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Retired 6th grade spelling bee champion. "Sometimes you have to roll a hard six."
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

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DOGE announces 30% reduction of Verrazzano Bridge. #NY-11 town halls on hold out of an abundance of caution

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yeah man there are consequences to putting a deranged old man in the white house

submitted 34 days ago • 148 comments

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 34 days ago • 2327 comments

Accommodation and acquiescence. Learned helplessness and preemptive surrender. Retreat and complicity. In the midst of an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, the nominal opposition party simply refuses to use the one key tool in its arsenal to push back. An utter disaster.

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If you think using the R-word is cool then you’re in the same company as Elon Musk’s Mom and that should really give you pause

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If you see this, quote post with a photo you took of a sunset

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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

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I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history. How fucking dare they Old vs. new

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When reached for comment, Daniel Jones said,

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In a better world these pigeons would clean up after their dogs.

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After a few decades of searching, I finally found the end of the rainbow and wow was it disappointing

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