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I'm a leftie in the US, hand kind and politic kind. {Placeholder:Something thought provoking, funny and profound, but also heartwarming and disarming, but also keep it fresh and funky}
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As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”

Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Just saw an ad for the latest Percy Jackson show and I'm convinced there will never be a way to make a person into a cyclops that doesn't look absolutely ridiculous
December 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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what left victories in local elections can mean: local officials in different cities feeling empowered by each other boltsmag.org/new-jersey-c...
Jake Ephros, who prevailed in a city council race with support from Democratic Socialists for America, told Bolts that civilian oversight of police “is critical” for Jersey City and plans to keep pushing for stronger accountability regardless of state officials’ current positions. “I have no illusions that we’re gonna have anything like a cake walk in terms of putting forward all of the changes and all the transformative reforms that we need and that we deserve,” he said. “But there’s a lot of opportunity right now to make those upward pushes. And regardless of who’s sitting in which offices we need the movement, we need the grassroots organizing.” Edwards, the Trenton city councilor, hopes that state officials will take notice if the number of city leaders in the fight for police accountability in New Jersey grows. “If enough municipalities are having issues, we can show the state that this is something that is needed,” Edwards told Bolts. “These things happen on a local level.”
December 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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My wife is reading "Atomic Habits" by James Clear, which I assume is the tragic tale of a bunch of nuns exposed to radiation
January 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM