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Citizen at Large in the wild spaces of the U.S.A. I'm a freedom advocate and fiction author. www.russlinton.com
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Naw, they gotta waste their breath rationalizing why the support MechaHitler's plarform.
"Husband wins Ohio lottery scratch-off, plans to cover wife's cancer treatment" The United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and should provide universal healthcare. No one should have to win the lottery to afford cancer treatment. www.freep.com/story/money/...
Keep in mind as Trump pushes for military on US streets, this is how they are trained to deal with "crime". No arrest. No trial. No court. All it takes is fuzzy intel and an order. Yes, occupation will lower crime temporarily. Over longterm it only erodes freedom. That's by design.
More of this. Make lying shameful again.
Dems "need to just go at this stuff and they need to *very* personalize it. I would be putting billboards in front of Mike Johnson's church, saying, does Mike Johnson support a pedophile? Child sex trafficker in a Club Fed?" Stuart Stevens joins Tim Miller:
C'mon, Maine! Let's say "Boo!" to Trump in October! rally rally rally @collinswatch.bsky.social @pinetreeactivism.org #Maine #ME
What's wrong is at any time, Dalio and the billionaire class could choose to start contributing to society without waiting for government to force them. They won't.
Might want to find a place with jobs and not on septic / wells to build affordable (multi-unit) housing. The squeeze is coming from AirBnB and profiteering of real estate. Cheaper houses only means more housing stock for those companies and higher profit.
Reps. Ro Khanna (CA) and Thomas Massey (KY), have announced they will have a press conference on Wednesday, September 3, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. Eastern at the U.S. Capitol. They plan to have victims who have never spoken publicly before about Jeffrey Epstein. It should be explosive!
Thank you, South African, for your concern about the West. We're fine. Deport yourself and your harem anytime.
Round up workers at Home Depot and pay a million a day for Americans under military order to do the job yet deploy them for 29 days so the soldiers don't get full benefits. Waste, fraud, abuse anyone?
Billionaire say what? Trump's policies supercharged by Dalio and his ilk are the root cause. He can feel free to divest and contribute to society at anytime.
Prepare for the deployments of Federal Forces in your city with our toolkit: bit.ly/resistancetoolkit
Absolutely opaque answer...
This is a privacy disaster unraveling here in the USA.
NYT reports TRUMP & MODI had a falling out because Modi wouldnāt back Trumpās lie that he brokered the India-Pakistan ceasefire ā a lie šŗšø media has let him get away with with even as Indiaās media has openly mocked him for it. Video: x.com/thetnholler/...
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Happy Labor Day.
Concerning...
Wrote a short story a few years back where that happened. Nobody would buy it, heh. Maybe too "out there"...
Let's go over the reasons why Ghislaine Maxwell is in prisonāand why she absolutely deserves to remain there, unpardoned, with no immunity. You can watch the video or read the captions. We'll do this slowly so everyone can follow along. (1/4)
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
Trump's Ego is a National Security Risk: India Was the Economic Alternative to China. Trump Ended That. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...
Oligarchy got tired of buying the up and coming competition. Now they're just going to bankrupt them to secure their monopolies.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubioās 2016 presidential campaignšš½
Paying people to hone critical thinking skills is uber dangerous, as the GOP well knows...
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
A picture is worth a thousand words! This idiom has words, a picture, and itās worth everything! Two criminals!
Coming soon: Vought and crew run the nation with Deep Fake AI Trump.
Do you agree with JD Vance?
Tell the Smithsonian to protect US history -- refuse to whitewash it by hiding artifacts and changing displays. We must face our past, not hide from it.
New threats from this regime come fast ā we have to move just as quickly. Fighting back against schemes like Trumpās map-rigging takes urgent resources. Your donation makes it possible. Please pitch in if you can: secure.actblue.com/d...
He wonāt let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
The Democratic Party has badly lost its way.
Pffft. Trump wouldn't know science if it shot him in the ear.
Americans once assumed their kids would be better off than they were. But business professor Scott Galloway says today's economic policies work to enrich Boomers and steal from younger generations.
Warfighter.
This is Parker, she was shot in the head in Los Angeles for protesting ICE kidnappings and ethnic cleansing. She recovered and is now back to protesting because in times of fascism nobody can afford to do nothing. āWe need everybodyā āI call for revolution, it starts hereā #3E
He's holding them now as a candidate! www.mobilize.us/grahamformai...
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA āwas never like this before. Thereās a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.ā
@solidaritydept.bsky.social set up a war room for the working class so we can fight back against these billionaires and their twisted ideologies. Check out their massive billionaire database and resources to expose them at classsolidarity.org & find a protest for this Labor Day at maydaystrong.org.
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This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthenās monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Just went to a town hall with Graham. This endorsement is well-deserved. No better candidate to lead Maine! www.wmtw.com/article/bern... @grahamformaine.bsky.social
Just a meet and greet in the neighborhood... @grahamformaine.bsky.social
Umm, no sh!t?
Pro-Union then...pro-union now.
The loss of family farms and local businesses means that the wealth produced in a community no longer stays there.
Iām not sharing this to scare peopleāthough itās fucking terrifying. Iām sharing it because we all need to be on guard. We wonāt be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful. RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific backgroundā¦
That acheivement was unlocked a while back, Scott...
There's been ton of time spent by a lot of folks defending or criticizing Gavin Newsom's mocking and trolling of our ersatz president. Here's a take I hadn't seen yet. Have a listen. #GavinNewsom #whiteprivilege
More and more fleeing for the exits. Damn cowards voted in a cabinet of imbeciles and criminals and are just going to walk away. F-ing unreal.
We're building working-class power, and it's about a lot more than a single election.
Lots of people fleeing the GOP front lines. Almost like they can see the coming reckoning...
Bernie Sanders along with special guests Troy Jackson and Graham Platner are coming to Portland šŗšø See link below for more details on how to register for this event: act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-... #NoKings #NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation #HoldTheLine #TogetherWeCan
Donāt look away
No basis for voting for the brain worm either, Susan.
Thereās a reason Dr. King's historic 1963 rally was called āThe March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.ā As he warned the nation, "We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor." Real freedom requires economic freedom for all.
Senatorial candidate Graham Platner speaking at a recent town hall event in Maine about why he is running to unseat Susan Collins. To find events, check my calendars or go to www.grahamforsenate.com, where you will also find ways to donate and volunteer. #Maine #MEpolitics #GrahamPlatner
This is mental illness.
Note: apparently evidence of said crime is unnecessary...
Welcome to the many, many people who have found this campaign in the last week. My name is Graham Platner and Iām running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy thatās destroying our country. 2,900 volunteers. $1 million raised. In just over a week. Join us.
Every agency must follow suit. If the Dems have any spine, they will not fund the Federal budget and the Fed workforce will be furloughed soon anyway. Shut it down for them.
Crazy thing: as our damaged democracy fights back and ends some of these egregious abuses, Trump will be able to claim in a week "Alligator Alcatraz" was just a Dem smear campaign and his brain dead followers will believe him. I don't want to see people hurt. But none of these lessons will sink in.
INCREDIBLE crowd tonight for our town hall in Hastings, NE at the Back Alley Bakery & Cafe!
I'm watching the news and a man who looks like a stale raisin and sounds like he's gargling razor blades is making medical diagnoses of strangers by physical characteristics alone because, hisrorically, that's always ended well, and I'm thinking "this is normal, yep, nothing to see here."
Only in America do we repeatedly and angrily insist, over the bodies of our dead gunshot children, that guns have nothing to do with gun violence.
When the 1% has extreme wealth that can last for generations to come and 30% of the population can't make ends meet, it is pretty obvious that your economic policy failed.
Shuler: This is the choice working Americans have been given: chaos, or the same broken status quo. We wanted cheaper groceriesāand we got tanks in our streets. We wanted affordable health careāand instead, 16 million Americans are about to be kicked off their coverage
Happening today!! Join us to tell Fox News weāve had enough of them spreading lies! #HoldTheLine #ReleaseTheEpsteinTrumpFiles #FoxTakeDown #TogetherWeCan
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Trump builds a police state while politicians rot in power, money & cruelty. Corporate Dems take the same dirty cash as MAGA fascists. Theyāve sold out We the People for greed and comfort. #PoliceState #Fascism #WeThePeople #CD32 #ChrisAhuja
AMERICA: āItās a mental health issue.ā REST OF THE WORLD: āWe have those. But donāt have mass shootings.ā AMERICA: āItās video games.ā WORLD: āWe have those too. But donāt have mass shootings.ā AMERICA B: āItās cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.ā WORLD: āGod, youāre stupid.ā
In the richest country on Earth, hospitals are closing en masse. In rural Maine youāre driving an hour to the nearest birthing center. The hospital in Blue Hill where I was born is closed. Itās a disaster brought on by decades of pure greed, and nothing short of Medicare for All can turn the tide.
EPSTEIN Epstein Epstein Epstein Government buying stake in private companies: socialism Epstein Epstein Epstein President having stakes in those companies: corruption Epstein Epstein Epstein Worrying about Cracker Barrel logo instead of governing Epstein Epstein Epstein EPSTEIN
UWāMadison researchers have unveiled a scalable, cost-effective process to recycle lithium from spent EV batteriesāwithout the high energy use or chemical waste of current methods. Led by Prof. Kyoung-Shin Choi, the teamās work is already attracting attention from global car & battery manufacturers.
Sanders Will Rally With Maine Challenger to Susan Collins, Graham Platner truthout.org/articles/san...
MADDOW: āWatch what he does, not what he says.ā @maddow.msnbc.com asks the media to zoom out and see Trump firing professionals in law enforcement and the military as a precursor for what heās planning to ask them to do ā and imagine if it was happening in another country.
Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded. Now they want to silence him. electrek.co/2025/08/25/s...
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or canāt afford. Itās about priorities.
Million dollars a day. So glad we cancelled cancer reaearch for this...
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
Too much phone time with Putin. Anybody saying that isn't an American.
www.unfuckamericatour.com Interesting activism by Gen Z...
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
They did this with every system they were given acces to. Garauntee. Every scrap of federal data exposed. www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
Sometimes the sheer idiocy of this moment overwhelms me. The idea that our convicted felon POTUS who incited an attack on DC police then pardoned the attackers & who's the most corrupt official in US history is going on an "anti-crime" ride-along in a city w/falling crime rate is...(brain explodes)
Despite backsliding in the US, global investment in renewable energy stayed strong in the first half of 2025. This is the energy of the future, and the GOP is letting the rest of the world develop it.
Hitler shot himself after they'd lost the war. *After* his war machine was dismantled and Germany reduced to ash. The parallels aren't even applicable. Miller and Vought run this show. And Hegseth will have incredible force under him still as he purges non-loyalists.
Please take the fucking express train...
