Christine Cook
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Reader, writer, activist, traveler, feminist, pacifist, mother and partner. Sometimes I fail, but I keep trying.
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"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
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September 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
Please take a few minutes to watch this video by Jessica Hair. Her son, Declan, was born with a rare condition called MTM (Myotubular myopathy). She talks about how the loss of DEI, the Dept of Ed, IDEA, and Medicaid cuts will hurt her family.
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March 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Please take a few minutes to watch this video by Jessica Hair. Her son, Declan, was born with a rare condition called MTM (Myotubular myopathy). She talks about how the loss of DEI, the Dept of Ed, IDEA, and Medicaid cuts will hurt her family.
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When you send innocent people to a foreign gulag, you are not fighting terror. You are practicing it.
NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.
March 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
When you send innocent people to a foreign gulag, you are not fighting terror. You are practicing it.
Idaho governor signs bill to privatize management and add work requirements to Medicaid program.
Idaho governor signs bill to privatize management, add work requirements to Medicaid program
Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed into law a bill that proposes sweeping policy changes to control Medicaid’s costs. House Bill 345 calls for the state to seek work requirements for
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March 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Idaho governor signs bill to privatize management and add work requirements to Medicaid program.
In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients.
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March 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients.
action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025...
action.everylibrary.org/saveimls2025...
Final step in the decent into a full dictatorship: discredit judges and ignore the Constitution.
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March 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Final step in the decent into a full dictatorship: discredit judges and ignore the Constitution.
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Banning is just saying it out loud now--Trump will have a 3rd term.
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March 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Banning is just saying it out loud now--Trump will have a 3rd term.
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NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
March 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
Five Republican Minnesota state senators are set to introduce a bill tomorrow that would classify "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS) as a mental illness, according to state documents.
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Republicans push to make "Trump Derangement Syndrome" a mental illness
Five Republican Minnesota state senators are pushing for the term to be included in the state's definition of mental illness.
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March 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Five Republican Minnesota state senators are set to introduce a bill tomorrow that would classify "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS) as a mental illness, according to state documents.
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On Friday, Trump revoked 18 executive actions from the Biden administration, including an order designed to strengthen tribal sovereignty and expand self-determination for the nation’s 574 federally recognized tribes.
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Trump Administration Rolls Back Executive Order on Tribal Sovereignty and Self-Governance
The White House on Friday revoked 18 executive actions from the Biden administration, including an order designed to strengthen tribal sovereignty and expand self-determination for the nation’s 574 fe...
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March 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
On Friday, Trump revoked 18 executive actions from the Biden administration, including an order designed to strengthen tribal sovereignty and expand self-determination for the nation’s 574 federally recognized tribes.
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Democrats built their entire party structure on polite deference, seniority, and chasing bipartisanship—as opposed to elevating the most talented and passionate politicians.
...Leaving too many pale, stale (and, frankly, male) lawmakers in prominent positions.
...Leaving too many pale, stale (and, frankly, male) lawmakers in prominent positions.
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
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March 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Democrats built their entire party structure on polite deference, seniority, and chasing bipartisanship—as opposed to elevating the most talented and passionate politicians.
...Leaving too many pale, stale (and, frankly, male) lawmakers in prominent positions.
...Leaving too many pale, stale (and, frankly, male) lawmakers in prominent positions.
Democratic AGs are the beacons of hope we all need right now. This is a long read, but well worth your time.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
23 Dem AGs think they’ve cracked the code to fighting Trump
Democratic state attorneys general have been planning their lawsuits for a year.
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February 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Democratic AGs are the beacons of hope we all need right now. This is a long read, but well worth your time.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Call to Action: "RALLY TO SAVE THE CIVIL SERVICE"
On Tuesday 11th at Noon, the largest US federal employee union, AFGE, is leading a lunchtime rally at Capitol Hill.
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On Tuesday 11th at Noon, the largest US federal employee union, AFGE, is leading a lunchtime rally at Capitol Hill.
actionnetwork.org/events/march... #3E #USprotests #AFGE
February 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Call to Action: "RALLY TO SAVE THE CIVIL SERVICE"
On Tuesday 11th at Noon, the largest US federal employee union, AFGE, is leading a lunchtime rally at Capitol Hill.
actionnetwork.org/events/march... #3E #USprotests #AFGE
On Tuesday 11th at Noon, the largest US federal employee union, AFGE, is leading a lunchtime rally at Capitol Hill.
actionnetwork.org/events/march... #3E #USprotests #AFGE
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett understands the assignment:
"Everyday we show up for you. What we’re not going to do is stand around while they pull this bullshit that they’re trying to pull right now."
She knows who she works for and it is not for mega-wealthy donors who pay to play with our government.
"Everyday we show up for you. What we’re not going to do is stand around while they pull this bullshit that they’re trying to pull right now."
She knows who she works for and it is not for mega-wealthy donors who pay to play with our government.
February 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Rep. Jasmine Crockett understands the assignment:
"Everyday we show up for you. What we’re not going to do is stand around while they pull this bullshit that they’re trying to pull right now."
She knows who she works for and it is not for mega-wealthy donors who pay to play with our government.
"Everyday we show up for you. What we’re not going to do is stand around while they pull this bullshit that they’re trying to pull right now."
She knows who she works for and it is not for mega-wealthy donors who pay to play with our government.
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Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
I have covered NOAA and it’s work for like 15 years and this is brutal. If you’re there and want to chat or share anything, signal is davelevitan.26
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
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February 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH❤️🖤💚
Tuskegee Airmen in front of their P-40. African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II.
Tuskegee Airmen in front of their P-40. African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II.
February 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
BLACK HISTORY MONTH❤️🖤💚
Tuskegee Airmen in front of their P-40. African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II.
Tuskegee Airmen in front of their P-40. African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II.
We are in a Constitutional Crisis. Heather Cox Richardson explains and what you can do about it.
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February 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
We are in a Constitutional Crisis. Heather Cox Richardson explains and what you can do about it.
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The lack of celebration about Usha Vance is about her's and this admin's heinous policies, not her race or ethnicity. The sanctimoniousness would be better received if Michelle Obama, the first Black FLOTUS, wasn't referred to as an "ape in heels," "not classy enough," "gorilla face,"& "baby mama."
January 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The lack of celebration about Usha Vance is about her's and this admin's heinous policies, not her race or ethnicity. The sanctimoniousness would be better received if Michelle Obama, the first Black FLOTUS, wasn't referred to as an "ape in heels," "not classy enough," "gorilla face,"& "baby mama."
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I keep thinking about those congresspeople kneeling in the rotunda wearing kente cloth scarves, very performative. There has been no loud, visible, unified support for Sarah McBride from the democrats. It’s a real disgrace. That is your colleague! They are bullying her in your faces. And silence!
November 21, 2024 at 4:00 AM
I keep thinking about those congresspeople kneeling in the rotunda wearing kente cloth scarves, very performative. There has been no loud, visible, unified support for Sarah McBride from the democrats. It’s a real disgrace. That is your colleague! They are bullying her in your faces. And silence!
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"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
November 21, 2024 at 2:44 AM
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC