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Humanist. Catholic. Democratic Socialist. Mum. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡¬πŸ‡±πŸ‡΅πŸ‡¦πŸ‡©πŸ‡°πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡·πŸ‡»πŸ‡¦πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
Trump promised no more wars and lower costs. But then he launched a war that is making prices skyrocket. He lied, and he owns this disaster.
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I, too, am β€œnauseously optimistic”. That’s exactly the feeling.
NEW: Just got off the phone with @SenSchumer who says he’s β€œnauseously optimistic” Democrats will have a good night and retake the Senate on Tuesday. Democrats, he notes, were facing a massive campaign spending disadvantage. But he believes the party’s strong slate of candidates and strategy of expanding the Senate battleground map will carry them back into the majority.
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
New: Ahead of next week’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump has systematically demolished institutional guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 presidential election. Here’s what to know. propub.li/47QIoyZ
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
Guess how many troops Israel sent to Iraq to fight along US forces. Zero. Guess how many troops Israel sent Afghanistan to fight alongside US forces. Zero. Allies fight alongside each other. Israel is not our ally. They are a manipulative parasite.
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
While Trump’s war enriches himself, oil companies, weapons makers, etc β€” he cuts aid veterans need to live. npr.org/2026/10/30/nx-s1-599…
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
Great thread on America on the eve of the midterms.
The Trump era looks like it's coming to an end, if midterm polling is to be trusted, and the meaning of MAGA is starting to look a bit different as a result. I wrote up a dozen initial thoughts, beginning with the fact that the movementβ€”and its leaderβ€”were always weak. (1/x)
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
‼️ There are 15 phonebanking sessions left for Abdul El-Sayed! If you want to help in any way and have some time, please consider signing up for a shift! Smiling and dialing is so easy 😊☎️ Link below ⬇️
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Gosh. That’s at least a baker’s dozen by now….
🚨 Republican crossover in Texas! Retired Republican County Judge Glen Whitley endorses James Talarico, delivering a blistering rebuke of Ken Paxton: β€œThe most corrupt politician Texas has ever seen.” A striking endorsement from across party lines.
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
I am having a hard time understanding how high speed rail takes 20 years of reviewing, permitting, approval, and public comment but we can just drop enormous data centers on top of people in a matter of months.
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
Worth reading not just to understand how insane Musk is, but how insane we are. We have allowed this man to become intrinsic to the economy of the United States. No human being, not even the president, is Constitutionally endowed with such powers. If the next president is a Democrat one of the most important, most dangerous, most painful projects will be wresting control of America's destiny from this madman. It will cause a recession at best, the destruction of millions of retirement accounts, and jeopardize national security for years. But the alternative is civilizational suicide. nytimes.com/2026/10/30/opini…
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
This time, let the bubble pop. Don’t save a single business. And lock up any tech bro or finance cultist who’s broken a single law that permits putting them in a cage.
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
Because he’s never been bought. And can’t be bought. No one can blackmail him. He is a free agent.
One thing I like the most about Dr. Abdul is his ability to stand up to bullies
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
Their shareholders are figuring out that they’re not even doing it to make money anymore. They’re doing it to take over the world.
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
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Economist (and Nobel laureate) Paul Krugman: β€œControl of Starlink must, one way or another, be taken away from Elon Musk. It’s a matter of national security: we cannot let private individuals make foreign and defense policy, and it would be totally irresponsible to leave a crucial military asset in the hands of a racist, authoritarian conspiracy theorist.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/i…
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
The Republican Party of Florida just disclosed its genera election donors. Florida Power & Light alone has put $7.75 million into the party since September. FPL is planning to announce a major data center project in Florida sometime before the end of the year...
