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CapableofEmpathy
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Pro civil rights science education and democracy 🇺🇸 💛🖤Go Hawkeyes 🖤💛 Iowa City ‘87-‘96 Broncos Nuggets Avs and (sigh) Rockies
Love Colorado and Denver
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The GOP is taking away your health care. Here's how it's also working to make you sicker

www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
The GOP is taking away your health care. Here's how it's also working to make you sicker
Given how the Republicans who run Congress let health insurance premiums for over 24 million Americans explode by not acting last week before going on vacation, it appears former Congressman Alan Gray...
www.rawstory.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.

It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT?

Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
December 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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December 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Statement from Rep. Crockett on Threat at D.C. Office
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.

Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Happening now, they’re blaring this mix at ICE in LA.

I added captions.
July 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Goldfinch on an Iowa prairie. Iowa’s state bird:) 🪶 #birds
July 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Iowa dickcissel at Neal Smith refuge 🪶 sound up :)
July 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Kyle Clark has the best commentaries in the business!!!!.. Would love to see him get a Meet the Press-like show one day..he is the type of journalist who will ask those "hard" questions on both sides of the political spectrum!
July 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
House Finches warming up in the Colorado sun. #Birds 🪶
January 31, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa.

I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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Anyone who is anti-vax is pro-death. Period. The science and data do not lie. And they don’t care about your podcast.
November 24, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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If you are in Oklahoma or know others that are with school age children, please pass this along to them. Defense of Democracy created opt-out forms for Ryan Walter’s forced bible instruction. Let’s keep getting in good trouble!
#EduSky #Resist
kfor.com/news/oklahom...
Non-profit creates opt out forms against State Superintendent Ryan Walters
A non-profit called Defense of Democracy has created opt-out forms for parents who want their child to have no interaction with Ryan Walters in any capacity, which includes the recent prayer video.
kfor.com
November 24, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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Iowa QB Cade McNamara states he has not been cleared after a concussion against Northwestern (10/26) and therefore did not travel for this weekend's game at Maryland.
November 22, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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Kirk Ferentz on his radio show regarding the #Hawkeyes' QB1 against Maryland:

"We're not playing yet, but Jackson (Stratton) looks like the guy that will be going, and he'll get the start. Confident that he'll do a great job. ... If he's our guy, we'll go with him and see what we can do."
November 21, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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Trump Locks Bathroom Door So Elon Musk Can’t Follow Him In
theonion.com/trump-locks-...
November 19, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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This is our country, not your church. The Bill of Rights guarantees our right to freedom of speech & religion & to be free from others imposing their religious views on us. Protect our civil rights & freedoms. Stand up against White Christian Nationalism.
https://bit.ly/3ZaXLPc
November 19, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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Just ordered my free Covid tests (thanks Mr. Octopus). You should too.

covidtests.gov
ASPR COVID-19 Testing NAVIGATION
covidtests.gov
November 16, 2024 at 6:58 PM