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Stand for democracy. Animal n food lover. What we do today have consequences for us as well as generations after we are gone. May we have the strength to fend off evil.
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Stand for democracy. Animal n food lover. What we do today have consequences for us as well as generations after we are gone. May we have the strength to fend off evil.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 🚫Crypto 🚫Porn
🚫MAGA🚫Illuminati
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Mr Fox 🦊 was not only one of the very first dogs Niall ever fed in the moped (he was in the first 6) but also the first to ever get sterilized.
To see him now in the snow in America with his wonderful forever family is a thing of pure joy.
To see him now in the snow in America with his wonderful forever family is a thing of pure joy.
December 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Mr Fox 🦊 was not only one of the very first dogs Niall ever fed in the moped (he was in the first 6) but also the first to ever get sterilized.
To see him now in the snow in America with his wonderful forever family is a thing of pure joy.
To see him now in the snow in America with his wonderful forever family is a thing of pure joy.
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For Vance, DEI and affirmative action policies are so vile that it “pisses [him] off a million times more” than racial slurs aimed at his own children by an actual white supremacist.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/jd-v...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/jd-v...
JD Vance Is Wrong: DEI Is Not What’s Dividing America—He Is | Common Dreams
In the America that Vance envisions, people are only judged for "who they are"—unless they’re immigrants, transgender, women, Muslims, or people of color.
www.commondreams.org
December 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
For Vance, DEI and affirmative action policies are so vile that it “pisses [him] off a million times more” than racial slurs aimed at his own children by an actual white supremacist.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/jd-v...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/jd-v...
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And these folks support defunding education. 🤦🏽♂️
December 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
And these folks support defunding education. 🤦🏽♂️
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When will Christian Conservative people wake up and vote these people out. These are law breaking thugs NOT law makers!
From his official website.
From his official website.
December 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
When will Christian Conservative people wake up and vote these people out. These are law breaking thugs NOT law makers!
From his official website.
From his official website.
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ICE violently detain pregnant woman—shove her face down into snow kneeling on her back until she "couldn't breathe."
Agents handcuff her—then drag her across pavement by just 1 arm.
"We yelled: 'She is pregnant!'" said witness."They put their knees on her: 'She can't breathe, let her up!'"
Agents handcuff her—then drag her across pavement by just 1 arm.
"We yelled: 'She is pregnant!'" said witness."They put their knees on her: 'She can't breathe, let her up!'"
December 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
ICE violently detain pregnant woman—shove her face down into snow kneeling on her back until she "couldn't breathe."
Agents handcuff her—then drag her across pavement by just 1 arm.
"We yelled: 'She is pregnant!'" said witness."They put their knees on her: 'She can't breathe, let her up!'"
Agents handcuff her—then drag her across pavement by just 1 arm.
"We yelled: 'She is pregnant!'" said witness."They put their knees on her: 'She can't breathe, let her up!'"
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I followed this story from their first meeting — I love human kindness so much 😭. I can’t see through tears of joy to type this
December 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I followed this story from their first meeting — I love human kindness so much 😭. I can’t see through tears of joy to type this
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Did you know that the US Government played a big role in segregation? In the 1930s, Federal Housing Administration furthered segregation efforts by refusing to insure mortgages in and near Black neighborhoods — a policy known as "redlining."(cont)
www.npr.org/2017/05/03/5...
www.npr.org/2017/05/03/5...
A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America
Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation," in which people of color were purposely excluded from suburbs.
www.npr.org
January 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Did you know that the US Government played a big role in segregation? In the 1930s, Federal Housing Administration furthered segregation efforts by refusing to insure mortgages in and near Black neighborhoods — a policy known as "redlining."(cont)
www.npr.org/2017/05/03/5...
www.npr.org/2017/05/03/5...
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I really like this analysis. As we age, superficial social acceptance becomes less important. Outside of work or any form of necessary situations, superficial social acceptance becomes weighty burdens.
Physical as well as emotional self reliance brings quiet peace of mind.
youtu.be/4VQzyfguJgs?...
Physical as well as emotional self reliance brings quiet peace of mind.
youtu.be/4VQzyfguJgs?...
If You Have Few or No Friends, You Probably Have These 5 Rare Traits
YouTube video by PsychologyAboutYou
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I really like this analysis. As we age, superficial social acceptance becomes less important. Outside of work or any form of necessary situations, superficial social acceptance becomes weighty burdens.
Physical as well as emotional self reliance brings quiet peace of mind.
youtu.be/4VQzyfguJgs?...
Physical as well as emotional self reliance brings quiet peace of mind.
youtu.be/4VQzyfguJgs?...
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As the U.S. grows more diverse, a quiet civil war is unfolding within American Christianity over who deserves empathy.
Conservatives ranging from evangelical pastors to Elon Musk have started framing empathy not as a virtue but as a vulnerability on immigration, racial justice and LGBTQ+ rights.
Conservatives ranging from evangelical pastors to Elon Musk have started framing empathy not as a virtue but as a vulnerability on immigration, racial justice and LGBTQ+ rights.
Axios AM - Battle over empathy
www.axios.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As the U.S. grows more diverse, a quiet civil war is unfolding within American Christianity over who deserves empathy.
Conservatives ranging from evangelical pastors to Elon Musk have started framing empathy not as a virtue but as a vulnerability on immigration, racial justice and LGBTQ+ rights.
Conservatives ranging from evangelical pastors to Elon Musk have started framing empathy not as a virtue but as a vulnerability on immigration, racial justice and LGBTQ+ rights.
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If you like or love Emma Thompson, here are composite funny clips of her on Graham Norton show. Great laughs.
youtu.be/whG_fH2MRRg?...
youtu.be/whG_fH2MRRg?...
The Very Best Of Emma Thompson On The Graham Norton Show
YouTube video by The Graham Norton Show
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
If you like or love Emma Thompson, here are composite funny clips of her on Graham Norton show. Great laughs.
youtu.be/whG_fH2MRRg?...
youtu.be/whG_fH2MRRg?...
WOW! Vet on the FRONT LINES Uncovers HEARTBREAKING CRISIS
YouTube video by Katie Phang
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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We have become careless of what matters. “Never again?” From east to west, bullies dominate. International institutions have been allowed to wither. In the US, powerful voices echo Nazi justifications for overriding democracy.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
In 1945 we said ‘never again’, yet already we’ve forgotten | The Observer
Eighty years ago this weekend, on Sunday 11 November 1945, King George VI joined the newly minted Labour prime minister Clement Attlee in laying wreaths on the Cenotaph in London’s Whitehall, the first time in seven years that the remembrance ceremony, introduced after the first world war, had taken place in peacetime. Across the nation, countless millions assembled at 11am to stand for two minutes in silence.
observer.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We have become careless of what matters. “Never again?” From east to west, bullies dominate. International institutions have been allowed to wither. In the US, powerful voices echo Nazi justifications for overriding democracy.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Republicans are pumping billions into ICE while cutting programs that actually help American families.
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Republicans are pumping billions into ICE while cutting programs that actually help American families.
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President Barack Obama gave a group of war heroes a surprise they will never forget.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/oba...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/oba...
Obama surprises veterans on flight to DC with special Veterans Day salute
President Barack Obama surprised a flight of Korean and Vietnam War veterans traveling from Madison, Wisconsin, to Washington, D.C., ahead of Veterans Day.
abcnews.go.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
President Barack Obama gave a group of war heroes a surprise they will never forget.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/oba...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/oba...
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🚨 NEW: ADP report: U.S. LOST an average of 11,000 jobs per week in October 2025.
Let’s compare, shall we:
In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000.
From steady climb to sudden slide.
Let’s compare, shall we:
In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000.
From steady climb to sudden slide.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🚨 NEW: ADP report: U.S. LOST an average of 11,000 jobs per week in October 2025.
Let’s compare, shall we:
In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000.
From steady climb to sudden slide.
Let’s compare, shall we:
In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000.
From steady climb to sudden slide.