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Progressive organizer working in Durham, NC.

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Jonathan Riley
2 years
Check out my newspaper collection. First all the Presidential Impeachments
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2 months
And then here is the real Mister Freddie by the way
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2 months
I wrote the lyrics to this song about my doggie whose name is Freddie and how brave he is and then had AI make it into a real song. I play it for him and he loves it. I know I am posting something embarrassing but it’s funny so here it is.
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2 months
Now instead of Obama, a parent who gives us the freedom to rebel precisely because they care about our legitimate rebellion, we have a …look it’s an attempt to establish fascism in America and globally …that’s not a metaphor. Those are just the stakes. This moment is too real.
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I feel bad for young rebels coming of age in the midst of this paradox. When I was in college we got to first elect Obama then protest Obama, knowing that he was like a parent who gave us unconditional love who we could rebel against yet still depend on taking care of us.
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It’s an uncomfortable position for a Leftist to defend the old status quo of liberal democracy. It might be psychologically impossible for some with an identity based on rebellion. It’s completely unsatisfying for me. But it is our historical duty to defend old liberal democracy.
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2 months
There was a point the last few years where I myself thought we needed to make people realize this rightwing Supreme Court was illegitimate, Republican activists in robes. But now what we need is for the Roberts Supreme Court to reign in Trump and for its decisions to be followed.
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For decades the Left rightfully critiqued inherently conservative organizations like the FBI and the CIA that spied on Americans and prosecuted poor people unjustly. Now what we need is for these institutions to uphold the principles of law they are supposed to protect.
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2 months
We saw the Left rightly decry the unspeakable human rights abuses in Gaza funded by the American government, until recently enabled by Democrats. Yet these Democrats’ defeat ushered in a far worse Trump regime that will allow for total ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
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If Putin takes Ukraine and slowly advances fascism in parts of Europe, democracy loses ground and the Left depends on democracy. So leftists’ best bet is to empower the traditional pro-war foreign policy establishment in Washington and demand more funds for military contractors.
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2 months
We’re in a really weird historical for the Left, which always called for revolutionary change. Or at least “big structural reforms,” as Elizabeth Warren used to say. But a previously unthinkable Right has gained power & defending the old status quo is the Left’s best strategy.
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Jonathan Riley
10 months
Am I the only one who thinks British accents are just cheesy?. Like when you are watching a show, it’s like, I get it — you are a wizard who also solves crimes. But can’t you just speak English like normal people?.
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Jonathan Riley
1 year
RT @BullCityDems: Young voters like @Amaia_Clayton know that the only way to protect our reproductive rights from Republican attacks is to….
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RT @BullCityDems: Brady Bunch phone bank. If you want to volunteer with our bunch check out our volunteer events calendar at .
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1 year
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. Outwardness lost, at last, its imagined attractions. Only inwardness remained to be explored. Only the human soul remained terra incognita.”.
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What mankind hoped to learn in its outward push was who was actually in charge of all creation, and what all creation was all about. Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. on Earth—a nightmare of meaninglessness.
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1 year
They could not name even one of the fifty-three portals to the soul. Gimcrack religions were big business. Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie within every human being, looked outward-pushed ever out-ward. ….
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1 year
Opening paragraphs of Sirens of Tines by Kurt Vonnegut:. “Everyone Now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them. ….
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RT @BullCityDems: The Durham Dems had a great time yesterday celebrating Holi, the Indian festival of color, throwing colored rice powder a….
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RT @BullCityDems: Republicans are reaching into our lives to restrict freedoms we’ve always taken for granted: when we decide to have a fam….
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1 year
You have become addicted to clicking on a particular space on your phone screen. Just bury the Twitter/X app somewhere else and replace it with the app you wish you would open more often to be more productive.
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