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Twitter refugee. Retired ER doc. Tired of lies and conspiracy spinners. Animal lover (especially dogs and horses). #VoteBlue

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UK and France have both defeated their right wing parties in elections this year. The US needs to get its shit together.

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The pundits didn't count on the French voters. The 67.1% voter turnout, the highest in over 40 years, point to an outright rejection of a far-Right government in favour of a surge on the Left. This is what happens when people show up to vote.

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France just proved that the way you fight against fascism is by fighting for the working class — not by appeasing the billionaires and corporations propping up fascists. Pay attention.

What to know about France’s leftist alliance after shock election winwww.washingtonpost.com The New Popular Front wants to lower France’s retirement age and vastly expand government spending on social welfare, environmental protection and health care.

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When you find common ground with people with whom you agree some of the time but not all of the time, you can prevent people with whom you agree none of the time from taking power. The left and the center have far more in common than either wants to admit.

Breaking news: The first projections after polls closed in France’s legislative election put a leftist alliance in the lead, as the populist, anti-immigration far right falls behind and performs far below expectations.

France election live updates: Left-wing bloc leads in results projectionswww.washingtonpost.com The populist, anti-immigration National Rally party had been hoping to install France’s first far-right government since World War II, with 28-year-old Jordan Bardella as prime minister.

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Thousands in the streets of Paris celebrating and cheering “no pasaran” or "They will not pass” as the far right falls out n France’s election. Just absolutely amazing scenes tonight across France as they fight the fascists back. Now it’s our time to be brave and come together to for a united front.

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Exactly bsky.app/profile/grud...

With all this talk about fitness for office, it’s worth noting flagrant criminality, treason, and rape are not considered by the press to be relevant.

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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We are surrounded by Hispanic families… In 45 yrs of owning homes around America; they are the best neighbors an friends… wouldn’t change a thing…

just sayin'

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I wrote patriotically today. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/a-republic...

"A Republic If You Can Keep It"danieldrezner.substack.com Some Independence Day thoughts about some very un-American ideas.

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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Pointing again at my US Blue State Challenge. If you live in a "blue state", pick the red state you hate the most and the issue you care about the most and find a group in that state working on that issue and support them.

One thing I don’t understand is why, when people are outraged by some injustice or affront — like book bans — they don’t first look to see who is already tracking the issue, who’s already working on education + organization. “We need to do something!” People *are*. Find them. Help them.

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i mentioned this before but the last week or two has fully clarified that the rest of our lives is a drag-out fight against the supreme court that starts with priming the public to enthusiastically support — or at the very least resist decorum-based media calls against — completely rebuilding it

the exploitation of this Chevron ruling is just getting warmed up and is going to ratfuck every last effort at policy reform or corporate oversight across every sector and issue in the country

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Also, all abled people need to pick disabled people to support through mutual aid right now. Adopt one. They're everywhere here. Disabled people are commonly the people pushed into the most desperate situations in our society. All around you, disabled people in poverty are crowdfunding to survive.

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I really thought I was cynical enough about the utter corruption of the right-wing bloc on SCOTUS, but it turns out I was still giving them too much respect.

Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

The Heritage Foundation has already said that this is the 2nd American Revolution…and ‘it can be bloodless if the leftists let it be’. This is all treason…time for all hands on deck and let’s get started while Biden is still in office

Is doing this. Project 2025 is trumps platform. The oligarchs are redefining our government to suit their greed. We need to educate voters. democracyforward.org/the-peoples-...

The People’s Guide to Project 2025 - Democracy Forwarddemocracyforward.org

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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So. This is literally a death threat.

“With a $100,000 grant from the influential Heritage Foundation, the goal is to post 100 names of government workers to a website this summer to show a potential new administration who might be standing in the way of a second-term Trump agenda…”

Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plansapnews.com An outside group is quietly investigating scores of federal employees suspected of being hostile to the conservative policies promised by Republican Donald Trump.

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Jonathan Ladd

I've watched more president debates than is healthy. I can't recall one where both candidates were so unable to explain things in ways that are clear to ordinary people. All of this is inside baseball of one type or another.

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These will be the consequences if that lunatic wins. Women losing all rights.. what do you suppose will happen to LGBTQ? POC? Immigrants? The Poor? The Elderly and Disabled? For those who don’t like Biden.. rethink this They want to turn us into a Christian Nationalist Country! 😡

Right-wing nutjobs have already said that women shouldn't have the right to vote. Wake the fuck up, America.

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Guy waited five years and paid $102k for a Cybertruck, crashed it after four hours of driving, only for Tesla to tell him that "the accelerator may not disengage under braking" and that it will take $30k and one year to repair. Truly an L of historical proportions. www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/...

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fundamentally, at the core of conservatism is an empathy gap they might, in the abstract, know how things work - but it isn't real unless it happens to them, at which point it becomes an outrage they don't think other people are real, not the way they are

I haven't stopped thinking about this since I read it.

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US Income Tax Revenue: $2.2 trillion US Imports: $3.8 trillion This would be a $1 trillion annual handout to the top 1%, paid for by massive inflation in consumer goods, something like 55%-60%. Breaking the economy to give the richest even more, that's the Republican way.

Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on importswww.cnbc.com Trump also talked about using tariffs to leverage negotiating power over bad actors, a source told CNBC.

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If I'm a Tesla shareholder, wouldn't this be a win win? www.theverge.com/2024/6/6/241...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk could leave if $56 billion pay package not approved, shareholders warnedwww.theverge.com ‘This is obviously not about the money,’ Tesla’s board chair writes — presumedly with a straight face.

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The Country is going so far Backwards

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Steve Miller & Steve Bannon order Maga to incarceration political enemies. Tfg promises to do this. No matter Dems Menendez, Cuellar- and Hunter Biden are facing fed charges... Now calling for DA Bragg and ANY Dem DA arrest!🤔😡 These are enemies of ALL that America stands for.