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Black woman who votes. I work to keep my cats in the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed.
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White people clamoring for the Obamas, I have a real question: do you look around and see how it’s *only y’all* with this expectation?
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Jackson, who died Tuesday, worked to diversify the electorate and brought Black women into Democratic politics who ascended to positions of power.
‘He gave me my wings’: Jesse Jackson opened doors for Black women in politics
Jackson, who died Tuesday, worked to diversify the electorate and brought Black women into Democratic politics who ascended to positions of power.
19thnews.org
February 17, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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"Law" under Trump; lawyers inside USCIS were handed pre-written memos and told they had 10 minutes to read them and respond.

When the lawyers said the memos had problems, they were told to ignore them anyway because the admin doesn't care what the law says.
February 17, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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The United States' national debt is set to balloon to $64 trillion over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday, citing a jump in annual deficits that owes in part to tax cuts enacted by President Trump. | ABC

abcnews.com/Business/us-...
US debt projected to reach $64 trillion in a decade, nonpartisan group says
The United States' national debt is set to balloon to $64 trillion over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday.
abcnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:31 PM
We’ll have to wait at least 3 years for *sustained* reporting on the national debt to be back in headlines.
The United States' national debt is set to balloon to $64 trillion over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday, citing a jump in annual deficits that owes in part to tax cuts enacted by President Trump. | ABC

abcnews.com/Business/us-...
US debt projected to reach $64 trillion in a decade, nonpartisan group says
The United States' national debt is set to balloon to $64 trillion over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday.
abcnews.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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Why yes, I am the base.

No, I don’t vote frequently, I constantly shit on the party, and threaten to withhold my support at seemingly every perceived slight.

Why do you ask?
February 17, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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Trump’s new rule will make our nursing shortage worse and raise health care costs for everyone.
February 17, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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Bingo. That's also the election where Progressives listened to Ed Schultz and other MSNBC voices to sit out and teach President Obama a lesson because he didn't deliver their special unicorns.
February 17, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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I still remember the ACA being retcon into the Romney plan or the health insurance companies plan after the struggle to get it over the finish line.
I bet you’ll never guess what “progressives” did in the mid-terms after Obama and a Dem controlled Congress passed the ACA.
If Dems delivered on progressive policy—or even credibly fought for it—they'd be winning elections. Big donors ensure that they don't.

It would be infinitely more productive if those punching down on the electorate pushed instead for Dems to ditch big donors.

[2019]
February 17, 2026 at 9:41 PM
The “fertilizer” from which the Tea Party grew
"But there's no public option so I'm holding my breath and won't vote in the midterms."

Most of the havoc we're dealing with now is a result of the 2010 midterms when Republicans took control of so many state legislatures.
February 17, 2026 at 9:42 PM
And, then Bernie tried to have him primaried going into 2012. So, yeah.
I bet you’ll never guess what “progressives” did in the mid-terms after Obama and a Dem controlled Congress passed the ACA.
If Dems delivered on progressive policy—or even credibly fought for it—they'd be winning elections. Big donors ensure that they don't.

It would be infinitely more productive if those punching down on the electorate pushed instead for Dems to ditch big donors.

[2019]
February 17, 2026 at 9:38 PM
We were there, you dingleberries.
I bet you’ll never guess what “progressives” did in the mid-terms after Obama and a Dem controlled Congress passed the ACA.
If Dems delivered on progressive policy—or even credibly fought for it—they'd be winning elections. Big donors ensure that they don't.

It would be infinitely more productive if those punching down on the electorate pushed instead for Dems to ditch big donors.

[2019]
February 17, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I bet you’ll never guess what “progressives” did in the mid-terms after Obama and a Dem controlled Congress passed the ACA.
If Dems delivered on progressive policy—or even credibly fought for it—they'd be winning elections. Big donors ensure that they don't.

It would be infinitely more productive if those punching down on the electorate pushed instead for Dems to ditch big donors.

[2019]
Democrats back off once-fervent embrace of Medicare-for-all
Kamala Harris’s switch on health care highlights a broader move by Democrats to soften their initial enthusiasm for a sweeping government health plan.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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It's absolutely obscene how many leftists argued that libs would be the fastest to rehabilitate Trump yet we're in the middle of Trump 2.0 and they're making the case for how Trump 1.0 wasn't all that bad
eternally doomed to be the only person in the world who remembers trumps first term
February 17, 2026 at 8:11 PM
What is a “far right feminist”?
February 17, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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One vote for Crockett in the books. Also, that was one long ass ballot.
February 17, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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HELLO, FRIENDS!

The women's shelter where I volunteer lost almost all of their art and craft supplies last year. I can't fix everything, but I have a big network here, and so do a lot of you, and I'm pretty sure that together, we can fix this.

www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163
Craft Supplies for Park Slope Women's Shelter
The Park Slope Women's Shelter serves unhoused women with mental health and/or substance-use disorder diagnoses in NYC. Due to an incident this past year, the shelter is attempting to rebuild and re...
www.thingstogetme.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 PM
SIX. PEOPLE.
You could find six people to say absolutely ANYTHING. That’s why focus groups ARE NOT opinion polling, nor is that their purpose. Everyone knows that, yes?
February 17, 2026 at 9:07 PM
You could find six people to say absolutely ANYTHING. That’s why focus groups ARE NOT opinion polling, nor is that their purpose. Everyone knows that, yes?
February 17, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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White people screaming at Democrats
This is “good”… a completely non representative focus group.
I’m tired y’all.
February 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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At press conference in New York on Tuesday, the Rev. Al Sharpton spoke about their long friendship he had with Rev. Jesse Jackson. They met when Sharpton was 13 and first becoming involved in civil rights activism through the church. See more at amsterdamnews.com/jesse.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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I just saw a post from an elected democrat where someone asked him if he would vote for the dem presidential candidate in 2028 yes or no and the elected democrat refused to answer. Lmao what are we doing here.
February 17, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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This app rewards this shit but I’m going to say absolutely no republican would respond like that especially an elected republican. It’s super easy to say “I will support my party in the presidential election” completely easy unless you want clout on this app.
February 17, 2026 at 8:05 PM
It also tells me it wasn’t a slip up.
If you find it annoying to have it pointed out that Islamic and Islamist should not be used interchangeably, that’s a good sign for me to continue to point it out. Thanks.
February 17, 2026 at 8:01 PM
If you find it annoying to have it pointed out that Islamic and Islamist should not be used interchangeably, that’s a good sign for me to continue to point it out. Thanks.
February 17, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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During the 1980’s and the height of the AIDs genocide, Jesse Jackson slept in hospices with queer people dying of AIDs. During a time where everyone treated AIDs like an airborne disease and where even silent compassion for queer people was a radical act, he was loud. He was there. He mourned us
February 17, 2026 at 6:56 PM