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JMCKUSICK

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25. Thank you so much for those very kind words.
Sun Jun 29, 2025, 09:31 PM
Jun 2025

That you have a lifetime of examples of the worst in people to draw from wordstroken, makes what's happening now so much worse in that you know full well the breakneck speed at which we are going backwards without meaningful guardrails.
I know this will impact everyone, and none of them in a net positive way, but knowing your work was so dedicated to helping the very people that the senate is now voting to destroy must be especially painful for you.
I'm sorry and I wish there was something I could do other than to encourage you and the inspired work that you've done and continue to do as best you can.
As Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush so wonderfully sang,
"Don't give up
You still have us
Don't give up
We don't need much of anything
Don't give up
'Cause somewhere there's a place
Where we belong".

Can't say it any better than that!

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This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jun 2025 #1
Waiting to vote isn't enough. live love laugh Jun 2025 #12
That is for goddamn sure, we aren't gonna be able to vote Eliot Rosewater Jun 2025 #28
Miami municipal elections are delayed a year because they wanted to AllyCat Jun 2025 #14
that took some balls huh? JMCKUSICK Jun 2025 #23
Thank you for your profound eloquence, my dear JMCKUSICK. CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2025 #2
Same here & the longer we take to figure out how we got into this mess, the longer it'll take for us to get out of it!! InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2025 #26
Feel exactly the same way. FalloutShelter Jun 2025 #27
Here is what is different and useful about your post dwayneb Jun 2025 #3
If any of our acts of rebellion and/or boycott hurt those at the bottom, Jack Valentino Jun 2025 #7
I am in full agreement with the last 2 full paragraphs you wrote Dwayneb JMCKUSICK Jun 2025 #8
I think today's decision put the stillcool Jun 2025 #4
I completely agree. Joinfortmill Jun 2025 #5
I posted the link to info on a general strike. usonian Jun 2025 #6
Agreed Usonian JMCKUSICK Jun 2025 #9
I'll take any day you assign me. calimary Jun 2025 #10
Same here SARose Jun 2025 #29
I hate that so many people have Ilsa Jun 2025 #11
I've posted this here before. Woodycall Jun 2025 #13
This paragraph in particular from your link Woodycall JMCKUSICK Jun 2025 #16
Thom Hartmann would read it on-air during Trump's first "Administration". Woodycall Jun 2025 #17
Ditto. elleng Jun 2025 #15
It just keeps getting shittier and shittier and shittier. Initech Jun 2025 #18
Agreed! JMCKUSICK Jun 2025 #19
You are not alone and many feel the shame blubunyip Jun 2025 #20
The ultimate and extremely urgent question is, JMCKUSICK Jun 2025 #22
Agree it will get worse blubunyip Jun 2025 #24
I hear you, John. Loud and clear. You are exactly on point. No one could have said it better. You've helped me put my wordstroken Jun 2025 #21
Thank you so much for those very kind words. JMCKUSICK Jun 2025 #25
And thank YOU, John, for introducing me to Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. Not only are their mingled voices enchantingly wordstroken Jun 2025 #30
You've never heard of him before? JMCKUSICK Jun 2025 #31
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