Mary J
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Mary J
@mjomi.bsky.social
Michigan native, parent of an adult with autism, photography enthusiast and dog lover. Democrat👤No DMs.
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🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA: “The man who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters has been identified as Ahmed al Ahmed. The father-of-two has been hailed a hero after pouncing on one of the gunmen and wrestling a rifle from his arms.” thenightly.com.au/australia/ns...
December 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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"The Trump Administration plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions at the Dept of Veterans Affairs this month...

"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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I dumped Facebook back in 2015. It was discovered that "META" provided Russia election rich data via Cambridge Analytics. Russians used that data to target voters and get Trump elected. Fancy Bear a Russian hacker group hacked the DNC emails in 2015. FCK FACEBOOK

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.

They are openly saying this.

Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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The US government is now a mafia organization.
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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It used to be an impeachable offense.

Now it’s a daily occurrence.
December 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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“A.I.” (2001-Steven Spielberg)

Alternative ending.
An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Brokerages and betting markets expect the central bank to cut rates for a third time this year, reversing a hawkish stance.
Betting Odds Overwhelmingly Favor An Interest Rate Cut This Week—Here’s Why
Brokerages and betting markets expect the central bank to cut rates for a third time this year, reversing a hawkish stance.
www.forbes.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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About a half a million Canadians left emergency departments before being seen by a doctor in 2024, according to a data analysis by CBC’s Marketplace. ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...
Roughly 500,000 Canadians left ERs before seeing a doctor last year, data shows | RCI
Between 5% and 15% of emergency department patients left without being seen in 2024
ici.radio-canada.ca
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
December 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Dudes would really rather block out the sun than go to therapy and/or stop burning fossil fuels
Private companies have raised millions to block the sun. What could go wrong?
Proponents of the controversial climate solution say start-ups can develop a potentially world-changing technology faster than plodding university scientists.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."
December 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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🚨Huge Pentagon Scandal🚨
Hegseth is funneling Pentagon money to Trump!
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...
The Paradox of Global Warming and Colder Winters - WhoWhatWhy
If the cold weather makes it harder for you to argue with climate change deniers about the existence of global warming, this story is for you.
whowhatwhy.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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A California man found the underside of his house in disarray. It turned out that a 550-pound black bear had moved into the crawl space. trib.al/y7jyZmk
December 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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This is so messed up… Amnesty International reports that detainees at Alligator Alcatraz (and at another facility, Krome North Service Processing Center) describe being placed in a “punishment box,” a cage-like structure in the yard so cramped that people could not sit, lie down, or
December 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Breaking: The US lost 32,000 jobs in November, far worse than expected.

Small businesses were the hardest hit.
December 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
December 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...
Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder
Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...
www.alternet.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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WAPO: “.. Officials in Congress and the Pentagon said Monday they are increasingly concerned that the Trump administration intends to scapegoat the military officer who directed U.S. forces to kill two survivors of a targeted strike ..”

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
December 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM