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MKSutherland
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.
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Need dose of hope?
Read this by @matthewjdowd.bsky.social !

"Large protests like the No Kings gatherings are a canary in the coal mine of what is ahead...poll after poll shows a vast majority of Americans agree w/message of No Kings & believe Trump is an authoritarian.
“Rally today, vote in 2026.”"
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Illinois just earned its 10th credit rating upgrade since I took office.

Balanced budgets, paid-down debt, and a record rainy-day fund — that’s responsible leadership.
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NEW: Colorado AG and gubernatorial candidate Phil Weiser (D) tells 9NEWS he supports Colorado redrawing House maps to create new Dem seats to offset Republican redistricting in red states. Weiser is the most prominent Colo. Democrat to sign on to the effort. #copolitics
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Those who'd sneer at outrage over the White House fancy themselves slick. Ears to the ground. They don't concern themselves with frippery when there's a war to be won. Well they don't know a goddamn thing. Symbols are powerful, and politics is a game of using them to your advantage.
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I heard that the toilet boat man told Trumpy we have had enough shit from you
Add this to the unforgettable…
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Alex Jones’s InfoWars is now part of the new Pentagon Press Corps.
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🇩🇪🇺🇦”Side by side - as long as it takes.”

-Friedrich Merz
Chancellor of Germany
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They celebrate punching down. Gleeful when people in desperate circumstances get deported.

We can support border security and the law without getting off on the misery of others.
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I am increasingly concerned that we do not have a clear eyed understanding of how bad things are about to become with SNAP (and WIC?) benefits disappearing in 8 days. Our neighbors who rely on SNAP are food insecure *with* it. Without it, we are heading into a true crisis.
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ah but i was told the administration would be good on antitrust
Not simply fascism. Monarchism.
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“.. on Tuesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation demanded that the White House pause the demolition and submit the ballroom plans to ‘the legally required public review process.’ But it takes almost no time to reduce history to rubble ..”

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost
Trump raises the price of the ballroom to $350 million

(It changed from $200 million, then $300 million, now $350 million within the course of a few days)
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“.. Villagers said the corpse had burn marks on its face and was missing limbs, as if it had been mangled by an explosion.

.. Who were they? Did a U.S. strike kill them? Will more bodies appear on Trinidad’s beaches?”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...
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Pritzker on Fox on ICE agents: "The problem is, who's holding the bad ones accountable? Because the bad ones, frankly, are the ones we're seeing all the time."
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Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
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Pritzker on Fox: "He's challenging the integrity of the next election by sending troops into our cities. It isn't about fighting crime. He said he's going after the worst of the worst. That's not what they're doing. They are literally after black and brown people because of the color of their skin."
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You should checkout his Arlington National Trump Golf Course!
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Sooooo, like lots of folks who got laid off bc of DJT, I'm still looking for work. Suboptimal!

And so! If you're looking for an excellent progressive writer with years of experience reporting, analyzing, & contextualizing the news under her own byline + as a comms writer w/ progressive causes, hmu!
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