fails to act on their authority to arrest or stop him, has violated their oath under Section 3, 14A.

www.youtube.com/shorts/sLn8G...

Call it what you want but I think if someone needs money and I have money I have an obligation to share some of what I have. It’s not an obligation I always fulfill, but I do try to fulfill it routinely Whether you conceptualize the obligation as charity, mutual aid, tzedekah, etc fine by me

I am honestly shocked at how angry most Democrats are at congressional Dems. Just wow

This sounds a lot like what the Republicans are doing right now!

Yes! Last week I went to a little protest with a friend and then on the bus ride home another woman asked us for more info

Like it’s real weird to see how many folks go fuck Jeffries but not fuck the Dems who voted for Laken - Riley

Black voters are the largest most reliable Democratic voting bloc in the country aka The Base Democratic politicians and their campaigns HAVE to be engaged with Black communities and generate enthusiasm and turnout or we will lose It’s that simple, and I want to win!

I do not understand how one can look at Israel inflicting mass starvation and leveling of Gaza and not go “this is an unjustifiable horror and the US shares in responsibility for sending billions in arms, fuel, etc”

Tlaib is probably the most generous Palestinian American politician the Democratic Party will ever have lol

I appreciate this thread by Marco. Only thing I’ll add is it doesn’t take much. Part of what radicalized the VC class was the small amount of power workers got during COVID with increased worker protections and money to take care of their kids from the recovery act.

Context for what’s happening here. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

“You can’t build a pro-democracy coalition by excluding the most vulnerable or marginalized members of society. You can’t define democracy down to exclude groups that are politically inconvenient.” goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/parties-co...

This really does encapsulate the point that authoritarians depend on us giving them power they don’t have. Immigrants just simply not answering their door when ICE knocks is slowing down mass deportations.

Being unauthorized in the country isn’t a crime, and Republicans won’t make it a crime because that would mean they’d have to give them due process rights like an attorney so instead they talk like it’s a crime and deny them rights.

SORRY INTERRUPTING US DOING SHOTS TO SAY EAT MY ASS CHILDREN’S WE WON!!!!! KIDDOS WILL BE RECEIVING THEIR GENDER AFFIRMING CARE AGAIN!!!! TALK SHIT GET HIT BABY!!!!!

This magnitude of a purge will probably do more to incapacitate the US military than provide loyalty

Partner: we saw Riker in that Christmas special! Me: like an episode of Lower Decks? Partner: no, he was like the tour guide Me: (realizing they’re describing Christmas at Biltmore) Oh, Jonathan Frakes - yeah! Partner: NERD Me: LOL, he is a nerd 😂 Partner: I meant you 🤣

again: "ICE operates by Vampire Rules" is an objectively true and also funny statement

“MAGA stands for resegregation and racism”

so like the "rural trump voters still deserve mail service" thing goes hand in hand with "don't misgender people even if they're assholes" and "the unhoused guy who street harassed you still deserves housing" and "your cousin who stole 5k from his parents still deserves affordable psych meds" etc

I’m going to confess that there was one I forgot 😬

This is a great reminder that I am a deeply weird person