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John M Flores
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Writer. Creator. Wanderer. Bicycle. Motorcycle. Camera. Pen.
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My new life coach #toothpaste #marketinf #marketinggonewild
photo of a tube of Tom's toothpaste with text "Step 1: Set Big Goals, Step 2: Go Get Them" on the tube.
December 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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#Marketing #branding
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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I'm done. All these emails try to do is trigger my dopamine and grab my wallet. That's not the leadership we need right now. #DNC #Democrat
December 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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In the spirit of #Thanksgiving, here's a White man being thankful to an Indian man.
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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After riding from SF to NYC on a Zero electric motorcycle, I contemplated a 'round the world trip with solar panels. It didn't math.
photo of a motorcycle approaching the camera on a lonely desert road. The road disappears in the distant horizon of rugged mountains
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Oh the ironing. #DNC #DemocraticParty
October 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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#AmericanDream #ProjectFirewall
October 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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#bicycle
Urban setting with a 4+ story brick aparment building on the right, a wide, new sidewalk, and cars parked on the curb. In the center of the photo, a sign, "Shared Lane" on a pole. An older bicycle is tied to the pole with rope in such a way that it sits 3 feet off the ground.
July 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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#Democrats: "The world is on fire. Donate $3 and we'll take care of it.
July 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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I bet the email marketing team sits down every week to measure the performance of last week's emails, and that the key metric is, "how much money did it make?" Thus, all the messaging is viewed through that lens. This isn't governing, this isn't leading, this is fundraising. #politics #democrats
July 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I could set my watch to these Democrat $3 emails.
July 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Democrats: "All we need is $3 from you and we're gonna fix {waves hands} all of this."
July 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Democrats: Yes, we know that you despair and are looking for leadership in these unprecedented time. Give us $3 and we'll think about it.
July 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Here's the #Democrat email formula:

Fear + Donate $3

So uninspiring
July 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Hey @democrats.org your email strategy sucks. ALWAYS asking for money, always with the same voice expressing outrage at the GOP and then ASKING FOR MONEY. Stoking fear and then ASKING FOR MONEY.

Fire your email team. Develop a better strategy where the only metric is not RAISING MONEY.
July 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Anyone else see the #bicycles at the #NFL draft?
photo of tv screen of NFL featuring a man standing behind a podium flanked by people with bicycles
April 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Is this what winning looks like?
Chart of Dow Jones Industrial Average showing a precipitous decline over two days. Overlay of Trump squinting as he looks and points up with text "I did that"
April 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Feb 23, 1956
#MLK #CivilRights
Newspaper photo of Martin Luther King in a suit looking towards a police officer sitting at a desk. The officer has a pen in his right hand just above a piece of paper. He is looking up at King, seemingly mid-sentence. Another man stands behind King. Caption, "MONTGOMER, Ala. - The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., (right), a Negro minister whose home was bombed while he was leading the Negro bus boycott in Montgomery, was booked today by city police Lt. D.H. Lackey (left). Another Negro leader, The Rev. P.D. Abernathy (center), accompanied King. He was arrested yesterday. They were arrested on indictments returned by the Grand Jury in the bus boycott. (AP Photofax)
April 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Photo of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem stands in front of a large jail cell in El Salvador where dozens of men are detained. They have had their heads shaved, are not wearing shirts, have tattoos, and are standing behind the iron bars of the cell. There are dozens of them, standing their mute while Noem speaks to the media. Photo is overlaid with a photo of Trump squinting at the total eclipse with overlaid text, "who needs due process?"
April 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Can't wait!
Photo of 1970s era handheld video game "Electronic Quarterback" with a primitive LED display and large, toylike buttons.
April 1, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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#BanBillionaires
AP article. Headline, "Elon Musk hands out $1 million payments after Wisconsin Supreme Court declines request to stop him" Photo of Musk and woman holding giant check valued at $1 million. Article is overlaid with photo of Musk giving the Nazi sieg heil Nazi salute with the words "I'm Buying the COUNTRY!"
April 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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"Negro Bus Routes Cut in Montgomery", Birmingham Post-Herald, Dec 10, 1955
Excerpt from newspaper article, "Bus company officials met with Negro spokesmen for four hours yesterday without arriving at a solution of the racial dispute. Negro leaders are asking that bus seats be filled on a "first come, first served" basis, with Negroes occupying seats from the rear to the front and whites from the front to the rear. They also request that Negro drivers be employed on routes serving Negro areas."
March 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I had a long talk with a man the other day about this bus situation. He discussed the peace being destroyed in the community, the destroying of good race relations. I agree that it is more tension now. But peace is not merely the absence of this tension, but the presence of justice. And even if we didn't have this tension, we still wouldn't have positive peace. Yes, it is true that if the Negro accepts his place, accepts exploitation and injustice, there will be peace. But it would be a peace boiled down to stagnant complacency, deadening passivity, and if peace means this, I don't want peace.   1) If peace means accepting second-class citizenship, I don't want it. 2) If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don't want it.   Revolt against this peace. Jesus says in substance, I will not be content until justice, goodwill, brotherhood, love, yes, the Kingdom of God are established upon the earth. This is real peace—a peace embodied with the presence of positive good. The inner peace that comes as a result of doing God's will.   --REV MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
March 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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"If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don't want it." - MLK
Text from newspaper article, "I had a long talk with a man the other day about this bus situation. He discussed the peace being destroyed in the community, the destroying of good race relations. I agree that it is more tension now. But peace is not merely the absence of this tension, but the presence of justice. And even if we didn't have this tension, we still wouldn't have positive peace. Yes, it is true that if the Negro accepts his place, accepts exploitation and injustice, there will be peace. But it would be a peace boiled down to stagnant complacency, deadening passivity, and if peace means this, I don't want peace.   1) If peace means accepting second-class citizenship, I don't want it. 2) If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don't want it.   Revolt against this peace. Jesus says in substance, I will not be content until justice, goodwill, brotherhood, love, yes, the Kingdom of God are established upon the earth. This is real peace—a peace embodied with the presence of positive good. The inner peace that comes as a result of doing God's will.   --REV MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR."
March 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Fortune magazine headline, "Social Security employee warns, 'people could be out of benefits for months' as staffers who fix payment glitches exit/by Jason Ma/March 29, 2025" with photo of Social Security card and check from US Treasury below. Overlaid on top is a photo of Elon Musk giving the Nazi sieg heil Nazi salute with the words "Reign of Error!"
March 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM