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Caitlinannep
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Passionate about digital health, voting rights, and ultimate frisbee
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After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

via @florianederer.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 Go vote Tennessee!
TODAY IS THE DAY!

GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM

WE GOT THIS!!!!!!

December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Trump looked at Mamdani and saw a winner who’s loved by New Yorkers. He wishes that was him.
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Want to learn something interesting about your member of Congress? Watch which ones announce now that they will vote to release the Epstein files next week and which ones are waiting to see whether it’s politically safe for them to oppose child rape. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Epstein files vote happening next week, Johnson says
The speaker said he would move up the timeline after a bipartisan discharge effort succeeded Wednesday.
www.politico.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC.

Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.

Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.

Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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This is a classic form of voter intimidation—making people feel like it’s not safe to go to the polls. It moments like this where we need to summon our courage & vote anyhow. Vote in the tradition of the people who marched in Selma to secure the right to vote.
Breaking from NJ AG Platkin:

"Early this morning, law enforcement responded to threats that were received by email involving certain polling places in Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic Counties. Law enforcement … have worked swiftly to secure these polling locations."
November 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.
October 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Could I just brag about my colleagues for a little bit? In July, librarians at at the University of Minnesota launched Save Our Signs, an effort to preserve interpretive signs at our national parks. So far, they have collected 8,070 images of signs (4 of them my own) from 319 sites!!!
Save Our Signs - Photo Counter
Photo Counter
sites.google.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment.

This is the litmus test.

Learn from history.

Who will step up and fight?

Who will bend the knee and be complicit?

History will remember.
September 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.

Collective boycott.

Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
September 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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“41 states allow permitless open carry, and nearly 30 allow permitless concealed carry. This trajectory leads to a society where firearms could be everywhere, and where neither officers nor ordinary citizens can tell the difference between a law-abiding gun owner and the next shooter.”- Nick Suplina
Opinion | How open carry laws make securing Charlie Kirk-style events more difficult
In open-carry states, police can’t easily distinguish between a person legally carrying a weapon and someone preparing to commit violence.
www.msnbc.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The Best Way To Honor
Those Lost On 9/11 is
To Be The People
We Were on 9/12.
September 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...
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September 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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🚨BREAKING: Both chambers of the California Legislature have passed the bill in support of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting plan. The question will now appear on the special election ballot on November 4, 2025.
August 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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The man who had his doctor report that he’s 6’3”, 238 lbs fired the person in charge of reporting labor statistics.
August 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM