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Amtrak no longer has to live hand to mouth after being starved of funding for decades fortune.com/2024/05/06/amtrak-

"less than a year into #Biden’s presidency, #Amtrak got a transformative commitment of $66 billion, 4x the amount it had gotten in the previous 6 years. It marked a sea change, because Amtrak can now afford to both keep its current fleet of #trains running and also invest in much needed #infrastructure upgradesβ€”instead of having to choose between the two"

#Rail #Railway #USpol

β€œTwo people who were wounded at Trump's rally are in the hospital and one person is dead.

Trump didn't visit the hospital or the family of the man who was killed.

He went golfing.

Nothing more needs to be said.”

Via \ Eric Foltz #USAPolitics #cdnpolitics

btw .. "Americans" 🀨

like from Chile, Canada, Cuba?

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If Biden doesn't run in November, the Heritage Foundation and their allies will stage another Brooks Brothers Riot to keep the replacement Democrat candidate off the ballot in every state they can reach. They'll shop for Federalist Society judges and tie them up using procedural delays until after the election. The result will be a victory for Trump by default. If any cases *do* get to the supreme court, Clarence Thomas et al will rule in their own self-interest.

This is how you get a coup.

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You don’t hear a lot of prominent women of color calling for Biden to step down. Here are a few reasons why:

1. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
2. Secretary of the Interior Deb Harland
3. Vice President Kamala Harris
4. More Black women appointed to federal circuit courts than all previous presidents combined
5. $16B in support for HBCUs

Think about who is calling for him to step down. Our job right now is to focus on reelecting Biden-Harris. If you care, that’s your job, too.

#BidenHarris2024

Convo between me and my Nigerian American dad a few years ago:

πŸ§”πŸΏβ€β™‚οΈHey Pops! How much do you know about cryptocurrency?

πŸ‘΄πŸΏ It sounds like scams. Is it scams?

πŸ§”πŸΏβ€β™‚οΈOK, so you know about crypto. Anyway, most countries have banned crypto mining, because it taxes energy grids. Texas' grid is already fragile, but your governor is inviting more crypto --

πŸ‘΄πŸΏSo we should buy a generator? Like in Nigeria?

πŸ§”πŸΏβ€β™‚οΈOr solar. Because crypto --

πŸ‘΄πŸΏ Why are you making the story so long? Crypto is scams. Buy generator.

I’d vote for someone who can’t finish a sentence over someone who should be serving one.

This election is "nothing short of a referendum on our 248-year democracy, and a choice between a trustworthy public servant who upholds American values and a serial liar who wants to push the country into authoritarianism."

Editorial: One candidate is patently unfit for the White House: Trump - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com/opinion/story/2024

Every mention of rich white men donors having issues with Biden makes me donate a little more. I’d like to BOOT THEM.

My goal as a middle aged woman is to participate in trends in such a cringe way that it makes the trend itself cringey.

@actuallyautistic

Has anyone watched the show "Geek Girl" on Netflix? I'm watching it now. The lead character is autistic. The circumstances aren't my life - I've never been a model - but the feelings, the struggles, the questions? Oh yeah, that's me.

Being older is not a FUCKING CRIME. If you live LONG ENOUGH to be old, you’ll see what foolish assholes you are. I’m disgusted.

8 July 1941 | A French Jewish boy, Charles Bernath, was born in Paris.

In September 1942 he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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