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Samael
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neurospicy noisemaker trying to survive a fascist capitalist hell scape
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Throwback to the Gilens/Page study of US Politics prior to Citizens United: "The preferences of the average American appear to have... [a] statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”
The Contradictions of the American Electorate - www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/15/t...
The Contradictions of the American Electorate
Why Do Most US Voters Prefer Politicians Who Disagree with Their Values and Policies?
www.counterpunch.org
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Remember that ceasefire everyone praised Trump for securing between Israel & Gaza?

Netanyahu just massacred 104 Palestinian civilians, including 46 children, on the mere accusation that Hamas handed over the 'wrong' corpse

HE MASSACRED 46 CHILDREN & I doubt you've heard one media outlet mention it
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I see we’re doing the “SNAP shouldn’t be used for DoorDash” debate yet again.

Reminder that many people on SNAP are disabled & housebound.

Delivery services are a lifeline. Not everyone can cook. Not everyone can clean up.

Also poor people deserve treats too!
"When people are denied food, rest, or stability, the body activates its stress-response system... Adaptations [to chronic stress] like hypervigilance, suppressed emotion, diminished trust, & learned helplessness [become] inherited cellular memory."
drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/starving-y...
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seemingly, without making a ripple in the new cycle, MSNBC reporting yesterday that schools in Chicago have moved to indoor recess because of ICE presence and use of chemical weapons.

this country has failed children at every given opportunity.
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The wealthiest 0.1% emit an average of 2.2 tonnes of #CO2 every day, equivalent to the weight of a rhinoceros

At the other, a citizen of #Somalia burns off just 82 grams barely the mass of a single tomato

The average for everyone on the planet is 12kg a day

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
www.theguardian.com
Let them eat this cheap spray paint we bought in bulk to mimic Versailles and the Winter Palace!
if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is
Exactly! No one complains when someone thinks a gruesomely executed man rose from the dead... 🤷‍♀️
Many spiritual paths honor the celestial bodies as they relate to life on Earth. It's only a problem when they ignore scientific knowledge and preach religion as "medicine."
An Ent!
But nothing wouod ever get done 🤣
Or it would be slow as molasses
There are people who are spiritual and participate in moon ceremonies but can also understand that medical practice requires peer reviewed evidence and an appreciation for the sciences.

Just cuz one person doing a religious thing is an asshole doesn't mean everyone else on that spiritual path is 🤷‍♀️
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You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights.

Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal
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GOOD.

People are already horrified to call for help because they expect to be targeted due to bias. Cops need to be held accountable for their crimes also!
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Illinois deputy found guilty of murder in the shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help.
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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🌿 Investigators concluded, "Medical or recreational cannabis laws may be significantly associated with reduced opioid use among patients diagnosed with cancer." #NORML #marijuana #cannabis #opioids #cancer
Opioid Prescribing Falls Following Cannabis Legalization
Patients decrease their reliance on prescription opioids following the opening of dispensaries
norml.org
Yeah because that demented clown gives a shit about upholding the Constitution... He should have already been arrested for so many other crimes that it's astounding people still don't see this.
HUNT: The president is talking about a third term. How seriously do you take that?

GALLEGO: I don't take it seriously because he will be in violation of the Constitution and he should be arrested if he attempts to do that
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Obscene
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
Well, he'll be dead so why should he care anyhow? It's the rest of us who have to deal with the fallout of allowing corporations and governments do as they please with barely any oversight.
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crazy it is almost as if weiss has been promoted beyond her ability
Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)
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So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
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