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I want the smartest people running our country, not the richest people! 🌎
Ret Librarian, Mom & Noni.
Amateur chicken-keeper, knitter & avid reader. 60 yrs of watching sports, I still like hometown baseball best.
Married to retired veteran. 🇺🇦🇺🇸🌈
Ret Librarian, Mom & Noni.
Amateur chicken-keeper, knitter & avid reader. 60 yrs of watching sports, I still like hometown baseball best.
Married to retired veteran. 🇺🇦🇺🇸🌈
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This is a terrible time to be old, or sick, or disabled, or retired, or a veteran, or in debt, or just graduating, or an intellectual, or a scientist, or a teacher, or a Librarian, or poor, or living in a red state, or LGBTQ+, or not white, or pregnant, or small business owner, or an immigrant etc
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Two human beings were murdered last night. This is the response from the President of the United States:
December 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Two human beings were murdered last night. This is the response from the President of the United States:
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If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...
December 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...
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“This story is the first in a three-part series on the deadly fallout from U.S. foreign aid cuts in Africa.”
Excerpt From
“Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. People soon died of cholera.”
apple.news/ACO56O2kWSJC...
Excerpt From
“Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. People soon died of cholera.”
apple.news/ACO56O2kWSJC...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. — ProPublica
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...
apple.news
December 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“This story is the first in a three-part series on the deadly fallout from U.S. foreign aid cuts in Africa.”
Excerpt From
“Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. People soon died of cholera.”
apple.news/ACO56O2kWSJC...
Excerpt From
“Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. People soon died of cholera.”
apple.news/ACO56O2kWSJC...
Vought and Rubio both know that thousands of people died/will die because of these cuts. No matter how vehemently they deny the facts, the bodies are piling up.
They knew their actions would kill people but they didn't care enough to speak up.
They knew their actions would kill people but they didn't care enough to speak up.
“This story is the first in a three-part series on the deadly fallout from U.S. foreign aid cuts in Africa.”
Excerpt From
“Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. People soon died of cholera.”
apple.news/ACO56O2kWSJC...
Excerpt From
“Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. People soon died of cholera.”
apple.news/ACO56O2kWSJC...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. — ProPublica
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...
apple.news
December 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Vought and Rubio both know that thousands of people died/will die because of these cuts. No matter how vehemently they deny the facts, the bodies are piling up.
They knew their actions would kill people but they didn't care enough to speak up.
They knew their actions would kill people but they didn't care enough to speak up.
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NEWSMAX: Your goal is 5,000 arrests in New Orleans. How did you come up with that figure?
BOVINO: That figure is something, um, that we talked about and it's definitely something that's attainable
BOVINO: That figure is something, um, that we talked about and it's definitely something that's attainable
December 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
NEWSMAX: Your goal is 5,000 arrests in New Orleans. How did you come up with that figure?
BOVINO: That figure is something, um, that we talked about and it's definitely something that's attainable
BOVINO: That figure is something, um, that we talked about and it's definitely something that's attainable
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
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Fuck the corrupt pair, Witkoff and Kushner. They are selling out the West for Russian bribes. I don't understand why Congressional leaders here in the US are not louder, more outraged about what is happening, more willing to fight.
Zelenskyy rejected Witkoff’s proposal to withdraw troops from Donbas during talks in Berlin, — AFR
Reports say the Ukrainian side insists that any ceasefire must come without prior territorial concessions to Russia. The maximum they are willing to accept is a freeze along the current front line.
Reports say the Ukrainian side insists that any ceasefire must come without prior territorial concessions to Russia. The maximum they are willing to accept is a freeze along the current front line.
December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Fuck the corrupt pair, Witkoff and Kushner. They are selling out the West for Russian bribes. I don't understand why Congressional leaders here in the US are not louder, more outraged about what is happening, more willing to fight.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Measles didn’t make a comeback on its own.
This is RFK Jr’s anti-vax movement and his disinformation campaign. And equally as disturbing, some people are perfectly fine with this outcome.
This is RFK Jr’s anti-vax movement and his disinformation campaign. And equally as disturbing, some people are perfectly fine with this outcome.
December 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Measles didn’t make a comeback on its own.
This is RFK Jr’s anti-vax movement and his disinformation campaign. And equally as disturbing, some people are perfectly fine with this outcome.
This is RFK Jr’s anti-vax movement and his disinformation campaign. And equally as disturbing, some people are perfectly fine with this outcome.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
What would John McCain say about Lindsey's slide toward fascism? His betrayal of Biden, that good man he praised just a few years ago. Lying about history doesn't change it.
Lindsey Graham: "I really do appreciate President Trump. He has got a mess on his hand from Obamacare to a broken border to a war in Russia-Ukraine to radical Islam on the rise, and it all goes back to Obama and Biden. He is cleaning up their mess and be patient with this man."
