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Deep red Lancaster County PA. #handsoff #handsoffLanco @aclu @meidastouch.com 🌊💪
April 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Learn to protest safely before protests get more dangerous.
If your plans for this weekend involve being outdoors voicing your displeasure with *gestures* the entire situation, just sayin', my colleagues have a guide that you should read.

www.theverge.com/21276979/pho...
How to secure your phone before attending a protest
Here are some privacy measures you can take
www.theverge.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Trump has successfully engineered the March 2020 economy in the absence of a pandemic
checkout line at costco stretches all the way to the back of the store

never seen that before
April 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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The crypto industry pumped $131 million into the 2024 elections. They're counting on the lawmakers they paid for to let them continue their unregulated shady dealings.

Make no mistake: Crypto is a scam.
Own Cryptocurrency? Watch this. | Robert Reich
Celebrities have been shamelessly peddling crypto.In November, Mark Cuban said that Voyager was "as close to risk free as you’re gonna get in the crypto univ...
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November 20, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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A 5-year-old stomped into a restaurant in a princess dress, held up her arms and shouted "I'M HERE." I just hired her to be my life coach.
November 17, 2024 at 4:21 AM
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Yes, this piece by Michael Cohen gets it absolutely right:

"Kamala Harris' campaign didn't ignore the working class"

(uses my reporting on Harris campaign ad spending on economy)

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Kamala Harris’ campaign didn’t ignore working class voters
The Biden administration was staunchly pro-labor, subsidized Obamacare and managed to avoid a recession. But Trump and Republicans sold resentment, and it worked.
www.msnbc.com
November 8, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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With Trump’s return to the White House looming, The Big Picture takes a bold look at how Democrats can prepare to resist a more extreme agenda. This is the groundwork for what comes next—don’t miss it.
Readying the Resistance
A Democratic guide to minimizing harm from the coming Trump term
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November 7, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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Link to the collection: open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Just for Xeets and Giggles (11.02.24)
This last week before Election Day has most of us on edge.
open.substack.com
November 2, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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A reminder that Donald Trump’s father was such a notorious slimeball that Woody Goddamn Guthrie wrote a song trashing him:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jANu...
October 30, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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If Harris wins (and succeeds in assuming the presidency) actions like Bezos and Musk make it clear that the US has to capitalism-proof its democracy.
October 26, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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i will defend anyone's right to cancel a subscription as an act of conscience. that said, this may be relevant to those thinking about it:

wapo news desk was the first to publish that bezos had a direct hand in killing the endorsement, and that's *fucking wild as shit*
October 25, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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Democracy dies in the darkness
October 25, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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i wrote this after trump won in 2016 and if he wins again i might try to publish it again unaltered. that’s especially since in the intervening years quite a few formerly right-leaning commentators have come to agree with its basic message. slate.com/news-and-pol...
There’s No Such Thing as a Good Trump Voter
Donald Trump ran a campaign of racist demagoguery against Muslim Americans, Hispanic immigrants, and black protesters. He indulged the worst instincts...
slate.com
October 25, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Trump’s proposal for mass deportation of immigrants is a moral abomination
October 23, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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Watching Trump tell a Fox News crowd in a black barbershop that it might be possible to end the income tax, after promising to get rid of trillions and other taxes, and keep thinking of this FDR 1936 line. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb-7...
FDR mocks Republican promises.
YouTube video by brainchopper
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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Jesus Christ, look at the time!
September 22, 2024 at 6:08 AM