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Thank you. Mexico, for standing up for truth snd integrity. We here in America wish many of our corporate leaders could find the decency and courage to do the same.
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i love it when a woman slowly steps out of survival mode and starts to fall in love with life again. when her zest for life comes back and when she starts to notice all the magic and blessings around her, it’s the most beautiful thing to witness.
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
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A romantic evening for a couple of hummingbirds seeking shelter. 🌹
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hey! thank you very much to all my readers for making “it’s time to leave Joe Biden the fuck alone” my first post to receive ten thousand likes!
it’s time to leave Joe Biden the fuck alone
Thank you Heather.
It's important for all to understand that this has been a multi-generational fight for the soul of America. I earlier published that I, among many, tracked it back to the Lewis Powell memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in August of 1971 -a memorandum that everyone should be familiar with at this point. The Powell memo defined the roadmap for a right-wing takeover of the United States. With that as a starting point, the pardoning of Nixon, Reagan's implementation of economics…
We need our own Project 2025. I fear the Republican's have somehow figured out the long game better than the Democrats. Even when the leaders are like Reagan and Trump, there's a vast ground game beneath their wings. The Courts have been very effectively converted to overt partisanship under the gentle hand of the Federalist Society. They use the "Christian Right" for their own purposes and the "Christian Right" has gone along with it. But, at its core, its a program to make sure that the world…
Interestingly -I wrote about this twenty years ago. I warned that the far right had developed something analogous to a centralized machine that had the capability to distribute common messaging using political linguistics well-described by George Lakoff.
From the progressive side, while we had many great organizations and people, we remained heavily siloed. If you were working on gun violence prevention -you were heads down focused on that. Women's reproductive freedom -again heads down on that …
I also find it interesting that the hard right's ground game has enabled so many truly venal creatures to bubble to the surface. It's beyond me to explain how it is possible that a Clarence Thomas survives on the Supreme Court unchallenged. or how, of all things, a Marjorie Taylor Greene can be a thought leader and actually help bring down a Speaker of the House. or how a Ron Johnson can be a lie spewing machine for years on end and still be re-elected. This tells me that the rot runs deep. And…
It is not hard to understand this way beyond behavior when you look at the unquestioned thought process is behind it if you can call them thought. They are beliefs and sconced in both capitalism which is divisive and profit over people oriented, and religion which wants you to believe just one way or else. They both get permission for such behaviors because people think their beliefs trump everything else, put them beyond the Civic pale so to speak.
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Still waking up every day with the knowledge that I might not survive long enough to see peace, but I have to fight for it anyway.
If survival stops being a privilege for me, I only ask one thing:
Please, don’t let our story disappear.
I know you won’t.
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I thought this worth sharing from a woman Wun Dum Fuc believes no longer to be hot. Yet here she is speaking in joined up sentences telling the truth to the next generation of young people who if MAGA get their way will be denied the rights their parents and grandparents fought for.
This is a women who encapsulates the American Dream and …
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