House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
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a drunk, a junkie, a kremlin asset, and a bunch of thieves and sex criminals crowd into a bar — bartender says, what is this, a cabinet meeting?
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The Power of Dumb
In the Second Trump Era, don't expect reality to be realistic.
"Here are history’s new actors: Reality show dregs, cable news hair gel models, pro wrestling moguls, wastrel political heirs driven insane by online conspiracy theories." inthesetimes.com/article/dona...
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Trump ran one of the most successful disinformation operations in modern history.
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In a sane world, elected officials would care more about their country than keeping their jobs.
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More than anything else, I am pissed AF that we had/have a global pandemic and we *totally fucking skipped the roaring 20s* and went straight to fascism. I want drunkenness! I want excess! I want flappers! 0/10 do not recommend.
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Agree 💯
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Only the best people… 🫣
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Don't look at the news
Don't look at the news
Don't look at the news
(Looks at the news)
Oh, for fuck's sake
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The more ya know: tea pot sculpture in cover photo? Commemorates Oct 1774 Edenton Tea Party, 51 women gathered to send “no more” letter to King George III, regarded as first woman-led protest in America! Edenton, NC
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