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I’m a socialist who is for peace especially now. X has messed with my account & now I think I have to rebuild followers & those followed. Help!

Joined September 2022
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Pro tip: the best way to honor our veterans is to stop all wars! Ask any veteran and I’m sure they will agree!!
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aoc is a hakeem jeffries democrat
Drop Site’s @JulianAndreone pressed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) on her supporting Hakeem Jeffries’ bid for Speaker of the House. Jeffries has explicitly said he does not support Medicare for All, has routinely supported sending aid to Israel, even throughout the genocide in Gaza, and has yet to commit to blocking any and all funding to continue the war in Iran. Ocasio-Cortez said progressives will seek to secure concessions on these key policy differences but that she believes the margin is too large to contest his speakership without a challenger.
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Ukraine is essentially a giant CIA base, posing as a sovereign nation. The CIA moved into Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union, looking to take advantage of the lawless and destabilized country, using it as an offshore proxy, outside the scope of US oversight. It began with the Nunn-Lugar Act in 1991, and then carried on into 2005, when then Senators Obama and Lugar visited Ukraine, to inspect the former Soviet bio, chemical, and nuclear facilities (pictured below), and then added Ukraine to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and began turning these former Soviet facilities into “defensive research facilities”, which opened the door for US contractors to establish their foothold in Ukraine, and set up their money laundering and racketeering operations, under the guise of “foreign aid”. Then the CIA funded Nazi militant groups in Ukraine which led to the outbreak of civil war in 2014 in the Donbas. Amidst the chaos, the US State Department, via Victoria Nuland, leveraged the situation to install US-loyal puppets, including the infamous leaked phone call between her and fellow State Department bureaucrat Geoffrey Pyatt, about ensuring “their guy” Yatsenuik, was installed as Prime Minister. The State Department, in tandem with the CIA, covertly took control of Ukraine via Color Revolution in 2014. Putin recognized this. He knew that the US had destabilized and taken control of Ukraine, and recognized that the US were building a proxy army on his border, by funding, training, and supplying Ukraine with weapons, and trying to bring them into NATO. This was a red line for Putin, as he has said for decades. Russia have been invaded from the West too many times before, and will not tolerate a hostile standing army and long-range missiles on their border. Just like the US didn’t like it when Russia tried to put nukes in Cuba in the 60’s, Russia doesn’t like the US trying to bring armies and weapons to Ukraine. Essentially, Ukraine is an unofficial US territory and NATO member, and the Deep State do not want to lose out on their cash cow and strategic asset that is Ukraine, hence why they continue to send hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to protect Ukraine’s border. They are using Ukraine as a laundry mat to funnel in hundreds of billions for the war machine, and also covering up their extreme criminality in Ukraine, including crimes against humanity for bioweapon development, human trafficking, drug trafficking, etc. All the things they can’t get away with stateside, they do in Ukraine. If the public knew the truth about the origins of US involvement in Ukraine, they would NEVER have supported sending a single penny to Ukraine. The narrative that Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022 “unprovoked”, is war propaganda to make it appear Ukraine are the righteous defenders in order to garner your support, when in reality, The US started this conflict, they are the ones who brought war to Putin’s doorstep, and the US are the ones perpetuating the war by continuing to fund and supply Ukraine. Putin does not want to conquer all of Europe, he just wants NATO off of his border, and justice for US development of weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine, namely, gene-specific biological weapons. The Cold War never truly ended.
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AOC has a message for anyone asking her to NOT vote for Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker👇
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This is sheer Hegsethian bloodlust applied to a different war.
Replying to @Switch82Vet
No that’s the beauty of this, we can pay the Ukrainians to kill the Russians.
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As AOC touts Jeffries, he gave a stunning preview of his leadership today, failing to whip the vote after promising a "hard yes" on Hegseth impeachment. 11 Dems were no-shows & the bid went down in flames. If Jeffries won't deliver on a "hard yes", imagine what lies ahead for Medicare for All, ending Citizen's United & blocking funds for war & genocide. Democrats are self-destructing as usual to serve their oligarch donors.
AOC on Leader Jeffries' bid for Speaker: "There is one candidate in this race, Hakeem Jeffries, and I think that everyone is far more concerned with what that leadership means, what it is promising, what it seeks to deliver"
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UPDATE: Some of the 11 Dems who missed the Hegseth vote were at the “Elect Democrat Women (EDW)” event which served as a MAJOR PASS-THRU in midterms for AIPAC MONEY. DARK MONEY!
This Hegseth vote opened at 5:30 pm. Some members have cited traffic produced by some incident near the Capitol as the reason they missed it, but @JulianAndreone was there at the time and saw nothing impeding traffic. Interestingly, the PAC Elect Democratic Women (EDW) was having a “new member reception” from 4:30-6:30 pm. If you followed the primaries closely, you know EDW’s offshoot, EDW Action Fund, served as one of the major pass-throughs for AIPAC money, so it’s a very important organization. If you were at this reception and saw any truant members of Congress, signal is in bio for me and Julian.
