Marit
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Marit
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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
April 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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The chilling assessment today in the Financial Times, a conservative British broadsheet that is not known for hyperbole.
www.ft.com/content/d96d...
April 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I posted this longer version on X

#Emails2DOGE
cc: [email protected]
February 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Yes think about how judges are supposed to decide if things the president does are constitutional, and why the richest man in the world who just bought the election might not be into that.
February 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Did you know?

American taxpayers would be saved $8 MILLION PER DAY if we simply canceled Elon Musk’s defense contracts.
February 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.
February 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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It’s called FLOODING THE ZONE.

Enemy within Steve Bannon created the strategy, and the Trump administration is using it to brutally attack America.

“Flooding the zone,” according to Bannon: "The media can only—because they're dumb and they're lazy—they can only focus on one thing at a…
February 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research.

#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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SHARE THE NEWS

There will be an economic blackout Feb 28 nationwide. This means don't buy ANYTHING unless it's from a small business. Do not use Target, Walmart, or Amazon. Get the word out! We want THEM to see that WE have the power. We will start with 1 day, then 3, then specific companies.
February 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Of course ending birthright citizenship is blatantly unconstitutional. So is a third term in office.

But I thought the same thing about presidential criminal immunity and holding office after inciting an insurrection.

The obvious is not so obvious anymore.
January 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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NEW: Republican Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) has drafted a constitutional amendment aimed at allowing Donald Trump to serve a third term as president.

Ogles is proposing the U.S. Constitution be changed to accommodate Trump.

In November, Trump joked about seeking a third term to House…
January 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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No apologies from Elon Musk - he gaslighted the world today posting on X: "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired."

It's not just about Adolf Hitler - the salute was used by other historical fascist leaders, Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco.
January 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Gotta love the British press.
January 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Biden preemptively pardoned J6 police officers who were beaten and injured, to protect them against retribution from the insurrection leader because they dared to testify truthfully before Congress.

Trump pardoned the thugs who beat them.
January 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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It's a cult
January 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Anyone who says this was NOT a Nazi salute can — with all due respect — fuck off.
January 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Today was a rough day, by design. I feel so many emotions it’s hard to describe.

I know one thing though all of this was by design to make us give up.

This quote summarizes what we need to do. We are NOT staying down, we will NOT obey. Tonight we rest, tomorrow we rise.

Goodnight 🙏🏽
January 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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NEW: With a stroke of his pen, Donald Trump laid waste to the four-year effort to punish the peopel who stormed the Capitol in his name on Jan. 6, 2021.

Among the 1,500 pardoned: People convicted of brutal assaults on police and seditious conspiracy.

www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
January 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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I’ve seen a lot lately about the screenwriters outdoing themselves again. But honestly, if you were crafting a fictional treatment of the demise of American democracy, you would have tried to make the characters a lot more plausible.
January 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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January 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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This SOB just received a full and unconditional pardon from Trump.
January 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Pope Francis called plans by President Donald Trump for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants a “disgrace,” signaling the return of the rocky relationship that defined the pontiff’s ties with the first Trump White House.

Read more: wapo.st/3PIRZi9
January 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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What else is there to say? 😢
January 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Trump's right hand man (literally) just casually giving the Nazi salute... twice.
January 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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In his inauguration speech Trump announced his fascist anti-immigrant raids and mass deportation attempts.

We are not helpless. Here are 7 action items you can start to take now to help protect our immigrant neighbors: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin
Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda
www.qasimrashid.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM