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Left the bad place; here’s to the good. Daughter, sister, auntie, friend, aspiring photographer, dog mom, library card ninja. Saving democracy would be so cool.
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Merry Christmas! Today, we Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus. Born into poverty to teach us to help those in need, into a family of migrants forced to flee an oppressive govt & murderous king. Remember the millions of ppl worldwide fleeing disaster and oppression They deserve our compassion.

🚨NEW on CNN: Audio and video we uncovered show Vivek Ramaswamy spent years attacking his DOGE partner Elon Musk as a puppet of China. Calling him “in China’s pocket,” “bending the knee to Xi Jinping,” and jumping “like a circus monkey” to get favors for business in China. www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/p...

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

Dems beat Trump by a lot more in 2020 than he beat us in 2024, and the GOP didn't hand-wring about the need to find common ground with us. They treated us like enemies of the entire country and a critical mass of voters were convinced. "We need to compromise and accommodate" is not the lesson here.

I've finally followed 69k of you back. Maybe I'll have time to actually post some now lol. Anyway, if you went out of your way to find me on here, go ahead and subscribe to our podcast. It's free. YouTube ▶️: youtube.com/@pardonthein... 🍎 Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

THE CORRUPT BARGAIN Trump and Netanyahu had ILLEGAL summit at Mar-a-Lago. Bibi promised to withhold cease fire deal, to help Trump. In return, Trump promised Bibi greenlight to attack. PBS reported this. Israeli media has reported this. This should be an international SCANDAL.

Hello Bluesky! Just joined. Say hi to my girl...