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07.11.2025 22:22 β π 827 π 256 π¬ 34 π 20Dr Amy Acton not only very much should but very much could beat Vivek Ramaswamy in the race for the office of governor of Ohio. Please consider supporting her if you can with a monthly donation.
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When Mehdi is scared, I'm scared...
06.11.2025 21:45 β π 379 π 186 π¬ 13 π 8BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo flees New York.
05.11.2025 15:55 β π 8199 π 1361 π¬ 454 π 150The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
Obama: As for the president, he has been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes and gold plating the Oval Office and building a ballroom⦠If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry. He will save you a dance.
01.11.2025 19:45 β π 25695 π 7680 π¬ 530 π 312Nothing says 'good Christian' like taking food out of children's mouths while you're firing up the nukes.
30.10.2025 23:05 β π 3016 π 856 π¬ 74 π 14RIGHT ON ππ½
I voted YES on 50 (a temporary measure to level the playing field) and my ballot was already counted.
Join meβ remember to vote, and tell your friends and neighbors to do the same. #VoteYesOnProp50
Jack Schlossberg, JFK's grandson, Caroline's son, posted this photo. I strongly recommend following him, "jackuno."
So much of this gorgeous photo, bulldozed & covered with slabs of concrete. Soulless. Empty.
This photo is all about life, color, beauty, promise.
Now bulldozed & drowned in cement.
Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.
Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called βkidsβ to excuse their hate. Theyβre not boys and girls, theyβre grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.
You can & should be critical of your government if it is failing to live up to its ideals. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. And if they tell you otherwise, then they are afraid of the power of your voice #Velshi
19.10.2025 18:42 β π 419 π 112 π¬ 10 π 10Iβm absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings
19.10.2025 03:56 β π 34865 π 7992 π¬ 948 π 368The world joined us and said, βNo Kings.β
19.10.2025 04:17 β π 38576 π 13106 π¬ 1454 π 1095Graphic from Meidas Touch: "No Kings" is the whole damn point of the United State actually.
18.10.2025 13:00 β π 390 π 70 π¬ 3 π 0#A_NewHope β
18.10.2025 19:33 β π 59774 π 14273 π¬ 1236 π 525This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
18.10.2025 23:22 β π 89434 π 29075 π¬ 2324 π 1866Do you know what a group of frogs is called?
AN ARMY
Another Weird Week
No Kings Edition
Yay George!
12.10.2025 16:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#Portland
09.10.2025 10:24 β π 65 π 17 π¬ 8 π 6Thou shalt not shoot pastors in the head with smoke bombs. I shouldnβt have to say this.
09.10.2025 22:16 β π 13436 π 2751 π¬ 258 π 80Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.
07.10.2025 19:17 β π 7506 π 2170 π¬ 136 π 248Among other signs of mental health, yes. Yes I do.
07.10.2025 19:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.
I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]
βTerrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.β
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Just an FYI: Weβre not facing a βgovernment shutdown.β This is a Trump-MAGA Republican shutdown. Call it what it is.
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