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Today is proof that something be completely predictable AND totally unbelievable!

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Tomorrow is Gun Violence Awareness Day.

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A+ for Tim!

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Tonight Dems SHOULD wear BLACK! When rump begins WALK OUT! Go to the Rotunda, stand as a group and have CrocketMurphyGarciaMoscowitz speak about the destructiveness of Donald and the cowardly republicans. Call it, “AN INTERVENTION FOR DEMOCRACY”! Ffs get some union organizers to help!

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I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

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History really never says goodbye. History says, “See you later.”- Galeano

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If it walks like a …

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We have reached new levels of madness when an unelected, non senate-confirmed private citizen is overseeing an effort to overhaul or possibly end a congresionally mandated arm of our government. This is real trouble for the separation of powers, and with it, our basic democratic institutions.

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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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This is tariffying!

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Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

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All that bootlicking and the New York Times still got kicked out of their Pentagon office.

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"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

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Gavin is more than okay!

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Checking in on our government!

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Snyder’s piece provides interesting historical context.

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Feel like your latest raise is already spoken for?

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