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wow! Shapiro self-own number eleventy trillion.

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True, but it's a particular mindset, that I've found among the Christian right, that is so easily led.

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honestly, I'd leave the theater and let security know that they got a live one.

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hear hear! Ben has termed a thing with an alt+0153 and all.

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He’s saying the flute player is near.

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He kept a couple of acres and grew some piddly amount of something. A farmer in his district sued to have him remove the farmer description from the ballot.

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thank you! now I remember.

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Solidarity forever. I have a friend who has an organic farm upstate. She adjusted her prices so all her workers get minimum wage , $15/hour.

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Glory to Ukraine!

Their resistance to Putin's evil is one of the only heartening things going on in the world today. So of course the Republicans are going to cut off military aid to Ukraine as soon as they get the House back.

Fuckers.

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No denunciations from the Farm and Dairy? Now, there was a newspaper. Serving the needs of the farming population. The political columnist at our local Farm and Dairy called a high school friend a Communist, by name, because he did a Winter Quarter in Washington internship where he worked for a group advocating for Nixon's impeachment.

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Gavin Newsom is the anti-Matt Gaetz.

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"Farm Bureau stands with California’s agricultural employees and will continue to defend their right to make uncoerced choices about union representation,”

Yeah, we should trust the people who’s business model depends on paying workers as little as possible to look out for the best interest of workers. And it’s not like they have of a history of employing hired goons.

https://youtu.be/FsUuhW7WbIg

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Newsom for president, there, I said it.

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The Exorcist.

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i know, right? next, they'll want to be treated like people and not disposable assets

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Excellent!

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