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Leslie
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Retired, rural Eastern Washington. Lived in Alaska, Arizona and Oregon. "It's the racism, stupid" . 🌊🌊 DM=block
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Reading this letter to the Oregon National Guard written right as Brig Gen Gronewold assured the state senate subcommittee that they were “the home team,” and were not there to serve as ICE agents and would “protect protesters”. In the letter to troops, he discusses what federalization really means.
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“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

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As predicted.
NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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The woman arrested in Fairhope, Alabama for wearing an inflatable penis costume is 61-year-old Jeana Renea Gamble

She’s being charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

If you saw the video, you know she wasn’t resisting. Three officers held her down & mounted the appendage:
Woman arrested at Alabama ‘No Kings’ rally after refusing to remove inflatable penis costume
Fairhope police are expected to provide a statement later on Monday about the arrest made during Saturday's "No Kings" rally.
www.al.com
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Watching this on my local PBSstation. It validates my belief that the vulture capitalists have been buying distressed newspapers to destroy them and make a profit from their assets.

www.pbs.org/show/strippe...
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.
www.pbs.org
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Federal workers aren’t getting paid, but of course Kristi Noem gets two private jets costing taxpayers $172 million.

Nothing new from the people who are also sending $40 billion to Argentina while refusing to fund our own government. Shameful.
Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million
www.nytimes.com
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those White House demolition photos look real rough
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More generally about Halligan, as a former US attorney, I can say that I never would reach out to a reporter and start gabbing that way, and I think the same goes for my former colleagues. It’s totally playing with fire.
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It Kamala had said "within a year he'll pave over the Rose Garden and be bulldozing the east wing of the White House" the media would have mocked her
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The Pentagon’s gone dark and Johnson’s calling it “transparency”

KARL: “The guy’s only had two briefings since he became Secretary of Defense… they’ve basically forced the Pentagon press out of the building…”

SPEAKER JOHNSON: “I can’t remember… a Secretary of Defense who has been so transparent.”
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The left: always correct—uncomfortably early for everyone else

Everyone else: “now that we agree with the left, the left needs to compromise to accommodate us”
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Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.
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learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.
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me at 24: swiping on men/women on Tinder
me at 34: swiping on midcentury modern lamps on Etsy
I think the GOP electeds are afraid of the maggot kkkult.
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AFGE dues paying members‼️

Our national leadership has been pushing us to contact Congress to end the shutdown without any pushback.

If you think it's important to hold the line for healthcare and, oh I don't know, fighting to keep the administration from trampling the Constitution please sign.
Tell AFGE leadership to hold the line: we need a budget for the people
Tell AFGE leadership that passing a budget that protects the rights and interests of working people is more important than ending the shutdown at any cost! Please only sign if you are a dues-paying m...
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The White House plans to give asylum to far-right anti-immigrant protesters from Europe. No. This is not a joke. It does put one in mind planned terrorism, however.