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Montessori M.Ed. • Proud Pollyanna • Happily married Mom & Mima
Orange County, CA, we need to do this. Rep Young Kim #CA40 doesn't care about 99% of her constituents. It's time to get ready to replace her next year.
Good morning everyone
Tomorrow Night
Congressman Juan Ciscomoni refuses to have a TownHall !!
Tucson will host our OWN with these great people

Senator MARK KELLY
Congressman Greg Stanton
Mayor Regina Romero
Senator CORY BOOKER

And My

SHERO GABBY GIFFORDS

This is how it's done
April 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My father drowned when I was nine years-old. Fortunately, my mother's great head for family finances & her decade+ service as an RN and Captain in the USAF meant we didn't _only_ rely on Social Security. It sure helped. It gave her breathing room to renew her nursing license & grieve. These people.
Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand
March 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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“The best thing about heroes is that they always win at the end. And if they aren’t winning, then it’s not the end.” —Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Kyiv
Astonishing speech by Danish Prime Minister.
YouTube video by Dylan Burrill
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March 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Psss.. pass it on.
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February 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Don’t take any lectures about government fraud or waste from folks demanding to fund a second sector of education with unaccountable school vouchers—and cutting in middleman vendors to run the thing at 2.5-10% off the top of each transaction
February 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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"To defeat Trump — and save ourselves — it’s time to stop reading polls and start leading protests." Great message from a major (and great!) democratic pollster Anat Shenker-Osorio. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Public Opinion Is Meaningless Against Trump -- Public Action Is What Matters
To defeat Donald Trump — and save ourselves — it’s time to stop reading polls and start leading protests.
www.rollingstone.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Today at my kid's parent-teacher conference, his teacher said to him "you are your own worst critic really has two meanings. Both that you the most harsh on yourself but also it's difficult to give yourself useful feedback."

Teachers are great.
February 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Please share this 👇🏼
February 4, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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As a military veteran and a working mom with two kids in public school. I was called to run for Congress after the November election to end the divisiveness and bring folks together.

My name is Rebecca Bennett, and I am ready to roll up my sleeves and deliver for New Jersey’s 7th.
Rebecca Bennett 'Taking Flight' CAPTIONED
YouTube video by Rebecca Bennett for Congress
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February 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Morning! In the name of democracy, here's a list of things to do today:

1. Call your senators & reps w/ real stories about how the admin's actions impact you & people you care about

2. Do something that makes you smile

Take action.
Find joy.

Protect democracy.

h/t: @hcrichardson.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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One voice can be very very loud.

And by being so, it can inspire others to speak up too.
Would very much like to thank Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social for her pointing out that Bishop Budde was one voice, just one, speaking to power and it was amplified across the media.

Don't give up.
Don't stop speaking the truth.

Resistance is NOT futile.
January 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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January 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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A free press and reliable local news are essential for a healthy democracy

Donate to the #sltrib to protect our liberties

Please share

www.sltrib.com
December 26, 2024 at 4:06 AM
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Couldn’t get a better view on the arc of history, currently bending toward injustice, than this one by @hcrichardson.bsky.social .

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 16, 2024
Today, President Joe Biden designated a new national monument in honor of Frances Perkins, secretary of labor under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
open.substack.com
December 17, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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If you are not listening to @hcrichardson.bsky.social “Letters from an American” you are missing out. She masterfully weaves historical context into today’s political climate in a way like no other.

open.spotify.com/show/2NAihO3...
Letters from an American
Podcast · Heather Cox Richardson · Heather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
open.spotify.com
December 14, 2024 at 3:15 PM
My parents helped defeat fascism in WWII. Mother was an officer & RN in Algeria and German POWs refused to follow her instructions. Instead they'd ask male corpsmen, with neither the knowledge or rank to claim precedence, what to do. Sad echos of this online today. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 6, 2024
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...
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December 7, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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If folks are looking for less ancient examples of very high top marginal tax rates, one need only go back to 1963, when Donald Trump was 17 years old and America was (presumably) great the way it should be again, when the top marginal tax rate was 91%. Not a typo. taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/h...
Historical Highest Marginal Income Tax Rates
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December 7, 2024 at 5:51 PM
This is an important thread for journalists to read. I'm looking at you too, @npr.org folks. The discussions I've heard about Biden's pardon of his son including ideas like, "that will make it even easier for them to 'x'," don't acknowledge their complete disregard of norms. Please cover reality.
I don't want to get all "buckle up" but there are two things I see a lot that are kind of related and I want to comment on them.
December 7, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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OPINION: The Senate has a shrinking window to protect press freedom

Senators should make passing the Press Act a top priority before the session ends.

#PressAct #FreePress #PressFreedom

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The Senate has a shrinking window to protect press freedom
Senators should make passing the Press Act a top priority before the session ends.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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Discussing blanket pardons draws us off of the real issue, the concern that Trump will pervert the criminal justice system & use DOJ as a political tool, which is forcing the Biden administration into these considerations. Don't forget why we're here.
December 6, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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This morning, @hcrichardson.bsky.social brings it was some of the best "his company was no angel" coverage of the Brian Thompson assassination, tied in to Elon but also some highly relevant history from the first Gilded Age heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5...
December 5, 2024
Yesterday a gunman assassinated the chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, as he arrived at a meeting of investors in New York City.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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History Professor Heather Cox Richardson (@hcrichardson.bsky.social ), author of "Democracy Awakening" and the newsletter Letters from an American, looks to the past to help understand the present and future in an interview with WBUR's "On Point."
https://wbur.fm/3OBhIbZ
Historian Heather Cox Richardson makes sense of politics today by looking to the past
The political rehabilitation of William McKinley. A cabinet of TV stars. Heather Cox Richardson says she didn't have those things on her 2024 bingo card. The famed historian joins us to draw from the past to make sense of the future.
wbur.fm
December 6, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".
December 6, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
December 5, 2024 at 3:45 PM