Tommy Mains

I write about business, entrepreneurship, and tabletop gaming.
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[Tommy Mains @TommyMains]

One helpful definition of fascism I’ve heard is: “Fascism is colonialism turned inward.”

It’s frustrating to reckon with the fact that this is how we’ve always been. Just not always here. Just not always to people who look like me.

We have to become better than this.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Congratulations to the people of St. Charles, MO for fighting back against a new data center that would use massive amounts of energy and water.

This shows what happens when people stand up to unfettered corporate greed.

[Tommy Mains @TommyMains]

A cover-up, complicity in genocide, a collapsing economy, cowards in politics, and corruption for the rich.

America is not great.

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[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.

If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.

Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.

[Tommy Mains @TommyMains]

Proving that you're working the required amount is an unnecessary cost to receive care. "Only 8% didn’t work in the last year and don’t qualify for an exemption — meaning thousands of eligible participants would lose coverage."

[Tommy Mains @TommyMains]

I understand the bootstraps mindset that says, "no free handouts." It's the excuse around work requirements for gov-funded healthcare.

But it creates red tape, bureaucracy, and unnecessary complexity.

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[Tommy Mains @TommyMains]

Missouri cannot successfully oversee this added governmental responsibility.

From the article: "Missouri’s social services agency has struggled to meet federal standards for processing Medicaid applications and is being sued for its administration of [SNAP]."

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

"The language that is being used has a specific resonance, which, historically, has been used to change regime type. It is important that the rights of human beings were violated. It is important that the rule of law was ignored. It is important that the executive is trying to define reality."
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[Tommy Mains @TommyMains]

“The politics of eternity destroy history.” —Tim Snyder

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Pam Bondi won’t release the Epstein files to MAGA but will put a prosecutor who went after Maxwell on leave 👀

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.

[Tommy Mains @TommyMains]

Thank you, @SenatorHick, for your comments during McMahon's testimony. Teaching history that includes our mistakes is essential.

Your uncle was one of my professors in college. I loved his classes and his passion.

Please continue keeping this administration accountable.

[Tommy Mains @TommyMains]

This is the corruption Doge is looking for. They're the ones doing it in broad daylight

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon now bragging about destroying an $800 million/year agency that has returned $21 billion to consumers who've been screwed by banks, credit card companies, and payday lenders, and other scammers.

Get ready for the return of credit card late fees, overdraft penalties, and all kinds of new scams

[Tommy Mains @TommyMains]

@PhillyD This argument is a complete waste of time and energy. We can't turn back the clock. We have to take a united stand against what Trump’s doing now.

[Tommy Mains @TommyMains]

@NoLieWithBTC 25th amendment time

[Tommy Mains @TommyMains]

@mehdirhasan How do we contact the ICC

[Tommy Mains @TommyMains]

@JessicaTarlov He even wants to be better at genocide than Biden.

[Tommy Mains @TommyMains]

The answer to a broken two-party system is not a one-party system. Instead, it’s multiple parties, ranked-choice voting, and many voices heard. Pluralism is worth fighting for.

[Tommy Mains @TommyMains]

Is Maga trying to be the next villain for Miles Morales in Beyons the Spider-Verse with all the Puerto Rico hate over the weekend?

[Elad Gross 🇺🇸 @BigElad]

Andrew Bailey has lost his mind, arguing that Missouri needs MORE teen pregnancies.

And I guess I should be flattered that our Attorney General has time to read my college columns, but I'd rather he spend the time doing his job. If he actually knew how.

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