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Martha Smith
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She/her. Knitter, mom to one human, gramma to two cats. Lifelong Democratic worker bee, looking for a bit of a rest … but now doesn’t seem like the time. #Minterland 📍Corvallis, OR
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A bit irreverent, I know, but my attitude hasn’t changed.
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Trump is complaining about the Mar-a-Lago raid that uncovered sensitive government documents stacked next to his toilet, and our CBS interviewer can’t muster the slightest pushback.

www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...
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Quoting again to add:

And we're supposed to "work across the aisle" with these people? People who think this? Of ordinary, hardworking Americans like you and me?

Fuck no. They must be expunged, excised, extirpated, exorcised, expurgated, expelled. Not "made nice" with
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
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Add this to the stack of mounting evidence that the U.S. is sliding towards economic collapse.

We’re flying blind right now but the numbers are bad. Depression era bad.
THE U.S. HOUSING MARKET IS OFFICIALLY FROZEN SOLID. ONLY 2.8% OF HOMES — ABOUT 28 OUT OF EVERY 1,000 — CHANGED HANDS IN THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF 2025, THE LOWEST TURNOVER IN AT LEAST 30 YEARS (REDFIN).
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He feels badly for ex-Prince Andrew and his family.

Not for the raped children.

Because Trump fundamentally doesn't feel that Epstein and his crew did anything wrong.

In Trump's mind, men are entitled to the body of young girls.
Trump on Prince Andrew and the Epstein scandal: "I feel very badly. I mean, it's a terrible thing that's happened to the family. That's been a tragic situation. And it's too bad. I feel badly for the family."
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Brody 🦮
Adult male Golden Retriever mix
Adoptable from Golden Retriever Club of Greater Los Angeles Rescue (Los Angeles, CA)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/brody-79136985/ca/los-angeles/golden-retriever-club-of-greater-los-angeles-rescue-ca374/
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WHO IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF
THE PRESIDENCY???

#WITAOTP
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
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...Meanwhile, Trump's characterization of his lawsuit against CBS is utterly false, which is something you'd hope that a highly paid news personality from that same network would be willing to mention.

Instead, Norah O'Donnell just wants to move on
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Wait till they find out that the real threat to kids on Halloween is all the cars that are getting way more priority than the safety of our kids.
My sister-in-law forwarded (in a “Get a load of this shit” way) a post from the local FB moms group, lamenting that there were NO sites set up to get your kids’ Halloween candy X-rayed.

Someone replied, “I’ve lived in nine states and have never heard of this.”

The OP: “Sad.”
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Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.
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it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
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This is for Texas but I hope y’all are paying attention to Friday, November 7th because SCOTUS is going to rule on same sex marriages for all Americans.

This is the kind of thing the far left could’t be bothered with caring about in 2016 & 2024.

Those folks aren’t
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Religious Liberty Win: Texas Judges Free To Refuse Gay Marriages
Texas Supreme Court unanimously updates ethics rules, allowing judges to decline same-sex marriages due to sincere religious beliefs.
www.yahoo.com
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Don’t take it from me, listen to Snopes! Speaker Johnson signed a bill to cut $186 billion from SNAP. And again, it’s HIS party that won’t help millions of Americans put food on the table this month.
House Speaker Mike Johnson signed bill cutting $186B from SNAP in July 2025
Users shared this true claim amid uncertainty regarding whether Americans would receive federal food benefits during the 2025 government shutdown.
www.snopes.com
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Newsom: "This is a historically unpopular president. His policies are even more unpopular than him. In every core category he's underwater. He who promised to make us healthier & wealthier & we're poorer and sicker ... He knows he's lose midterms so he's trying to rig it before 1 vote is cast"
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Democrats: Work with us to save the ACA tax credits and stop premiums from skyrocketing. 
 
Republicans: What if we made the problem worse?
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Cruelty is the feature, not the bug.
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
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Republicans have shown they’d rather keep the government shut for WEEKS than work with us to lower your health care costs.
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A friend of mine-the smartest legislative strategist I know- absolutely believes this
Is it possible Trump simply doesn't want the government open, period, and has no intention of trying to open it back up at all?
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Ken Burns "shows that, just like in rock, jazz and pop, every facet of country...is indebted to African and African-American traditions, but commercial decisions by white industry executives led to their exclusion from the genre for decades." time.com/5673476/ken-...
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Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."
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Democrats are expected to provide think tank level policy proposals for every societal ill under the sun (fully paid for too, natch!!) while Republicans are just like "we'll figure something out" and the media nods along.🙃
Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Republicans' healthcare plan: "The plan is to come up with something better."
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Here are my three truths about climate:
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
www.gatesnotes.com