RitaFromGA
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Important lesson
Post 2024 polls show Harris campaigning with Cheney decreased enthusiasm by 7%
Post 2025 polls show Mamdani running as unapologetic progressive earned him 9% of MAGA 2024 voters
Corporate Dems: You dont flip votes by compromising your values—but by unapologetically embracing them
Post 2024 polls show Harris campaigning with Cheney decreased enthusiasm by 7%
Post 2025 polls show Mamdani running as unapologetic progressive earned him 9% of MAGA 2024 voters
Corporate Dems: You dont flip votes by compromising your values—but by unapologetically embracing them
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Important lesson
Post 2024 polls show Harris campaigning with Cheney decreased enthusiasm by 7%
Post 2025 polls show Mamdani running as unapologetic progressive earned him 9% of MAGA 2024 voters
Corporate Dems: You dont flip votes by compromising your values—but by unapologetically embracing them
Post 2024 polls show Harris campaigning with Cheney decreased enthusiasm by 7%
Post 2025 polls show Mamdani running as unapologetic progressive earned him 9% of MAGA 2024 voters
Corporate Dems: You dont flip votes by compromising your values—but by unapologetically embracing them
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Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.
May 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.
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Good to see august civic organizations like the American Academy of Arts and Sciences speaking out: www.amacad.org/news/board-s...
A Statement from the Board of Directors - April 2025
A statement from the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, approved April 2025.
www.amacad.org
April 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Good to see august civic organizations like the American Academy of Arts and Sciences speaking out: www.amacad.org/news/board-s...
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Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
February 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.
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Pope Francis’ letter to U.S. Bishops is incedibly powerful. This stands out to me especially. Every purported Christian faith leader who has endorsed or stood silent before Trump’s ugly immigration policies needs to be confronted with this statement.
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
February 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Pope Francis’ letter to U.S. Bishops is incedibly powerful. This stands out to me especially. Every purported Christian faith leader who has endorsed or stood silent before Trump’s ugly immigration policies needs to be confronted with this statement.
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
www.vatican.va/content/fran...
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A small moment of grace in an ugly time.
We have a piano in our house, an old Yamaha, probably circa 1960-1965. It belonged to my parents. They both played growing up, and I have pictures of them playing together before I was born, though I don’t remember them ever playing.
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We have a piano in our house, an old Yamaha, probably circa 1960-1965. It belonged to my parents. They both played growing up, and I have pictures of them playing together before I was born, though I don’t remember them ever playing.
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February 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A small moment of grace in an ugly time.
We have a piano in our house, an old Yamaha, probably circa 1960-1965. It belonged to my parents. They both played growing up, and I have pictures of them playing together before I was born, though I don’t remember them ever playing.
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We have a piano in our house, an old Yamaha, probably circa 1960-1965. It belonged to my parents. They both played growing up, and I have pictures of them playing together before I was born, though I don’t remember them ever playing.
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New euphemism for sexual harassment just dropped www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
January 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
New euphemism for sexual harassment just dropped www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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DEI is a GOOD thing - diversity, equity and inclusion are what we should all be working toward .
January 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
DEI is a GOOD thing - diversity, equity and inclusion are what we should all be working toward .
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Thank you President Carter for your incredible leadership, legacy and life of service.
January 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Thank you President Carter for your incredible leadership, legacy and life of service.
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Thank you President Carter
These pallbearers are the agents sho protected him for decades
These pallbearers are the agents sho protected him for decades
January 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Thank you President Carter
These pallbearers are the agents sho protected him for decades
These pallbearers are the agents sho protected him for decades
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Jimmy Carter in 2015 on the role of money in American politics: "It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery."
Spot on.
Spot on.
December 30, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Jimmy Carter in 2015 on the role of money in American politics: "It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery."
Spot on.
Spot on.
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Hallelujah! And bless her strength. Women and rape survivors need to see this. 🙏🏻
BREAKING: All 51 defendants including ex-husband Dominique Pelicot found guilty in Gisèle Pelicot trial
Gisèle Pelicot trial live: All 51 defendants including ex-husband found guilty
Ms Pelicot’s ex-husband Dominique Pelicot admitted to drugging and raping her for almost a decade
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Hallelujah! And bless her strength. Women and rape survivors need to see this. 🙏🏻
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“The Constitution is whatever five people say it is” is one of those sayings that has a purpose (explaining how things are enforced and therefore function) but can also be used to obfuscate, because no, it is not whatever five people say it is. They may get their way, but they can still be wrong.
December 15, 2024 at 7:06 PM
“The Constitution is whatever five people say it is” is one of those sayings that has a purpose (explaining how things are enforced and therefore function) but can also be used to obfuscate, because no, it is not whatever five people say it is. They may get their way, but they can still be wrong.
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👂🇺🇸LISTEN: “Wall St Controls our Health Care System”
Ex Cigna exec-turned-Medicare For All advocate Wendell Potter tells The Lever our system is in fact cruel and broken, as insurance companies siphon off billions keeping care from people.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DDmzSm_...
Ex Cigna exec-turned-Medicare For All advocate Wendell Potter tells The Lever our system is in fact cruel and broken, as insurance companies siphon off billions keeping care from people.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DDmzSm_...
December 15, 2024 at 5:04 PM
👂🇺🇸LISTEN: “Wall St Controls our Health Care System”
Ex Cigna exec-turned-Medicare For All advocate Wendell Potter tells The Lever our system is in fact cruel and broken, as insurance companies siphon off billions keeping care from people.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DDmzSm_...
Ex Cigna exec-turned-Medicare For All advocate Wendell Potter tells The Lever our system is in fact cruel and broken, as insurance companies siphon off billions keeping care from people.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DDmzSm_...
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The key to economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the wealthy. The secret to prosperity is investment in American workers.
When workers have more to spend, the economy grows, and businesses create more jobs.
It’s a virtuous cycle.
When workers have more to spend, the economy grows, and businesses create more jobs.
It’s a virtuous cycle.
December 8, 2024 at 10:00 PM
The key to economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the wealthy. The secret to prosperity is investment in American workers.
When workers have more to spend, the economy grows, and businesses create more jobs.
It’s a virtuous cycle.
When workers have more to spend, the economy grows, and businesses create more jobs.
It’s a virtuous cycle.
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Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
November 25, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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Social Media is frequently a replication of what goes on at the hotel bar of every SF/F con in the US: A couple of writers are blathering at each other about writing and business and life, and there's a ring of people around them geeking out that they're seeing these two jabber in real time.
Not sure we’ve really processed the degree to which conversations have become a spectator sport.
Kind of a fascinating development on its own.
Kind of a fascinating development on its own.
Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.
November 23, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Social Media is frequently a replication of what goes on at the hotel bar of every SF/F con in the US: A couple of writers are blathering at each other about writing and business and life, and there's a ring of people around them geeking out that they're seeing these two jabber in real time.
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"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
November 23, 2024 at 6:18 PM
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
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I’m trying to strike a healthy balance between being informed and being oblivious.
November 23, 2024 at 11:53 AM
I’m trying to strike a healthy balance between being informed and being oblivious.