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Practical Progressive Gini

@leftcoastgin.bsky.social
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80 years old and still into learning. Desire to see the Dems become more combative. News junkie. Atlantic Monthly for 50 years. poetry workshops at Stanford. New lectures from Peter Zeihan. in Foreign Affairs. Looking for what will be next. FOLLOW ME!

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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 2h
rump administration is a candidate for the most brazen use of government office in American history, perhaps eclipsing even Teapot Dome, Watergate and other famous scandals.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 2h
The Trump family and business partners have collected $320 million in fees from a new cryptocurrency, brokered overseas real estate deals worth billions of dollars and are opening an exclusive club in Washington called the Executive Branch charging $500,000 apiece to join,
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 21h
Maybe electing a convicted rapist sent the wrong message to young men.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If we have to pay taxes on the unrealized gains of our homes, billionaires should have no problem paying taxes on the unrealized gains of their investments.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump is pushing against American interest with Israel. He is a traitor.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The average price for a gallon of gas as of Sunday: $4.48, per AAA. That’s almost 40 cents more per gallon than a month ago.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MORE CORRUPTION!. The White House is calling the political ads for Trump “public service announcements.”
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The future is bleak for American kids.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Washington has given up on America.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump is focusing on White House improvements not your home owner improvements.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
6 Supreme Court Justices are hell bent on destroying democracy.
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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
MUST SEE! 👀 One of the best ads ever- Senator John Ossoff
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thank you, Donald Trump, for your steady disastrous, catastrophic leadership and comprehensive incompetence.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If American consumers knew where that beef was coming from, they might not want to eat it. Trump has opened the gates to poisonous foreign beef.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trump has neither avoided disaster nor managed to put the country on stable footing. Instead, he is carelessly careening toward catastrophe. So far, it’s only been a matter of luck that we haven’t crashed.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump has 885 days left of his Presidency.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
5000 Data centers have been built across America and nobody noticed until now.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
this Iranian attack may have been aided by Russian satellite intelligence provided by Vladimir Putin. Trump has seemingly done nothing about that.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Some towns and cities have halted construction on Data Centers outright. Over the past two years, roughly 120 communities have considered or adopted data center moratoriums of varying lengths, according to a tracker compiled by the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In 2010, nearly 18 percent of people under 65 lacked insurance. By 2024, the rate had fallen below 10 percent, thanks to the Affordable Care Act and later legislation that built on it. Republican have undone those achievements.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
TACO BELL caused the flu (cyclosporiasis) in Michigan by not turning over records when asked
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Drunk on its own power, AIPAC lost its way years ago when it had a choice regarding how to be pro-Israel — to put American interests and values first or Netanyahu’s interests and values first. AIPAC chose to be pro-Netanyahu.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
a global superpower with a mighty military footprint can still be held at bay by a lesser adversary willing to wage asymmetric warfare to find any advantage it can.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
While tech companies pay for their direct power, traditional utility rules frequently spread the costs of massive grid expansions, transmission lines, and backup power across all local customers
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
regular ratepayers often end up paying a portion of data center energy and grid upgrade costs through higher utility bills.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The public utility commission in Wisconsin is trying to force the company to cover the power-grid upgrades necessitated by the construction of four data center buildings on a 672-acre site. This would require Oracle to raise at least an additional $7 billion,
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Because the ancient Israelites were a Canaanite group native to the southern Levant, genetic studies show that both modern Palestinians and Jewish populations inherit a majority of their DNA from the exact same Bronze Age Levantine ancestral pool
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This war must come to an end. Palestinians and Israelites shouldn't be fighting over land. They both come from the same land.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Despite a broad mandate from Congress in the new act, the administration appears poised to shrug at the opportunity to address the issue of housing. Trump doesn't give a damn about the housing problems of US citizens.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Green card applications in 2026 often take around 1-3 years to process, so someone who entered legally may end up overstaying their visa while they wait.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today Bibi lets settlers in the West Bank rip up Palestinians’ villages, and when they resist, his government calls it terrorism.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Palestinians are a people — more than seven million of them — and they are not going away or relinquishing their right to statehood,
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
California's economy grew about 4 times faster than Texas in the first quarter of 2026, reaching a 3.7% annualized growth pace compared to Texas's 0.9%. This marked a specific quarterly performance milestone reported by state officials and economic data.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Republicans who passed last year’s law saw SNAP as a bloated program and cuts as a way to help finance the tax reductions, mostly for the wealthy, central to Mr. Trump’s agenda.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Nations or leaders may have an incentive to pursue genocidal policies knowing they will not only get away with murder but may even benefit from it.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A spokesperson for the Army explained that the Army classifies a soldier as “seriously injured” or “very seriously injured” only if they are at risk of dying from their wounds within 72 hours. Hegseth said 90% had minor injuries. Liar!
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
gross domestic product growth and job growth have been faster under Democratic presidents (who tend to raise taxes) in recent decades than under Republican presidents.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Regional traffic signal network to double in size as Palm Springs pushes safety upgrades thepalmspringspost.com/regional-tra...
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Regional traffic signal network to double in size as Palm Springs pushes safety upgrades ⋆ The Palm Springs Post
CVAG's synchronization program will pass 500 intersections this fall while city crews use federal grants to add protected left turns at crash-prone locations.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Trip misleads us on his earnings. Of the $2.2 billion in revenue Mr. Trump reported in his 2025 financial disclosure forms, the bulk does not come from growth in the stock market. Additionally, none of the major indexes grew by 85 percent, nor has the average 401(k) account.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"A person who can notice negative emotions like fear or anger, without being ruled by them, can stay in a difficult conversation. A society of such people can disagree without coming apart." Sam Harris
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A STUPID PRESIDENT! On Wednesday morning, Mr. Trump called Spaniards “hopeless, bad people” and said he was cutting off trade with the country — an unlikely prospect given the European Union’s 27 nations negotiate trade deals jointly.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The global economy is set to slow sharply in 2026 after the war with Iran disrupted energy supply chains and triggered a fresh bout of inflation, the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
There’s been an increase in births by college-educated mothers, while births by women without high school diplomas have decreased and women with college educations are more likely to be working than those with less education.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...
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Opinion | What Has Chris Rufo Wrought?
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With its decision Monday in Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority has fully embraced the unitary executive theory, AND HANDED US AN EXECUTIVE POWER ON STEROIDS.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Most American dairy cows are milked by immigrants. NOT ANY MORE! ROBOTS are milking cows.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump basically sold out the State of Israel and the Arab Gulf states for the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump ended this war with a TACO trade — the famous TACO trade described by Wall Street analysts: Trump Always Chickens Out.
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
DONALD TRUMP, MILITARY, OPINION, POLITICS A White House Leak Reportedly Revealed Trump Was Kicked Out Of Briefing After Hours-Long Meltdown. WSJ
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Practical Progressive Gini @leftcoastgin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
impossible to listen to Trump and Vance without being reminded of Nick Carraway’s famous observation about Tom and Daisy Buchanan in “The Great Gatsby”: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated
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