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Colette Gaiter

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Professor Emerita--Africana Studies, Art & Design--University of Delaware. LIBERATION/ART/DESIGN/WORDS

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I am so grateful for all the HOPE that Mamdani's candidacy has brought out.

People have not given up and rolled over.

If somehow he loses, there will be more like him.

It DOES NOT have to be this way.

There IS a better way.

HOPE
BELIEVE
CHANGE

04.11.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are no words.

No words written by Black women at Teen Vogue, which had been a model of great reporting.

04.11.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They have been trying to kill Obamacare ever since it started--back when Obama was president.

Two election cycles later, almost 10 years..

THEY'VE GOT NOTHING, BUT

still want to kill the ACA (Obamacare)

HOW does it benefit them to have no healthcare for people?

One man, so much mayhem.

04.11.2025 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums.

He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.

How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

04.11.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4811    πŸ” 1171    πŸ’¬ 304    πŸ“Œ 80

Amen to that!

04.11.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.

03.11.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7751    πŸ” 2487    πŸ’¬ 257    πŸ“Œ 120

Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.

03.11.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 13328    πŸ” 3510    πŸ’¬ 1587    πŸ“Œ 619
Elon Endorses Cuomo, with pictures of Adnrew Cuomo and Elon Musk

Elon Endorses Cuomo, with pictures of Adnrew Cuomo and Elon Musk

Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.

03.11.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 12153    πŸ” 2538    πŸ’¬ 520    πŸ“Œ 264
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They’re counting on you to sit this one out. Don’t give them what they want.

Get loud with your ballot. Drop it off today or hit the polls tomorrow ASAP.
#CAVoteYesProp50

03.11.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5741    πŸ” 2107    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 71

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

03.11.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 16911    πŸ” 6920    πŸ’¬ 483    πŸ“Œ 318

With all these extrajudicial boat murders, we have a president who is not only an adjudicated rapist, but also an unapprehended serial killer.

03.11.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 11074    πŸ” 3331    πŸ’¬ 396    πŸ“Œ 136

Do it!

03.11.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exactly. Show him his post first. Put it up on a screen. Then ask him virtually any question about any word, phrase, or sentence in it.

03.11.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 16389    πŸ” 5233    πŸ’¬ 748    πŸ“Œ 206

Anyone who is a billionaire makes obscene amounts of money while paying the workers (who make that possible) far less than what their labor is worth.

Share the wealth, people. Pay workers more. Pay your fair share of taxes.

You are not inherently better than your lowest-paid employee.

03.11.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Billie Eilish to Billionaires: "Why Are You a Billionaire?" And yes, Mark Zuckerberg was in the room.

And yes, Mark Zuckerberg was in the room.

30.10.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 664    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 24

Many threatened to leave the U.S. if Trump became president because we knew what he would do.

Maybe those knee-jerk rich people should wait and see what Mamdani does.

Would be a shame to give up your great apartment and watch the city become even better from...

Swampy (in all the ways) Florida?

03.11.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

03.11.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 36845    πŸ” 10361    πŸ’¬ 1212    πŸ“Œ 636

Agreed. What is wrong with those 42%?

The R number will drop like the January temperatures.

Count on it like you can count on administration officials to lie.

03.11.2025 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

03.11.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 20126    πŸ” 7617    πŸ’¬ 632    πŸ“Œ 414

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

02.11.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4293    πŸ” 1085    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 61

Yes, an important test for the midterms.

02.11.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 6066    πŸ” 1416    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 16

What does "soy-face" look like?

They should not invite rebuttal on people's looks. Fake hair or long bleached blonde hair on women, fake teeth, tight red dresses, 1950s hair styles (especially the men), botox, fillers, face lifts...

...and Usha Vance converting will never make her blonde or white.

03.11.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œOne of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. . .Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

β€” Carl Sagan

01.11.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 294    πŸ” 103    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 7

Like father like son

02.11.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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01.11.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 323    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 4

Extremely important to read this.

The terror is happening NOW.

02.11.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Even for Some Mamdani Supporters, His Thin RΓ©sumΓ© Is Cause for Concern

As the prez chooses THE MOST UNQUALIFIED AND INCOMPETENT PEOPLE TO RUN *THE ENTIRE U.S. GOVERNMENT* the NY Times publishes this COUNTERPRODUCTIVE NONSENSE:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/n...

02.11.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know the U.S. likes to pretend it does not exist and that it is the original evil empire (lie, of course), but

WHAT HAPPENED IN CUBA DURING THE HURRICANE?

02.11.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
US Ambassador interrupted by Cuba at UN | ABC NEWS
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) US Ambassador interrupted by Cuba at UN | ABC NEWS

Everyone should watch this video of a Cuban official calling out lies by the person who used Signal to discuss classified information.

At the U.N. In front of people from all over the world.

AND! - The U.S. should stop the ridiculous embargo against Cuba!

youtube.com/shorts/eU72M...

02.11.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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