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“The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.” Steinem

Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.

On this day in 1944, the Gestapo found Anne Frank and her family in their Secret Annex. Her diary stands as a warning against hatred and persecution. Eighty years later, we should recognize the warning signs before it’s too late.🙂‍↕️

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The election EO appeal is about whether the fedl gov’t can change the rules of voting shortly before the midterms & whether SCOTUS will apply its own precedent consistently. Understanding the arguments is essential to understanding the outcome, so I parse them here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump's Executive Order on Voting: Blue State Attorneys General, and Some Retired Judges, Weigh In

Sunday night in The Week Ahead post, we discussed the Trump administration’s effort to push ahead with implementation of an executive order that would give the federal government greater control over ...

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When I was working the polls for a local school board race, one voter told me that she would vote for “all the women” because she didn’t know enough about the candidates, and unfortunately I couldn’t tell her that one of them was a Moms for Liberty type. Do your research before voting, please

Isn’t it funny how he has more sympathy for predators than he does for victims, even when they’re kids? I wonder why he relates so strongly to the evil in a guy? 🤔 It’s like if Harvey Weinstein were a GOO congressman, he would say “You know they wanted it. I think I’ll make him Defense Secretary.”

There's a great quote from the movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang that feels relevant here: "Badly is an adverb. So to say you feel badly would be saying that the mechanism which allows you to feel is broken."

Meanwhile, it's easier to get crack on the street than hormones/estrogen from a doctor over here in post menopausal land. They want men aggressive and women walking zombies.