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. "On Friday, Judge Ana Reyes learned that the Justice Department had been working on plans it told her didn’t exist. By the end of the hearing, she’d opened an investigation into whether its lawyers lied to her court or broke ethics rules. For weeks, the administration insisted there was no imminent plan to close East Potomac Park, even as Trump posted that the course would close November 15. This week, the Justice Department admitted in a filing that the park will close November 15, β€œconsistent with the President’s directive.” The department also acknowledged that officials had spent weeks on final golf course plans for the National Planning Commission without ever mentioning them to the court, including during a seven-hour hearing earlier this month. β€œI don’t recall the court asking a question as to whether we were wanting to come up with a plan,” said Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, the third-highest-ranking official at the Justice Department. β€œAre you kidding me right now?” Reyes shot back. β€œAm I to understand that for weeks someone has been putting pen to paper on a submission to design the golf course while this litigation was ongoing, while Department of Justice employees were representing to me that there was no plan?” She couldn’t get the department to say what the president’s own words meant, either. β€œThe third highest ranking official at the Department of Justice is telling me, telling a federal court, that he cannot say that when the president posted the β€˜course will close on November 15,’ what he meant was, β€˜the course will close on November 15’?” Woodward said he β€œcannot opine as to the president’s meaning.” Reyes found that officials β€œintentionally” timed the removal of hundreds of healthy trees to get ahead of judicial review. She’d already written that they β€œraced” to tear them down because the president β€œdemands haste on his redesign.” This is more than a bad news cycle for Trump. An investigation into whether his lawyers misled a federal court puts individual attorneys at risk, and every claim the department makes in her courtroom from now on will be met with doubt. Woodward has already tried to get Reyes thrown off the case over her β€œhistrionics,” and she answered him with the court record. Trump called her β€œa crazed lunatic.” Now his lawyers are the ones under examination." BREAKING: Trump's Friday Spirals Into Chaos as His Justice Department Faces a Stunning Courtroom Rebuke reallyamerican.substack.com/…
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
🚨 James Talarico proposes 12-year term limits for members of Congress: "We need new blood. We need fresh ideas and fresh perspectives."
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
Dear MAGA, since you're always asking me, "What laws has Trump violated. Be specific." HERE IS A COMPREHENSIVE LIST 1) The Principle of Non-refoulement is an international law prohibiting a state from returning a person to a place where they would face a real risk of persecution, torture, or other serious harm. SEE - 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, which the U.S ratified in 1968. 2) The Convention Against Torture (CAT) prohibits the removal of any person to a country where they would more likely than not be subjected to torture. Signed by the U.S.: April 18, 1988 Ratified by the U.S.: October 21, 1994 Enforced in the U.S.: November 20, 1994 3) The Refugee Act of 1980 prohibits the return of a refugee to a country where their life or freedom would be threatened. 4) INA Β§ 241(b)(3) states that the U.S. cannot remove an alien to a country if it's determines that the alien's life or freedom would be threatened in that country. 5) Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (FARRA) - codified 8 U.S.C. Β§ 1231 - states the U.S can NOT expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture. 6) Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 (Election Clause) by attempting to control federal elections and intimidate State and election officials. 7) Article I, Section 8 - Congress' authority to create and/or abolish government agencies/offices - by creating DOGE via Executive Order and by dismantling government agencies WITHOUT Congressional approval or involvement. 8) Article I, Section 9 , Clause 8 - the Emoluments Clause - prohibits any person holding a government office from accepting any present, emolument , office, or title from any "King, Prince, or foreign State ," without congressional consent. 9) 1st Amendment free speech clause by silencing the scientific community - via Executive Order - and by trying to silence the media by kicking out certain media from the press room and by filing frivolous lawsuits. 10) 5th Amendment for violating due process rights of immigrants. Which is confirmed by the U.S Supreme Court in two separate rulings. 11) 10th Amendment by sending ICE agents into sanctuary cities. Under Printz v. United State, the Federal government "may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program." β€” thus, protecting sanctuary cities. 12) 14th Amendment Section 1 - the birthright citizenship clause - by signing an Executive Order attempting to end the protections of birthright citizenship. 13) 5 USC Β§ 403 by illegally firing 18 Inspectors General's from the Defense Department, State Department, Health and Human Services Department and the Department of Labor. 14) 8 USC Β§ 1373, the courts have ruled that this law cannot compel local law enforcement to act as immigration agents. 15) 18 U.S.C. Β§ 4 – Misprision of Felony, by "having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony" in regards to covering up the Epstein files. 16) 18 U.S. Code Β§ 401 for blatantly ignoring and disobeying an immigration Court ruling, a U.S. District Court ruling, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruling. @realDonaldTrump and this regime have blatantly defied, disobeyed, and ignored FIVE federal court orders, thus far. 17) 18 U.S.C. Β§ 1505 by "willfully withholds, misrepresents, removes from any place, conceals, covers up, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means falsifies any documentary material" in regards to the Epstein files. 18) The Posse Comitatus Act by deploying active military armed forces on U.S. soil. 19) The War Powers Resolution Act by NOT consulting with Congress nor meeting the threshold in order to bomb Iran without consulting Congress. This list does NOT include violations of international laws.
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𝙲𝙳 in π™²πš‘πš’ πŸΌπŸ’™ retweeted
β€œIt’s frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.” β€” George Orwell
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