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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Suicidal for centrists to be begging for moderation when now would be a great time to pass some big, ambitious policies and remind people why Democrats are better than Republicans.

CBS News just gutted its climate team Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.

I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

Courage is contagious.

Sounds too simple, but is true.

Same for cowardice.

Hey cats, anyone can do this and distribute them any way you want.

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

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Trump lawyer who praised ‘Mein Kampf’ is now accusing Harvard of antisemitism, report says Michael Velchik reportedly praised 'Mein Kampf' after graduating from Harvard, where he also wrote an essay from Hitler's perspective.

When anti-Semites claim to be fighting anti-Semitism they trivialize a very real problem and thereby deliberately make it worse. Attacking universities was always about spreading anti-Semitism, not combatting it.
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The whole Third Term Project isn’t actually about Trump. The people behind it know he will likely be dead or enfeebled by 2029. It is about them, the vastly unpopular group around Trump, wanting to grift us forever without elections.

NEWS: Federal prosecutors indict Kat Abughazaleh, congressional candidate, county board candidate Cat Sharp and Dem committeeman Michael Rabbitt over September Broadview protest

Shameless push for this again, since we are now #10 in Environmental Policy!

MAGA has been doing everything it can to portray anyone remotely left of it as blood-thirsty terrorists out to kill your entire family. It’s stupid and pathetic, but it’s also meant to support egregious violations of free speech rights like this.

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Well, since this has gone more viral than expected:

In the absence of my cunning plans, here's a resource to find food banks locally. Volunteer and contribute if you can, and don't be ashamed to get help if you need it.

We're all in it together.

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

A photo showing 2 finished copies of an 8-page zine. The zine summarizes the key points from Timothy Snyder’s best-selling book entitled “On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.” One copy displays the front cover of the zine. The second copy is opened to show the first two pages. The zine is printed on yellow legal-sized paper (8.5 inches by 14 inches) with black ink.

A photo showing one copy of an 8-page zine before it has been cut and folded. The zine summarizes the key points from Timothy Snyder’s best-selling book entitled “On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.” The zine is printed on yellow legal-sized paper (8.5 inches by 14 inches) with black ink.

@timothysnyder.bsky.social Thank you for allowing us to freely share “On Tyranny.” Did you know the 20 lessons fit perfectly onto a legal-sized piece of paper, font size 10? And this can be printed by anyone and folded into a nice little zine for easy distribution? Now you know. 🫡

Oh, I get it. On the @everythingisph.bsky.social podcast, MJ is often using singular nouns with verbs which would normally indicate plural nouns. It’s not just woman/women. Fucking weird, man.

@everythingisph.bsky.social For the love of dawg, why are you pronouncing “woman” and “women” the exact same way? They are two different words with two different pronunciations. Otherwise, great content.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Belfast Pride to ban political parties over puberty blockers Belfast Pride says the decision comes after people responded in anger about a ban on puberty blockers.

Good. Glad to see the organisers have the guts to do this. Pride is a protest against oppression, you can't invite the oppressors to it

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In 2026, let's defeat Ann Wagner and take back the U.S. House for the American people.

We need to do to Senator Chuck Schumer what was done to President Biden last summer. We need a non-stop drumbeat of complaints to force him out of his leadership position.

(above images of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk) The only MINORITY DESTROYING the COUNTRY is BILLIONAIRES.

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Fucking cunt.

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I think the assumption is that older people have already been paired up for decades and in many cases, that’s true. But there’s still a lot of hanky panky going on.

I don’t get why we limit some of these things to children. When Gardasil came out, they were targeting preteens through youngish adults. How many older people are still out there having unprotected sex? 😱😱😱 If people want these vaccines and there’s no medical reason NOT to, they should have access.