I pay my taxes. I obey the law. I believe in democracy. I love my country. And I will never forget nor forgive what happened on January 6th.
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1/3 Remember Dennis Hastert? He was the longest serving GOP Hse Spkr in history. As Spkr Hastert covered up GOP rep Mark Foley's sex abuse of Hse pages. And in 2016 Hastert was sentenced to 15 yrs in prison because of ....
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Simply put, Donald Trump and his crime family monetized the White House. And they were eager to sell out America to depraved homicidal sociopathic autocrats Putin and Mohammed bin Salman to do it. This is not merely corruption. It's treason.
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1/ Dear
@LeaderMcConnell
,
I write to you today not as a tribal partisan but as an American. Condolences on the passing of your colleague and friend, Dianne Feinstein. Your remarks on the senate floor today evoked sincerity. I suspect you must be reflecting on how you have (Cont)
Blessed Day
@Comey
! As I read today's unsealed indictment, I can't help but think back to your infamous Oct 2016 Hillary Clinton emails press conference. 7 yrs later and so much damage to our natl security, democracy as well as one million Covid deaths.
#ResistanceUnited
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🧵*Content of below thread is both personal & my opinion.
1/ In 1976, my elementary school in Rockland County wanted to label me retarded and remove me from mainstream classes. That's why book banning is personal to me.
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#ResistanceUnited
#ONEV1
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@elonmusk
If Musk loses on his own platform Republicans will blame "mail in" Twitter votes, "Virtual Drop Boxes" from members of Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
@KariLake
might even file a lawsuit.
1/This George Orwell quote from 1984 defines the GOP:
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or happiness: only power, pure power. (Cont)
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18/ and rise of fascism in America." Or will it read as, "He helped rally Americans to save democracy in his final years in office." I hope it's the latter. And so would your friend Dianne Feinstein.
Sincerely,
A Tax Payer & Patriot
3/3 weaponized the term groomers. GOP is the party that thinks a raped and impregnated 12 year old girl should be forced to marry! And of course, they would never allow that same 12 year old girl to read a book. Republicans either do evil or enable evil. They're all slime.
1/4 Hunter Biden does not have any job in government. He never had a security clearance illegitimately fast tracked so he could leverage his position to get trademarks in China as Princess Ivanka did. While Hunter's life was dominated by cocaine (Cont)
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1/ First time I saw a woman topless was on a Canary Islands beach on December 20, 1989. I was studying abroad in England and wanted to get some sun during my winter break.
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#ResistanceRoots
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As George Carlin used to say, "This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free."
I will NEVER be silent whenever white supremacists whitewash history. What about you?
#Fresh
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#ONEV1
2/3 structured bank withdrawals to coverrup his abuse of teenage boys when he was a HS wrestling coach. Past was prologue given the many GOP pedophilia sex scandals, support of child marriage, and Russia's trafficking of Ukranian children. Yet these depraved freaks have ...
@marcorubio
Sir, you are what is known as a quisling. A quisling is a traitor collaborating with an enemy force occupying their country. Your docile obedience to Trump is tantamount to collaboration with mobsters in Moscow, Beijing & Riyadh that occupy your party. You have no honor.
1/4 Let us revisit the context of events behind yesterday's leaked audio. In July 2021, Susan Glasser published an article in the New Yorker that Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley feared, Trump would start a war with Iran. He (Cont)
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I'm old enough to remember when Republicans equated campaign donations w/free speech as they raked in millions from the Koch brothers. Now that these same corporations are siding w/democracy over voter suppression,
#MoscowMitch
wants them to stay out of politics.
1/2 So my mom has been paying
@MetLife
long-term care premiums since 2005. Her Scoliosis and vestibular issues at 84 are such that she requires 24/7 help. Simply put MetLife refuses to pay and is putting up impossible roadblocks. Now they want her to ...
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Susan Collins is the kind of gal who would've expressed "concern" about Hitler's anti-democracy platform in 1933. But still would've opposed any unified opposition against him to preserve the uber wealthy's status.
