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I guess it's easy to suspend laws when you are the ones harming people.

Drive without plates typically, the police would not be the ones on your side.

This whole "just following orders" from above thing didn't hold up in the past.

I can't wait to get to that part.

#Pinks
#Resist
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I keep coming back to this passage by Kelly Hayes about violence, in particular state sanctioned violence. This is why the corporate media consistently parrots the Trump regimes 'the radical violent Left' propaganda.
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Deeply racist, yes, but also deeply stupid.

Rural counties have higher enrollments than urban ones. Some of the largest enrollment states are red ones like Louisiana, Oklahoma and West Virginia. Undocumented immigrants are ineligible. Most beneficiaries are required to work 80 hrs/month.
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
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Just an FYI: Argentina will be shipping beef in sides of beef. Basically half of a cow. The meat packers (Trump's wannabe friends) will keep their factories open to process the beef. You know who loses, the actual American cattle ranchers. The solid Trump voters are sidelined. MAGA.
This is ambulance access for the emergency room.
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In Aurora, Illinois, a hospital was targeted in an ICE raid, and Goons were accused of obstructing ambulance access.
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@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC.

“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”

So good!! 🔥
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ICE targets community watchdog Santa Ana, California.
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They're demonizing SNAP and other recipients of federal aid on right wing media.

Of 21 million federal aid beneficiaries, ~70% work full-time and 39% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. Critics need to ask Amazon and Walmart why they won't pay enough for their employees to survive w/o food stamps.
It’s 4 levels…2 above ground, 1 service basement and 1 civil unrest bunker. Just over 22k sq ft per level including the hallway.

He hated how cramped the real bunker was when he went down there for the DC protests.
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Stormé DeLarverié (1920–2014) was a singer, drag performer, bouncer, and LGBTQ+ activist.
She was the master of ceremonies of the Jewel Box Revue, the first racially inclusive, traveling drag revue in the US.
She is also credited for throwing the first punch against the police at the Stonewall Inn.
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I looked it up once. SNAP takes 2% of the US budget and 93% of the money goes to the actual poor people instead of to the bureaucracy. So it's kind of like if you paid $1000 in taxes, you spent $20 on the poor of which they got to keep $18.60, and you spent $166.66 on the military.
SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.

that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.

but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
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When he says “hit it, Joe”, I don’t think first time viewers are going to be prepared for just how hard Joe hits it.
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
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If you donated to Platner via ActBlue, you can get a refund!

Contact them NOW and ask for your money back!
I donated to his campaign. I was pissed off when it was revealed he worked as a merc, and debating what to do when the tattoo & queerphobic posts came out.

I contacted ActBlue, asked for it to be returned, got an acknowledgement of the return a few hours later; 2 days later it was in my account.
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Start only buying what you need, being mindful where you spend, and save as much as you can. We need to prepare ourselves and our communities as much as we can for the struggles to come, and so when the time is right we can have a mass shut down.

#GeneralStrike #Boycott #MassShutDown #MutualAid
If you see this post a vampire who isn’t Dracula
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just so we’re all clear on the why
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The answer is yes. Just like Trump’s Azerbaijan hotel was a money laundering front for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Senate Dems are demanding answers about Trump's White House demolition and whether any of the donors could be engaging in "quid pro quo arrangements."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and colleagues are requesting a detailed accounting of the donors and specifics about the contracting and approval process.
Trump demolishes the East Wing — and White House norms
The East Wing's rapid razing bypassed a detailed process for major federal renovation projects in Washington. Now, Senate Democrats are demanding answers.
www.msnbc.com