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mariedj.bsky.social
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Fire his ass

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"It is going to take a lot of organizing, and .. a lot of mass communications, and .. the creation of political coalitions between groups that do not care for one another, and it is going to take a level of bravery and resoluteness from the Democratic Party that they have not yet displayed."

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Hooray!!

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Courage and clarity

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tl;dr fafo "[There is consensus in Congress that Putin is a war criminal, NATO is critical to security, and the US has led the common defense. But Republicans backed a presidential candidate and confirmed key cabinet officials who do not accept those realities.]" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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tl;dr fafo "One of the less frequently noticed luxuries of the postwar liberal order was the licence to be a fool." www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

submitted 3 days ago • 841 comments

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

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When **Steve Bannon** thinks you've gone too far... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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If you had told me ten years ago that I was about to live through the election of a narcissistic second-tier reality show host, a global pandemic, and then a coup orchestrated by the same reality show host and the South African dude who took credit for Tesla, I would have said you were shitting me.

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@rbhubbell.bsky.social Now seems like a good time to impeach and remove trump and vance open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...

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@hcrichardson.bsky.social lays out for posterity our move towards becoming a Russian puppet state. It defies imagination that this could be happening, but here it is - a betrayal of everything we have done to build democracy and international alliances in the West since World War II.

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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Essential clarification. Musk is not "saving" one thin dime for any working class American. Any so-called savings is actually stealing civil service jobs, in order to take away essential services and programs from the American people, and putting money into his own pockets & those of other oligarchs

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"Their jobs ensuring clean water, ensuring you get your tax refund, ..the electric grid is functioning, ..your food is safe, ..lifesaving research continues, ..our precious ecosystems are not irreparably harmed, ..children with special needs receive the education they deserve..."

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Bingo! That's why #2 on my Top Priorities for Democracy list is "Get big money out of politics." bsky.app/profile/mari...

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We are so completely in the upside down now

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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

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Excellent and compassionate advice from a family farmer to rural Trump voters: "You were lied to." www.tiktok.com/@westmorelan...

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