#FreshVoicesRise
#ONEV1
6/ Meanwhile, your colleague Tommy Tuberville is holding up military promotions, making it easier for the next POTUS to place in key leadership positions loyalists more devoted to preserving their power than American democracy. Simply put, now is NOT the time for silence. (Cont)
8/ him. The silence of your caucus is deafening. Your silence is especially deafening. And that silence is tantamount to blood on the hands complicity. Sir, you still possess power and political capital. You're also, despite age and numerous health challenges, still (Cont)
10/ do you want your legacy to be? What would your friend Dianne Feinstein advise you to do? I suspect she would gently say you have nothing personally to lose anymore and much to gain by doing what's patriotic and right. And that is to put together a bipartisan (Cont)
2/ far less years ahead than behind. I'm in my 50s and already having these thoughts myself due to the loss of loved ones and dear friends in recent years. So, in the spirit of decency and patriotism as epitomized by Dianne Feinstein, I ask, what do you want your legacy to (Cont)
7/ Trump even threatened the life of General Miley. He's promised "retribution" on anyone who has stood in his way at any point. Presumably, does that not include you and even your family? Hell, Trump even promised to shut down any television network that's critical of (Cont)
4/ to agree on those things anyway. But I know you're a shrewd and observant fellow. So, you must realize the breach in America hasn't been this dangerous since the 1850s. Unlike the 1850s, however, today, the most unstable among us possess genocide assault weapons. And (Cont)
3/ be? Feinstein often angered Democrats like myself for even entertaining the notion Republican leaders like you possessed honorable intentions. I won't relitigate the laundry list of grievances on my side of the political divide toward your career here. We're not likely (Cont)
11/ pro-democracy coalition with
@SenSchumer
to strengthen our democracy and save lives. No party can unilaterally sustain this country as a multicultural democracy of big cities and small towns by itself. Dianne Feinstein understood this and even at the risk of ticking (Cont)
9/ drawing breath. What you don't have is much time to save our democracy. Although I'm trying to be respectful, privately, you must know that your leadership has, at minimum, contributed to this mess. But I promised not to relitigate those grievances. So I ask again, what (Cont)
5/ heaven forbid an apocalypse wishing white supremacist martyr wannabe terrorist were to get their hands on a tactical nuclear weapon. Or what if, on January 20, 2025, Trump, DeSantis, or some other deranged person in your party gets the keys to the nuclear football? (Cont)
14/ why can't some of your gang join with Schumer's caucus to codify ethical standards for our highest court? On democracy itself, I genuinely appreciate your standing behind Joe Biden's support of Ukraine. I know that standing up to Russian aggression is as popular in (Cont)
* Below thread is my emotional reaction to an X post and the content is solely mine.
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1/ Earlier today someone in one of the retweet rooms I belong to asked us to report an X post that glorifies rape of women and(Cont)
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1/ There is an entrenched history of false moral equivalences and gaslighting liberals in our politics. George McGovern is an instructive example. This dude flew 35 missions as a B-24 pilot in WWII and was married to one woman for 64 years. But... (Cont)
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12/ off liberals like me continued to be a beacon of bipartisanship. Your family, friends, donors, and associates are plenty wealthy because of your power. Now it's time to pay it forward for our country and its posterity. You're not running for reelection anyway. So why (Cont)
25/ They're threatened by Taylor Swift, knowledge and even symbolic gestures of kindness or grace scare the shit out of them. And kids that want to expand their minds by reading threaten them most of all. But today's kids will find a way to read any banned book. I guarantee it.
13/ not save some lives and put together a bipartisan coalition for real gun control? You know damn well, even most gun owners don't want any more white supremacist shootings. And what about SCOTUS? Let's face it. This isn't the Roberts Court. It's the McConnell Court. So (Cont)
17/ plan. But repairing and building bridges won't do any good if you don't help to repair the crumbling bridges of our democracy. You still have time, sir. What will it be? What do you want your legacy to be? Will your obituary read, "He enabled the demise of democracy (Cont)
1/2 Whenever Trump speaks or posts on his failing "Truth Social," these days, we are observing in real time the decomposition and disintegration of a pitiful creature. It's as if a ton of itching powder, corrosive acid, and feces was (Cont)
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Calvin Klein should make Lauren Boebert the face of a fragrance called "Treason". It would be an even bigger hit than Ivanka Trump's "Complicit".
