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StoptheButterflyRevolution
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- "One must always try to be as radical as reality itself." - Lenin - Butterfly Revolution: https://tinyurl.com/4sdu6cam - Guiding Star✨: https://tinyurl.com/3t2dcmyv 😷💉
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there are very few things that are genuinely a litmus test for intelligence, but getting mad at hearing other languages is on the very short list
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“There’s no such thing as white privilege“

Well then why are the Bobs and Karens sitting at home watching this horror show unfold like they know they're safe?
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i don’t know, jd, one of my great grandfathers was an immigrant from ireland who helped form a steelworkers union so it seems kinda like you’re just making shit up
So... what happens if the federal govt stays closed for another month, three months, six months, a year, until 2028?
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The Jan 6 insurrection was successful, & now it gets to be preserved as a success by this administration it brought to power.
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Even back when they handed George W Bush the White House, it still used to feel like we had a Supreme Court. Now we have a Supreme Corpse.
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That Graham Platner shit fuckin stung because as a leftist who works in the trades I know that the right wing has gaslit so many of those dudes into thinking that you can’t be masculine and support even the most common sense leftist causes. I thought maybe this dude could change that but here we are
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Similar signs popped up around DC during the ICE surge
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The cool thing about class solidarity is that it’s also rooted in self interest. You can literally look out for your own best interests simply by caring about what happens to the people around you. Selfish mfs can pull up to the function too
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Retired couple (teacher & union carpenter) on ACA premiums skyrocketing — from $443/month to $2,224/month: “It's like buying another house and trying to pay for two houses at the same time… without the subsidy we honestly don’t know what we’re gonna do.” #TrumpShutdown
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While it's great that people are finally bagging on Spotify, it's just disappointing that it took "forced me to listen to an ad for ICE" to have it happen, and not years and years worth of "they don't pay the artists shit".
Why are men so creepy about sex? Why? Why is it always about not getting consent for them?
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TACO is NOT building a ballroom.

He is building a bunker.

Booze Allen is not an architecture firm.

It’s a defense contractor.
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Got into a discussion of chewable Viagra (yes it's real) and was told that something like 50% of men don't like to swallow pills and I feel like this is such a perfect set up for a "fellas, is it gay to" joke
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Did Mamdani turn out this way because his dad is Mahmood Mamdani and his mom is Mira Nair or is it because of four years at Bowdoin, where Mahmood Mamdani and Mira Nair are almost certainly on several syllabi

News at 11
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A coalition of labor and grassroots organizations is blasting Baltimore's new tax agreement with the city's wealthiest institutions, calling it a "backroom" deal negotiated without community input. baltimorebeat.com/baltimores-n...
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Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success