Ray Lister
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Ray Lister
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International Lead Organizer for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, father of two wonderful young men, proud to be woke.
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Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.
The reality is that successful organizing is mostly relationship building. It’s easier to build relationships if you’re open-minded and chill.
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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Ideological purity is a terrible organizing tactic. I’m very far left but many of my leftist friends criticize me when, in an attempt to organize, I try to communicate leftist ideas using more aesthetically liberal language.
Do people still not get that these language games are intentional? Lil Lord Fauntleroy says it's a facility so media reports it as a base and we react predictably which gives Couchlover McGee the opportunity to say truthfully that media is being unfair. It's rope-a-dope that we shouldn't fall for.
Concentration camps with blanket immunity from prosecution seems like a bad thing.
The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.
The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity
In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.
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"Violent extremism" to these people is disagreeing with them in any way. Showing up in costumes and laughing at them is the most violent thing that's ever happened to these snowflakes.
Lol, even the Pope is like, "#FDJT"
Seems like the residents of that district should be able to stop paying taxes, no?
This is journalistic malpractice. Grow up.
Like, at least two or three points ago.
Went downtown for lunch and to take pictures. Guess that makes me a war correspondent? Anyway, the only thing ravaged was my plate of waffles and the blackberry hard cider I enjoyed. #FDJT #AbolishICE
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One of the most important charts in the world - from
Rush Doshi in the New York Times.

Without its allies, the United States is woefully behind China in metrics of raw economic power.

Too bad the US president does not seem to get it.

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I guess none of the agents who found it had a sharpie?
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I call bullshit. They are just making shit up now and while we are at it there are legitimate questions about Tyler Robinson now as well. Starting with he didn't have a rifle when he went up the stairs to the roof and he didn't have one when he jumped off the roof.
"I told you so," isn't going to work. Not being a corporate shill might work if we're actually going to have elections, but plain old vanilla corporate Democrat shit ain't going to cut it.
The Skydance - Paramount merger moved forward because Paramount fired Colbert. Firing Kimmel is how Nexstar will get Trump's FCC to approve their purchase of Tegna broadcasting.
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Release the Epstein files!!!
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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
Maybe “what’s coming” is why he wears diapers and smells like shit.
I honestly wouldn't put it past the Trump crime family to murder one of their own in an effort to silence the Epstein talk. Just like they probably killed two of their own to stage his big "assassination" photo op.
We wouldn't have to go through the part on the bottom of Dems had the spine to act boldly from the left. Instead, they move to the right in hopes of appealing to the small number of "centrist" voters that may be suffering but would never vote Dem anyway.
I think the scariest part of these numbers is that you know that whoever worked on them, pulled every string they could find short of just making numbers up, to make them less bad than reality because of what happened to the last truth teller.