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USA's oligarchic. Socialist, eclectic. Lefty since 15yo. #climatecrisis #BLM #PremierLeague #baseball Right wing populism is a scam; it's undemocratic fascism!

Madison, WI

Joined April 2011

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@dougiepen

Douglas Pensack

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Lots of talk about alleged "cognitive decline" shown by both major Presidential candidates. TBO, I'm lots more concerned about cognitive decline shown by 10s of MILs of American voters who STILL think a proudly ignorant, racist slumlord, orange rodeo clown should lead our nation!

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4 years

@JulianCastro @FBKOLI Kudos to you. Murderer of Laquan MacDonald had worked for more than one dept. While we're at it, how about a data base of Klan & white supremacists in police depts, or would that list be too long?

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@philosophrob @Brokenf8 Of course, very little of this money will ever be needed or used by these "families" for living expenses--even lush living. Its main purpose is for power to influence business & buy govt officials

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7 years

Tell it, sister!

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@GOP The "build the wall" Trump voters in TX are the MAIN ones in the Home Depot parking lots looking for Mexican "day laborers" right now.

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@covidtweets @BNOFeed Don't go on a cruise for one thing. Duh....

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5 years

@Will_Bunch @MtnMD Trump administration proves that they can always come up with someone even worse than the one just discarded...

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3 years

@trom771 @NancyMace Like the little dog yipping at the chained-up big dog *just* beyond the range of the chain....😉

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@KaivanShroff I'm pretty glad no one in media was interested in ME when I was 19yo....or that there was no social media, either....😁

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12 years

@realDonaldTrump @RealSheriffJoe @BarackObama Time to adjust your meds, Donny boy. The delusions are back!

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Douglas Pensack

2 years

Rand Paul says there should be NO "no fly list" for airlines for those who disrupted flights over masking. His SON was convicted of assaulting a flight attendant...or as described on . @StephMillerShow today: "the bag doesn't fall far from the douche"! 😆

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7 years

@docrocktex26 @montanamissoula Biggest mistakes of post-Civil War era: not punishing Rebel leaders, not disenfranchising those who fought 4Confederacy, & not crushing KKK

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2 years

@VoteBlueIn2020 @jackson_reffitt You do know that even spousal privilege doesn't PROHIBIT a spouse from giving evidence of a spouse's crime, just prevents coercion of same? Every citizen has responsibility to society, not just to his or her family. Why we are a civilization, not just warring small tribes.

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@stucam7771 Germans have confronted their sordid past genocide FAR better than has the USA. Thefe's a Holocaust Memorial in the middle of Berlin...& in other locations. Where are our national monuments to slavery & slaughter of Native Americans on whose land we live? School curriculum?

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@Doc_Holiday_B @bozzione I have PLENTY of "disdain" for American foreign policy & political cateting to oligarchy, not for America. Why am I here? Like most critics of RW skullduggery, I was born here

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@Realmommabear @JacquelineHine1 One of motivators for these vicious right wing states: save $ on unemployment by cutting off ppl afraid to go back w/insufficient testing & supplies.

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3 years

@LeonardMould @PriscillaJudd Retweet it? #nope Why? So that many ppl will be afraid to protect themselves on basis of one case's anecdotal "evidence"? Do you KNOW your clot was caused by the vaccine? If so, will you also post how RARE that is? #Covid_19 only effect isn't death--also long-term organ damage.

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7 years

Every time you think this shit show can't do anything any more stupid, they keep showing that they can....hot, damn! 😂😲

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7 years

Apparently Trump's staff isn't aware this is the Titanic theme song. Or are they just trolling?!

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3 years

Heard on . @StephMillerShow today: "College-educated white women mad they're being lumped in w/non-college-educated white women who largely support (right winger reaction). But, black women don't need 2b College-educated to know who are domestic terrorists!" Excellent!

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2 years

@ZaxxonGalaxian @anothercohen Yes, about Red Lobster. But, Olive Garden is an abomination. They should immediately close, & issue an apology to all Italians and to every authentic Italian restaurant. 😉

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6 years

@krassenstein @TenceWolfe @NBCNews Then he can move from un-indicted co-conspirator to INDICTED conspirator!

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Douglas Pensack

2 years

@Greg_Palast @mikedrichman Reminder: the Republican Party has ALWAYS supported making voting difficult, particularly for workers and minorities. This was true BEFORE Trump, & b4 Goldwater. This is old fight, led by party which always had trouble appealing to the lower classes--b4 Southern Strategy anyway.

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8 years

Particularly suspicious were high # of defective, malfunctioning voting machines in Detroit (where Trump votes Shud be scarce) 😉

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The reason why they canned the #recount was #Trump was absolutely losing #Michigan #Recount2016 #RecountMI #BDMCB

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3 years

Uh, huh. 😉

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10 months

Heard on . @StephMillerShow : "Libertarians are like house cats. They think they're totally independent, yet they are fully dependent upon a system they dislike and don't understand."

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4 years

"What the coronavirus and Donald Trump have in common? They're both oddly shaped & are disproportionately harmful to minorities!" - John Oliver

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5 years

@mags_mclaugh @johnpike15 Right wingers refuse to recognize or admit the damage--including generational--oligarchic income inequality has wrought on USA over the last 2 generations...

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2 years

@Ring_Sheryl Real leftists know that racism is a prime tool for dividing & ruling the working class, to blunt the class struggle against capitalism. NO tolerance of racism! Period.

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2 years

@highbrow_nobrow Not only is their thinking "fact free"...so are their lies.

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7 years

@Freeyourmindkid USA has had a "terrorism" problem LONG b4 there were radical Islamists, & perps were almlst exclusively white "Christians"...🤔😐

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5 years

@tribelaw @JeffreyToobin Just think. If we had just actually listened to Anita Hill, we might have avoided this backwardness from the highest court.

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Douglas Pensack

7 years

Chicago just posted all the climate data deleted by Trump’s EPA.

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5 years

@shannonrwatts @thedrake30 Is he supposed to be YOUR President, or is he supposed to be THE President...?? Also, "cival"??

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2 years

Michael Cohen says Donald Trump told him if one of his kids had to go to prison to 'make sure' it was Donald Jr., not Ivanka #SmartNews

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2 years

@ShannyPersists Sorry for you and him. But it sounds as if it was peaceful for him, and there are FAR worse ways to go, including asphyxiating with COVID pneumonia.

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2 years

@wowinteresting8 In the USA, they'd have to spend a year picking the right corrupt company to build it. Then that company would take another year to build it, insuring a triple X cost over-run to make super profits from the public coffers....😡

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1 year

@JessicaValenti Yeah. Far better the sign should say: "you're a pedophile, in danger of prosecution".

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5 months

@kerrikgray @LUpthegrove @elonmusk So....the world's richest man lost a little money. Hardly the end of the world....or bad, at all.

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4 years

@tyrion1 It's as if they think their God King magically blew it all away with his orange breath....It ain't over rubes, which you'll find out soon enough

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5 years

@TheDailyShow @penndragonArt Not only crap but cold???

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4 years

@JacquelineMPor2 @OliviaSofiaGram It isn't your "job" to report possible profiteering in an DIRE EMERGENCY. It is a citizen's DUTY.

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6 years

@Travon This also illustrates that a corrupt, racist, classist system isn't fundamentally reformed simply by putting racial minorities &/or women in positions of authority

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3 years

@Homeoffree61 Honor code doesn't work with ppl who have no honor.

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1 year

How strange is that those yelling the loudest about "freedom" seem to end up defending the freedom to starve, or be homeless, or injured at work the most? 🤔 Free speech or even the right to vote means little to those who can't afford life-saving meds, or a decent home, or food.

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5 years

I SWEAR that fewer than 1p% of #MAGA ts could give you a coherent definition of socialism that would earn a D or better in Poli Sci class. To them, it's just a synonym for "bad"--like gun control or mandatory education...

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Douglas Pensack

7 years

@CheriJacobus If it's a battle between #Trump trying to stifle the media & #CNN , I have to be w/CNN. But don't forget #Trump probably wouldn't be President if CNN hadn't legitimized him in debates, & gave him $BILs in free campaign publicity.

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Douglas Pensack

4 years

My favorite description of his physical demeanor was on . @StephMillerShow - "He clung to that podium like it was the door in the water after the sinking of the Titanic..."

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Cranked up, most likely on stimulants and Levodopa, Trump struggled all night with body jerking, teeth baring, arm trembling and a podium death grip. His dementia Tour de Force climaxed with this neurological body jerk/spasm.

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9 years

How far? From whom? For whom? / MT " @slackadjuster : RAND PAUL " I Want To Take My Country Back " #CantStandRand http://t.co/3EgAF3oVK7"

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7 years

Has Russian Ambassador EVER been at either of the major parties' conventions before 2016 (@ GOP's)? Why was he there, w/whom did he meet?

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4 years

@ZaxxonGalaxian @LizMair At least the "L" train goes directly into O'Hare Airport

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Douglas Pensack

7 years

Absolutely! #Cheetolini will come & he will go, but fight of wealthy to oppress every1 else is eternal

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@GOP This is abt furtherance of a sociopathic, fascist agenda. It's bigger than one fake ass POTUS, they're propping him up to save a worldview.

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2 years

@Bella2Gia @_ashawndabney As a descendant of immigrants from England and Poland, I wholeheartedly support teaching really true history: i.e., that our nation is responsible for one genocide, & co-responsible for another.

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6 years

@adamcbest @MettaFilms Is it "wanting a better car" or more like "wanting one w/4 wheels which also runs"?

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2 years

@PhredWrites @sellwithmarcy @Victorshi2020 Everyone has their own motivations...whatever works, right? Seriously, SS cuts would adversely affect many families--including those w/disabilities who aren't seniors.

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2 years

@AmandaLarreni So you support electric cars now?...and billionaire vanity space projects?

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5 years

@CNNPolitics So THAT is the GOP definition of "politically correct"? Not-racist? Thanks for clarifying that for me....

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4 years

@1980Dorothy @TessaLightsItUp No masks? 😉

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5 years

@Noel_Dolor @BNONews @pinoytapsilog @AlisonPereiraPH @TigerbasRichard @tweetmetomcruz @Dutertenomics @YesYesYo13 @adamgarriereal @OysonMike @IAmDavidYapII @ericarreza It didn't "need" them in 1973 either

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4 years

@BethLynch2020 Common European response: "we are still amazed that any of this is controversial, let alone that you have to fight for it"

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@LiveOnMBC @EdKrassen I agree that it should have been agreed upon before the "date" started. Then HE would have discovered who SHE was, and not wasted his time.

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@zei_squirrel @_EarnieBanks If Lil' Elon did read Das Kapital, he didn't get much from it--or else he realized that "class consciousness" in his case meant identifying with and protecting the capitalist ruling class.

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4 years

Mayor of Georgia coastal town assails governor's 'reckless mandate' to reopen the state's beaches #SmartNews

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8 years

#YouMightBeARepublican if you rant endless abt poor ppl nickel & diming welfare but oblivious to #BigPharma ripping off Medicare for $BILs

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8 years

Isn't it amazing that Iowa police are capable of arresting an ARMED white cop-killer suspect w/out shooting him??

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7 years

@Chief_Tatanka Thanksgiving is typical example of how US history is softened & white-washed. We teach kids to feel good that white settlers ate ONCE w/Native Americans but not to feel shame for the next 3 centuries of genocide

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@sphynxbtc @EdKrassen You're an "entrepreneur", but can't afford to pay for 1/2 a meal? Right....

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5 years

@PalmerReport I thought AR15s were only for hunting...? Or do they mean hunting political opponents....? Maybe we need to Q them harder about the kind of "hunting" they mean....

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2 years

@ra_rabble @UnholyRom3 If anti-imperialism is considered "woke", then I'm proud to be woke!

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Douglas Pensack

2 years

@charliegirl0527 @Atul_Gawande @JustJul87741611 Actually, it wasn't CDC that gave up on this one. It was a Trump-appointed right wing judge who ruled AGAINST the CDC. It may be appealed.... (?)

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3 years

@marcgoldstein_ @atrupar My favorite take on her? Seth Meyers showed a picture of M T Greene with her big gun, then said, "Republicans in Congress gave her a standing ovation but knowing her proclivities, it'd be smarter to hit the floor!" 😂😂

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2 years

@EclecticRadical I believe it was Bertrand Russell who said, "World War I, when parents gleefully sent their sons off to slaughter, taught us how limited our love of our children really is...." 😥

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Douglas Pensack

6 years

@edwardnelson4tn @jack From beginning of American republic, conservatives have feared "the mob", believe in stewardship of an elite. They don't believe in democracy. For them, political priority has always been to protect their economic dominance 1st, everything else 2nd.

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6 years

@AngelaBelcamino @TomiLahren Wonder what "opportunity" this evil woman thinks the accuser will gain from coming forward...other than the chance to be savaged by Reich Wingers?

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6 years

@herky16 @JohnFugelsang Can't "forget" something which never happened & is an egregious lie

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Douglas Pensack

2 years

@sharonmfletcher @klutchycsuf @ThomasSowell Except voting is a RIGHT, not a discretionary purchase. If ppl want to put obstacles in ppls' paths to vote, we must ask "why"? The Republican motive is obvious. A truly democratic society would encourage, simplify & facilitate voting, no?

