Opera singer. Union Rep. Girl dad. Living with ex-wife & raising child in my house. Science Nerd. Former QA Engineer. Democrat. Good guys do NOT help Nazis win.
California, USA
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Here's a story my uncle Leo once told me, I imagine there are a great many permutations of it in the south: a 🧵
Muslim Protest Voters Are Furious About Trump’s Pro-Israel Cabinet Picks: ‘Trump Won Because of Us’ politicalflare.com/2024/11/m…
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She wasn’t worried about Gaza in 2024 🤷🏾♀️
Heavy winter floods in Gaza are devastating displaced families, flooding their tents. Children are freezing and dying. Hundreds of thousands have nowhere to sleep.
This is not a natural disaster. This is man-made genocide. Israel continues to block tents, shelters, and fuel from entering. They have concentrated 2 million people into dangerously flood-prone areas and have destroyed Gaza's sewage system.
We must force an end to this U.S.-backed genocide. Full arms embargo now.
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Oh my God.
Scott Colom just overtook the old white lady who said she liked to attend lynchings in Mississippi
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Congrats Senator @scott_colom on your historic win for the great state of Mississippi!
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They planned this blatantly antisemitic protest for the eve of the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht. The 88th.
Tell me again this “isn’t a white supremacist movement”
Thank you to the @PhillyPolice, the @PAStatePolice, and all of our law enforcement partners for protecting public safety today in Philadelphia.
In the midst of blatant antisemitic targeting of Jewish-owned restaurants on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the City of Brotherly Love showed up to support our neighborhood businesses and prove once again that hate has no place in our Commonwealth.
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It's not a smear; it's a fact. Anyone who is blocking Hakeem Jeffries' path to becoming the first Black Speaker of the House is a RACIST, including you.
There is some extremely bizarre smear campaign to frame anyone who's critical of Hakeem Jeffries--who invoked segregationist Strom Thurmond to embrace a genocidal apartheid state when he said "Israel today Israel tomorrow Israel forever"--as some white supremacist. Critics of Jeffries are concerned about his wildly racist disregard for Palestinian lives and his being the top beneficiary of AIPAC, genocide denial, and total fecklessness in the face of the fascist white supremacist Trump admin
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Every time a leftist accuse Black people of identity politics, all I hear is that Black people's concerns and issues don't matter to them.
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It’s disgusting that some of you left-leaning accounts are using Black people with a lack of political awareness to push this racist and anti-Semitic narrative to block Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer in their leadership roles after their historic successful win in the midterms
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This is why we don’t believe your bullshit excuses that “iTs nOt aNtiSemITisM, It’S ANtiZIonIsm”
Your mask always slips.
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Real progressives are gazing at the Senate map and seeing that a world we could not have imagined might actually be possible.
We went from thinking, in 2024, that the Senate would be impossible, to, in 2026: "Um. . can we . . . flip it?"
Not only did we flip the Senate, we ate deep into red territory. Like really deep. In the House of Representatives, too. We literally broke through the gerrymander in North Carolina. Amazing stuff.
The last time we ate this far into GOP territory was 2006-2008. Then we got the ACA.
What could we get with 60 Senate seats and a Dem POTUS in 2029?
And what if. . . .over the next 5-10 years, we can flip SCOTUS?
We weren't prepared for 2010 backlash and the Tea Party. But what if this time it could be different? Especially if our new Governors-Elect + Trifecta deliver for their states? Especially if we are prepared to fight the backlash? Also, is it possible. . . .we could *sustain* power in the South?
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026 was history-making and the potential to be *world-changing*. If we strategize right, there could be incredible progress in the future.
So now is the time to be making friends. Also to be making wish lists. And to be planning.
Democrats should identify who wants to be in this history-making-potentially-world-changing fight versus who cares more about drama, power, and sabotage.
Act accordingly.
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This is how you write a headline.
Two years after giving a speech critical of women and LGBTQ people, the Chiefs’ Harrison Butker has missed more kicks than anyone in the NFL.
buff.ly/YFwG6PY
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And to the 25% of Black men in Florida who voted for Byron Donalds in a race he won with 50.1%, may your elbows remain ashy, hairline uneven, and your beard disconnected.
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There is deep, historic antisemitism in Russian society. There has also been a history of anti-LGTBQ sentiment, both in Soviet & Putin eras. A large part of this is pure bigotry. Another, lesser known aspect? Strong SOCIAL--not just political--ties are a threat to authoritarians.
