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SilverCat Stone Pipes

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Semi-retired carpenter, desert rat, cat daddy, treasure hunter. I make beautiful smoking pipes from Utah alabaster. DM me if interested. I'll be in Quartzsite for the winter. 8647

  1. Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on.

    It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.

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  2. Until we pass a nationwide ban on gerrymandering (which we need), Democrats should gerrymander every state to the fullest extent. 52-0 in CA, 17-0 in IL, and so on. No more unilateral disarmament. Time to get serious about fighting back.

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  3. Once again, I’ll repeat: abusing quo warranto to fashion a compliant legislative body subservient to the executive branch’s ambitions is fundamentally anti-democratic and anathema to the Anglo-American constitutional tradition. What Texas officials are trying to do would’ve made the Founders recoil.

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