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William M.

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Historian, teacher, dad. Equality has to be the presupposition.

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Marsha Blackburn strikes again🀬

11.11.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 πŸ’° WOW β€” @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn snuck a provision into the spending bill that would let them sue the government for $500,000 because Jack Smith looked into their phone records around Trump’s insurrection.

The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

11.11.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1704    πŸ” 875    πŸ’¬ 149    πŸ“Œ 79

He caves all the time

11.11.2025 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe also mention that the tax cuts for Musk etc will trigger $500B in Medicare cuts?

10.11.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

09.11.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 8424    πŸ” 3062    πŸ’¬ 178    πŸ“Œ 170

Was there Koolaid?

09.11.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And your sparkling cat! Must be from Twilight…

08.11.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Constant atrocity

08.11.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a giveaway. Their fundamental idea is that β€œAmerica” is only the white population. They seldom say it, but it’s a basic assumption behind most everything they do say (like the fantasy of β€œillegals voting”). In your case it’s coupled with rage against having their fantasies checked with facts.

08.11.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, I was too stunned by the withholding of food from the hungry to deliver tax cuts for billionaires and double healthcare costs. I’ll be sure to look out for any future signs of class warfare.

08.11.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œYay, a check! Oops, I need a hospitalization. And now I owe $200k!” FAFO, insurance version.

08.11.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We also became a country that does torture

08.11.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

…so we begin with idiocy, and pile on the racist garbage. Again. 🀬

08.11.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🎯It’s a nice intersection of bigotry and idiocy, not understanding what a Speaker is. They hold votes together and strive to not become part of an attack ad in a contested district. They do NOT get out in front; they’re to keep it all togetherβ€”like when Pelosi stopped social security privatization.

08.11.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

07.11.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 16502    πŸ” 5220    πŸ’¬ 801    πŸ“Œ 614

Three of Bush’s lawyers are sitting on the court, adding to the damage

08.11.2025 06:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The extent to which shitty centrist journalism rests on the same thing as Trump, the never-identified "some people say, everyone says" etc. including "critics say" here is a zombie move, lifeless yet vengeful.

07.11.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 282    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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Tell me more about β€˜Sleepy Joe.’

07.11.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 24397    πŸ” 8073    πŸ’¬ 958    πŸ“Œ 448

Well, it just cost us the planet (global warming unaddressed), democracy (Homeland Security and surveillance; trashing of constitutional protections), untold Iraqi lives for an elective war, and debuted three lawyers who would all join SCOTUS to finish the job.πŸ’©πŸ€¬ Just to name a few consequences.

08.11.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Was it a sawed off sandwich?😱 (cut in half)

04.11.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

03.11.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 24672    πŸ” 9302    πŸ’¬ 1372    πŸ“Œ 740

Let’s also recall that, although imperfect, the ACA succeeded after 93 years of healthcare legislation failures. A lifesaving improvement.

02.11.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here β€œFAKE” and β€œfraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

24.10.2025 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 13118    πŸ” 5965    πŸ’¬ 616    πŸ“Œ 510

And a gigantic bubble. What could go wrong?

02.11.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Medicare Advantage: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Medicare Advantage: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Also: avoid the predation by advantage plans.

youtu.be/Ejoi9yfLVCc?...

02.11.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ick

01.11.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Playing in our faces

01.11.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In theory the press are there to create an informed electorate who can then use their votes to move their government in a healthy direction. In practice the press are there to keep the public too ignorant, propagandized and distracted to meddle in the workings of the imperial machine.

31.10.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 286    πŸ” 150    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 11
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

31.10.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 20777    πŸ” 6766    πŸ’¬ 1401    πŸ“Œ 688

Or $40B to Argentina

01.11.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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