Connie O'Dell
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Connie O'Dell
@odellconnie.bsky.social
light bluesky user, trying just to use less social media in general, but I do love to post photos. Not fully given up on bookface as less sucky than x, but time will tell…
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Trump Unsure What Department He Has To Cut To Make JD Vance Go Away https://theonion.com/trump-unsure-what-department-he-has-to-cut-to-make-jd-vance-go-away/
December 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Real postal mail, WTF? Interesting marketing angle, regardless. Shill for heritage foundation/RNC? Who knows. Discuss.
December 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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The Plot to Enslave America
This renewed push for sex-segregated education is a counterrevolutionary project aimed at undoing constitutional equality and reinstating a rigid vision of sex roles under the guise of civic renewal.

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The Right-Wing Campaign to Bring Back Gender Segregation in Schools
The people who brought you “Project 2025” sure seem to be ramping up an attack on equality in higher ed.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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When I launched my campaign, I said I wanted to do politics differently… and we’re actually doing it.

Thank you to Jessica Washington and @theintercept.com for covering the most exciting and rewarding part of this campaign: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...
Kat Abughazaleh Thinks Campaign Funds Should Help Feed People
Kat Abughazaleh, an activist running for Congress in Illinois, turned her campaign office into a mutual aid hub.
theintercept.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Propublica reviews connections of SCOTUS judges. These are the conservatives:
December 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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After a six-hour power outage caused by extraordinary winds this morning, the lights are back on before the kids are up. Great job, PG&E line workers. Merry Christmas!
⚡️🔌💡🎄
70mph winds will wake you up.
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Severe Thunderstorm Warning including Boulder Creek CA, Bonny Doon CA and Brookdale CA until 3:15 AM PST. This storm will contain wind gusts to 70 MPH! https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2004142443927597252
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Every day, my office helps Coloradans cut through red tape and resolve issues with federal agencies. 

In 2025, we helped over one thousand Coloradans navigate the immigration system and addressed hundreds of social security challenges for seniors across our state.
December 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Grateful to host office hours with folks this week in Fort Collins, including with Colorado’s State Forester.

The pine beetle outbreak threatens forests across the front range — from Fort Collins to Douglas & El Paso counties — and I’ll do everything I can to support the state’s response.

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December 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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In case you need a positive reminder:
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Excuse me, what?
December 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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2025 is definitely the American annus horribilis.

The WH website spreads misinformation about the origins of Covid. The CDC denies real data about vaccines/autism. ACIP does not support Hep B vaccines for babies. Measles/pertussis outbreaks. #NIH is politicized.
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2025: an annus horribilis for health in the USA
The US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices vote on Dec 5 to no longer recommend the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose, which had ensured that babies exposed to hepatitis B would not later develo...
www.thelancet.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Trump is no longer making any pretense of sanctioning firms supplying the Russian military. He is shifting the US position steadily to a pro-Russian position, including support for Russian military operations in Ukraine.
December 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Western Colorado communities need help recovering after the historic flooding and wildfires this year, and federal assistance should be available to every state and county that needs it.

Together with Gov. Polis and the Colorado delegation, I will take every available step to appeal this decision.
December 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Some reflections after returning back from a conference at which I and 20,000 colleagues learned that the Trump administration intends to dismantle #NCAR. This outrage should not happen. deepconvection.substack.com/p/save-ncar
Save NCAR
Field notes from New Orleans, where I and 20,000 colleagues learned that Trump intends to destroy the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
deepconvection.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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🖋️ “Stop the Dismantling of the National Center for Atmospheric Research” hit 3,000 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PTAXGV to 50409
Stop the Dismantling of the National Center for Atmospheric Research
Text SIGN PTAXGV to 50409 — On December 16, 2025, the White House announced plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, dismissing its work as “climate alarmism” and a misuse of taxpayer dollars. This decision is dangerous, irresponsible, and puts American lives at risk. Since its founding in 1960, NCAR has served as the backbone of U.S. weather and climate science. It is a federally funded research center sponsored by the National Science Foundation and relied upon daily by the National Weather Service, private forecasters, airlines, farmers, utilities, water managers, and emergency responders. The accuracy of weather forecasts and severe-storm warnings across the United States depends directly on NCAR’s research, data, and models. NCAR scientists pioneered dropsonde technology, which revolutionized hurricane forecasting by dramatically improving predictions of storm track and intensity—advances that have saved countless lives. NCAR research also led to the development of microburst detection and forecasting systems, addressing sudden violent wind events that once caused fatal aviation crashes during takeoff and landing. These are not abstract academic exercises; they are life-saving public safety tools. NCAR is also central to America’s scientific workforce. Through graduate fellowships, internships, workshops, and open-access modeling systems, NCAR trains meteorologists and climate scientists from across the country and around the world. When a forecaster issues a hurricane warning, tornado alert, or extreme heat advisory, the science behind it often traces directly back to NCAR. The administration’s proposed “comprehensive review” threatens to hollow out this critical institution, fragment its work, and degrade the nation’s forecasting capacity. Dismantling NCAR would weaken disaster preparedness, undermine aviation safety, impair water and energy planning, and leave communities more vulnerable to hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and extreme heat. It would also surrender U.S. leadership in weather and climate science at a time when accurate forecasting is more essential than ever. This is not a partisan issue. Weather does not care about ideology. Hurricanes, wildfires, and flash floods do not distinguish between red states and blue states. NCAR’s work protects every American. I urge you to use your authority to block any effort to dismantle or defund NCAR, to protect its independence, and to ensure stable, long-term funding for its research and training mission. Congress must act now to defend public safety, scientific integrity, and America’s ability to predict and prepare for dangerous weather.
resist.bot
December 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
December 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
December 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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"Miller has outlined something more comprehensive and sinister—an elaborate worldview that...centers immigrants as a threat to 'civilization' in terms that echo the rhetoric of those determined to exclude people like his ancestors."
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.

We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
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Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM