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@GottaLaff

Wonder how many other POTUSes ever triggered a recession immediately on taking office.

I mean, he wasn't even POTUS for 20 of the 90 days. That's how destructive he is.

#ThisIsAmericaNow

CIS WARRIORS: FIGHT FOR TRANS PEOPLE. THEY ARE YOUR COMRADES.

IF YOU ARE TRANS, YOU ARE FIGHTING FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR COMMUNITY AND THERE IS NO WORTHIER BATTLE. YOU ARE A CHAMPION.

Want to thank Grassroots Joe @joeinwynnewood for calling attention to this very interesting discussion between Simon Rosenberg and Joe Trippi:

https://open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc/p/on-the-power-of-networks-with-joe

In a nutshell, Trippi is saying we are getting our clocks cleaned because we do not own the networks. We are "renting" not owning, and we can therefore be evicted or subject to the owner's rules. The only answer they agree is to build our own open public networks.

Fortunately, we have a nascent one right here.

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On The Power Of Networks With Joe Trippi (Video), Thune Becomes Senate Majority Leader, Behold The Senate Dem Freshman Class!!!!

Hopium Hits Los Angeles This Friday at 6pm PT/Welcome New Subscribers!

Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg

“The stumbling stones document what larger memorials cannot show: that the terror began not in far-off Poland, but in the heart of a city full of clubs and cafés, spaces where you can still buy a lottery ticket or go to the dentist."

~ Susan Neiman, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil, p. 276

Neiman is writing re: the "stumbling stones" now found in German (and other cities), commemorating Holocaust victims.

#Nazis #fascism #cruelty #Holocaust
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"Each four-inch square recalls an ordinary human being, in the midst of her life, who was deported and murdered with little notice and no protest from the other ordinary human beings who surrounded her every day. The terror was here.”

#Nazis #fascism #cruelty #Holocaust
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein

Stolperstein - Wikipedia

Privatized Schools Will End Democracy - The billionaire purpose is to do away with schools existing as a core function of democracy and stand up privately held, sectarian and theocratic version of publicly funded education. https://tultican.com/2024/10/30/privatized-schools-will-end-democracy/ #EducationMatters
Privatized Schools Will End Democracy

By Thomas Ultican 10/30/2024 America’s founders believed in a need to educate the populace, especially second and third presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. They believed that the only way …

tultican

He is old.
He is weird.
He is vulgar.
He is unwell.
He is violent.
He is hateful.
He is extreme.
He is confused.
He is disgusting.
He is controlled by billionaires.
He is controlled by foreign powers.

He is unfit to be President of the United States of America.

Sarasota: Christian Ziegler “Prowled” Bars to Find Female Partners to Bring Home to Bridget - Odd that Bridget should take such a loud anti-LBGTQ+ stance considering her obvious lust of other women. https://dianeravitch.net/2024/05/18/sarasota-christian-ziegler-prowled-bars-to-find-female-partners-to-bring-home-to-bridget/ via @dianeravitch #hypocrites
Sarasota: Christian Ziegler “Prowled” Bars to Find Female Partners to Bring Home to Bridget

The Daily Beast posted startling news from a Sarasota police report. The Ziegler power couple sought out women for their threesomes. Bridget Ziegler was a co-founder of Moms for Liberty and an outs…

Diane Ravitch's blog

three pillars of trumpism

racism

fear of the other

nihilism/endtimes

Economically speaking, the Civil War happened over whether or not the government would continue to permit white people to own Black people as property.

Nikkki Haley thinks that it was over the fact that the government *shouldn’t* tell you what to do economically.

Pro-slavery. She has to be.