M. Defarge
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M. Defarge
@mdefarge.bsky.social
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Critical thinker. Visual artist in photography,painting,drawing. From high tech industries. Need verifiable facts and accurate data from information sources. Liberal Independent. Tale of Two Cities character = display name due to times.
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Obama: As for the president, he has been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes and gold plating the Oval Office and building a ballroom… If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry. He will save you a dance.
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Why do people buy pizza with EBT?

Because cauliflower is five dollars a head and you can buy five pizzas with the same money.

It’s not that folks don’t want to be healthy. They can’t afford to be healthy.
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Canada says “elbows up.” I say for America, “cameras out.” Film every last one of these brutal criminals. We will need the evidence for their trials.
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He did.
Republicans want to starve children to pressure Democrats into gutting healthcare.

How do we know?

Mike Johnson just admitted it.
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Swear her in. Release the Epstein Files.
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yes
trump's invulnerability primarily functions through the consensus that he is invulnerable
I am losing my gd mind seeing the number of people on here who are so doompilled that they cannot imagine that telling millions of people, including tons of MAGAs, that they’re out of food money and they also can’t have health insurance anymore might have any effect whatsoever on anything
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The GOP in Congress are worse than useless. They are craven enablers of murder.
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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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I like this and agree with it but Guillermo del Toro is quickly becoming the world’s number one source of inspirational quotes we can post on Facebook as we age into embarrassing aunt and uncle ages, gonna embroider that shit onto a pillow and paint it on an old wooden board
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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The fact is, if an African country that we consider "third world" had done even one-tenth of what Israel has done in Gaza, the American mainstream media would've been perfectly comfortable calling it a genocide long, long ago—with no reservation.
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There's no justification for U.S. media to refrain from calling the Gaza genocide a genocide now.

The world's top experts on genocide say it's a genocide. Dozens of countries acknowledge it is a genocide.

What's U.S. media waiting on? The U.S. and Israeli governments to call it genocide?
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Rand Paul out there being a voice of reason and actual American principles—like trials instead of assassinations.
Rand Paul: "In the one instance you're killed on sight. On the other instance, if you're captured, we just say, 'Oh well, we're gonna send you back to your country.' It doesn't make any sense."
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Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.
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CNN’s CEO Mark Thompson reportedly told staff to ease off on coverage of Trump demolishing the east wing for his ballroom after visiting the White House.

Another outlet obeying in advance. Off the cliff we go. 😕 🇺🇸 www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...
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“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”

www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Johnson keeping the House out of session is a strategic calculation that the best way to keep his unruly rank and file in line is to place them on an extended leave.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...
Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself
www.nytimes.com