Veltoss
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Michelle Obama: Kids should have nutritious meals.
The pro-life party: This is an outrage!
RFK Jr: Kids should have measles, mumps, and polio.
The pro-life party: Yes, king! Tell it like it is!
The pro-life party: This is an outrage!
RFK Jr: Kids should have measles, mumps, and polio.
The pro-life party: Yes, king! Tell it like it is!
March 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Michelle Obama: Kids should have nutritious meals.
The pro-life party: This is an outrage!
RFK Jr: Kids should have measles, mumps, and polio.
The pro-life party: Yes, king! Tell it like it is!
The pro-life party: This is an outrage!
RFK Jr: Kids should have measles, mumps, and polio.
The pro-life party: Yes, king! Tell it like it is!
It's our duty not just to push back against Republican lies but also against the apathy and misinformation harming the left.
Push back against those who discourage resistance and protests. Give them the facts and historical examples they need to wake back up.
#protest #protests #resist #fdt
Push back against those who discourage resistance and protests. Give them the facts and historical examples they need to wake back up.
#protest #protests #resist #fdt
February 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.
February 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.
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of all the many terrible things that seem to be afflicting the public, the prevalence of defeatist mindsets with zero capacity for creative problem solving (or indeed the unwillingness to even *imagine* possible solutions to problems) might be the thing which freaks me out most.
Electricity generation has always felt like an impossible engineering problem. Demand has to match supply - yet we managed that with ancient, all-analog equipment for over a century.
Now we have so many more tools at our disposal. Why should this be hard?
Now we have so many more tools at our disposal. Why should this be hard?
February 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
of all the many terrible things that seem to be afflicting the public, the prevalence of defeatist mindsets with zero capacity for creative problem solving (or indeed the unwillingness to even *imagine* possible solutions to problems) might be the thing which freaks me out most.
Push back against all the people who are discouraging protests and act like they don't achieve anything. Apathy is how fascism wins. Explain to people why protests matter and how they have affected you.
#protest #50501protests
#protest #50501protests
February 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Push back against all the people who are discouraging protests and act like they don't achieve anything. Apathy is how fascism wins. Explain to people why protests matter and how they have affected you.
#protest #50501protests
#protest #50501protests
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Pictured: Rep. Andrew Clyde witnessing President Trump's "outside the box" thinking on January 6th.
February 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Pictured: Rep. Andrew Clyde witnessing President Trump's "outside the box" thinking on January 6th.
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Pete Hegseth apparently uploaded his phone contacts into Venmo, where they show up publicly as “friends.” He sure has a lot of contacts at UnitedHealth and at a Koch advocacy group that wants to privatize the VA.
prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org/politics/202...
Pete Hegseth’s Venmo: Defense Contractors, UnitedHealth Execs, Fox, and Friends
The VA may be the next government agency to go dark, if Pete Hegseth’s digital Rolodex is anything to go by.
prospect.org
February 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Pete Hegseth apparently uploaded his phone contacts into Venmo, where they show up publicly as “friends.” He sure has a lot of contacts at UnitedHealth and at a Koch advocacy group that wants to privatize the VA.
prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org/politics/202...
Did not see or hear a single MAGA person at the Indianapolis protest today. No yelling out windows or flipping people off, no counter protesters.
Their morale is clearly down hard. Maybe Trump really can destroy his own cult with his own stupidity and inconsistency.
#50501protest #trump
Their morale is clearly down hard. Maybe Trump really can destroy his own cult with his own stupidity and inconsistency.
#50501protest #trump
February 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Did not see or hear a single MAGA person at the Indianapolis protest today. No yelling out windows or flipping people off, no counter protesters.
Their morale is clearly down hard. Maybe Trump really can destroy his own cult with his own stupidity and inconsistency.
#50501protest #trump
Their morale is clearly down hard. Maybe Trump really can destroy his own cult with his own stupidity and inconsistency.
#50501protest #trump
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Incredible turnout in Indianapolis for the #50501Protest 🙌
Even the icy rain didn’t stop hundreds of people from coming out to protest #ICE #Musk #Trump and KKK
It was absolutely amazing 🙌✌️💙
Thanks for turning up #Hoosiersky
Let’s GO!
