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I speak for me: a Liberal, a Democrat, & a Sane person who believes in facts, reality, science, healthcare, & civil rights. I fight for a sustainable future. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆβš–οΈπŸ‚ Pronouns: he/him Ecosystems: Windows/Android Languages: English/C#/SQL Liberal AF Autistic

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Fun fact: Jasmine Crockett didn't get enough votes to win the Dem nomination, but she got more votes than anyone in the GOP primary race.

05.03.2026 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Working class white folks haven't voted for democrats since 1964.

I wonder what could've happened in 1964 that made working class whites folks abandon the party.

It's a mystery.

05.03.2026 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just thinking about what we could do with a billion dollars a day that doesn’t include bombing people.

05.03.2026 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1739    πŸ” 554    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 28

And yet it's true.

05.03.2026 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You never paid attention. You never listened.

Black people were loud and clear. People like me were all over social media warning everyone about Fetterman.

05.03.2026 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My "tone" is a bit frustrated

Listen to Black People. Listen to Black Women. Listen to the people who are consistently right about these things. They were loud & clear. I'm really tired of decades & decades of people who are right being ignored while people who are wrong are never held accountable.

05.03.2026 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m also tired of hearing about how to win white working class voters you need an economic message.

The GOP hasn’t had an actually party wide platform, much less real economic platform, for like 3 decades. Yet the majority of white voters vote for them.

It’s almost as if it’s something else

05.03.2026 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."

04.03.2026 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2951    πŸ” 681    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 26

I cannot think of a single even slightly interesting or unique or different or unexpected fact about myself to post...

I'm so boring.

05.03.2026 05:34 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The anti-blackness from the "Blue Resistor Crew" always rises to the top.

05.03.2026 05:31 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Land Shark.

05.03.2026 05:31 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah man it’s absolutely crazy that when republicans control the chamber, and every republican votes for something, it passes even if all the democrats vote no.

It’s almost like it would be better if the democrats were in charge.

05.03.2026 05:18 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Dear white people,

You can't spend centuries making race matter
when it comes to exclusion ... then get mad when we
acknowledge race in achievement.

If someone is the FIRST Black anything, that means
the door wasn't always open. We're not
highlighting color to divide we're highlighting
barriers that were finally broken.

If color "doesn't matter," then it shouldn't have
mattered when people were being locked out
either.

We will always honor Black firsts ... because every
one of them represents a barrier that was broken.

Dear white people, You can't spend centuries making race matter when it comes to exclusion ... then get mad when we acknowledge race in achievement. If someone is the FIRST Black anything, that means the door wasn't always open. We're not highlighting color to divide we're highlighting barriers that were finally broken. If color "doesn't matter," then it shouldn't have mattered when people were being locked out either. We will always honor Black firsts ... because every one of them represents a barrier that was broken.

Dear White People:

05.03.2026 05:29 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did you fucking fucks really believe that you were going to parade this "benevolent" white supremacy bullshit right in front of our fucking faces & we weren't going to see it for what it is.

05.03.2026 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1

No, we all didn't.

There were a WHOLE BUNCH OF US warning you and everyone else about him. Pointing out the obvious red flags none of you wanted to see. We were right. Just like we were about Tulsi.

Now we warn about Platner and nobody is listening. Even though we were right before.

05.03.2026 05:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pa. Sens. Fetterman, McCormick vote against effort to rein in Trump’s war powers U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., was the only Democrat in the Senate to vote against scaling back the war in Iran.

John Fetterman was the *only* "Democrat" to vote against reining in Donald Trump's unconstitutional attempts to start wars without Congressional approval. What a dick.
whyy.org/articles/war...

05.03.2026 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1815    πŸ” 458    πŸ’¬ 293    πŸ“Œ 63

I don’t want to hear MAGA whining about being β€œbetrayed.” I’m out of empathy. The real betrayal happened when they voted for Donald Trump after Jan. 6. What we’re seeing now isn’t about doing what’s right. It’s shock that they thought the damage would hit everyone else, not them

05.03.2026 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 269    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4

Black History Month in a country that disrespects and hates Black people...

Women's History Month in a country that disrespects and hates women...

Why bother with the false platitudes when you tell us every day that ends with Y, that the only group you want on a pillar are straight white men?

05.03.2026 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

Very apropos comparison by margo_christine.

04.03.2026 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Regular people often make investments that turn bad. Lots of us had to defer retiring after the 2008 financial crisis. Nobody bailed our asses out. As always these motherfucking rich fuckers seek to privatize profits and socialize risks.

05.03.2026 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He really is.

05.03.2026 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Don Huffines wins GOP primary for Texas comptroller Huffines avoided a runoff in a big-money race against acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock and Railroad Commissioner Christi Craddick to be the state’s chief financial officer.

So the dude who bought Epstein's Ranch and is blocking NM from carrying to their investigations won the GOP primary for Texas Comptroller. www.texastribune.org/2026/03/03/d...

05.03.2026 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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You couldn't make this shit up.

03.03.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3115    πŸ” 765    πŸ’¬ 140    πŸ“Œ 30

I don’t think you all realize how exhausted Black voters are with being treated like a damn afterthought.

I also don’t think you realize how long and how hard we have been fighting for this country *by ourselves.*

It’s not up to us to save you.

It’s up to the whites.

04.03.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 126    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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Americas heavy crude prices hit multi-year highs as Iran conflict disrupts oil markets Prices for heavy crude produced in the Americas surged to multi-year highs on Wednesday, as the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran stymied exports of similar oil ​produced in the Middle East.

Americas heavy crude prices hit multi-year highs as Iran conflict disrupts oil markets reut.rs/4aPrFOV

05.03.2026 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

I don’t want to share the video because it’s pretty graphic, but apparently we’re at the β€˜Republican Senator breaks the arm of a Marine IN FULL DRESS because that marine was protesting the Republicans starting a war of choice with Iran’ stage of things.

04.03.2026 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1826    πŸ” 446    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 19
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Senate Vote Count: Iran War Powers Resolution (Gift Article) The Senate rejected on a measure to rein in the use of military force in Iran.

How Every Senator Voted on the Iran War Powers Resolution www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

04.03.2026 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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Black folks these are exit polls from 2010 to 2022.

We didn’t cause the losses in 10 14 16 22 or 24.

White Latino and Asians did.

Fall back.

Take a vacation.

Let them fix what they broke.

04.03.2026 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

She's too good at this.

04.03.2026 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0