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Dad. Teacher. East Bay lifer. History nerd. Minivan still dented. Running for Congress in CA-10 to fight fascism, not play nice (unless you're cool) 🇺🇸 linktr.ee/mrmacca10
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Two of the most vile governments on the planet are going to war, and the innocent are going to pay the highest blood price. God help the refugees to flee, and to bury the tyrants in the ruins they create.

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Buffalo Soldiers was my favorite. Slated to be released in October 2001, it was completely buried for being "unpatriotic." It brutally satirized the waste, grift, drugs, and incompetence endemic in the US Army... just in time for those exact factors to metastasize in Afghanistan for two decades!

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People still pretending we’re not on the brink of Depression-era unemployment is making it hard to stay composed. One more cheerful take about the “resilient economy” and I’m going to lose it entirely and start shrieking like a Ring Wraith in the middle of the Panda Express line.

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The idea that Netanyahu acts in good faith is fantasy, and pretending this letter means anything when Trump is functionally illiterate is pure theater. Schumer et al can write all they want. None of it matters if they keep enabling the collapse. Filibuster everything.

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If Democrats were around in Germany in 1943 "Hitler exterminating Jewish and LGBT people in gas chambers is actually just a distraction for him to pass his draconian tax cut agenda that hurts the middle class. Make sure you vote out fascism in the ballot box!"

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Framing attacks on trans kids as a distraction from healthcare cuts treats their lives like a subplot. Trans rights aren’t a sideshow. They’re the front line. If you’re only outraged when it’s politically convenient, you’re not an ally. You’re a weather vane.

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Groundhog sees his shadow, we get another twenty years of war

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It took me a lifetime of screwing up, burning bridges, and clawing my way through addiction recovery to be able to write this. I’ve seen how people get hooked on hate, because I know what it’s like to need something that’s ruining you.

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Richard Spencer loving Tomorrow Belongs to Me despite it being written by a gay Jewish man is the fascist aesthetic in a nutshell: consume, strip of context, hollow it out, wear its skin. AI does this at scale.

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It took me a lifetime of screwing up, burning bridges, and clawing my way through addiction recovery to be able to write this. I’ve seen how people get hooked on hate, because I know what it’s like to need something that’s ruining you.

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As a former high school Policy Debate coach, I’ll say the format sucks, and Ted proves why. Funny thing is, everyone knew Ted was good, but there was a trick. If you hinted he wasn’t smart, he’d lose his cool fast. That was it. Just rattle his ego and he’d spiral. Game over. Round lost.

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Among other things, I’m deliberately running to be the loudest, most unapologetic voice for trans rights in the House, even louder than McBride if I have to be. Not because it’s convenient, but because it’s necessary. No more cocktail party appeasement while people suffer.

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Even after everything Trump has done to Los Angeles and the state of California, Senators @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov voted with Republicans to pass the GENIUS Act, a massive giveaway to the crypto industry and a win for Trump’s most corrupt allies.

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"No necropsies were performed and scientists do not know the whales’ causes of death." Does anyone know the whereabouts of our Secretary of Health and Human Services lately?

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