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I am thoroughly exhausted and disgusted with the fourth estate for failing to live up to its original purpose. Not only is it failing us now but it took its eyes off the ball allowing oligarchs and Christian Nationalists free rein to align and conspire in secret for decades. We shouldn't be surprised when all the major newspapers and cable companies are now owned by toxic billionaires. I recently had to back off twitter and went an entire month without so much as a click so I could be around Republican family members during the holidays. I didn't want to be freshly reminded how behind that smile and veneer of good cheer, how truly awful they are. I'm not out for the fight, but I am taking stock of how I can be most useful this year to get out the vote, while not risking my job. I didn't have that concern when I worked for an organization in 2020 to register voters and knock on doors to get Warnock and Ossoff elected. As for DeSantis's covid comment, I read a response to your tweet about that on twitter. This woman replied that a vaccine is no longer required to avoid getting covid and that people are rarely if ever dying anymore. Even if that were true, Republicans aren't just attacking covid vaccines but all vaccines because they're basically all libertarians now.

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