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In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. I'm pro-democracy, pro-truth and anti-fascist. Proud heathen and secularist. vox populi #Yooper

Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Joined August 2017
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Here's your TGIF Yooper sunrise. #PureMichigan
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83% of the vote is in for Delta County Michigan recall of 3 corrupt MAGA county commissioners. We have recalled all 3 of them and restored sanity and accountability!
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"It is finished".
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@gtconway3d The importance of "eye goo" trending is that not a single republican voted to combat climate change, go after wealthy tax cheaters or allow medicare to lower senior's prescription costs. Not one. Thank you @TheDemocrats
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@DmytroKuleba @EuromaidanPress This looks like another war crime -
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Za sve one koji ne žele da vide šta Putin radi u Ukrajini. Ruski narod ne stoji iza ovoga. Ovo je Putinov lični rat. Na obraz medjunarodnoj zajednici koja ovo nemo posmatra. #Ukraine
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@gtconway3d Here's the deal. The right has been vilifying the left for decades in right wing media and the GOP. The left has not been as vindictive as the right. But the left and those of us in the middle are not going to take it much longer. This hate is owned by the right. Full stop.
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@KyivIndependent The answer should be "absolutely not". You don't reward a terrorist state for allowing a sovereign nation to trade commodities from its sovereign lands.
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I bet that most people wished their governor were as cool as mine. #ThingsThatTriggerMAGA
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📻 Michigan, are you tuned into KNTRY radio? #CowboyCarter
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@gtconway3d @StevenTDennis Leavenworth aka The Criminal White House #SundayNightSlammer
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Those of you in the sweltering heat, behold natural air conditioning courtesy of the Great Lakes.
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@CaslerNoel @IvankaTrump They had full bullet prof glass for his speech. They never did that for his rallies. He knew violence was coming to town. He invited it.
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@NewVoiceUkraine It looks like it was filmed in an underground parking garage.
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@SenPolehanki Betsy owns 10 yachts, 4 airplanes, 2 helicopters, the Orlando Magic basketball team, distilleries, a hard cider company and a brain performance company and who knows how many mansions. Oh and she has an actual Yacht Scheduler on payroll.
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@igorbobic North Dakota's population in 2022 is 770,221 inhabitants, it is the 47th most populous state. There are -64- American cities that have a bigger population. This is not democracy.
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@_LukeBradley @TravelerGrad AirBnb destroyed Anna Maria Island near Bradenton, Fla. Greedy developers bought up quaint Florida bungalows, tore them down and put up massive party houses in their stead. Right in the middle of family neighborhoods. All night parties every night. Try living next door to that.
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@atrupar Nobody. No one is saying that up here. These liars just spin this crap out of thin air.
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@tbonier @BetsyCoffia We have something similar happening here in Michigan. And all these newly registered voters are not showing up in polling.
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🧵1/ MI Absentee Data Update: Over 1.5m requests = 40% of the total 2018 turnout. 367k more absentee ballot requests than all absentee ballots cast in 2018 (1.2m). 582k ballot requests from infrequent/newly engaged voters; voters <35 account for 11% of requests!
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This lady owns 10 yachts, 4 airplanes, 2 helicopters, an actual Yacht Scheduler, the Orlando Magic basketball team, distilleries, a hard cider company and a brain performance company and who knows how many mansions. #GreedIncorporated
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It's not just the Biden debt scam is illegal and unfair. It's also a STAGGERING amount of spending.
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Did you know the rightist plan to just keep pumping fossil fuels will decimate 2/3 of all our farmland into deserts unless we build more solar farms and other renewable energy sources? The right hates farmers. Gladly, Michigan is passing sensible climate action today.
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Guaranteed to trigger MAGA everywhere. We love our Michigan majority. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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That end-of-year feeling when you got a lot of 🤫 done thanks to a new majority in the Michigan Legislature.
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@MartyTa94849826 @HereForGood12 It seems that Sexton is farking around and is about to find out.
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@joshgerstein He thinks that is owning the libs. What a tool.
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Beautiful day here on the top side of Lake Michigan. #PureMichigan
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Today I voted to recall my corrupt county commissioner. My voter # was #420 so I'm feeling some good karma about that.
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Quality day up here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan today. #PureMichigan
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Gretchen Whitmer has been an amazing governor in Michigan during these trying times. I think she will become the first woman U.S. president in 2028. #BigGretch 💙 #VoteBlue
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"To quote one of my political heroes, your incredible governor Ann Richards, 'I've been tested by the fire, and the fire lost.' I promise you, Texas Democrats, if you keep fighting for progress, you will beat the fire." - @gretchenwhitmer at the #TXDems24 Convention
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@jeffnews @Delavegalaw First order of business post indictment should be a complete gag order on him.
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This lady owns 10 yachts, 4 airplanes, 2 helicopters, an actual yacht scheduler, the Orlando Magic basketball team, distilleries, a hard cider company and a brain performance company and who knows how many mansions. And Amway is a giant ponzi scheme. #GreedIncorporated
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Shouldn't you be focused on fixing the FAFSA fiasco instead?
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Eleven Films is so good at this. The former president's bloodbath comments were part of a larger racist screed. He said what he said and he means it.
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@axios It's almost looking like Glock Q is extremely unstable.
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@maggieNYT You know what would make a great story? The Rupert Murdoch clan knew it was this bad, and yet they still gave the green-light to Tucker Carlsons propaganda piece about J6 recently.
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Don't hate, but it's sunny, 75 and breezy here. #PureMichigan #miwx
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Rupert Murdoch works tirelessly every day to destroy democracy, his Fox News hosts lie about "stolen elections" and is being sued for lying about the 2020 elections and you think people should trust the WSJ? GTFO of here. #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy #WSJElectionDay
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@kylegriffin1 A Patriots coach was also let go after not wanting to get vaccinated.
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@abughazalehkat @kendallybrown He doesn't know what fascism is either.
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Midsummer sunrise in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. #PureMichigan
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We are coming up on the longest day of the year with the most sunlight. I love sweet sweet summertime in the Midwest. #PureMichigan
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@brianklaas The CIA would have uncovered the link of Konstantin Kilimnik passing the polling data to Russian Intelligence. Mike Pompeo was the CIA director at that time. I think he buried the intelligence to avoid giving it to Mueller.
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@FPWellman New York State and the Manhattan DA need to indict Trump asap. Incarcerating him might be the only way to end this national nightmare.
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@BGrueskin @gtconway3d This is how TFG will be at trial, Just a stream of lies like Jones.
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@TudorDixon @shernandez4rep Hi Tudor👋 I'm a registered independent here in the Upper Peninsula. I am the type of voter that that will decide this election. You are too extreme and untrustworthy to be trusted in -any- elected position, let alone governor of the great state of Michigan. Betsy DeVos owns you.
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@gtconway3d Mark Pomerantz has RICO prosecution experience.
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@maggieNYT Letitia James said "Claiming money you do not have does not amount to the Art of the Deal, it's the Art of the Steal." 😂
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@CaslerNoel Best run on sentence ever, I had to take a deep breath after reading it.
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Yooper sunrise #PureMichigan
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@JohnJHarwood So Leo wanted to slide another $25K to Ginni Thomas but not in her name you say? That sounds like classic money laundering, which is a devise the wealthy use to avoid paying taxes. Tax evasion from the wife of a SCOTUS justice is not ok. And Clarence is a serial tax evader too.
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@maggieNYT They want to pay Putin back by declassifying everything.
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@bresreports @JohnJHarwood @GOPLeader @mtgreenee Qevin McCarthy and BlondQ are leaders of the sedition caucus in the US House of Representatives. He won't do a thing.
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@MarkHertling @DanaCarlson8577 @Foxnew Yes, this. I have a neighbor a few houses from me and he has 100% disability and pays $0.00 in Michigan property tax. And everyone is ok with that. As they should be.
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Another fine TGIF Yooper sunrise. #PureMichigan
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U. P. TGIF sunrise. The Sun has moved pretty far north now.
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@gtconway3d Likewise if anyone needs a video of a puppy riding a rooster.
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High school graduations increase in Michigan. In 13 of 17 categories, the 2023 rates are higher than the 2019 pre-pandemic graduation rates. Thank you Michigan democrats.
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This is the only wall this country needs.
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@FPWellman This needs to lose its religious tax exemption.
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The mighty Menominee River. This River runs most of the border between Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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"SORE LOSER" is trending across the United States. And America is sick and tired of sore losing republicans. The @GOP just doesn't get that we really aren't into them. Instead of moderating they are getting even more extreme. #SoreLosers
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Upper Peninsula GOP are encouraging trump to hold a rally at the Superior Dome in Marquette or the U.P. State Fairgrounds here in Escanaba. 😡 @SenEdMcBroom shame on you for endorsing a rapist with 91 indictments. How does that square with Christianity?
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A fine Yooper sunrise #PureMichigan
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@svdate @Kris_Sacrebleu Dogs don't even like him. No animals likes him except maybe a sewer rat. And our national bird knows a con when he sees one.