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#ONEV1
15/ your party these days as root canal. But how can you support defending democracy abroad as pregnant women in Red States no longer enjoy freedom of interstate travel for their health? Also, how can this country, your friend Dianne Feinstein, served so well promote (Cont)
1/ It's 2026. Jane Doe quit her HS teaching job due to death threats because she refused to demean a trans student in her classroom as mandated by the school board. Her son was expelled from junior high because he dared to read a poem (Cont)
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16/ democracy if we allow Red State governors and state legislatures to trample on voting rights for People of Color and oppress members of the LGBTQ community? It's great that you opted to be bipartisan, so your homestate could benefit from Joe Biden's infrastructure (Cont)
@JaredEMoskowitz
is a strong unapologetic voice for democracy and human decency. He does not "bend his knee" to fascists, quislings, traitors or Joe McCarthy wannabes such as James Comer and Jim Jordan.
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@PrezLives2022
We are witnessing the decomposition and disintegration of man in real time. It's as if a ton of itching powder, corrosive acid, and feces has been dumped into his decaying cerebrum.
1/2 I'm filled with hope and fear over events in Russia. On the positive side, Russia's military efforts in Ukraine are undermined. Yevgeny Prigozhin is vile. But unlike Putin, he can agree to a just peace w/o losing face. What scares me is that an (Cont)
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🧵*Content of below thread is my opinion.
1/ As some of my followers may recall, I work in the Financial Crimes Compliance industry as governed by the Bank Security Act which was enacted in 1970.
#ProudBlueEditorials
#ResistanceRoots
#ONEV1
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retrieve medical records from all doctors she has seen for the previous seven years! Internist, neurologist, ophthalmologist as she gets injections in one eye every month. It's easier for a criminal to get a gun than my mom to get the long term care coverage that SHE PAID FOR!
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1/ Adolf Hitler's rise to power caused a massive refugee crisis especially among the Jews of Europe. Desperate, those that evaded the Nazis hid or sought escape.
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#ResistanceRoots
#ONEV1
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9/ This sexual authoritarian subculture about women is dominating our politics now and fueling much of the current fascism movement as it also did in Nazi Germany. It's an ideology that exploits a woman's sexuality while also claiming to promote virtue.
21/ I'd rather share a bathroom with a trans person than allow evil people exploit shame and guilt over sex to abuse power and oppress as many people as they can get away with. A trans person peeing in a bathroom neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
24/ So yes, book banning is personal to me. And Republicans to me aren't just the party of Donald Trump white supremacists. I also associate them with an awful 1970s blue haired chain smoking woman with bad breath that didn't want me to read a f**k**g Star Trek book as a kid.
I herby dub Kevin McCarthy as Chaos Kevin. Let's make that go viral. Comment on his speakership with that hashtag. I'll get it started.
#ChaosKevin
is a cowardly, inept waste of skin who values the prestige of his title over democracy.
#ResistanceUnited
#ONEV1
#VetsResist
As a Jewish American, Stephen Miller's continued influence disgusts me. I'm old enough to hv known relatives that survived the Holocaust & 30 years ago I visited Birkenau. It sickens me to my guts how someone from my tribe was THE architect of caging kids.
6/ that if any of those thugs on January 6th got their hands on AOC for example she would've been raped? Any doubt at all?
Somehow we push Al Franken to resign over a comedy sketch but Matt Gaetz with a human trafficker best friend is allowed to serve on the House Armed (Cont)
1/ I take Joe Lieberman's role in the insidious "No Labels" movement, personally. I first became aware of Lieberman when he challenged incumbent CT senator Lowell Weiker in '88. What made this race unusual, especially given today's (Cont)
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Did any of these sniveling waste of skin congressional Republicans whining about receiving death threats over Jim Jordan ever give a flying f***k about the harassment & death threats toward Shaye Moss & Ruby Freeman?
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1/20 Yesterday, when Mike Johnson became House Speaker, what popped into my head was the expression, "All cats are grey in the dark." It's an expression attributed to renowned ladies man (Cont)
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16/ see or hear a predator. It's hard to put into words but I've trusted those internal alarm bells my whole life. Republicans ranging from Trump to Speaker Mike Johnson trigger those alarm bells every f**k**g day.
20/ To my amazement, I as a white Jewish boy from the suburbs identified with Malcolm X as his book described how his mind expanded when he learned how to read. No doubt Ms. Jones would have objected. Hence, I always think of Ms. Jones whenever MAGA tries to ban knowledge.
Even if Joe Biden were older than Methuselah, I would choose him over any GOP nominee promoting ancient hatreds, misogyny, theocracy, and authoritarianism benefitting privileged elites. Biden is far more modern than the youngest Republican.
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A kindly reminder to racist Republicans that 30 years ago Bush One put an unqualified black man in Clarence Thomas on SCOTUS to replace the great Thurgood Marshall. Whereas
@potus
will pick a nominee from a list of eminently qualified black women.
#Fresh
#ONEV1
#ResistanceUnited
1/ Jewish Americans are among the Democratic Party's most reliable voters. Typically, Jewish Americans like me support Democratic candidates up to 70%. Within our inner circle of family/friends/acquaintances are the 1/3 of less secular (Cont)
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2/2 imploding nuclear power puts the whole world at risk. This is a fluid and volatile situation. Thankfully, Biden and his national security team are experienced, seasoned grownups who know what they're doing.
➡️GOP stole a SCOTUS seat from Obama & rushed Justice Barrett's nomination
➡️Wife of GOP Justice Thomas is an insurrectionist
➡️GOP paid mortgage of Justice Kavanaugh, a sex predator
A commission to review the validity of these FUCKING LIFETIME APPOINTMENTS is damn appropriate!
5/ So why should a heavy set middle aged woman be any more embarrassed at going topless on a hot day than an overweight middle aged man at the beach? That's when I had a Hebrew School flashback of my teacher joking in class: "Christians think sex is bad. We think sex is good."
1/4 As some may recall, I previously Tweeted about my elderly mom's struggle to get MetLife to honor their long-term care policy. My mom had been paying premiums since 2005. It took nearly a year as Metlife came up with one excuse after (Cont)
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*The below thread is a satirical collection of mock personal ads for some of America's most toxic and destructive personalities. Content is solely my own and not endorsed by any group, entity or organization.
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6/ My Hebrew School teacher wasn't quite correct however. It's not so much Christians per se as extremely religious Americans as well as religious fundamentalists globally that look upon sex as shameful and women who enjoy it for any other purpose than procreation as blasphemous.
🧵*Content of below thread is my opinion.
1/ In the summer of 1991 after graduating college I sold overpriced latex gloves part time to nursing homes to pay rent as a telemarketer. It was deflating, humbling and degrading.
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#ResistanceRoots
#ONEV1
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17/ Tragically these are the sort of books on MAGAs hit list today. But thankfully in my formative years, at least after Ms. Jones, I had access to everything. I read Marx and Engel's Communist Manifesto. It was in my public library and I read it when I was 13 without melting.
Thanks to
#Bidenomics
, millions of Americans are benefitting from the dignity and financial security of work. Just as important, if Democrats prevail in 2024, our freedom to live without fear of "retribution" after work will be defended.
#ResistanceUnited
#ONEV1
#VetsResist
1/24 I'm going to piss some folks off with this thread, but it's got to be done. As a Jew I am incensed by the metastasizing knee-jerk exploding antisemitism using the conflict in Gaza as a pretext to incite violence against us on both (Cont)
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22/ Depraved people in the name of virtue who don't believe in freedom to use birth control, see nothing wrong in child marriage or want to make authoritarianism erotic are a danger to us all. Be wary of those who value a rapist's parental rights over the right to an abortion.
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1/ Our center of political gravity was always defined by racism. This is true of wealthy elites jealously defending their privilege and folks with dirt underneath their fingernails.
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22/ Republican oligarch overlords don't want young people reading, questioning, and becoming intellectually curious. Rather that want young boys masturbating to a vaping Lauren Boebert holding a gun. Message: own guns and someday a pretty girl might grab your crotch while vaping.
As a teenager in the '80s I read Malcolm X's autobiography and the Handmaid's Tale. Even though I grew up in a very white suburb, Malcolm's book was available in our school library. Way things are going if GOP has its way such books will be banned and burned.
#Fresh
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18/ I also didn't melt as a lad when reading William Schirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" or Jim Bouton's "Ball Four." As an adolescent the 1980s also became a kind of golden age for Star Trek novels and I contemptuously thought of Ms. Jones every f**k**g time I read one.
25/ What it comes down to is the spirit captured by this young lady dancing to George Harrison's classic song, "What Is Life." Sadly, there are people who can't feel the meaning of Harrison's song and would simply resent this dancer's joy. They will lose.
