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lifelong reader, writer, storyteller, story devourer, book reviewer - whether in the form of books, movies, tv, or gaming #amwriting #encouragemelol

Joined January 2023
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Steven retweeted
Sarah Huckabee Sanders just told The View that Arkansas’s minimum wage is “about $15 an hour.” It’s $11. Someone should probably tell the governor of Arkansas.
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Replying to @MAGACult2
Megyn Kelly isn’t even buying it anymore. MAGA is a dying cult. lol
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🚨 RED ALERT RED ALERT RED ALERT: The first seeds for J6: Part II, were just sown. Don’t you dare bite again.
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I don’t want to get even. I don’t want revenge. I want justice. I want justice for the American people, whose government Donald Trump was entrusted to serve, not exploit. And this does not begin and end with January 6. I want justice for Americans whose votes he tried to overturn. For public servants threatened because they would not put his demands above their duty. For officers attacked defending the constitutional transfer of power. But I also want justice for American businesses forced to pay emergency tariffs he imposed without lawful authority. Justice for families who had to pay this illegal consumer tax. Their money was real. The damage to their livelihoods was real. Howard Lutnick's family getting rich off the tariffs was real. Presidential power does not include the right to reach into Americans’ pockets without legal authorization. I want an accounting of the private fortunes being made around public power. The crypto ventures. The foreign money. The business relationships that leave Americans wondering whose interests their president is actually serving. Trace the money. Identify the buyers. Establish what they received. If access was sold, expose it. If an official act was purchased, prosecute it. If people were defrauded, pursue restitution and accountability. And as much I currently despise Trump supporters, that includes them too. Voting for a man does not mean you deserve to be exploited by him. Your loyalty is not permission to take your money or betray your trust. I want justice for Epstein’s survivors. They deserve protection, truth, and accountability. Not another fight to discover whether powerful people will ever be made to answer. Release the rest of the files. Protect survivors’ identities. Investigate any evidence that officials concealed wrongdoing or obstructed justice, whoever it implicates. Republican or Democrat. Their suffering is not a partisan possession. Their rights are not negotiable to protect somebody’s reputation. I want an accounting of how our national secrets were handled. Those records concern the security of the American people. They were never one man’s belongings to retain, display, or dispose of as he pleased. I want foreign policy examined wherever public duty and private business intersect. Americans deserve to know whether decisions affecting our allies, our security, and our service members were made for this country or for the financial interests of the people making them. And wherever there is credible evidence of unlawful killing, torture, or war crimes, investigate it. No invocation of presidential authority or national security should end the inquiry before the evidence is heard. Not every destructive policy is a crime. That distinction matters. So does refusing to use that distinction as an excuse to investigate nothing. We are the people to whom an accounting is owed. This is our treasury. Our government. Our security. Our votes. Our Constitution. The injuries to this republic are injuries to its people. Calling our demand for justice “revenge” does not make those injuries disappear. It asks us to accept them quietly. I will not. The spirit of 1776 was not that one powerful man could demand our submission. It was that government derives its authority from the people and must answer for how that authority is used. So preserve the records. Put witnesses under oath. Follow the money. Bring every charge the evidence supports. Give every accused person due process, and impose lawful consequences wherever guilt is proven. No fabricated charges. No punishment by decree. No exceptions purchased with money, influence, or a devoted following. I do not want a government that persecutes my enemies. I want a government that refuses to protect its own from the law. We are not subjects asking a ruler for mercy. We are citizens demanding an answer for what was done with the power we entrusted to him. And justice is not too much to ask.
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Steven retweeted
Not once in my life has a Muslim tried to force Sharia law on me. But I’ve spent my entire life watching Christians try to turn their religious beliefs into laws I’m forced to live by. The religious takeover I was warned to fear isn’t coming from Muslims.
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I didn't vote to get even. I didnt vote for revenge. I voted for justice.
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Just like clockwork. The corporations that we VOTED to block from buying off politicians are suing to make sure...they can keep buying off politicians.
