Yer doing great!

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Used to be disgusted, tried to be amused. Back to disgusted now. Civil (mostly) servant, cat dad, and democracy enthusiast. Resist and persist!

Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.

Ghislaine Maxwell abused young women & girls alongside Epstein for years. As young as 14. In multiple states. Convicted in a federal court. She belongs behind bars. I’m beyond disgusted that any of our colleagues would suggest a pardon. The real question is why has no one else been convicted?

Oversight members split over whether to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, committee chair says

The only convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein has said she would testify to Congress if granted clemency — a power held solely by the president.

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Rename everything with Cesar Chavez’s name on it to be named after Dolores Huerta. And rename everything with Donald Trump’s name on it to be named after E. Jean Carroll—or one of his many, many other victims.

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Ted Lieu: “Dear Brendan Carr — If you implement your flagrantly anti First Amendment actions, you will be sued & you will lose — And legal discovery will be awesome. Because the American people can then find out what the Administration keeps hiding Take your fascist shit & shove it”

U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) speaks from a lectern. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Rallying around a white guy while saying he's the only one who can win is also identity politics, but America pretends it isn't because the dominant culture sees "white male" as the default identity we should all admire and aspire to emulate.

AOC: ICE funding should be cut…The cuts to your healthcare are what’s paying for this…ACA subsidies and a trillion dollars in health care was taken out and given to ICE…You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face… www.youtube.com/shorts/0VVhS...

They Gut Your Healthcare to Pay for ICE Thugs to Shoot Moms in the Street | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

YouTube video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

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