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AnnA
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Environmental engineer. Former defense civil servant. Currently working in higher ed. Knows a few things. Happiest outside in nature.
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Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd.

Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.

Another reason for Medicare for All.
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Poor Donald. He's so stupid and confused.

He thinks Barack Obama (who was no longer in power) controlled the 2020 election.

And he thinks Joe Biden (who wasn't yet in power) authorized FBI agents to be sent to the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, when DOJ reported to Trump.
December 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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C'mon, everyone! Bari Weiss was just trying to attract more attention to the story than it would have received if it had aired on 60 Minutes.
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News postponed a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about El Salvador’s CECOT prison one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
wapo.st
December 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Expect a "revolt" among 60 Minutes staff over Bari Weiss pulling the CECOT segment at the last minute, one network insider told me.

Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.
December 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.

youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
Happy Hanukkah
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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December 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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#GVerse #Attention
Jessica Tarlov delivers brutal reality check on #Shit4Brain’s economy: just 17,000 jobs added per month, 700,000 more Americans out of work than last year, and youth unemployment soaring past 10%.

Share widely.
December 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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#GVerse In a stunning moment, Republican Chip Roy just admitted that Republicans only have garbage to offer the American people. Woah!!!
December 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Trump: “…an alcoholic’s personality”

Vance: “…a conspiracy theorist for a decade”

Vought: “…right wing absolute zealot”

Musk: “…an avowed ketamine user”

These aren’t the wild opinions of a Twitter troll.

It’s coming from the White House Chief of Staff.

They are who we think they are.
December 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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I mean everyone voted for fewer jobs, more war and more expensive healthcare, right?
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well

STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people

MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that
December 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯
December 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Masked ICE agent says he “doesn’t care” if he’s a citizen as he kidnaps U.S. teen.

This has got to end.

#Pinks #ProudBlue #Resist #FuckICE
December 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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The House and Senate are both investigating Pete’s war crimes
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.
🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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The writers have done a spectacular job this season revamping their fascinating "Marjorie Taylor Greene" character. The suspense over what she will do next is compelling. A lot of things are going on with MTG, maybe some good, others bad, and we won't know exactly what for two or more seasons.
November 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Honestly, it's long past time.
At least 25 bills have been introduced this Congress to further limit lawmakers and their family members from trading individual stocks. Colorado's Joe Neguse is among the leaders pushing for further regulations.
coloradonewsline.com/2025/11/20/r...
Stock trading by members of Congress could be banned in bipartisan push | Colorado Newsline
At least 25 bills have been introduced this Congress to further limit lawmakers and their family members from trading individual stocks.
coloradonewsline.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.

In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Thomas Massie to his Republican colleagues: Donald Trump might be able to protect you now, but someday he'll be gone—and you'll have voted to protect pedophiles if you don't vote to release the files.
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.

So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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I would also add: "and when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP corporate LOBBYISTS and wealthy DONORS, and the Dems are afraid if pissing off the GOP corporate LOBBYISTS and wealthy DONORS..."
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Hi, Jean. My friend is a Nigerian prince who needs to urgently retrieve $1,000,000 from an abandoned trust from his father.

If you can wire $5,000 today, you will be entitled to 35% of the trust. Please reply at your earliest convenience.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM