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Be kind, do good, love one another. Sounds corny, but it’s as easy as that! Love books, love dogs ❤️ PRO CHOICE Never, ever MAGA
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these days you learn something new and horrible every 5 seconds
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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"I defected from a totalitarian regime, and like hell am I going to be cowed again," & "I'm pissed off as hell about people capitulating to Trump"

She warns that people voting for such leaders are choosing "the same ball of wax" she fled, where figures dictate life, rights, & feelings.

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December 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Love to see it....
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Warnock: "Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade in random places, on our college and school campuses, without doing all that we can to stop it is broken and in need of moral repair."
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Agree 💯 With Senator Duckworth..
December 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Keystone Kash
December 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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RepubliKKKans Have Been Standing In The Way Of Gun Reform For Decades......
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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December 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.

New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Man, this weekend sucks
December 15, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Their 1-year-old screamed in pain and struggled to open her eyes.

When they rushed to the hospital, the doctor had to call poison control because they’d never treated such a young child for pepper spray exposure.
December 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Horrific mass shooting at Brown. Thinking of the victims and their families.

We simply do not have to live this way.

The failure to pass gun safety legislation is a moral stain & innocent Americans pay the price time and again.
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Yes, what an odd thing to say.
December 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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But Fox News said...
December 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Apparently we’ve established that if the US can seize the largest tanker off Venezuela, it can just as easily seize a small, alleged drug boat without murdering the occupants.
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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WaPo Page One:

@washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported?

Noem: We have not deported military veterans.

Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Nixon didn’t go to prison over Watergate, but 48 others were convicted and served time for the scandal - notably, his Attorney General. Attention: Pam Bondi meet John Mitchell.
December 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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For the love of God
DO NOT Give pets as Xmas gifts.
Too many of these “gifts” end up at the shelter .
A Dog/Cat is a gift we give ourselves and they come with many
sacrifices.
Time,money, and a certain amount of collateral damage in their puppyhood.
December 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be immediately released from immigration detention
A federal judge in Maryland has ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from immigration detention while his legal challenge against his deportation moves forward. U.S.
bit.ly
December 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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When will weak, spineless Republicans stand up and say enough is enough? Are they that afraid of the senile old man in orange makeup?
December 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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‘Totally false’: President of National Black Farmers Assoc pushes back on Trump claim Biden is to blame for farmers’ troubles
Source: CNN share.newsbreak.com/g9jcthqn?s=i16
‘Totally false’: President of National Black Farmers Assoc pushes back on Trump claim Biden is to blame for farmers’ troubles - NewsBreak
CNN’s Boris Sanchez speaks with John Boyd Jr, president of the National Black Farmers Association, as President Trump announces a new $12 billion aid packa
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December 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Fascist republicans, current and those who pretended to leave the party to clean up their shattered reputations, are evil in every sense of the word.
December 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM