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Dolly Dagger
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Sober retired bartender. Unapologetic liberal and voracious reader of romance and mystery books set mostly in the 19th century. Romance is feminist as F*€k
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Today, it’s not your vote that determines whether the government brutalizes you or sends officers to your door. It’s your neighbors’ vote.

If you’re ok with this happening to Minnesotans, don’t get comfortable. You won’t be exempt for long.

In the end, a lawless administration comes for everyone.
January 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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I can’t believe I have to say this but literally no breathing human being wants Rahm Emmanuel as president.
January 13, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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My full statement on Trump’s unconstitutional military operations in Venezuela:
January 3, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Do you think Trump's latest stunt (Venezuela) aligns with his Nobel Prize ambitions? His New Year's resolution to facilitate "Peace on Earth"?????

IMO, he's running scared. The Epstein scandal is intensifying... Jack Smith's deposition was a masterclass on exposing Trump's crimes -- including leadi
January 3, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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but basically, for some reason, romance is the primary genre where the base assumption is that readers are self-inserting, and although it can be true, it is NOT universally true, and it's deeply misogynist to assume so.
December 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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It might get me labeled as a Crazy Bluesky Radical, but I don’t think it’s great that our nuclear arsenal is at the disposal of a demented old man who’s just an exposed nerve of grievances and hatreds with absolutely no impulse control.
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Any time I see or hear someone use "Democrat Party" I immediately assume they're not qualified to be in a position of authority.
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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And in doing so validates every drop of today
October 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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In the NY TIMES, today: “My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.”

(Dr. Bartov is a former IDF Officer, current professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
July 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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As you've read in many memes, a dictator will burn his country to the ground before he gives up power.

With all the losses and miscues happening in this administration from the disastrous tariffs to Epstein to Fema and on and on...

...we are at the burning down stage unless someone stops him.
July 12, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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‘Attacking the future of the party while Republicans strip every poor person of Medicaid in the middle of the night,’ by way of example, is not acceptable leadership. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward.
Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."
June 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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you know, if i were in the position of interviewing jeffries here, i would ask the congressman to specify exactly when and where mamdani used that language.
Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."
June 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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OR you could show a spine and condemn Netanyahu and stop linking anti Zionism and antisemitism
June 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.

The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.

The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
June 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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The extreme right-wing Christians who run the US govt...

join the extreme rt-wing Jews who run the Israel govt...

in a war with the extreme rt-wing Muslims who run the Iran govt...

...and the rest of the world's believers & atheists would like to be left out of it.
June 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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On the Hook
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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May 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Someone needs to do a thread of Met Gala looks as black romance novels so I can read some of these looks #romancelandia
May 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride.

If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.
Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip
Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.
www.axios.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If you get a follow request on Instagram from a profile resembling one you already follow, don't worry. I'm migrating to a new page to align it with my other social media platforms.
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Reading and reviewing romance and mystery books set (mostly) in the 19th century
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April 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
If you get a follow request on Instagram from a profile resembling one you already follow, don't worry. I'm migrating to a new page to align it with my other social media platforms.

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April 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Too good not to repost.

Emily Rath writes contemporary why choose romance. Her hockey romances are massively successful. A few years ago she wrote a handful of HR Why Choose romances that I highly recommend if that’s your thing.

Oh, and she also has 2 PhD’s in political science & peace studies
Emily Rath is a best selling author, and former university professor with PhDs in political science and peace studies.
She had quite the reaction to a Maga person who left her a message that said, “I love your books, not all of us are horrible.”
You DON’T want to miss this. BOOMCHAKALAKA.🥊🔥💥
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April 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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April 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM