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Joanne in Boston
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Secular Humanist/Environmentalist/Liberal 🌎🇺🇦💙
Compassion & Empathy
🚫Toxic religiosity
Can humanity save itself?

“There’s some good in this world Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for”

Love my husband, my coffee and a good bourbon Manhattan.
Pinned
Dark thoughts this morning…how must it feel to be Europe right now with Russian aggression ascending and Trump back in power. There will be no USA to storm the beaches this time…they will stand with the enemy. What has America done?
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A federal court just upheld California’s law REQUIRING federal agents to identify themselves.

California will keep standing up for civil rights and our democracy.
February 10, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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Let's have a Resister Follow Party tomorrow night! 🥳

If you are a Resister/Democracy Defender account who follows me, Drop a comment here, and I'll add you to boosts on Tuesday at 7:30pm CST.

#ResistersUnite 💙🤝💙

Repost so we can all find new like-minded Democracy Defenders to connect with! 🔄

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February 10, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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💙 Thenk you Bad Bunny 💙
February 10, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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Trump, who says he had "no idea" at the time that Epstein sexually molested girls, told the police in 2006 that "everyone has known he’s been doing this.” That's according to an FBI interview with the then-Palm Beach police chief.
Here's a gift link to Julie K. Brown's article in the Miami Herald.
Trump told Palm Beach police chief ‘everyone’ knew about Epstein, Maxwell was ‘evil’
The new information comes as Ghislaine Maxwell was summoned to appear Monday before a Congressional committee.
www.miamiherald.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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“My takeaway from the Super Bowl ads is that the entire American economy is being propped up by AI, weight loss drugs, cryptocurrency and gambling.”

-Andrew Solender, Axios
February 9, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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I don’t do Facebook. But, my sister does. She told me yesterday, that a whole bunch of people we both know well, who have been hardcore Trump people for the last several years, are slamming him…hard…on FB.

Forget about them. Focus on the fact we’ve never seen that before…in 10 years. TEN years.
February 9, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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I keep thinking about that Matthew Broderick ad for AI that presented it as something that could do your work for you and let you take a day off.

Yeah, man, be sure to tell your boss that AI can do all your work for you, that'll probably lead to lots and lots of time off.
February 9, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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Rep. Stansbury after coming out of the Ghislaine Maxwell deposition:

„The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States, and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.”
February 9, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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What she said. All of it! 👇
February 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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If you have to buy a statement of innocence from a convicted child abuser, you are many things, but innocent is not one of them.
February 9, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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5 months ago
February 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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Rep. Raskin: "I think the Department of Justice has been in cover-up mode for many months and has been trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug."

www.huffpost.com/entry/epstei...
Rep. Raskin Confirms ‘Troubling’ And ‘Unnecessary’ Epstein File Redactions
The House Judiciary Committee member reviewed some unredacted Epstein files Monday — and came away troubled.
www.huffpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury: “The United States government is engaged in an active coverup of the largest sex trafficking scandal & influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States — and Donald Trump is right at the center of it”
February 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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They never seem to be familiar with the truly bad stuff.
February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Less than 14% of the 400,000 immigrants arrested by the Trump regime in the last year had charges or convictions for violent crimes.

It was never about going after the “worst of the worst.” It was always about terrorizing communities.

Democrats must refuse to fund this cruelty.
February 9, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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1. Thomas Massey, Republican from Kentucky, just did an interview where he said, on camera, that the director of the FBI threatened to investigate one of his staffers for fraud if Massey did not stop pushing for the disclosure of the Epstein files.
February 9, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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They didn't search it because they were afraid what it might reveal about important people. Cover up!
February 9, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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“It’s now clear that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been lying about his relationship with Epstein,” Rep. García posted on X. “Lutnick must resign or be fired. And he must answer our questions.”

www.politico.com/live-updates...
Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations
Recently disclosed records suggest a closer relationship than the Commerce secretary previously indicated.
www.politico.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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“.. He said he had no interactions with Epstein after 2005, yet we now know they were in business together,” Garcia said. “Lutnick must resign or be fired.”

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/2264...
February 9, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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He’s given this same ‘DEI/Dudes in Dresses ‘ Junior High School-level speech every week for a year. Can someone write him some new material? bsky.app/profile/atru...
NOBODY:

NOT A SOUL IN THE UNIVERSE:

PETE HEGSETH:
February 9, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Howard Lutnick was Epstein’s business partner and he lied about it. I wonder why?
February 9, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Rep. Raskin: "Releasing the names of a lot of victims is either spectacular incompetence and sloppiness on [DOJ's] part or, as a lot of the survivors believe, a deliberate threat to other survivors who are thinking about coming forward."
February 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 9:05 PM