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SpryOldLorax
@spryoldlorax.bsky.social
I speak for me: a Liberal, a Democrat, & a Sane person who believes in facts, reality, science, healthcare, & civil rights. I fight for a sustainable future.
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Ecosystems: Windows/Android
Languages: English/C#/SQL
Liberal AF
Autistic
Pinned
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
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Damage done.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
February 18, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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You always have something to say about other people. What are you doing about it? 🤡
February 18, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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It is, but not only on FP and NS.

It's also that the left actually has terrible comms and a generally thin understanding of so many other issues and does it show.
AOC’s Munich Stumble Is a Warning to the Left
It’s time for progressives to get more sophisticated about national security and foreign policy.
nymag.com
February 18, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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Total ratfucking op. Karl Rove would be proud.
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FYI "Track Aipac" is a Ron Paul / John McCain supporter who works in the oil industry and whose husband is a military contractor.

Birds of a feather etc.
February 18, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Turn off CNN. Turn off CNBC. Turn off MS NOW. Turn them all off.
The casino-fication of news
New partnerships between the prediction market Kalshi and cable TV networks will transform every news event into a betting opportunity.
popular.info
February 18, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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THERE ARE LITERALLY *THOUSANDS* OF ELECTIONS HAPPENING ***THIS YEAR***

We're not even past the *filing deadlines* for midterms in *2026* much less the *primaries* for them.

PLUS, the *results* of the midterms WILL HEAVILY INFLUENCE WHICH DEMS RUN/NOT RUN FOR POTUS IN 2028 ANYWAY.

Blue26.org
Blue26.org
Not a PAC. Just helping raise money for Democratic candidates to help save democracy.
Blue26.org
February 17, 2026 at 5:08 PM
There's a right way to do business, and a wrong way.

And SO MANY businesses in this country are so deeply invested in the wrong way.
February 18, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Nothing other than saying things. All third party campaigns have been nothing more than sternly worded letters.

She'll wake up form hibernation in 2028, declare another spoiler candidacy and that alone will earn her votes ...somehow.
February 18, 2026 at 6:09 PM
All of this. All of it. This. Right here.
February 18, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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There is a Quaker tradition that prayer is between you and God and should be silent. Public prayer is for the benefit of the ego of mankind, not their relationship to the divine.

The pussy hat style protests are for the benefit of the ego of the participants in much the same way.
February 18, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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February 18, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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This woman is who is needed at this time.
February 18, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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February 18, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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the reason you pre-commit to being part of a voting coalition for another candidate is so that you can convince the other candidates' supporters to be part of your coalition if your candidate wins

I do not understand how this is hard
February 17, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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Check portfolios of guys who shorted the original announcement and went long just before this one.
February 18, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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Well-put. I’ve been saying something similar- these leftists are dopamine addicts, looking for outrage willy-nilly ADHD style. And the grifters take advantage of this, hence the “issue of the week” for them.
February 18, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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February 18, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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"failure of a test"

I'm sorry, *how* was it tested? The last few times Dems lost, leftists spent *years* discussing how they'd never vote Dem.

Fetterman was elected *thanks to the efforts of progressives and leftists*, Platner is getting pushed by progressives, what are you *talking* about?
No, let’s say the quiet part out loud:

Vote Blue, No Matter Who itself has been a failure of a test. Very clearly, we need to better evaluate politicians we’re supporting blindly.

John Fetterman, Graham Platner & his tattoo, Catherine Cortez Masto, Corey Booker, GAVIN NEWSOM?!?

Think! Critically!
Chuck Schumer spectacularly failed the “vote blue no matter who” test and should be hounded from office
February 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Last year in the White House, when Trump tried to intimidate Maine into following his executive order, I fought back, took him to court, and won.

Anyone can talk tough — but I get things done. Watch my new ad:
February 18, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Why are there so many stupid people?
February 18, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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In 2018, Brazil elected a president named Jair Bolsonaro, who attempted the sort of authoritarian power grabs that Trump is currently doing in the United States.

Except, the keyword here is attempted. Unlike in America, Brazil’s Congress and Supreme Court worked to constrain the president. 🧵
February 18, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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They misunderstand the whole point of voting being a shared civic duty. As citizens, it's OUR job to vote for the government we want ~even if that means not getting everything you want.

"Earned votes" is straight up white privilege flowing from white supremacy.

These people are lazy AF, truly.
February 18, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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The thing I constantly have to do is flip the argument around: I'm not sure Trump could have run a *worse* campaign and he *still* got elected. If it's incumbent on Dems to run the most perfect campaign ever or the GOP wins by default no matter what they did, then it's not really about what Dems do.
February 16, 2026 at 7:48 PM