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Steven retweeted
Replying to @mkolken
Here you go buddy, hopefully this helps
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I apologize Dr. Annie Andrews… I was unfamiliar with your game
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Steven retweeted
Wait, let me make sure I've got this right. NYC Mayor Mamdani taxed wealthy people on second homes they don't live in, the city's budget got balanced, the rich are still rich, and ordinary New Yorkers didn't get hit with a broad tax increase? That's really all it took?
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
NYC FY2027 budget balance used agency savings, $4B+ state aid/authorizations (incl. pension restructuring saving $1.64B), and $500M projected from pied-à-terre tax on luxury second homes—not primarily that tax. nyc.gov/mayors-office/… amny.com/politics/nyc-b… web.archive.org/web/2026051310…
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I have been holding my tongue about something that happened during the Ohio gubernatorial race. I refused to speak while the election was underway because I did not want my words mistaken for an attempt to influence anyone’s vote. But now that the election is over, I have something to say. For nearly twenty years, my ministry has taken me among the homeless, the abused, the exploited, and the forgotten. I have sat with victims of sexual violence and witnessed the lifelong wounds of childhood trauma. What Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign did to Amy Acton was among the most morally repulsive things I have witnessed in American politics. They took a woman whose stepfather was indicted for raping her when she was twelve years old and featured her mother, from whom she had been estranged for nearly fifty years, in a political advertisement attacking her credibility. The advertisement challenged Acton’s account of her childhood without mentioning the sexual abuse allegations or the circumstances of that estrangement. When people expressed their horror, the campaign defended it. Imagine examining another person’s childhood suffering and fractured family relationships, then deciding those wounds might help win an election. Anyone who has worked with survivors of childhood sexual abuse understands the painful realities of denial, betrayal, shame, and estrangement. A child growing into a successful adult does not erase what happened. Nor does a parent’s denial make that suffering disappear. I find it equally disturbing that an elderly mother, whom Acton herself described as unwell, was brought into this spectacle. Whatever her own struggles or responsibility for the past, exploiting that fractured relationship was grotesque. To everyone who defended this, consider the message you sent to survivors. To the young woman whose family refuses to believe her. To the man who has carried the shame of childhood abuse for forty years. To the frightened child who has yet to tell anyone. What did you teach them about the value of their suffering? I am a priest. I believe in repentance, forgiveness, and redemption. But none of those things requires me to pretend that deliberate cruelty is anything less than a grave moral failure. Your political allegiance does not absolve you of moral responsibility. You do not get to set aside your conscience during an election and retrieve it afterward. If your loyalty requires you to defend the exploitation of a childhood sexual abuse survivor, your loyalty has become an idol. And if your conscience cannot recognize the wrong here, examine what political tribalism has done to it. This is not about Republicans or Democrats. We have a choice as a people: continue excusing cruelty from our preferred political camp, or summon the courage to condemn it wherever it appears. Amy Acton deserved better. Every survivor who watched this unfold deserved better. And God help us if we have reached the point where winning an election matters more than protecting the dignity of a wounded human being.
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James Talarico, a Democrat, is quoting Scripture in his victory speech, and the crowd is cheering. Democrats don’t hate religion. We hate watching people weaponize it. Faith isn't the problem. Using God as a weapon against your neighbors is.
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Senior Advisor to Ken Paxton says “our churches, Christianity—it’s all gone” after the blue wave last night. If you think Christianity is gone because of these election results, then you weren’t worshipping Jesus… you were worshipping the Republican Party.
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I just did a right-wing show where I suggested Republicans lost because they no longer have any grip on reality, and one of the panelists started screaming at me about how James Talarico wants to trans my kid. I don’t think they understand why they lost quite yet.
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republicans tomorrow
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Steven retweeted
Pete Hegseth wanted people to watch a public execution, well they're seeing it tonight.
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“My vote doesn’t matter” AND YET IT ACTUALLY FUCKING DOES
Madison County is basically split
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Republican kids going to bed tonight knowing they’re gonna wake up trans tomorrow
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Replying to @factpostnews
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