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A Baltimore Oriole found oranges that I put out for them.
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@lawofruby He is terrified of being left alone now. He needs all the sycophants he can get to surround him. Will be interesting to see how many are left after the 3rd or 4th indictments come down.
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Another quality Yooper #PureMichigan day. 73, sunny and a light breeze. TGIF everyone
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This group, that would like to abolish property taxes in Michigan and throw us into chaos because they are so greedy, is trying to get a ballot initiative passed. They had ads in my timeline. I countered their lies. Then...
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This is my most favorite autumn picture that I've taken. This is on the Menominee River near Iron Mountain.
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@axios Time for churches to lose their tax exemptions. Especially those that received PPP loans who do not even pay taxes.
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@kylegriffin1 @NBCNews The Supreme Court in United States v. Nixon (1974) held that executive privilege cannot be invoked at all if the purpose is to shield wrongdoing.
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@RachelBitecofer @andybiggs4az New logo for today's fascist GOP
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@rgoodlaw @Kris_Sacrebleu If Meadows hasn't flipped already, he should be locked up for a long time. He was so derelict in his duties to US law and our constitution.
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@ddale8 @emptywheel @KFILE His opponent is @HillaryScholten and she is a much better choice.
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@latimes There is nothing conservative about taking pristine public lands and introducing mining, oil extraction and free grazing. He needed to be held accountable.
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Our two dingbat UltraMagaroon canvassers came to their senses today and certified the 3 recall elections from last week. Delta County Board of Canvassers certifies recall election results
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I voted for democracy today.
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We have an old fashioned massive soaking rain that is very much appreciated up here. Good for the Great Lakes watershed.
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@RachelBitecofer Throw in a heavy dose of red tide on the Gulf of Mexico beaches and Florida is looking at a putrid summer beach season.
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You sound very bitter that Whitmer is a very popular governor. Perhaps you should move to a regressive, radical red state like Florida, you'd be happier there under real authoritarian rule. PS: Land and counties don't vote, people do.
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@NamelessGhoulTX @MackinacCenter How many of Michigan's 83 counties did Whitmer win the last election? I believe it was less than 1 in 5. 80% of the counties rejected her destructive policies.
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I don't know if there ever was a thing as "American exceptionalism" but I can unequivocally say that if there was one, it is dead and gone and replaced by American idiocy thanks to MAGA and the GOP.
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You know who is moving out of Michigan? Sore losing "conservatives" who have the sads that Michigan is now a blue state. But democracy loving people who love real freedom are replacing you under-educated democracy hating dolts, so it's a great trade off.
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But people are leaving MI in droves for FL. Ok groomer.
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@JuddLegum @MuellerSheWrote @CSexton25 @NC5PhilWilliams Regardless of his contention, he has been charging the state for much higher per diem rates based on living in Crossville.
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The sun makes a rare appearance up here. Sunrise in the U.P. #PureMichigan
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@IAmPoliticsGirl Democrats really need to get the message out about how radicalized the GOP base has become, and GOP politicians have done nothing to reign it in. Registered independents can't be ok with this.
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🥳 Michigan's taken over as the largest cannabis market in the United Since the end of 2022, Michigan has sold more grams of flower recreationally and medically than any other state including California
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These people are still butthurt 3 years later that Whitmer's policies saved Michigan lives. Seriously if you hate it here so much, move to radical red Floriduh. And wean yourself off of radical right wing media that is lying to you 24/7. 🙄
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People forget that Whitmer, her top aide, and her HHS director all vacationed in that 'radical red state' of Florida during the pandemic **while telling people to NOT travel there** because they had sane policies
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@jayferus It used be that quality assurance was thought of as a cost of doing business. Those days are gone and it's the public be damned. Greed Incorporated.
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Still light out at 9:30 p.m. and the surf is up.
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Yooper Sunday sunrise. #PureMichigan
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It is so unusual to see no snow on the ground or ice on the bay for late January. This is not normal.
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Another spectacular Yooper sunrise. #PureMichigan
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@FPWellman I bet she was fine with this
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1180 days since Ashli Babbitt committed suicide by cop. She should have seeked help for her mental health issues.
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Daily Reminder It's been 1180 days since the murder of Ashli Babbitt and Michael Byrd is still walking around free. #JusticeForAshliBabbitt
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A subdued sunrise this morning and a winter storm warning tonight. #PureMichigan
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9:50 p.m. Eastern Time. This is our longest day as far as sunlight all year.
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