frannyhelen

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Let’s do this! This is a long one but it has to be said: as you go into the voting booth or fill out your ballot, it’s worth noting that TRUMP’s and the GOP policies aren’t and never have been constructive. They’re completely DESTRUCTIVE. They have or plan to: 1/

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ATTENTION ALL: It’s him!!

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Anyway. Here’s a puppy. On a boat. On a river in the mountains. You’re welcome. #BoatBirdie

I get immediately stressed out when I open this app last week or so. It’s exhausting.

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View from Ohio: JD Vance is Captain Renault without the honesty or sentimental streak: “I have no conviction, if that's what you mean. I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy.”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

Jesus Christ. “Not all college students have gone woke. They should be celebrated,” the narrator says in the RNC video.

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www.mississippifreepress.org/rnc-uses-vid...

RNC Uses UM Protest Video, Clipping Out Racist Gesturewww.mississippifreepress.org An RNC video montage featured a clip from a University of Mississippi protest with a fraternity member’s racist gestures cut out.

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Holy s**t, they did. thehill.com/homenews/rac...

Clip of Ole Miss student making racist gestures at Black woman played at RNC sparks backlashthehill.com A video played at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday evening included a clip of a white University of Mississippi student making monkey gestures at a Black woman on campus…

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I'm sorry they what

The fact they played a video of a guy making monkey sounds at Black people at the fucking convention to hype up the crowd not being front page news across the nation is proof not one of those publications deserves to exist

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We're good. I'd still rather be us.

This is #1 in my case for cautious optimism. It continues: 2) Biden up big with people who vote every time, Trump up big with randos. 3) Dems have an actual field game. RNC is now a Trump org. 4) Better the Biden is old as dirt cycle now, the Trump is a senile rapist pig you hate looking at in Oct.

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It did occur to me that the press will deliberately select sound bites to show Biden misspeaking while searching for clips that make Trump sound lucid.

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My job as a newsroom producer was to sift through Trump speeches for the 10 seconds of relative coherence I could insert into the story. That’s all the viewers ever saw.

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This was an issue some folks often talked about when he was president. The media is set up to inject the coherence he lacks into his speeches. The texts themselves are incomprehensible to anyone, let alone anyone not plugged into the Fox cinematic universe.

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Something worth reminding your on the fence friends and family members: he will try to wreck our democracy, even if he doesn't succeed. He will try to conduct the largest mass expulsion in human history. He will try. www.liberalcurrents.com/he-will-try/

He Will Trywww.liberalcurrents.com Only one candidate is guaranteed to try to undermine our democracy and our way of life.

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Biden has been a good president but ultimately this crisis is happening because he lacks the quality that all Democratic elected officials must possess: a willingness to instantly give up in the face of setbacks

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Please support this important investigation into Project 2025 and the radical GOP actors behind it if you can:

Mapping Project 2025: Investigating the GOP's Authoritarian Playbookfundrazr.com Mapping Project 2025: Investigating the GOP's playbook for a far right authoritarian takeover of American government.

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This was my favorite of the very stupid slides made entirely with Keynote clipart.

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Honestly this dumbassery is a good reason not to take these people seriously. An open primary? What would happen to the millions upon millions Biden has raised to fucking campaign? Who would spend it?

This is purest fucking idiocy. A party committing national suicide because the presidential race is basically even in July.

Pelosi voiced support for an open nomination process if Biden drops outwww.politico.com Some California House Democrats don't want the process to replace the president on the ticket to seem like a Kamala Harris coronation.

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something you have to develop as a parent is an elaborate set of signals and facial expressions to indicate that, no, please do not actually offer that thing you are so generously about to give to my children so sad, sorry kids, they said no, we’re moving on now

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this the future-past the GOP wants

Hey, wanna see an actual ad that will make your bones want to flee your body? Great

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Perfectly said

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Lmao Peter Thiel invested $70M in Polymarket hmm

Nate watching Trump realizing he has to rewrite the glowing piece he filed a few hours ago that was set to run tomorrow

Nate Silver joins prediction market startup Polymarketwww.axios.com More Americans are flocking to prediction markets to interpret crazy news cycles.

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She was a champion of people living with HIV and we will miss her.

“Known by her constituents as simply, ‘Congresswoman,’ Jackson Lee served the public for more than 30 years.” Her legislative victories included “establishing the Juneteenth Federal Holiday to reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.” www.khou.com/article/news...

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee dies at 74, her family announceswww.khou.com Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has died at 74, her family announced. Last month, she announced she was fighting pancreatic cancer.

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how is this the furthest hiccup science has developed

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We wouldn't have been able to pass a single goddamn piece of legislation through a GOP/McConnell Senate without black Georgian voters, and now some dipshit clowns who make money on crypto pyramid schemes and producing 11 Saw sequels want to nullify their efforts.

What I’ve been sayin’: ask Black voters (and Black women voters in particular) what they want. They saved us the last couple of times.

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Here’s a fun crowdstrike data point for you - while airlines around the world had to ground planes, my sister in law flew home today without issue because the airport in Congo is so antiquated that they still do everything by hand. Some real battlestar galactica analog shit.

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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee dies at 74, her family announceswww.khou.com Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has died at 74, her family announced. Last month, she announced she was fighting pancreatic cancer.

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It is STAGGERING to me how many people who should damn well know better are pushing this notion. Not even considering how conventions actually work or how shitty it would be to push the first Black woman Vice President out in favor of an (almost certainly) white candidate.

The Squid Game convention scenario being pushed by the pundit and donor classes is the worst possible outcome. -- Infantilizing games -- Brings out the worst in contestants -- Sole purpose is to entertain the wealthy (donors) -- Painful for normies to watch -- Winner is profoundly wounded

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Oh.

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end of the day affirmations: - are we alive? - did we kill anyone? - did we completely sabotage every single one of our relationships? - is there a mob outside for you right now?