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@FortchMusic

Singer/Songwriter/Recording Artist https://t.co/UtYIpOrrDw… https://t.co/hpDXCrVHVy

Wake Forest, NC Katılım Temmuz 2017
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Protect Kamala Harris ✊
Protect Kamala Harris ✊@DisavowTrump20·
Legendary Singer Neil Young has removed all his albums from Amazon Music due to founder Jeff Bezos and his support for Donald Trump. RETWEET to thank @NeilYoung for standing up for our democracy!
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Break The System
Break The System@ResistanceInRed·
🇺🇸 Americans, open your eyes—this is the brutal reality staring us in the face: The United States has carried out military interventions, invasions, bombings, coups, and regime-change operations in over 80 countries since World War II—some sources say closer to hundreds when counting every covert action and proxy war. We've toppled governments in Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Congo (1960), Chile (1973), and so many more. Full-scale wars and occupations in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq (twice), Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen... the list goes on. We've dropped more bombs, caused millions of deaths (civilian and military), shattered economies, created refugee crises, and left entire regions in chaos—all while calling it "spreading democracy" or "protecting freedom." Now ask yourself the one question that exposes the hypocrisy: How many times has a foreign army invaded and occupied the American mainland? Once. The British in 1812—they burned the White House and left. Pearl Harbor was a strike on Hawaii (not yet a state), 9/11 was terrorism—not an invasion. No foreign boots have marched across our heartland, occupied our cities, or redrawn our maps in over 200 years. Yet here we are in 2026, pouring over $900 BILLION to $1 TRILLION annually into defense—more than the next 9–10 countries COMBINED (China ~$300B, Russia ~$200B, India, Germany, UK, France, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and others all together can't match us). Think about that. Our bridges are collapsing. Our borders are porous. Our veterans sleep on the streets. Our debt is exploding toward unimaginable levels. Families can't afford groceries, rent, or healthcare. Kids are in failing schools. But we keep funding endless wars, bases in 80+ countries, and "nation-building" abroad. This isn't strength—it's insanity. We don't have our priorities straight. We've been sold the lie that being the world's permanent cop keeps us safe, when it actually breeds enemies, drains our treasury, and weakens us at home. Enough. It's time to bring our troops home, secure our borders, rebuild our infrastructure, take care of our people, and put America First—for real. No more playing global sheriff while our own house burns. If this hits home, RT, like, and comment 🔥 if you're done with the forever wars and ready to fix America instead. Who's with me? #RealAmericaFirst #EndEndlessWars #NoMoreWorldPolice #DemsUnited
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Michelle@Michell33650674·
YEP!
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Michelle
Michelle@Michell33650674·
FLOOD THE FUCKING INTERNET! IT'S TIME TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH! HELP US, WORLD!
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Anne Erickson
Anne Erickson@AnneErickson·
Who is the absolute best band or musician you've ever seen live? 🫶🏻
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Fortch@FortchMusic·
@JJWatt No tip. It’s basically a take out order
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JJ Watt@JJWatt·
Genuine question on a restaurant situation: You walk up to a counter to order. You find your own table and seat yourself. If you order coffee, they hand you a cup and you go fill it up yourself. If you order food, they hand you a buzzer and when it goes off, you go pick it up yourself. The iPad has a “20%, 25%, 30%, Other” tip option, with 20% already preselected. What’s your move?
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James Tate
James Tate@JamesTate121·
I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is. I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others. If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy. If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy. If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it. It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume. Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” And that’s the part that should chill us. Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform? Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress. Now the mask is off. Now we know. And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand. – Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.
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Fortch@FortchMusic·
@azsweetheart013 You’ve probably already read A Gentleman in Moscow. That’s my new favorite. Just excellent
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Amy Aiello Lofgren@azsweetheart013·
I need a great book to read. Any suggestions?
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Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats@OccupyDemocrats·
BREAKING: Trump officials caught at secret summit with election deniers plotting to STEAL the midterms in a ‘national emergency’ power grab! ProPublica just dropped a huge bombshell: High-ranking Trump administration officials – including a White House lawyer tasked with ”reinvestigating” 2020 and the DHS official in charge of “election integrity” – attended a shady summit last week where 2020 election deniers begged Donald Trump to declare a national emergency and TAKE OVER the 2026 midterms. Yes, the same Michael Flynn – the disgraced former national security adviser and certified coup enthusiast – convened the whole thing. Attendees included Kurt Olsen, the White House lawyer spending our tax dollars digging for 2020 dirt, and Heather Honey, DHS’s election ratfu**er. Cleta Mitchell was there too, the same one pushing baseless fraud claims through her Election Integrity Network. These MAGA insiders and outside agitators are pushing Trump to go full authoritarian: declare an emergency, ban mail-in ballots, ditch voting machines, and hand federal control over state elections. A draft executive order is already reportedly circulating among these circles. Courts have blocked similar schemes before, Congress won't pass their voter suppression wishlist, so now they're trying the nuclear option – emergency powers to rig the vote in November. Election experts are sounding the alarm loud: This is the same crew that tried to overturn 2020, now embedded INSIDE the government, better organized, and breaking every guardrail. As Brendan Fischer from the Campaign Legal Center put it: “The same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government.” Let’s call this what it is: a deliberate plan to reshape elections ahead of the midterms or ignore the voters entirely if things don't go Trump's way. This is what MAGA “election integrity” really looks like. Subverting votes, not securing them. While Trump slurs through wars abroad, his team is scheming to sabotage democracy at home. The U.S. isn't a democracy under this crew, it's a regime teetering on the edge of authoritarian takeover. If this makes your blood boil, like and share. American democracy is under attack from within. Trump will steal the midterms if he can.
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Simon Ateba
Simon Ateba@simonateba·
BREAKING: Be brutally honest — do you agree with Morgan Freeman that “we have somebody sitting in the White House who’s leading us down a shithole,” and that it’s unbelievable that “a convicted felon gets to be president of the United States of America”? Yes or no?
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Lisa
Lisa@MS2PZ·
Bruce Springsteen resurfaces, again accuses Trump of being corrupt and treasonous: “The America I love - that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years - is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration.” What’s your response?
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