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YOU DIDN’T FUCKING VOTE which led to it failing. STFU!
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Replying to @Rep_Stansbury
You were stuck in traffic coming back from an AIPAC DARK MONEY event. This is even more disgusting.
UPDATE: Some of the 11 Dems who missed the Hegseth vote were at the “Elect Democrat Women (EDW)” event which served as a MAJOR PASS-THRU in midterms for AIPAC MONEY. DARK MONEY!
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AOC is spending a lot of her political capital on Hakeem Jeffries. Does she think we forgot about Kamala is “endlessly fighting for a ceasefire”? Listen to the people. Not your corporate overlords.
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My favorite example of Bill Clinton putting the working class first was NAFTA.
Replying to @ThirdWayMattB
Bill Clinton, the godfather of the modern center left, was obviously a moderate, the OG New Democrat, and he insisted we needed to put the working class first. This was our campaign book: 6/
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Literally all it would take is the progressive caucus deciding not to support Jeffries. If they don't support him, he doesn't succeed. So don't give me any of this "it's inevitable" nonsense. It's only inevitable if progressives decide to make it happen.
⭕️ It would take just ~43 House Democrats to keep Hakeem Jeffries from becoming speaker. The Congressional Progressive Caucus alone expects more than 100 members in January. 🔹Its chair, Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), co-sponsored Rep. Rashida Tlaib's November 2025 resolution "recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza." Now he says he expects to "deliver the votes" for Jeffries. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), another co-sponsor, told MS NOW on Monday that Jeffries will have the caucus's unanimous support, calling his expected rise a "pretty historic moment." In all, 22 House Democrats backed the genocide resolution and well over 40 have described Israel’s actions as genocide. 🔹Jeffries has been one of the strongest supporters of Israel’s military response in Gaza. He opposed a July bid to cut off US military aid to Israel, saying it would "restrict our country's ability to confront Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations in the region." His promised "reset" wouldn't touch aid until the current 10-year deal expires in 2028. 🔹The math: Speaker needs 218 votes cast for a person by name on Jan 3, 2027. With roughly 260 Democrats, if 43 commit to naming someone else and every Republican votes against Jeffries, he falls short. 🔹It's been done before. In January 2023, about 20 Republicans withheld their votes from Rep. Kevin McCarthy through 15 rounds of voting. He won only after major concessions, including a rule letting any single member force a vote to remove the speaker, which Rep. Matt Gaetz used to oust him nine months later. 🔗 Drop Site's Julian Andreone asked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), another co-sponsor of the genocide resolution who backs Jeffries, whether progressives could use that kind of leverage.
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I have come to the conclusion that Hakeem Jeffries is the most serious threat to the progressive agenda in the country, more so than Trump himself, and that any progressive not loudly, actively opposing Jeffries is actively betraying their movement.
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Israel Isn't real
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The fact that @ChrisVanHollen has credibility with the left and with the mainstream of the Dem party is exactly why he's a great fit for leadership. None of us have forgotten how he fought for Kilmar Abrego Garcia when it wasn't safe or popular and worked to expose war crimes against Palestinians. He's also been a leading voice against the atrocities in Sudan. In other words he's showed actual character and leadership. Exactly what's needed.
The left throwing in with Van Hollen—boomer child of diplomats and career politician who has been in elected office consistently since 1991—is just deeply deeply funny to me. And I mean this with no disrespect to CVH. It’s just odd how convenient things suddenly become.
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*AOC pulling out huge map of DC streets* Listen, the vote was in the afternoon during rush hour traffic. Here’s how these 11 good guy Democrats traffic routes makes it impossible for them to show up for afternoon votes.
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How dare "Genocide" Joe Biden fly into Ireland as some sort of Irish-American hero after arming, funding, and blocking attempts to stop the mass murder of a colonised people. He has blood on his hands. What a disgrace he is to the memory of his West of Ireland ancestors.
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This is pathetic.
I asked Hakeem Jeffries about attendance appearing decisive in the Pete Hegseth vote. (11 House Dems did not vote tonight.) He told me and reporters: "I haven't had a conversation with anyone on the floor team about what may or may not have happened in terms of the Hegseth resolution, but this is not the end of it. It's just the beginning."
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This should be the end of Jeffries as speaker. The fact 11 dems missed this vote is Insane.
Kamlager-Dove on Hegseth Impeachment: We knew that this vote was coming, so people should have gotten their raggedy selves up these steps to vote. There is no reason why we should have lost this vote because of attendance issues. You know this man should not be in this position. That’s why he got up at 8 o’clock in the morning with his sorry self to plead to the American people. So shame on folks who are not here. Because these people lost. They lost, and they still found a way to show up to table this bill. Shameful.
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