Oakland Toots
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Oakland, baby
January 10, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Oakland, baby
Look, it’s always all so fucking grim, but it matters to me that (a) she’s so normal looking and he’s cosplaying as tough and (b) that smile tells me she’d vote to just do the good thing.
The MAGA regime is currently doubling down on its tactical stance of “we will kill women like dogs for merely displeasing us.”
January 10, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Look, it’s always all so fucking grim, but it matters to me that (a) she’s so normal looking and he’s cosplaying as tough and (b) that smile tells me she’d vote to just do the good thing.
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BREAKING: Indivisible and a broad coalition of groups across the country are calling for a coordinated ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action this Saturday and Sunday to demand accountability, honor the life lost, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s actions.
January 9, 2026 at 1:56 AM
BREAKING: Indivisible and a broad coalition of groups across the country are calling for a coordinated ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action this Saturday and Sunday to demand accountability, honor the life lost, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s actions.
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This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.
Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM
This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.
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Shut the fucking government down, Chuck.
January 8, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Shut the fucking government down, Chuck.
I called both senators and my congresswoman and asked them to impeach, remove, and shut down the government. To do everything they can to grind this government to a halt.
January 7, 2026 at 8:59 PM
I called both senators and my congresswoman and asked them to impeach, remove, and shut down the government. To do everything they can to grind this government to a halt.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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You either charge a murder or you don’t.
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
You either charge a murder or you don’t.
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Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
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The message here should be “we want the shooter.”
Minneapolis mayor is "demanding ICE to leave the city immediately."
January 7, 2026 at 5:37 PM
The message here should be “we want the shooter.”
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five years ago the president of the united states incited an insurrection in order to try to retain power and it is a comprehensive failure at every level - media, law enforcement, courts, politicians and most of all the voters - that he has returned to power and threatens the stability of the world
January 6, 2026 at 4:25 PM
five years ago the president of the united states incited an insurrection in order to try to retain power and it is a comprehensive failure at every level - media, law enforcement, courts, politicians and most of all the voters - that he has returned to power and threatens the stability of the world
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this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
This is the platform.
The fight for an affordable future is ultimately a fight for freedom. Among the issues on my Freedom Agenda:
☑️ Medicare for All
☑️ Tax the billionaires
☑️ Impeachment
☑️ Supreme Court reform
☑️ Universal child care
☑️ Constitutional reform
... and more.
☑️ Medicare for All
☑️ Tax the billionaires
☑️ Impeachment
☑️ Supreme Court reform
☑️ Universal child care
☑️ Constitutional reform
... and more.
January 5, 2026 at 6:32 PM
This is the platform.
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The fight for an affordable future is ultimately a fight for freedom. Among the issues on my Freedom Agenda:
☑️ Medicare for All
☑️ Tax the billionaires
☑️ Impeachment
☑️ Supreme Court reform
☑️ Universal child care
☑️ Constitutional reform
... and more.
☑️ Medicare for All
☑️ Tax the billionaires
☑️ Impeachment
☑️ Supreme Court reform
☑️ Universal child care
☑️ Constitutional reform
... and more.
January 5, 2026 at 2:51 PM
The fight for an affordable future is ultimately a fight for freedom. Among the issues on my Freedom Agenda:
☑️ Medicare for All
☑️ Tax the billionaires
☑️ Impeachment
☑️ Supreme Court reform
☑️ Universal child care
☑️ Constitutional reform
... and more.
☑️ Medicare for All
☑️ Tax the billionaires
☑️ Impeachment
☑️ Supreme Court reform
☑️ Universal child care
☑️ Constitutional reform
... and more.
Yeah, so it really doesn’t matter if Maduro was bad because he isn’t the only one paying a price for Republican bloodlust and adventuring.
NYT:
At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.
At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.
January 4, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Yeah, so it really doesn’t matter if Maduro was bad because he isn’t the only one paying a price for Republican bloodlust and adventuring.
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Refusal to act because it won't pass is surrender and the only way something can go from unlikely to likely is if you're out there building support for it.
It just shows a fundamental lack of understanding. You don't wait until the wind is at your back to think about acting.
It just shows a fundamental lack of understanding. You don't wait until the wind is at your back to think about acting.
Yes because we don’t have the votes we should just let these fucking thugs continue to rip up our constitution
You know what it takes to impeach/remove someone, right? I'm optimistic about 2026, but I'm not delusional....
January 3, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Refusal to act because it won't pass is surrender and the only way something can go from unlikely to likely is if you're out there building support for it.
It just shows a fundamental lack of understanding. You don't wait until the wind is at your back to think about acting.
It just shows a fundamental lack of understanding. You don't wait until the wind is at your back to think about acting.
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Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies.
Full statement below:
Full statement below:
January 3, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies.
Full statement below:
Full statement below:
I’m going to write up template articles of impeachment and repost them every few days with new charges put in and forward to all these lazy, useless fucks in Congress.
January 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
I’m going to write up template articles of impeachment and repost them every few days with new charges put in and forward to all these lazy, useless fucks in Congress.
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it's not hard to understand that dem leadership has no ability to check these acts *and* that jeffries has yet again demonstrated he is not an actual leader
January 3, 2026 at 6:56 PM
it's not hard to understand that dem leadership has no ability to check these acts *and* that jeffries has yet again demonstrated he is not an actual leader
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Congress must reassert its Constitutional power to declare war and reign in this Administration.
We must use every tool to hold this President accountable and to defend the principle that in the U.S., we do not let one man choose war.
We must use every tool to hold this President accountable and to defend the principle that in the U.S., we do not let one man choose war.
January 3, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Congress must reassert its Constitutional power to declare war and reign in this Administration.
We must use every tool to hold this President accountable and to defend the principle that in the U.S., we do not let one man choose war.
We must use every tool to hold this President accountable and to defend the principle that in the U.S., we do not let one man choose war.
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Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
January 3, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
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it's darkly humorous to listen to Trump and his cronies reference the fact that Maduro was indicted in SDNY as evidence he's a dictator and overall bad guy
January 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
it's darkly humorous to listen to Trump and his cronies reference the fact that Maduro was indicted in SDNY as evidence he's a dictator and overall bad guy
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@schiff.senate.gov do you want to get some coworkers together and talk about how your little group is supposed to approve acts of war, like, constitutionally? I can’t wait to hear about your support for articles of impeachment when I call your office tomorrow.
January 3, 2026 at 7:06 AM
@schiff.senate.gov do you want to get some coworkers together and talk about how your little group is supposed to approve acts of war, like, constitutionally? I can’t wait to hear about your support for articles of impeachment when I call your office tomorrow.