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Retired living in Columbus Ohio. Ph.d. in Environmental Biology from the University of Louisville. Undergraduate degrees from the University of Kentucky. Wildcat fan forever. Love to read and respond but please, no DMs.
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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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This hits hard.

No lies detected from The Great Jon Stewart 👇 #ResistTrump

twitter is down

Disinformation straight from the White House.

going to the costco food court for lunch tomorrow. maybe the highlight of my week, who can say

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China to donate $500 million to World Health Organization. Beijing has said it is ready to replace the United States as the WHO's largest donor, expanding China's global influence after Washington's withdrawal from international cooperation.

DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

'Ouch!' Musk's fall from 'Iron Man' to 'Zoolander' mocked on MSNBC https://twp.ai/4ingmt

Boogers and cum, how 'bout some feces with your flounder? Boogers and cum, you like that queefy quarter pounder?

I'm going to get such a good grade in therapy

We will not win the battle for democracy if those in the pro-democracy movement prize caution over taking risks. We cannot permit ourselves to be deterred by the inevitable defeats and public criticism that are inevitable along the long path of restoring democracy.

In March, the U.S. Department of Agriculture canceled funding for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA), which helped the Mid-Ohio Food Collective purchase high-demand products. ... And more cuts might soon be coming at the state level. New from Jen Bryant.

Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.

The orange felon lies to his his cult that other countries will pay for his trade war tariffs whilst simultaneously telling Walmart to “eat the tariffs” and move on, MAGA are dumb AF.

This is a quote to live by—especially now, in these dark and dangerous times under Trump. It’s a brutal reminder that while some cling to politeness and performative unity, others are dismantling democracy in plain sight. Wake up. The stakes couldn’t be higher.

Amazing!

Another Not AI at all Graphic

They really think their mass firings had nothing to do with the problems we’re now seeing.

"Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy keeps going on TV and insisting it’s safe to fly in and out of Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey... Duffy has now admitted he changed a flight booked for his wife on Monday so that she wouldn’t have to travel through Newark." gizmodo.com/transportati...

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Tulsi Gabbard has fired the top two career officials leading the National Intelligence Council, the senior most analytical group in the intelligence community whose job it is to understand and assess the biggest threats facing the United States.

Can Someone find this out!!... DEMS we are looking at YOU .....🤔

MURRAY: How many staff have been cut from the NIH's clinical center? I want a specific number RFK Jr: I can't tell you that MURRAY: That's not acceptable

BREAKING: A woman was kicked out of a women’s bathroom at a Massachusetts hotel by a security guard who demanded she “prove her gender.” No badge gives you the right to sexually harass someone in a bathroom. This is what fascism looks like in real time. And it’s coming to your city next.

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🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: I am grateful to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV for his wise words about the Holy See's willingness to play a mediatory role in restoring global peace. Peace is the most sacred wish of millions of our people. We hope for and make every effort to restore a dignified peace.

DeLAURO: Are you planning to break the law by impounding appropriated funds? RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?

You've come a long way, America

Taking a bribe in a very public way doesn't mean you aren't corrupt, it means your corruption is shameless.

So many layers of corruption.

"I did this!"

Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem and a whole lot of ICE/DHS types is will discover a Strange New Respect for habeas corpus and the rule of law when the 2029 Truth and Reconciliation Commission arrests them for human trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, and child abuse.