Even the icy rain didn’t stop hundreds of people from coming out to protest #ICE #Musk #Trump and KKK
It was absolutely amazing 🙌✌️💙
Thanks for turning up #Hoosiersky
Let’s GO!
February 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Incredible turnout in Indianapolis for the #50501Protest 🙌
Even the icy rain didn’t stop hundreds of people from coming out to protest #ICE #Musk #Trump and KKK
It was absolutely amazing 🙌✌️💙
Thanks for turning up #Hoosiersky
Let’s GO!
Even the icy rain didn’t stop hundreds of people from coming out to protest #ICE #Musk #Trump and KKK
It was absolutely amazing 🙌✌️💙
Thanks for turning up #Hoosiersky
Let’s GO!
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UPDATE: Trump said he and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu talked Tuesday about relocating Palestinians and leveling Gaza, which he suggested could be the “Riviera of the Middle East” under U.S. ownership.
Trump says he wants the U.S. to take ownership of the Gaza Strip
Trump said he and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu talked Tuesday about relocating Palestinians and leveling Gaza, which he suggested could be the "Riviera of the Middle East" under U.S. ownership.
www.npr.org
February 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
UPDATE: Trump said he and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu talked Tuesday about relocating Palestinians and leveling Gaza, which he suggested could be the “Riviera of the Middle East” under U.S. ownership.
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Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.
February 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.
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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.
February 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.
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No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment.
One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.
One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.
February 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment.
One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.
One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.
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The USA has had two major plane crashes in the last 4 days.
The USA had previously not suffered a major plane crash for 16 years.
‘DEI’ programs have existed for decades.
So what was it that changed in the last 14 days or so to suddenly cause so many crashes?
The USA had previously not suffered a major plane crash for 16 years.
‘DEI’ programs have existed for decades.
So what was it that changed in the last 14 days or so to suddenly cause so many crashes?
February 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The USA has had two major plane crashes in the last 4 days.
The USA had previously not suffered a major plane crash for 16 years.
‘DEI’ programs have existed for decades.
So what was it that changed in the last 14 days or so to suddenly cause so many crashes?
The USA had previously not suffered a major plane crash for 16 years.
‘DEI’ programs have existed for decades.
So what was it that changed in the last 14 days or so to suddenly cause so many crashes?
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NTEU has sent an email regarding the follow up OPM Fork email urging people not to accept the deferred resignation. The bolded “FU” is a nice touch.
January 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
NTEU has sent an email regarding the follow up OPM Fork email urging people not to accept the deferred resignation. The bolded “FU” is a nice touch.
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PLEASE READ ATTENTIVELY!
From an employee at OPM to HR. This person used a burner account so she/he wouldn't face repercussions after sounding the alarm.
Make no mistake peeps, this only happens with authoritarian regimes.
FOTUS is taking over the Federal Civil Service.
Thank you whoever you are.
From an employee at OPM to HR. This person used a burner account so she/he wouldn't face repercussions after sounding the alarm.
Make no mistake peeps, this only happens with authoritarian regimes.
FOTUS is taking over the Federal Civil Service.
Thank you whoever you are.
January 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
PLEASE READ ATTENTIVELY!
From an employee at OPM to HR. This person used a burner account so she/he wouldn't face repercussions after sounding the alarm.
Make no mistake peeps, this only happens with authoritarian regimes.
FOTUS is taking over the Federal Civil Service.
Thank you whoever you are.
From an employee at OPM to HR. This person used a burner account so she/he wouldn't face repercussions after sounding the alarm.
Make no mistake peeps, this only happens with authoritarian regimes.
FOTUS is taking over the Federal Civil Service.
Thank you whoever you are.
FBI core values being painted over. How long before they are legally forced to replace it with nazi slogans and icons?
January 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
FBI core values being painted over. How long before they are legally forced to replace it with nazi slogans and icons?
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January 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.
Trump directs Guantanamo Bay to be prepared to host up to 30,000 migrants | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.
www.cnn.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.
While you run purity tests on your potential allies, fascists are building their machines of oppression unopposed.
January 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
While you run purity tests on your potential allies, fascists are building their machines of oppression unopposed.