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Grants and contracts specialist | Organizer w/ Clintonville Area Progressives | An "up and comer" according to the Columbus Dispatch
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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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Protesting at the Tesla dealer by engaging in 6 hours of bad faith negotiating over a car and then leaving without signing any of the paperwork.

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Average Clintonville Discussion Forum post

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Here we go! The time to be polite and patient has passed. We got info on a Husted fundraiser on Saturday evening in Bexley. So we’re going to show up and bird-dog him! www.facebook.com/events/11600...

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Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."

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One of the most dangerous things happening right now is responsible entities legitimizing the illegitimate. A University of Cincinnati memo today referred to the White House action on DEI as "this new law." There is no such LAW - there's an executive order, an entirely lesser thing.

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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how many controversial salutes are there. i can only think of the one but admittedly i'm not a salute scholar

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NEW Republican Congressman Troy Balderson, who reps an R+18 district in Ohio, says President Trump’s executive orders are “getting out of control.” “Congress has to decide whether or not the Departmnet of Education goes away. Not the president. Not Elon Musk. Congress decides,” Balderson said.

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2025 and Democrats still don’t grasp Lesson 1 of “Dont Think of An Elephant.” NEVER REPEAT FALSE CHARGES

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Pleasantly surprised by the energy here.

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Check out our next meeting!

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Pobody's nerfect!

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SCOOP: Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans. My story w/ Carolyn Y. Johnson. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 5 days ago • 133 comments

Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend. This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

submitted 6 days ago • 84 comments

you don't talk about stuff like eggs or long lines at national parks because those are more important than the coup against the rule of law. you talk about that stuff because getting low information americans mad at Trump about that stuff is a precondition to getting them to care about the big stuff

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I have no firmly held opinion on what elected democrats should be doing right now but "loudly defending the national park system" seems to have few foreseeable downsides

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In 1988, the FAA required new aircraft seats to withstand 16x the force of gravity — 16g. It is likely that because of that decision, in part, that everyone survived today's Delta crash. As @PeterGoelz said tonight it was an instance "where a government regulation saved lives."

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

I think I have to give it to Checker's/Rally's (I) over Culver's (E) here, but a big part of that is the specific meal here. I need the soda to cut through the heavy meal, not a shake. Everything else here does something well and something poorly (A, B, D, H), or does everything poorly (C, F, G)

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I am still planning on doing some flying this year, and I want to be crystal clear: if Trump's destruction of airline safety kills me, I insist you politicize it.

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The absence of Norm MacDonald is felt tonight #SNL50

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