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The U.S. has spent 40 years cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations, all the while disparaging government as a basis for refusing to invest in infrastructure and education.

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 1d

Chinese leadership is composed of engineers who focus on building, while the U.S. leadership is composed of lawyers, who focus on obstruction.

Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau

www.nytimes.com

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 2d

Kinda makes $en$e. A male dominated society building a military installation in the state with the most racists organizations in our country.

Nothing to see here..,

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 3d

The only reason to wear a mask is to hide one’s face. The only reason to hide one’s face is to hide one’s identity. The only reason to hide one’s identity is to act out against society with impunity.

ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

www.nytimes.com

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 2d

Why do you & other billionaires & millionaires need so much money 💰???

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few - or ?

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 2d

Yes - just saw yesterday- it permeates the entire story & echoes from the 70’s through to today.

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 3d

watch of the current administration.

That’s why bandits, Ku Klux Klan members, bank robbers, and terrorists wear masks. That’s why law enforcement in a free state does not.

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 3d

There is an actual problem here. Cartels do retaliate. The mask is intended to prevent the retaliation. There’s some question whether it actually does that. But one thing it certainly does do is embolden the wearers to commit crimes against society with impunity.

That has been happening under the

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 3d

The only reason to wear a mask is to hide one’s face. The only reason to hide one’s face is to hide one’s identity. The only reason to hide one’s identity is to act out against society with impunity.

ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

www.nytimes.com

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 3d

100’s of millions for the military & immigration ops but not a peep 🐥 of help beyond the Army Corp of Engineers clearing debris…

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

It's been over 9 months since the Palisades and Eaton Fires tore through Los Angeles. We asked for federal support, but we haven’t heard a word from the White House.

Not a single offer.

Is this what leadership looks like? Abandoning the American people when they call for help?

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 3d

California vs Texas battling over Prop 50 in the Central California Farm belt.

I read some are fearful of going to vote due to the Supreme Court voting to allow for racial targeting in the name of immigration enforcement.

Just another reason for Mail in voting…………

calmatters.org/politics/202...

Voter turnout is low in this California region, but people are tuning in for the Newsom v. Trump showdown

Most Central Valley voters don’t know the term “Proposition 50.” But they’ll weigh in on whether California should draw new maps to fight Texas’s gerrymander.

calmatters.org

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David Sacerdote @davidsacerdote.bsky.social · 4d

A decade after it was written, I find myself pulling out the @cingraham.bsky.social's gerrymandering explanation to help people understand why California’s Prop. 50 is so important to pass.

wapo.st/3WfcjeB

This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see

By simplifying gerrymandering we see how problematic it really is.

wapo.st

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 3d

I disagree - she should be charged with incompetence & sedition in stead…

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 3d

Racism clear & simple.

MAGA was mad about Critical Race Theory being taught.

It’s now being stomped out by their actions.

Firing blacks in the government.

Deporting browns through terror.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 4d

Ditto!

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 4d

Now!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 4d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Rising Sun NorCal Man @risingsonncalman.bsky.social · 4d

The GOP is responsible for all that has happened.

REDS wanted -
an authoritarian, huge tax cuts to the wealthy, defund everything except the military, a paramilitary force in US cities that don’t follow the constitution,
&don't want health insurance for working Americans.

Blame the Republicans!🗣️

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