1/ This thread is a series of satirical personal ads of various GOP assclowns, toxic MAGA personalities & despicable enablers. It's the 2nd time I've done this sort of thread. Hopefully, it both entertains & exposes their assinity.
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1/26 Dear
@harrisonjaime
,
First, let me say I think you would've made a fine senator, and I donated to your campaign in 2020. I also appreciate your taking on the responsibility of leading the
@DNC
with democracy on the line. That's a (Cont)
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16/ By 1980 I had on my own read Robert Cormier's, "The Chocolate War," Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," Ken Kesey's "Flowers for Agernon" and William Golding's "Lord of the Flies." Ironically, I would be assigned each of these books a couple years later in junior high.
24/ Emotionally repressed people who can't genuinely love anyone or be vulnerable hate it when others are happy, free and joyous. So they have to own you. And if they can't own you, they want to kill you. That's Putin and Ukraine in a nutshell. Or the Christian right & liberals.
1/3 Far right political extremism undermines a country's national security. You're seeing that in Israel today with the latest Hamas attack as Mossad was caught with its pants down. Why? Because Intel breaches happen when you bring a (Cont)
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4/ So I take it personally every time some depraved QAnon MAGA terrorist cultist American hating freak tosses around the word groomer hoping it sticks to anyone who dares to promote economic or social justice. I'm insulted on behalf of all of us victims of real sex (Cont)
20/ One should be able to love whom they choose without shame, embarrassment or threat of retribution in this world. If it's a man and a woman who are not married and using birth control, it's their business. Men with men, women with women, or trans enjoying love, so what?
12/ It was a seminal moment in my life. Being rebellious for me became reading and absorbing as much controversial and "inappropriate" material as I could. Things started happening then as I told my mom I was tired of Dr. Seuss.
21/ What would've happened to me had I not been motivated to rebell against the Ms. Joneses of the world? Would I have been labeled retarded? Perhaps I would be in jail. Hell, I could've become one of those uneducated people Donald Trump claims to love that would kill for him.
15/ Prior to all this I was in an empty void and in a kind of prison. Overwhelmed, feeling stupid, angry inside and withdrawn. But after blue haired smoker Ms. Jones said no to me about reading a Star Trek novel I was hungry and devoured every book I could.
19/ In my freshman and sophmore years of high-school I had to give oral reports on autobiographies in both English classes. So I read Mein Kampf freshman year and Malcom X's book my sophomore year. I didn't melt and neither did my classmates from my reports.
8/ Men and women on that beach where actually freer than this young American in 1989. I was feeling triumphant about my country's values as I witnessed communism disintegrate in Europe at that time. Yet there was & is an erotic fascist fantasy subculture within America's psyche.
11/ So for young women who feel they'll never measure up to that sexy famous lady every man craves, a life of service to husband and country is portrayed as a fulfilling substitute. No you should never feel secure enough to go topless on a beach. But you can have lots of babies!
12/ Having casual sex and freedom to seek out multiple partners makes you a whore. So we're taking away birth control for your own good. You can never measure up to that beautiful actress and have it all anyway. But there's security & purpose for you as long as your uterus works.
4/4 we all have cluster f**k fatigue but holy f**k**g shit! The same people who want to dismiss these events had a conniption fit when our first black POTUS merely wore a tan suit. We should all have utter contempt for these racists, quislings, and traitors. Lock Trump up! Now!
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1/12 Monday evening, my 85 year old mother says to me, "Honey, don't let anyone know you're Jewish."
An already simmering rage inside of me intensified after the conversation. Typically, I only wear a yamaka at (Cont)
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17/ This is a mindset we see weaponized in theocracies such as Iran, Putin's Russia, the Arab world as well as much of America today. As a Jew, I've been exposed to it among certain relatives that joined extreme sects. It's not just religious fundamentalists though.
7/ That rather joyless mindset co-exists with a portrayal of women as sex objects in popular entertainment. Hence the shy nerdy 20 year old lad I was on that beach had been conditioned by my country's culture of guilt and shame about sex as well as pictures of Farrah Fawcett.
1/ A decade ago, I debated tactics with a friend that worked for DC Democrats. She was a lovely person who died from Covid in 2020. Anyway, she liked to say that we needed to fight fire with water until the far right's fever broke. I fiercely retorted ...
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