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All my adult life, when informed I'm a socialist, I've been confronted with "you're just jealous of the rich". I always say "no, no one (including me) should be rich". They usually are incredulous, can't "get it". They've been brainwashed from a very young age.

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The only people who think socialism is about envy are people who know their wealth is stolen from the people who created it.

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5 years

@TeaPainUSA That tired line also obscures the fact that rape is as much (or more) about power and dominance than about sexual attraction.

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4 months

@DeaconBlues0 She didn't fully expand her question. I'll help: "why would right wing extremist Christian fundamentalists send their daughters to college"? (BTW, from age 18yo on, ppl are legal adults; they could attend college, no matter how nutso their parents.)

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3 years

@duty2warn Why do they have to carry a sign "not for me!"? Who's forcing them? Oh....they want to stop OTHERS from getting it, too. Got it.

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@brianschatz @Bennyvessey 1. Medicare has its own tax; it doesn't contribute to deficit. Period. 2. Medicaid is miniscule in comparison to tax breaks for rich & war spending. If you're worried about wasteful spending, why hasn't the Pentagon EVER been audited???

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1 year

@SpeakerMcCarthy @HouseIntel So, Little Kevin. Cheap revenge & performative nonsense is your whole 2-yr agenda, huh? 🖕

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6 years

As disgusting as Wayne LaPierre is, you should listen to his speech to CPAC. (I just posted it from Periscope) #NRA isn't just a pro-gun organiz under his leadership. It's an Alt-Right, pro-oligarch, pro-militia group: attacks intelligence agencies but has no prob w/Patriot Act

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5 years

@JoeNBC @AOC Newt doesn't know his history, which should surprise no one, or is purposefully lying, which also is no shocker. "Any other era"?? Really. For 1st 150 yrs of US existence, borders were mostly open, far less restrictive than now.

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7 years

"I can't take my eyes off anything in your Presidency, Mr. Trump. It's like watching a snake swallow democracy!" - Stephen Colbert

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@njspeers @Acyn 😆😆Kim Jung Un has 99.9% "support" in N Korea, too! Dictators are "supported"....or else!

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@Scout_Finch @DemsFight4U Undoubtedly will be the first of many this round of govt skullduggery & ineptitude. Republicans in govt are like the Keystone Cops....

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3 years

@KwikWarren From the Tammy Faye Sherwin Williams Collection... 😉

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8 years

. @dbhyslop @resnikoff Even easier if Nixon had had Fox News, Breitbart, Infowars, et al to spread disinformation & false equivalencies

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5 years

@michaelharriot History note: ALL Senators were voted in by state legislatures until 1913

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8 years

We can only hope they are in time despite American obstruction...

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Likewise, America and the world aren't going to keep propping up fossil fuels and killing the planet just so White dudes can avoid change.

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. @Greg_Palast Thanks for all you do for us, keeping us informed about the things the rich & powerful want to remain unknown! 😘👍

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9 years

Guess we'll find out how much RWers truly believe in states rights now, huh?

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9 years

Washington AG's Office prevails in defending background check voter initiative #MomsDemand http://t.co/7QaQksZoLS

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@hamdia_ahmed There is a very weak social ethic in America. People are encouraged & rewarded for being selfish. Clearly, young people who have been raised to consider the community would be concerning about SPREADING THE DISEASE--1 in which 25% infected have NO symptoms--not just catching it!

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7 years

My step-mother passed away today. RIP Enid. Lovely lady, quite a wit. 😔

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5 years

Nation with Crumbling Bridges and Roads Excited to Build Giant Wall

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7 years

This is an excellent point. GOP can no longer exist as a national party w/free & fair elections.

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1. WaPo says #Trump won because "fewer blacks voted." They left out that Black folk TRIED to vote and were blocked

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2 years

"2 men"? Sponsored by a hard right "think tank". In its ppl, WI is a moderate, progressive minded state. B/c right wingers hi-jacked the legislature, tho, we are one go Governor away from becoming "Mississippi North". Pathetic.

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Two men in Wisconsin brought a lawsuit against the use of ballot drop boxes. The Wisconsin Supreme Court just sided with them. No more drop boxes.

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@DocAtCDI Umm....is this satire, or do I need to block you? 🤔

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4 years

@Allison_Burnett Republican incompetence & egregious, craven indifference is a clear & present damage to the nation....& the world!

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I don't know why right wingers are so aghast that some people are demanding we "defund the police"? Their main mission for 40 years is to defund the entire govt...except the parts that shoot citizens (in our country & in others)....

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