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Оленка 🌻
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about me: writer, visual artist, mental health worker, caregiver, mom, humanist
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interests: psychology, literature, art, soviet history, world news & politics
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Lviv, Ukraine -> San Diego, CA -> small town Maine
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March 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.

Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.

Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.

See how this works?
February 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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While Republicans are working to give tax breaks to billionaires, Democrats are working FOR the people!
February 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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February 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
February 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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NEW: Chief Justice Roberts has temporarily halted Judge Ali’s order forcing the Trump administration to resume the foreign aid funding that it illegally halted. This means the aid money will NOT resume tonight, as Ali had directed, and the unlawful freeze can continue.
February 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening.

An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply:

“The same will happen here”.
February 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Oh come on….
February 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Army Choir surrounded the MAGA hierarchy dining in White House East Room to sing "Do You Hear The People Sing"

It was lost on Trump but Vance was super fidgety

"Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of the people who will not be slaves again"

#DisruptTheCoup
February 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Read Seattle Times story yesterday about Delta trying to get rid of pilot who complained about safety.

The brilliance and competence of the women was used as proof of her psychological sickness
February 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
February 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin
February 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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This is how it’s done.
Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws

Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.

Gov Mills: See you in court
February 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Comprehensive video footage:

youtu.be/DXnHIJkZZAs?...
Video Of Capitol Riot Shown During First Jan. 6 Committee Hearing
YouTube video by NBC News
youtu.be
February 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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If you didn't know...

• Exxon
• Moulton/Coors
• Walmart

Have funded Heritage Foundation (#Project2025) for YEARS

#Boycott
February 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist
February 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Last night, I was on the phone with my 95-year-old grandma, whose early life was marred by both Stalinism and the Nazi occupation of Ukraine. As I'm talking to her about how the current U.S. administration has abandoned Ukraine and is dismantling the U.S. government, she interrupts me.
February 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM