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Shawn Clark
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46yo father of 3 girls: 6, 5, & 2yo.
Husband to an inspirational HS Eng. teacher.
Phys.Ther.Asst.: Corr./Rehab Exercise
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Comically bad gardener.
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Pay attention.
The Venezuelan military says it has raised its alert level following the discovery of an alleged U.S. plot to fabricate an incident at an ExxonMobil offshore platform in the contested waters between Venezuela and Guyana to justify an armed conflict.
Venezuelan military on alert, says it fears US will use tensions with Guyana to invade
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April 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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“America First is fine.”

Is it, though?
March 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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March 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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March 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This has been my belief since November. Something is rotten and has been for a while.
I've spoken with a state official who agrees, and said that behind closed doors, most everyone knows that there's been some fuckery, but don't want to be painted as "election deniers."
The ballot won't fix this.
Very much agree. Plus: Even if America does have "free and fair" elections (big if!), what will the role of Congress be 18 months from now, as the Trumpists continue to centralize power with the executive? And what will even be left of the government as the Trumpists are ravaging state capacity?
The problem isn't that Democrats aren't being outraged enough. The problem is that the debate about tactics remains premised on the notion that 2026 and 2028 will have "normal" elections—the kind which OECD election monitors would describe as mostly "free and fair."
March 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A Rally where two men were needlessly killed during a set up to attempt to boost your ratings before the election.
March 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Fascism is unsustainable. It is inherently built to fail, despite what its leaders want you to think.

The bigger question is not whether it will stand. It is: can we hurry its demise? Limit its danger to the vulnerable?

And just as important: what will we build after?
March 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Curtis Yarvin wrote that “as the crappy govts we inherited … are smashed, they shld be replaced by a global spiderweb of…independent mini-countries, each governed by its own…corporation w/o regard to the residents’ opinions.” This reminds me of DOGE, “Network States,” & “Freedom Cities.” You? 1/
March 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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On days like today, remember one thing:

Regular folks can lose their shirts when the stock market tanks — at the very same time that wealthy investors know how to make money hand over fist.
March 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Trump: "We brought back free speech in America. Free speech."

This is a flagrant lie. Today he told universities they would be punished if they allowed protests of or criticisms of Israel, a clear violation of the First Amendment.
March 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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38,000 workers didn’t die building the Panama Canal, and the 5,000 who did die were almost all Afro-Caribbean workers who toiled in segregated conditions under white American supervisors.
March 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.
March 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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So much winning
Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.
March 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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TFW Led Zeppelin thinks you suck for appropriating others’ art.
March 4, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Tariffs tomorrow. K-infused Kremlin sycophant slowly melting the country that my family fought to build (I can trace to 1638 MA).
It'll be rainy & muddy tomorrow in Ypsilanti.
My ass-hat bro-n-law told my wife (pub. school teacher) that gov't should be "run like a business."
Worst Mardi Gras ever.
March 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Hey all my (mostly bot) followers! Have a read.
(🧵) How Elon Musk betrayed America: a thread from a Musk biographer and former federal criminal investigator.

Please share widely, here and elsewhere. This will be long.

Author bio: www.sethabramson.net/bio
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March 4, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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February 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Hold up, what?
February 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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On behalf of many Americans, don’t thank us we THANK YOU Ukraine for your work.
February 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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The Zelinski photo bomb we really want
February 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine
February 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Zelenky stood in front of the American government, in the seat of our democracy, and thanked our entire nation. Every farmer, teacher, engineer, nurse, and cop. Thanked us on behalf of his entire country. youtu.be/7gjwlCe5T6M?...
Watch Zelenskyy's Full Address To Congress
YouTube video by NBC News
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February 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM