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He, Him, His. all tweets are solely my own. PROTECT TRANS KIDS abortion is healthcare.
Portland, OR
Joined March 2008
I made a thing. #StopGunViolence From @jimjefferies awesome https://t.co/qEFs2XZ6bm & https://t.co/M192swOQU0
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If a member is independently wealthy (which many are), it can create a ton of blind spots for all these details that build up, or even resistance to changing them. But I think the people who get elected from more normal backgrounds do run into a bit of shock when they get here
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Even simple things like how votes are scheduled (& changed) are often hostile to parents and families. A lot of small details in this job is pretty much assumes you have a full-time, stay at home spouse. Which makes sense, because many/most did! But if you don’t, it’s a problem
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Much of this can be traced to the 90s and Contract with America, but much of it is also the influence of lobbyists and rigid ways of thinking that are difficult to challenge meaningfully in a fundraising + seniority system. Class divides in Congress are an unspoken challenge, too
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There are many reasons for this, one being that the baby boomer gen changed a lot of the norms & structures of Congress (schedule, staff, cola, etc) so the actual job became very unsustainable for newer people who are younger, working class, or parents. Drives away young talent
Pretty great visual look at how Congress keeps getting older -- even as each newly elected class includes younger folks. The 2022 class had 18 new reps under 40. But older incumbents stick around longer. Via @nckmourt & @D_Hawk
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Will likely hang here until the bird turns into an X in the app, and then I’m probably out.
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imagine paying this much to avoid learning a skill
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Reason 1,592 George W. Bush should be rotting in prison.
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Dear @taylorswift13– Would we be able to harness the power of your fans to push governments and corporations to take action to mitigate global warming? Between yours and the K-POP fandoms, there’s a lot of under-leveraged political power.
A Taylor Swift concert in downtown Seattle last weekend shook the ground so hard, it caused a "Swift-Quake" — registering signals on a nearby seismometer roughly equivalent to a magnitude 2.3 earthquake, seismologists said.
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I know trump always says the media is against him but the irony is they aren’t. They actually desperately need a disaster of a president like him to boost their ratings.
If Biden did what Mitch did today the media would be covering non stop for the next two weeks. But because it’s a Republican it’s like nothing ever happened. The right wing bias of corporate media is nuts.
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Burned her career and life to the ground with one of the most Christian, punk, AND moral actions all in the same, blazing moment. Nothing compares. #RIPSinead
Sinéad O’Connor, the Irish singer of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” has died. She was 56. https://t.co/qsmm83fcqU
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"It’s a show of respect for Giants fans. We’re obviously not at our home." The A's begin a series in SF tomorrow, and A's fans are inviting Giants fans to join their protest of Fisher’s relocation plans; some cool things are planned: https://t.co/BQTKmCl8aK via @sfchronicle
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Oakland Athletics fans will attend the S.F. Giants’ homestand opener next Tuesday for...
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Some patriot 🫡
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Pretty sure imma cold Turkey out once this dumb shit happens
I wonder if @lindayacc was given any advance notice of what appeared to be an impulsive decision by Musk. EVERY stakeholder—including media outlets and advertisers—will now have to make significant changes to their interfaces.
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I will never understand believing that people who are this desperate for a better life for their families and who believe they can find such a life here are a danger to this country. They are its very proof of concept.
This is a photo of a baby being passed through concertina wire near Eagle Pass, Texas yesterday. 1/4
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@WesleyLowery @CathyYoung63 @ijbailey Just embarrassing. We literally were just walking around naked unable to to farm, build, produce textiles, make tools. Thank God slavery civilized us.
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@CathyYoung63 @ijbailey for the record...the slave traders very much inquired about the skills of the people they bought and sold. This was documented extensively
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i do actually find it insane that a person can do all this but i can't tell them to fucking die
Influencer Hannah Pearl Davis drops her new track ‘Why can’t we talk about the Jews?’ which she dedicates to her favorite white supremacist. Davis has nearly 2 million YouTube subscribers. This is where we’re at now.
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