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Liberal USAF vet. Our country needs much stronger anti-corruption laws. Rock&Jazz& Edgar Allan Poe; Paul Westerberg has a dyslexic heart, I have a dyslexic head
Joined Oct 2022
“By shedding light on the mistreatment suffered by single mothers of that time, [The Price of Children] invites all women to defend those civil rights which, today, are questioned in many parts of the world.” —Vanity Fair
The Price of Children by Maria Laurino
Between 1950 and 1970, the Vatican and the American Catholic Church sent nearly four thousand Italian children to the U.S.for adoption. The moms were lied to, told the baby died, etc
Bix: Is my heart strong enough to read my new book?
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who is the left wing Joe Rogan?
who is the left wing Elon Musk?
who is the left wing Alex Jones?
who is the left wing Federalist Society?
this list is very long
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my wife is pissed at me
She's smart, pays attention and a lifelong Democrat. When she asks me how we fight this last election I don't have good answers. The Democrats need an equal or better bullhorn to flood the media. The GOP has spent about 40 years creating theirs, with the help of some very wealthy backers. It's not just FOX and Sinclair any more. It's all the others like OAN & RSBN & TikTok and the major social media platforms and the Bro podcasts and things of which I'm not aware.
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PROTIP: Get a Proton Mail account and then install Proton Bridge locally and configure your email client of choice to work with that.
You're welcome.
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I deactivated my Twitter account on Nov. 6th.
Someone that I followed for 8 years, "That is what the Dems get for ruining women's sports." [Note, I was shocked that it worked with this guy.]
The oligarchs don't give a fig about women's sports, but voters bought it.
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Blaming Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and Democrats for screwing up an election that they coulda-shoulda-woulda won is the utmost in denial. Like it or not (and I absolutely hate it) we have enough selfish, misogynistic, racist folks among us from every state, ethnicity, and age group to hand America to a convicted felon fascist. Ignorance played a huge part in this. If you want to blame the media for their part, go ahead, but our neighbors, coworkers, and our family members did this. #Politics
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It's hard to know what to do at this point when nobody really knows how this disaster will play out.
Joshua Foust at Blue Sky:
When is the last time a pundit demanded republicans try to court liberals or progressives?
That this goes in only one direction speaks to both the bad faith of the project and the imagined starting point of the pundit. It’s self-refuting.
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Why more and more American women are moving abroad…(not a huge surprise):
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I keep hearing, “Not permitted under the law.” These people don’t get it. That doesn’t matter anymore. The law will be what Trump says it is. We’re in the upside down.
And we’re not the only victims. The world will suffer from his corruption and incompetence.
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@Bix In defense on failing to educate people.. many tried and many Maga do not value education.
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@Bix and if you're anti one time use coffee pods, they make the refillable ones for nespresso too.
The Democrat strategy, very slow walking prosecuting Trump as a spy, because they thought he would be easy to beat.
My 1st morning with a Nespresso coffee.
If you can afford it, the pods cost more than K-cups, the coffee is way better.
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@Bix it's not only on his shoulders though. The doj did zero before during and after the shift of the Republican party into autocratic leaning domestic terrorist monsters...
Trump should never have been a candidate again. We are so fucked now. The rest of the world is either gasping or laughing at the melting pot that is now the new Trump 'Merica.
Rape is normalized and humor to these monsters. They love Russia and friends. Trump wants to join the evil axis.
It's dark days, friend.
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I have tried to describe why and how people who feel slighted come to accept pathologies – racism, homophobia, misogyny, ethnic nationalism, and religious bigotry – which, under conditions of greater equality, they would reject.
It is those material conditions for a healthy, stable democracy that the United States lacks today. America has come to be singularly defined by its massive wealth inequality, a phenomenon that cannot but undermine social cohesion and breed resentment
~ Jason Stanley
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Liberal USAF vet. Our country needs much stronger anti-corruption laws. Rock&Jazz& Edgar Allan Poe; Paul Westerberg has a dyslexic heart, I have a dyslexic head
Joined Oct 2022