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An old gypsy living my life between a California beachtown and Copenhagen. Been an activist forever. Author time travel trilogy The Red Mirror 🔥 School Board, Parks & Rec and Planning Commissioner. Fiercely Democratic. #KeeperOfTheFlame 💙
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I don't like to post pix of this fiend, but Lordeee, look at this space cadet. And in the Oval Office in this state 😬

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This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…

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According to this report, coordination of DOGE activities took place on Signal, making the process non-transparent and almost certainly inaccessible by FOIA requests.

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Looks like some intriguing films coming our way.

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Costco said its team of buyers monitored prices on goods like butter and eggs "hourly" and rerouted imports to avoid US tariffs.

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Nazis were known for taking methamphetamine.

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Moderna was previously awarded millions of dollars in federal funding to produce an mRNA vaccine against influenza viruses with pandemic potential, including the H5N1 bird flu currently sweeping US poultry and dairy cows.

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One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom" in the state constitution, that would have been the end of the conversation. Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen. This week, the court halted abortions.

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GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

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Germans don't trust us (Trump)to keep their gold reserves safe in NY.

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Copenhagen! The happiest city in the world 👏👏👏

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The English language has a new best-speller: Faizan Zaki. A year after finishing runner-up, the 13-year-old from Allen, Texas, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night with the word “eclaircissement."

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#NEW: Appeals court allows Trump tariffs to stay in effect for now

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In the immediate aftermath of Wednesday's federal court ruling that blocked the Trump administration's tariffs on nearly all imports, the president's allies have turned to a predictable excuse for the sweeping legal defeat.

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OPINION: While the term "transgender" did not exist in medieval times, the idea of men living as women, or women living as men, was unquestionably present in the medieval period. religionnews.com/2025/05/28/c...

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“Health governance tools and resources and materials and trainings that were the gold standard for this type of work—they’re all gone. Just gone off the Earth. They took them away," says one former government employee.

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“Taking DNA from a 4-year old and adding it into CODIS flies in the face of any immigration purpose. That’s not immigration enforcement. That’s genetic surveillance.”

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A glacier partially collapsed in Switzerland, burying the village of Blatten in a huge landslide of ice, rock, and mud after residents had been evacuated. Scientists called the collapse of the glacier “unprecedented” in the Swiss Alps.

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Further wreckage. Total asshattery.

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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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So true

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“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” ― Miles Kington 😀

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Working eighty hours a month to stay on Medicaid is like running a mile a day to keep your wheelchair.

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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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If only I could believe...

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Thousands try to reach site of a food distribution by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in southern Gaza.

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GOOD FOR SCOTT PELLEY OF CBS NEWS. “Our sacred rule of law is under attack,” Pelley began his message. “Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack, and insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses and into our private thoughts.”

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