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This is my personal account and these are my personal opinions, which are mostly about politics, but may randomly be about other things. The opinions of the Washington State Democratic Party, which are generally much more focused, are at @wadems.org.

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It’s Top Two Election Day 2025 in Washington State – don’t forget to vote! August 5th, 2025 is Top Two Election Day! Have you voted? Have you checked in with family and friends to make sure they have voted?

It’s Top Two Election Day 2025 in Washington State – don’t forget to vote!

August 5th, 2025 is Top Two Election Day! Have you voted? Have you checked in with family and friends to make sure they have voted?

05.08.2025 16:35 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

“INTRUDER INTRUDER WE HAVE BREACH ON THE ROOF OF THE EAST WING”
“This is Team Lead say again do you have visual confirmation”
“AFFIRMATIVE WE HAVE INTRUDER IT LOOKS LIKE … DOES GRITTY WEAR A SUIT? I THINK IT MAY BE GRITTY”
“Stand down that is Mushroom, Mushroom is on the roof, all clear.”

05.08.2025 16:42 — 👍 790    🔁 83    💬 37    📌 10
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HAPPY PRIMARY ELECTION DAY, WASHINGTON!
From school board to county council, this Primary sets the stage for November.
Ballot drop boxes close by 8 p.m. tonight. If you’re same-day registering and voting in person, don’t forget your ID!
For more voting info, visit VoteWA.gov

05.08.2025 16:29 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

If we emerge with a non-fascist society, each and every university administrator who Chamberlained or Vichied to any degree must be ruthlessly expelled from any position of responsibility or influence. Let their name be stricken from every tablet. They shouldn’t run a hot-dog stand.

05.08.2025 16:29 — 👍 1379    🔁 318    💬 42    📌 11

Imagine the reaction to Biden on the roof

05.08.2025 15:25 — 👍 89    🔁 17    💬 7    📌 0

What it is going to take is one university after another simply saying, we will not deal. This is not a legitimate way for the executive branch to interact with universities and we will not do it. Full stop.

05.08.2025 13:29 — 👍 794    🔁 190    💬 25    📌 9

Exactly. I see what's happened in the UK and that's why I'm sure as shit not going to sit silently while the "center-left" party here does the same thing they did over there.

04.08.2025 15:19 — 👍 949    🔁 190    💬 3    📌 2

💯💯👇👇

05.08.2025 01:05 — 👍 89    🔁 41    💬 1    📌 0

Once again, my fellow nerds, I am begging you to remember that giving into bullies only guarantees they'll be back.

You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.

04.08.2025 22:59 — 👍 6573    🔁 1460    💬 119    📌 38

Bandwagon Alert! Remaining NY Dems: Time to get on this bandwagon! Act now or regret it later!

05.08.2025 02:20 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

But that ability to create high, singular, magnetic and compelling narrative & culture from our oppression is the thing that can’t be replicated.

But keep flogging “reverse discrimination” and see what comes of it. It’s been 30 years, and nothing yet….

05.08.2025 02:33 — 👍 530    🔁 82    💬 9    📌 0
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "Democrats can't live by the old rules... We've got to put everything on the table... Governors across the country who have the ability (maybe it's the ones where we've got trifectas) we've got to do everything we can to stand up to what Trump and Abbott are trying to do."

30.07.2025 16:22 — 👍 3604    🔁 986    💬 115    📌 68
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Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.

Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary, interim NASA chief, and ex-reality star, wants a nuclear reactor on the moon!

We’ve got cement over the Rose Garden, a Qatari jet to fix, and a new White House ballroom.

But help for Americans? Nowhere to be found.

#ProudBlue
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

04.08.2025 22:24 — 👍 1045    🔁 398    💬 136    📌 43

The governing party of the United States shut down Congress to avoid having to disclose evidence the President sexually abused children, and now they’re trying to rig the midterm election and arrest opposition elected officials who try to stop them.

