Joy & Opposition 🌎

“Not voting is an act of hostility. It is an act of irresponsibility.”

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The only people who want to dismantle the constitution are republican. Anyone who would run as a Republican can’t be trusted.

“the media is a reflection of who we, as citizens, have become.”

“The talkers are rising above the thinkers.”

“We are so committed to trying harder at what is not working.”

“Agency involves being accountable for your choices”

“We don’t have time for hopelessness.”

“Communities survive better than individuals”

“The louder the performative Christianity, the bigger the secrets”

“Innovation versus regulation is nothing new.”

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“That is the thing about rhetoric. It can be effective even when it is vacuous.”

“Moderates problems, as we just saw in Michigan, have never been that they don’t have enough money. That’s not why they’re losing. It’s because people don’t like what they are selling. They don’t like their candidates.” Their candidates don’t believe in anything.

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FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

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California just became the first major grid system on the planet to generate more than 50% of its electricity from solar across an entire month.

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He is acting like the dictator that he will soon be should he triumph in November, dressing for the job he wants. open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...

People from everywhere are so varied and beautiful. I don’t understand eugenics at all

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"Everything I Don't Like Is Unconstitutional" A Memoir by Samuel Alito

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“ silence delays the inevitable, and it costs everyone else in the meantime”

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... It’s good to see young people of my children’s generation handing the worst people from my and my parents generations their asses. Keep up the good work, GenZ. It’s your future and I am all for it

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“Those living in poverty… I’ve seen, they don’t even have bootstraps to pull themselves up by. It’s quite different than what my white middle class upbringing lead me to believe. When you are naive, you don’t understand that there is a chronic disparity in the system in the US.”

“[humans project what they cannot integrate]”

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Note that there's been no threat to sue over this statement. I know I would be suing for tens of millions if I was innocent.

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“Why are all these troubled people in charge of everything?”

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open.substack.com/pub/jefftied... “is the Republican Party even redeemable at this point, when so many of their members are openly cheerleading for genocide? how do you find your way back from that?”

“How many times does history have to say no before racists stop asking the same question?”

Show your dolphin-like prowess and swim the canal, sir

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“What we really need to do at this point is to think about what we want in the United States of America and to advocate for that” youtube.com/shorts/c8t9O...

“We’ve got smart people in the country. The president simply doesn’t listen to them.”