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Denise Friday

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Center-left liberal ensconced in a blue state, broken-hearted (and mad!) about the state of our country. “I’m not giving up … and neither should you.” Kate McKinnon, 2016

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Gavin Newsom holding a mirror up DJT

20.08.2025 19:09 — 👍 6639    🔁 2273    💬 229    📌 152

Followed! Thanks!!

16.08.2025 00:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Followed all … thanks!

16.08.2025 00:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.

Thanks, GOP!

Thanks, Trump!

"Next year, the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium...

plans which serve people who can't get health insurance through their jobs and who don't qualify for Medicaid or Medicare..."

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

21.07.2025 16:54 — 👍 3200    🔁 1573    💬 276    📌 135
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Sen Britt, goes to her signature response, the BLANK stare, as a constituent points out people will die if the Republicans Big Ugly Budget is passed.

51k preventable deaths can be avoided yearly if just 4 Rs have the guts to vote NO!

#MedicaidSavesOurLives #DemVoice1

26.06.2025 23:15 — 👍 205    🔁 100    💬 22    📌 11
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Yes there are millions of people who buy in to white Christian nationalism and some have shown how to turn it into very profitable businesses, but at its core is ignorance, racism, fear, insecurity, and perversion of the teachings of Jesus.

27.06.2025 10:26 — 👍 9208    🔁 2165    💬 1475    📌 257
Slotkin delivers speech on her Economic War Plan
YouTube video by Sen. Elissa Slotkin Slotkin delivers speech on her Economic War Plan

As a CIA officer and Pentagon official by training, I believe that the single, greatest security threat to the United States is the shrinking middle class here at home.

Today, I laid out my Economic War Plan.

26.06.2025 18:32 — 👍 588    🔁 183    💬 118    📌 28
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DOGE enters ATF with mandate to slash gun regulations The agency is working with the ATF general counsel to slash upwards of 50 regulations as the administration cuts the number of agency inspectors.

More lethal insanity from this administration. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

27.06.2025 13:33 — 👍 5    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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Sotomayor accuses Supreme Court of ‘rewarding lawlessness’ by Trump in fiery dissent | CNN Politics Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court’s senior liberal, slammed the Trump administration’s handling of immigration matters in a fiery dissent Monday and accused her colleagues of “rewarding lawle...

1/3 Justice Sotomayor’s scathing dissent isn’t just a legal opinion—it’s a warning flare. SCOTUS sided with an administration that defied court orders on immigration. When the highest court rewards lawlessness, it isn’t just 1 case at risk—it’s the foundation of our democracy.
tinyurl.com/z2fse2s6

24.06.2025 21:01 — 👍 496    🔁 247    💬 16    📌 7
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'Traumatized': Women prosecuted for miscarriages at record levels The day before Brittany Watts miscarried at home in Warren, Ohio, medical staff at Mercy Health-St. Joseph Warren Hospital told Watts that her nearly 21-week-old fetus had no chance of survival. And w...

This is just insanity. www.rawstory.com/women-prosec...

25.06.2025 15:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You can’t see me bc I’m holding a flag but guys I live in a 2k person extremely rural town in one of the reddest counties of WI. So many people showed up there was a line all the way to the highway.

I often feel a bit afraid due to my identity in this area but #nokings brought out so many

14.06.2025 19:25 — 👍 45964    🔁 6669    💬 1070    📌 312

Reason #67542 why I'm against the death penalty.

24.06.2025 17:09 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say | CNN Politics The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an e...

www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/p...

24.06.2025 19:55 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How To Spot A Gas Pump Card Skimmer Before It Can Steal Your Data - SlashGear Gas station skimmers are becoming more common as thieves find new ways to steal credit card information. Here's how to protect yourself at the gas pump.

www.slashgear.com/1890651/gas-...

24.06.2025 17:11 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | The Nation Encourages Political Violence by Allowing It to Seem Normal

Gift op-ed from NYT on political violence. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

22.06.2025 21:08 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Widow of man who died in Cybertruck accident alleges Tesla burned so hot in crash that his bones disintegrated The family of the deceased man has launched a lawsuit against the Cybertruck company Tesla, owned by Elon Musk.

For an alleged “genius”, his stuff blows up and/or incinerates pretty frequently. www.unilad.com/news/us-news...

21.06.2025 21:21 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Revealed: MAGA algorithms are pushing Gen-Z to pro-Trump content Pundits have spent a lot of time analyzing the politics of Generation Z. Some of them argue that if Gen-Z prove to be even more liberal or progressive than Millennials, the GOP will suffer. Yet variou...

www.alternet.org/trump-gen-z-...

21.06.2025 20:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today they have crossed a deep red line.

We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

12.06.2025 20:05 — 👍 56040    🔁 17828    💬 2201    📌 1181
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Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry Friends and family of Moises Sotelo ‘disappointed and disgusted’ after respected fixture detained outside church

He was detained outside church.

“He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”

19.06.2025 20:10 — 👍 6025    🔁 2909    💬 247    📌 176

Well, “War Blab” would be more apropos for him.

19.06.2025 21:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WAR TALK

19.06.2025 17:58 — 👍 32    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 2
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Trump says he'll decide whether US will directly attack Iran within two weeks As Israel and Iran exchanged more attacks, U.S. President Donald Trump sought to keep open the door to diplomacy on Tehran’s nuclear program, saying he would make up his mind within two weeks on wheth...

And the fkn idiot can make this decision with no congressional approval by framing it as an imminent threat... WTF! #fucktastrophy

19.06.2025 21:34 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Two National Guards in uniform escorted their mother to her Immigration hearing to make sure she was not nabbed by ICE and deported. Think about that. The mother left without incident.

19.06.2025 21:32 — 👍 47    🔁 13    💬 5    📌 3
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‘No Kings’ organizers plan next protest: ‘Good Trouble Lives On’ The organizers of the "No Kings" protests are planning another demonstration, "Good Trouble Lives On," to be held on July 17 in honor of congressman John Lewis.

www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-h...

19.06.2025 21:35 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

💕💕💕

19.06.2025 21:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I am not afraid of Donald Trump. I am not afraid of Tom Homan.

I will stand up for the people of Illinois.

17.06.2025 19:08 — 👍 7104    🔁 1096    💬 159    📌 62
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Prayers for an “allergic reaction.”

But mockery and hateful conspiracies for murder victims who aren’t in your tribe.

With no apology or remorse.

Fake Christian, small man.

18.06.2025 00:17 — 👍 23150    🔁 5072    💬 1796    📌 432
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Get your Trump mobile plan today!

17.06.2025 10:11 — 👍 214    🔁 43    💬 12    📌 3

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