December 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
What would John McCain say about Lindsey's slide toward fascism? His betrayal of Biden, that good man he praised just a few years ago. Lying about history doesn't change it.
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Murphy: "This isn't shocking, bc over last year, Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He's restoring gun rights to felons, eliminated the WH office of gun violence prevention & stopped funding mental health grants & community anti-gun violence grants"
December 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Murphy: "This isn't shocking, bc over last year, Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He's restoring gun rights to felons, eliminated the WH office of gun violence prevention & stopped funding mental health grants & community anti-gun violence grants"
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Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”
We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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When Republicans inevitably blame mental health and not the guns for yet another school shooting - kindly remind them that 205 of them voted AGAINST a bill to expand school-based mental health services.
December 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
When Republicans inevitably blame mental health and not the guns for yet another school shooting - kindly remind them that 205 of them voted AGAINST a bill to expand school-based mental health services.
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Trump is blatantly weaponizing the justice system to attack his political enemies while handing out pardons to his crooked allies and those who will commit violence on his behalf. So much for “law and order.” [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
December 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Trump is blatantly weaponizing the justice system to attack his political enemies while handing out pardons to his crooked allies and those who will commit violence on his behalf. So much for “law and order.” [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas.
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
Fort Bliss Declarations - December 2025 | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas.
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station."
Read the declarations here:
www.aclu.org/documents/fo...
All of this!
Religious 'warriors' fighting for something God never mentioned and hating people God loves.
Religious 'warriors' fighting for something God never mentioned and hating people God loves.
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What you’re seeing about trans people today isn’t organic outrage. It’s an assembly line. Same phrases. Same moral framing. Same escalation. Different accounts. Same day. Once you see the pattern, the spell breaks. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue #USDemocracy 12/13/25 AM
What you’re seeing about trans people today isn’t organic outrage. It’s an assembly line. Same phrases. Same moral framing. Same escalation. Different accounts. Same day. Once you see the pattern, the spell breaks. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue #USDemocracy 12/13/25 AM
December 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
All of this!
Religious 'warriors' fighting for something God never mentioned and hating people God loves.
Religious 'warriors' fighting for something God never mentioned and hating people God loves.
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He's laying the groundwork to claim the 2026 election is fraudulent. They are going to make up some BS claim they found some fraud where none exists.
December 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
He's laying the groundwork to claim the 2026 election is fraudulent. They are going to make up some BS claim they found some fraud where none exists.
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This isnt fantasy government. This is the real deal.
We warned you and you didnt listen.
So keep yelling at dems and pouting and yelling that you want Bernie or Liz.
You did this. You brought this on yourself.
We warned you and you didnt listen.
So keep yelling at dems and pouting and yelling that you want Bernie or Liz.
You did this. You brought this on yourself.
December 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This isnt fantasy government. This is the real deal.
We warned you and you didnt listen.
So keep yelling at dems and pouting and yelling that you want Bernie or Liz.
You did this. You brought this on yourself.
We warned you and you didnt listen.
So keep yelling at dems and pouting and yelling that you want Bernie or Liz.
You did this. You brought this on yourself.
Their House of Cards is held together with lies and excuses.
I don't like being lied to, that is what immediately turned me away from frump the last time. him and his administration lie about everything, big and small. I have NO USE for liars, you cannot trust liars in any way. they have one purpose, only to spread confusion and chaos. every day more lies
December 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Their House of Cards is held together with lies and excuses.
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WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.
Judge Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in part bc ICE could not produce a final “order of removal” to deport him. So last night, they went out and got an immigration judge to issue one.
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.
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While we concern ourselves about SNAP benefits…
December 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
While we concern ourselves about SNAP benefits…
He's just making it up as he speaks!
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?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
He's just making it up as he speaks!
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Ossoff: "This is one of the most consequential votes this Senate will take all year. By saying yea or nay to the clerk of the Senate later today, senators will decide whether people live or die. Senators will decide whether Georgians & folks across the country are financially ruined or have a shot."
December 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Ossoff: "This is one of the most consequential votes this Senate will take all year. By saying yea or nay to the clerk of the Senate later today, senators will decide whether people live or die. Senators will decide whether Georgians & folks across the country are financially ruined or have a shot."
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Lindsey Graham voted to confirm RFK Jr.
The people of South Carolina should vote for @drannieandrews.com.
The people of South Carolina should vote for @drannieandrews.com.
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
nbcnews.to
December 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Lindsey Graham voted to confirm RFK Jr.
The people of South Carolina should vote for @drannieandrews.com.
The people of South Carolina should vote for @drannieandrews.com.