“In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families—some who fear for their lives”
“In fairness to insurance executives, people are so selfish with their desire to stay alive that they never stop to consider how their self-centered hospital visits might affect an executive's annual bonus.”
House Republicans are passing around their plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by gutting Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, SNAP, climate policies, and other benefit programs.
CA Governor Gavin Newsom has made a website to help fight the disinformation being spread by Co-President’s Trump and Musk about the Californian wildfires. https://gavinnewsom.com/california-fire-facts/
It's almost impossible to believe he exists. It's as if we took everything that was bad about America, scraped it up off the floor, wrapped it all up in an old hot dog skin, and then taught it to make noises with its face.
‘A few days ago, a Tik Tok creator posted a video where she'd been out and about in public with a T-shirt on that read "Harris 2024" and a man in her little Red town pointed out and said "You are brave wearing that shirt" And she said "Yea?! How does that make you feel knowing that the party you align with is so dangerous that you think I'm brave for wearing this shirt?".’
“Today’s reformers should learn from their forebears, focusing their efforts not only on promoting political candidates, but also on building a grassroots, issues-based movement upon which they and future leaders will be able to draw in order to make lasting change.”
- "The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again" by Robert D. Putnam
"Federal investigators learned of the withdrawal, which has not been previously reported, early in 2019. The discovery intensified a secret criminal investigation that had begun two years earlier with classified U.S. intelligence indicating that Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi sought to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 presidential campaign"
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