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Lex
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🔬Scientist, 🩺Nurse, 🏳️‍🌈✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽♿️ Ally,
🐶🐱🐴🐇 Animal Rescuer & R+ training.
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Musk staffers are in the process of seizing control of the Peace Corps’ headquarters.
April 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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My maternal grandmother died in the 1918 flu pandemic.

RFK Jr can go fuck himself.
March 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed
March 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Does this impact any Republican districts in Maine ?

If so, Ask that representative why he is putting Trump ahead of his district !

Canadians to Maine: No, thanks!

www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/t...
Canadians to Maine: No Thanks! | CNN
Canadian tourists make up about 30-40% of the revenue for many businesses in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. This year, many are choosing to skip their regular getaway, given President Trump’s antagonistic ...
www.cnn.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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“The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research,” writes Princeton president Christopher L. Eisgruber. “Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully.”
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March 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Breaking News: A wave of Israeli airstrikes has killed more than 400 people, Gaza’s health ministry said, raising the prospect of a return to all-out war.

Follow live updates.
Israel Carries Out Deadly Strikes in Gaza: Live Updates
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he had ordered the attack, the first major strikes in Gaza since the cease-fire with Hamas began in January. The health ministry in Gaza said that hundr...
nyti.ms
March 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.

No one knows why he was detained.
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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this guy’s distinguishing quality is his boundless contempt for anyone who voices the slightest disagreement with him. you can see in his voice and mannerisms that he thinks he’s better than everyone around him. (which to my mind is just compensation for his palpable self-loathing)
Seniors came to JD Vance's event to demand the Trump Administration stop cutting Social Security.

JD's response:

"Don't you all have jobs?"
March 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”

WOW. Planes in air must turn around.

A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
March 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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March 14, 2025 at 4:36 AM
This 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
If Chuck Schumer votes for cloture tomorrow, it’s proof that he’s weak and is a clear sign that we need new Democratic leadership. Polling shows that only 22% of independents would blame Democrats for a shutdown, while 56% would blame the GOP or Trump.

Americans want Democrats to FIGHT, not CAVE!!!
March 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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An American Airlines plane that was diverted to Denver International Airport on Thursday evening after experiencing “engine vibrations” caught fire while taxiing to a gate, prompting the evacuation of dozens of passengers, according to the FAA and videos posted to social media.
Plane Fire at Denver Airport Forces Passengers to Evacuate Onto Wing
Videos showed passengers standing on a plane’s wing and climbing down a portable staircase.
www.nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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March 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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March 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult
"The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died from measles at the end of last month. Tom Bartlett visited with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy:
The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles
Her father tells her story.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Donald Trump said he'd abolish the Department of Education, and that's exactly what he's doing.

If you send your kids to public school, Trump is sending you a clear message: he doesn’t care about you.
Education Department to Fire 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff
The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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True facts.
March 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Wow! The number of @bsky.app
users just passed 33 MILLION!!! 👏

LETS DO THIS!!
March 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
March 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Full page in today’s Anchorage Daily News:
March 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Breaking News: Broad 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico will start tomorrow, President Trump said, adding that there was no chance of a last-minute deal. There will also be an additional 10% tariff for Chinese goods.
Trump Live Updates: Tariffs, Ukraine War, TSMC Investment and More
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Pope Francis suffered two episodes of acute respiratory failure, the Vatican said, a fresh setback in the worst health crisis of his papacy. The failures were prompted by significant buildup of mucus within his bronchi that caused a bronchospasm, or a tightening of the airways of the lungs.
Pope Francis back on ventilator after respiratory failure
Pope Francis suffered two episodes of acute respiratory failure Monday, the Vatican said, a fresh setback in the worst health crisis of his papacy.
wapo.st
March 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Swalwell: "Frankly, as somebody who has been to Ukraine during this war, it's maddening to see that we as a country who always fought the axis of evil are now joining Russia."
March 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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French Prime Minister François Bayrou today declared the alliance with the US is seriously wounded and called President Donald Trump’s attitude toward Ukraine “an indecency.”
Trump’s ‘indecency’ endangers transatlantic alliance: French PM
François Bayrou calls U.S. president’s treatment of Zelenskyy “a staggering scene marked by brutality.”
www.politico.eu
March 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM