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BET: you have very good sarcasm skills, eema.
#parentingawards
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I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.
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If your company has a subscription, urge them to cancel it.
Lite secret about legacy newspapers & subscriptions: the Washington Post & the New York Times for decades didn’t care about consumer subscriptions cancellations because they were almost entirely profitable because of CORPORATE subscriptions. That was the stable money in subscriptions
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Yep.
The way we avoid having to do all of this again in 8 or 12 or 16 or 24 years is by imprinting a generational memory of, "oh, the last time they did that, all of the top guys - I mean, the ones who survived - went to prison for the rest of their lives, and had their property seized."
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A lot of folks may think that just yelling at ICE agents is ineffective, but consider the cumulative psychological toll of being yelled at EVERY DAY when trying to do shit. Even the biggest asshole in the world who doesn't give a shit about other people will feel the pressure.
More from the scene
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It’s that they think nothing should be illegal unless it’s shoplifting or fair evasion, in which case: shot on sight
Genuine checking-my-own-biases question:

Feel like elite-school prof op-eds are always “here’s why this far right winger is good for liberals” or “Trump actually is a king.”

Is that right? Or is it just saliency (they stick in my mind)? Or availability (sane op-eds get ignored, bad hate-reposted)?
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After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.

The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.
FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun
After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.
idahocapitalsun.com
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Oh so now liberals think it should be illegal and consider it Politically Incorrect for Mr. Trump to set the the White House on fire
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Cuomo has went all in on the anti Arab and anti Muslim rhetoric and decided to laugh along to a "Mamdani would support 9/11" joke.
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Everyone said the Massachusetts millionaires tax would result in them all fleeing. That’s proved to be demonstrably false.
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As I keep saying: democrats must show that if returned to power, they will actually fix things.
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Andrew Cuomo has wielded the law to silence the women he sexually harassed. We brought their words to life on their behalf ⤵️
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If I had a dollar for every time a woman has been told since ca. 1985 that sexual harassment is just what you have to deal with when you start work, I would be rich enough to stop working.
Yes, this is absolutely something men in my family have said, and was my father's own approximate response when I complained about being sexually harrassed.
I’m sorry does that mean Cuomo thinks the women he victimized should just accept what he did as the ‘mature’ thing?
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I’m sorry does that mean Cuomo thinks the women he victimized should just accept what he did as the ‘mature’ thing?
wow. zohran brought one of cuomo’s accusers, charlotte bennett, to the mayoral debate. he asked cuomo what he would say to his 13 accusers of sexual harassment. cuomo said it takes “a certain level of maturity to work in government” and that the cases were resolved anyway. fucking scum.
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...because I think they need to get fucking pushback that they cannot just fund quasi-governmental actions and get bribery kickbacks for doing so, or they will start doing worse things.
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“Every company involved in this illegal activity will be prosecuted.”
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Get on the offensive. Tell Americans that when we win, there are ways to actually fix things and build the political will to do it.
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“We will rebuild the White House as it was and pay for it by seizing assets from Trump, the Trump Organization, and his family.”
None of this is legal! People are choosing to break the law! Other people are choosing not to hold them accountable! What the fuck!!!
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I keep thinking about this with all the different fundraisers and mutual aid organizing leading up to the SNAP cuts; I am still paying for it, but it's a lot less effective than when the govt pooled everyone's money into one place
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“Free, free, free, but you the taxpayer are going to pay for it”

Yes. That is what I am doing now. Inefficiently. I’m pulling that money out of my pocket and paying for it. I would much prefer the money I pay to New York’s government to be spent on it instead.
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ppl are bringing up food banks and yea absolutely you should give generously to food banks and panhandlers but like you cant mutual aid state capacity. If every food bank in the us got their annual revenue already, saved 100% of it, and no overhead besides food they might be able to provide 2 months
40 odd million people use SNAP. 7 million WIC. food banks are already way down because of funding cuts. It’s going to be catastrophic
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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One of perverse dynamics of Trumpism, how a frequently toadyish establishment press undergirds a system in which Trumpists regularly accuse Democrats of being “the Nazis” and we have frequent revelations in which Trump insiders tell each other “we’re the Nazis”