Former Minnesota State Senate candidate. Progressive. Medicare For All, Green New Deal, Tax The Rich, Equality For All, $20 Minimum Wage, Peace.
Alexandria, Minnesota
Joined January 2010
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Rest in peace to my mother: Kay Grayson Olson. She passed last night with me by her side. She was comfortable, and will be strongly missed.
"Unconditional Discharge" - who even knew this was a 'sentence' before today?
America: where we have one reality for the rich elites, and another for everyone else.
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162 years ago, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history.
The sacrifice of these riders reminds us to recommit to accountability and healing for the Dakota people.
mprnews.org/story/2024/12/24…
Gosh, it's almost like Republicans are in a cult or something. Their view of the economy instantly shifts depending on what party has the presidency!
Trump's broken promises so far:
1. End Ukraine War within 24 hours of being elected (not sworn in, elected)
2. Appoint RFK Jr. as Health and Human Services director (his advisor says this isn't happening now)
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This is what abandoning the working class looks like: Opposing amendments to expand Medicare to cover dental, vision & hearing; cut drug prices by 50%; & expand the Child Tax Credit; & supporting fossil fuel giveaways all to appease Joe Mansion. Yes. I think about this day a lot:
Trump promised he’d end the Ukraine War 24 hours after being elected. Broken promise #1 that his cult will ignore
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Memo to the Ruling Elite and Corporate Media: Expanding Social Security, Medicare for All and raising the minimum wage to at least $17 an hour are a helluva lot more popular than Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney and crypto billionaires.
So, is now the point where we start to scream about the election being "rigged" and stir up an angry mob of idiots to storm the capitol to stop the certification? Maybe 'cross the Rubicon' and just refuse to cede power like Trump said he should have done?
#DoubleStandards
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FDR tried to warn us in 1938.
@LeverNews tried to amplify his warning in 2021.
levernews.com/democrats-betr…
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63% of Americans in swing states want Medicare for All.
13% of Americans approved of Dick Cheney's job as Vice President when he left office.
Go figure...
Dick Cheney lied, a million died.
Medicare for All would save 68,000 lives each year.
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This is a very bad night.
Some of us spent years warning Dems to take working-class politics more seriously & to not tout neocons. We did so in hopes of avoiding this & yet we were vilified as traitors by Dem elites & liberal pundits.
There's a lesson here.
Goodnight.
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The first in-person votes are cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire,
and…
It’s a tie: 3 for Harris, 3 off Trump.
Feeling like this could be a lonnnnnnnnnng Election Night
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Alright y’all here’s my map! Kamala wins all 7 swing states but I don’t have the balls to give her anything crazy like Iowa or Florida. Basically, I think Selzer is directionally correct, women going big for Kamala. Cowardly pollsters afraid of underestimating Trump have rigged their polls and missed the post-roe, post Jan 6 shifts. Kamala also been effective at battling Trump to a tie on econ. Trump’s overly online campaign and general toxicity was final nail in the coffin.
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We’re not going back, people. We’re going to the polls.
IWillVote.com
ALT Governor Tim Walz speaking at Atlanta rally.
ALT Governor Tim Walz and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff clapping at Atlanta rally.
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Because we oppose Donald Trump’s reactionary agenda:
bit.ly/3ArQr8c
