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WMOT Roots Radio Executive Director, First Amendment advocate, recovering journalist. Listen to your public radio station and spread kindness!
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When you can’t legislate you write an executive order that will be overturned in court or changed with a stroke of the pen. Legislation is hard work but it’s what our built our country.

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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

submitted 5 days ago • 3350 comments

Feeding children seems like a baseline for a democracy but not under FOTUS and Musk.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The word radical when referring to democrats seems to be code for caring about other people. The baseline for Christianity is caring for others. There is nothing radical about wanting everyone to be well. Make it make sense.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Just spitballing here but if immigration is the BIGGEST threat to the U.S. why isn’t the guy in the White House and the GOP working on immigration reform? You know, actual laws and policies? Anyone?

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Today is Protect My Public Media Day, make your voice heard! If you value NPR and PBS visit protectmypublicmedia.org and take part.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Jess is spot on, the GOP is curating an economic crash so their wealthy donors can buy our country’s assets for pennies on the dollar.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

@slotkin.senate.gov was fantastic in rebuttal last night. If you haven’t watched do it now!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

submitted 23 days ago • 3206 comments

Smallest man in the world.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I’m participating in the economic blackout tomorrow and I hope you will too. The only thing I’m buying is lunch at and independent music venue!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Just an FYI: Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO's that administer Medicaid. For example: when a doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator takes a cut.

submitted 26 days ago • 1140 comments

Totally absurd

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submitted 28 days ago • 75 comments

When it’s all performative…

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If Russia ceases combat operations, the war is over. If Ukraine ceases combat operations, Ukraine is over

submitted 28 days ago • 319 comments

You cannot be pro-Trump and pro-democracy at the same time.

submitted 28 days ago • 296 comments

As Musk gathers our vital information I wonder just what the real motive is…he now has the ability to hold every American citizen hostage.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

True words.

submitted 35 days ago • 547 comments

This is no normal fight, democrats have to stop being stoic in get into asks-kicking mode.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Keep calling out the lies

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Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

submitted 54 days ago • 1025 comments

Keep up the resistance! These EOs are trial balloons to see how the public reacts and what they can get away with.

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100 percent folks.

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Freezing federal grants will severely impact our state universities. Research, Pell grants, Federal Student Work programs are all threatened. In this age we need a more educated workforce. The 2025 policies driving this are a threat to our universities and our economy.

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STFU about California! Red states get the most FEMA funding. 📌 Florida, Louisiana, and Texas receive the most FEMA dollars: from 2015 to August 2024—Florida received $2.5 billion, Louisiana $2.4 billion, and Texas $2.3 billion. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

submitted 59 days ago • 196 comments

This right here is our biggest threat…normalizing Nazis: The Tennessee Federation of Republican Women is coming under fire for providing parents a reading list for children that cites Adolf Hitler as an example of leadership. www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ja...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

I live in Nashville where we had a school shooting on Wednesday. Parents are outraged that our legislators have done nothing since the last school shooting two years ago. Republicans have a super majority because they’ve gerrymandered our voting districts. Republicans own these children’s deaths.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

I doubt Americans who voted for TFG knew how immoral he and his minions are…because they are not engaged citizens. I have zero respect for people who say they don’t pay attention to politics but voted for TFG because he’s a businessman.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

TFG and his evil minions just cut the budget of the CDC from $344 million to $12 million. As the flu season, Covid, bird flu is all on the rise we cut the budget and direct the CDC employees not to communicate with the public. Ideology over science always works out.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

How much is hate worth? Is it worth your parents health? Is it worth the death of a friend or co-worker who chooses to take less than the prescribed medication to cut costs?

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Meta appears to have automatically added TFG and VP to our feeds. However they ended up there, I unfollowed and blocked on both FB and IG. I can do without the propaganda.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Renewing Rolling Stone…cancelled Washington Post. Truth matters. Perspective matters.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Who made this 🤣

submitted 62 days ago • 712 comments

My predictions for related to the executive orders/pardons: 1-Amazon will exclusively offer insulin and other medications whose prices were capped for $45 because of a deal with the First Felon 2-A J6 criminal will do something truly heinous. 3-The WHO move is a test case for next steps

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CA attorney Mark Lemley dropped Meta Platforms Inc. as a client in a high-profile copyright case because of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” adding he “cannot in good conscience serve as their lawyer any longer.” news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-...

submitted 68 days ago • 12 comments