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“You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, cross-grained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.” - Aristophanes, The Knights
POS!
The West Coast has formed a health alliance to protect themselves from RFK JR. /
Jasmine Crockett: “The president literally said he would look at anyone who decided they were going to vote to release the Epstein Files as hostile. We don’t swear to an Orange King. Instead, we have sworn an oath to the Constitution.”
The guy that ordered 8 fighter jets to perform a low altitude fly-over in an effort to drown out Epstein survivors is the same guy who wants you to believe he's innocent.
Go Jon! We must keep this dynamic leader in the Senate, but the Trumpinistas are seriously backing another disgusting Orc to run against him. Please send Jon some love $, if you possibly can.
They love to take from the less fortunate #reverserobinhood
Whatever happened to spontaneous combustion?
HIV science
WAKE UP! The survivors of Jeffrey Epstein deserve justice. They deserve to be heard. Today at 10:30 AM EST / 7:30 AM PST, they’re speaking live at a press conference. The system tried to bury the truth, but these voices are rising anyway. Watch. Share. Don’t look away. (Link in 🧵)
"The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival." -Noam Chomsky
Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
Absolutely heart wrenching If you can listen to their ordeals including the brother of the woman who took her life without tearing up, you aren’t like me… #Releasethefiles #saytheirnames #GuardiansOfPedophilia youtu.be/MmUO3I7QDZU?...
Jasmine Crockett GOES OFF on Ghislaine Maxwell "She's a Monster"
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“Vulgarity is an old Narcissus who adores himself and applauds the common vulgarity.” - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables “Perhaps vulgarity is the price one pays for possessing no civilization of one's own.” - Robert Payne
“That’s it, plain and simple. Put a bow on it.” @jessicatarlov.bsky.social says the message Dems should carry is Trump and republicans have made life more expensive for regular folks and is cutting their health care, all to cut taxes for the rich and make the rich richer.
Yes, greed for DEMOCRACY!
Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: “This president doesn’t care about gun violence. He just wants his own secret police force that would do publicty stunts whenever his poll numbers are sinking. That’s what this is about.”
Good morning to you 🌞 from the Southern Coast on the
100 VICTIMS is astounding. Even more astounding, that's less than 10% of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.
What a surprise…NOT!
Finally, awakening and resistance from the heartland…Jack Nelson is “burning my red hat”… www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtt-...
And I share it!
accountable......
🚨Governor Pritzker is calling Stephen Miller OUT! 👏🏻The👏🏻Cruelty👏🏻is👏🏻the📌
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
"The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival." -Noam Chomsky
My exact reaction...
www.linkedin.com/posts/mrkgre...
Editor’s column: Blackburn’s role in opioid crisis overshadows her crack pipe concerns… tennesseelookout.com/2022/02/21/e...
open.substack.com/pub/centered...
If Trump weren't TOO CORRUPT & FEEBLE to stand up to his buddy Putin, this would never have happened. The EU and this woman have MORE FORTITUDE & FIGHT than feeble McCankles. Read "Plane carrying EU’s top leader targeted by alleged Russian GPS jamming" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-67uNRLzy/4...
I just feel #RAGE 24/7
The Epstein Files: She was 17. A ballerina. Her mom was battling a brain tumor. Danielle Bensky was recruited into Jeffrey Epstein’s network, where she says there were eyewitnesses everywhere — housekeepers, security, friends, even a maid who walked her upstairs. #EpsteinTrump
I Was Always Clear
This vile administration tried to deport children, in the middle of the night, to Guatemala. CHILDREN!
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
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Lest we forget.
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @andertoon.bsky.social )
“Our President” is NOT fighting crime - he is committing crime, squandering OUR treasury for his squalid and malevolent fascist theater, to appease the worst elements, in criminal efforts to secure the very unquestioned and bogus power he so lusts after.
“You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!” -Mehmet Murat Ildan
“When you legitimize yourself entirely by inventing enemies, the truth ceases to matter, normal restraints of civilization and decency cease to matter, the checks and balances of normal politics cease to matter.” -Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
"It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in the great controversy. His sophistry lessens the obligation of the divine law and gives men license to sin." -Ellen G. White
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Good night 🌙 and….
#DebunkHisLies
…especially if it is to a vacation destination, on our dime.
CLAPBACKS🤬
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
Jack Daniel’s sales down over 60% as the Canadian Boycott continues… Cheers 🍻 MAGAMORONS!! apple.news/AZ_0Mi0T3QUy...
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
“The law is not meant to be a set of tools for oppression.” – Thomas Jefferson “Law without reason is criminal.” - Criss Jami, Healology “For the common good” is the most common excuse for uncommon evil.” - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins." - William Pitt “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” - Tom Paine
“Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion-Henry Wallace
"The inability to grasp the pathology of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults." - Chris Hedges “...the hopeless sense of a civilization destroyed for nothing; the knowledge that we could have prevented it and did not.” - Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism.” -Quentin R. Bufogle NRA Was 'Foreign Asset' To Russia Ahead of 2016, [2019] Senate Report Reveals www.npr.org/2019/09/27/7...
Bears repeating
Truth 👇
The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town overwhelmingly won election this week, four years after white residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve.
Stephen King says it all...
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
The President of Portugal has information that you do not.
I guess Joni will just be sitting around waiting to die now. 😉
Yes this 👇🏻
Fighting back with his knowledge of the Law.