They’re currently polling around 40%.

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

04.08.2025 23:00 — 👍 1140    🔁 396    💬 40    📌 18

Everyone: Release the Epstein files

Trump Admin: WE'RE GOING TO BUILD A NUCLEAR REACTOR ON THE MOON

04.08.2025 21:14 — 👍 326    🔁 58    💬 36    📌 11

Turning Point USA affiliated candidates recently ran for Portland State student govt. They got 25%, not a lot, but... maybe high for PSU? But here's the thing: they're a visible presence on campus. They put in the work.

That got me thinking. Where are the College Democrats at? 🧵 (1/5)

04.08.2025 16:24 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: The number one redistricting villain in the nation—Andrew Cuomo Leading Off • NY Redistricting: Late on Wednesday night, Albany lawmakers passed the unholy legislative gerrymanders agreed upon by Democratic leaders in the Assembly and their Republican counterparts...

Why is New York so hamstrung when it comes to countering the Texas GOP's new gerrymandering efforts? One name: Andrew Cuomo.

We warned about the unholy deal he struck with Republicans all the way back in 2012. Now the true cost has revealed itself.

04.08.2025 16:30 — 👍 177    🔁 62    💬 4    📌 6

Threatening to expel and prosecute members of the opposition party for using their only available tool to prevent the government from rigging the congressional map is authoritarianism

04.08.2025 14:44 — 👍 177    🔁 49    💬 5    📌 0

and as far as responsibility goes, i think ferritor should be held criminally liable for the laws he broke while doing DOGE's work and referred for crimes against humanity

04.08.2025 15:33 — 👍 3502    🔁 372    💬 31    📌 24
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Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

04.08.2025 11:35 — 👍 3848    🔁 1154    💬 80    📌 53
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CNN senior reporter Matt Egan on Trump firing the BLS chief over the jobs numbers: "This would be like an NFL owner who responds to his team losing big by immediately firing the scoreboard operator."

04.08.2025 12:51 — 👍 1341    🔁 287    💬 31    📌 32

One thing about having someone like Trump as president is questions that would ordinarily be horrendously misogynistic become reasonable to ask because Trump absolutely would trade sex for influence.

04.08.2025 03:20 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 2

Democrat Forrest Dunbar was on Nat Guard training in Poland and got personal leave, and bought his own ticket, to get back to AK and vote for the override.

If you are wondering why the special session was scheduled when he was in Poland, well, I'm thinking no one imagined he would do what he did

03.08.2025 21:10 — 👍 2251    🔁 587    💬 23    📌 39

Again, I have no strong feelings about Mamdani one way or the other and I suspect his lofty plans are mostly not gonna go very far if he wins, but I’m rooting for him if only because he’s driving all the worst people into an absolute frenzy.

04.08.2025 03:39 — 👍 84    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

Slave-catcher energy here

04.08.2025 04:22 — 👍 523    🔁 95    💬 20    📌 2

The Biden administration had wire and securities fraud charges in motion against Musk for doing this.

Elon Musk bought the election for Donald Trump because doing this, lying about the current and future capabilities of the vehicles he sells, is the foundation of his entire fortune.

04.08.2025 00:14 — 👍 1202    🔁 398    💬 15    📌 2

Texas House Democrats offer a brief response to Gov. Greg Abbott's threat of arrest and expulsion: "Come and take it."

04.08.2025 04:45 — 👍 3815    🔁 974    💬 97    📌 191
a black cat jumping out of a bag that has a black Puma logo on it

a black cat jumping out of a bag that has a black Puma logo on it

Just as the prophecy foretold

03.08.2025 15:24 — 👍 874    🔁 256    💬 4    📌 2

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

04.08.2025 04:13 — 👍 4207    🔁 1021    💬 55    📌 38

how is pritzker the only one who seems to remember that he's the governor of a sovereign entity too

04.08.2025 03:32 — 👍 2369    🔁 349    💬 30    📌 13

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