COG, husband, dad, son, brother, nephew, uncle, cousin, friend, media maven and all-around great guy. Luke 12:48 Views expressed here are my own.
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"Get dope out your vein and hope in your brain. You'll never get nowhere smokin' the pipe!" - the late Pastor James Salton, Prayer House of Deliverance, Memphis, TN youtube.com/watch?v=rI0gt7vx…
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As a fan of both justice and the Vikings, it doesn't get much better than having Justice Alan Page in my corner.
I'm honored to have his endorsement and proud to keep fighting for a Minnesota where everyone has the opportunity to afford their life.
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In 1962, my grandad Birch ran for office, but there was one problem - nobody knew how to pronounce our name. So his campaign came up with a jingle to help voters remember it.
As we approach Election Day, I wanted to bring that tune back and put my own spin on it.
My grandad’s example inspired me to believe in the power of public service to make a real difference in people’s lives. He helped pass the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, authored the constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to 18 so that the young Americans fighting and dying in Vietnam would have a voice in choosing their leaders, and championed Title IX, opening doors for generations of women in college athletics.
I’m proud to carry on that tradition of service in my own way.
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Stevie Wonder wants YOU to make your voice heard in the midterms.
Go to IWillVote.com to make your plan to vote on or before November 3.
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They want to throw the Constitution out of the ring. We say NOT ON OUR WATCH.
Governor Jesse Ventura doesn't care about left vs right, he cares about right vs wrong. I'm proud to have Jesse on our team.
Jesse knows that when they come for our rights and freedoms, I don't tap out.
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Some critics say the pope shouldn’t vote in a U.S. election. I told CNN this morning that Pope Leo XIV is acting as a priest and bishop who takes the Church’s teaching on citizenship seriously.
The Church teaches us we are morally obliged to vote. American Catholics should be proud of him for participating in democracy’s most sacred act.
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Remember 2016. Now's not the time to slow down. Let's win next Tuesday.
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BREAKING: Senate Majority PAC is launching our first $750K statewide ad campaign in South Carolina!
The choice is clear: an empty suit controlled by special interests or a fighter who will take them on, fight corruption, and lower costs.
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Come on Alabama! For once, just vote for the better person for Governor! Vote for @DougJones
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“It can’t happen here”
I remember when I bought that record as if it was yesterday
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Wait.
The Republican chair of El Paso thought he killed a minutes-old baby "to save the white race." He was told: "If successful, your president will be shown this mission."
But the scandal of the week is Mary Peltola. Got it.
Andy Harris. Newt Gingrich. George Santos. Kari Lake. QAnon Shaman. Ralph Norman. El Paso GOP chair.
Every one of them got duped, and every one of them showed you exactly who they are.
Sacha Baron Cohen invented a cartel leader who's the father of 140,000 children, and they believed it. Then he told them the man's pregnant girlfriend was about to deliver an "anchor baby" on American soil, and that if they stopped it, "your president will be shown this mission." Then he watched what they would do.
Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) sat down and solemnly warned: "Gonzalez has 140,000 children, which means that this one man has a higher birth rate than Iceland."
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) warned that the fictional family would "consume 40% of the nation's rice and beans. That's actual FBI data."
Col. Douglas Macgregor, ex-senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense in Trump's first term, said: "In 10 years time, Gonzalez's family, along with millions of others, will have more members than the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and Space Force combined."
Kari Lake sat down for Ali G's fake talk show about combating woke politics.
Michael Aboud, the El Paso GOP chairman, thought he was in anti-terrorism training. He watched a pregnant woman get drugged, then her newborn kidnapped. Then the finale: the newborn in a tote bag dangling from a drone, the battery dying, no way the baby makes it to Mexico. They hand Aboud the remote and order him to drop the baby "to save the white race" before it touches American soil. He followed orders. The movie's own on-screen text says he wasn't in on the hoax.
In the movie, Cohen also built a fake gas chamber, labeled the button Zyklon B, and had George Santos and a crew of MAGA supporters play a game with it.
It is not clear how he got them, or what they thought they were agreeing to. But Cohen is clear about one thing: every one of them was duped.
None of it was real. Their willingness was. Cohen said that was the entire experiment: whether, in a matter of hours, you can turn intelligent people who believe in race replacement into murderers.
He got his answer.
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This is possibly the reason the White House stopped posting the transcripts of Trump's remarks.
If you read them, you realize very quickly that he is out of his mind.
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Kentucky residents played a loud recording of the noise pollution from data centers to show its disruptive impact.
Within seconds, county officials grew irritated and told them to “act like adults” and turn it off.
The corrupt politicians who vote for and push these data centers onto our communities couldn’t handle the piercing sound for a few seconds, yet expect residents to live with it every day.
Welcome to the USA, where politicians prioritize the bottom line of the corporations and billionaires that fund their campaigns over the needs of our people and communities.