PottedCactus
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I feel like a little blue Gen X dragonfly born on a lake that is populated by red critters who consume right-wing propaganda all the live-long day and stubbornly recite talking points that are at odds with their own reality and values.
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Look what the wind did to my neighbor’s flag. Seems symbolic.
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Question - if wealth taxes don’t work and raise only paltry amounts, how come whenever we start seriously discussing them rich people start pouring resources into trying to start race and class wars as a distraction?
They are dying of old age without ever being held accountable
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.
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Mike Fanone Is A Hero Of J6,
Don Old Chump is a ZERO......
We had a small group stand around with the bloody ear photo flag and a MAGA hat talking about Jesus. Some talked to them but we mostly ignored them.
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His proper title is now Andrew From The Epstein List.
💔Children deserve better protection. The adults need to grow up and deal with reality.
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No deployment of the military in our cities.

No illegal mass racial profiling.

No kings in America.
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
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This is where we are in this country!
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If Adelita Grijalva was a Republican, Mike Johnson would have sworn her in long ago to the office she was elected to.

If she wasn’t the deciding signature to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files, Mike Johnson would have sworn her in long ago.

All his bs excuses are lies.
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AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.