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Dick Tater Hater
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Retired RN. Navy vet. Lifelong Dem. Looking for intellectual refuge in this time of political insanity.

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“The only people who get angry when hearing service members being told to ignore illegal orders are people who intend to issue illegal orders.”
November 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Amazon workers go on strike world-wide. “From Germany to Bangladesh, thousands of workers walked off the job on Friday and marched against Amazon’s labor practices to push for better wages, working conditions, and union protections." www.commondreams.org/news/make-am...
Global Black Friday Strikes Against Amazon Target 'Techno-Authoritarian' Assault on Workers | Common Dreams
"We are joining Make Amazon Pay to demand the most basic rights: safety, dignity, and the chance to go home alive," said one Amazon worker from India.
www.commondreams.org
November 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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We Ain't Buying It: Turning our Dollars into Defiance
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We Ain't Buying It: Turning our Dollars into Defiance
Today is day one of the We Ain’t Buying It blackout.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Cold blooded murder.
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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"My poll numbers have never been better."
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
So if 💩for🧠 fires Kash Patel,
would Patel keep quiet about what he’s seen in the Epstein files?
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Mike Johnson is big mad that we forced through a petition and forced a vote on releasing the Epstein files.

So let’s do it again. This time to restore the ACA credits he stole from us:
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.

We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.

We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.

They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.

Don't fall for it.
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Major economic news!

Thanks to our latest round of state tax credits, nine companies are expanding their headquarters and manufacturing operations in California.

This will bring 2,700+ new, good-paying jobs and $370M+ in private investment into the Golden State's economy.
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Next year, Americans will see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years.

Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.

It’s far past time for Medicare for All. Here’s what you need to know.
Medicare for All Explained | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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🚨 President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has unsettled allies and emboldened adversaries, leaving the United States not as the guarantor of order but as its starkest absence — a void reminiscent of the democracies that failed to confront fascism in the 1930s.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Early this morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge.

As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city.

Tomorrow, we win it together.
November 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103.

12 days of work in 103 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Popok: The blue states and cities effectively brought the cases. The red states are suffering, and their AGs are sitting on the sidelines. There’s no red state that brought a case. Think about that: not one red state attorney general brought a case to help prevent starvation and suffering. None.
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Today, someone who has been surfing the AI hype wave to boost his career, got upset by our position paper.

He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult.

In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
zenodo.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.

California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.

Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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This is disgusting. Blatant corruption at the highest level in plain sight and Oversight Chair Comer Pyle morphs into a combination of Mr. Magoo and Sgt. Schultz.
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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ROLLING STONE: “The current Congress has dropped the pretense of public service altogether… Congress enjoys ultraluxe health care as it fights to gut yours.”

@RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn why don’t you care about anyone but yourselves? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
October 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Not singled handedly. But I am trying to do my part.
Sometimes it feels like Marc Elias is single-handedly stopping the country from going off the cliff!
October 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM