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Former Buckeye. Extinguished Bluegrass Mandolinist. 🏳️‍🌈 Swing and Gypsy Jazz violinist. Avid political observer and voter. Oakland, Ca. Anti-Fascist. http://www.jeffterflinger.com/index.html
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submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Weingarten: Their attacks on public education are relentless and why? Because they fear knowledge. Why do they fear teachers? They fear us because we teach critical thinking… their brand of greed, power, and privilege cannot survive in a democracy of diverse educated citizens

submitted 2 days ago • 198 comments

Brevard County Sheriff Sheriff Wayne Ivey: "If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at, because we will kill you graveyard dead."

submitted 3 days ago • 2260 comments

Tensions are rising between Israel and Iran? This wouldn't have happened if Trump were president... Oops.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Who else nearly fell out of the seat when you heard Cosplay Kristi accuse Sen. Padilla of “political theater”?

submitted 4 days ago • 1349 comments

I get that these guys have no shame, but that doesn’t mean we should give them a pass for it. Shame on Johnson and shame on the Republican Party that won’t call this out even though they know it’s wrong.

submitted 4 days ago • 199 comments

Pritzker and Newsom are showing Democrats how to fight back—calling out extremism, defending rights, and refusing to stay silent. This is leadership. No more playing it safe. #StandUp #DemocratsFightBack

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

“NO KINGS!” ad in the New York Times, paid for by Walmart heiress Christy Walton.

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

While Trump deliberately escalates tensions in vulnerable communities, don't forget: He's also directing the Republican Congress to pass a budget that would abandon the very people who most need support. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/h...

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

Funded by your tax dollars.

submitted 5 days ago • 1611 comments

Reminder! He's been making the U.S. look weak since day 1 😡

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

Something the Democratic Party is NOT doing right now, which it MUST DO, Is run ads on EVERY MEDIA PLATFORM KNOWN UNDER SUN, about the unconstitutionality of using troops on domestic soil. STOP ASSUMING people learned the Constitution in school. THEY DID NOT! You cannot

submitted 6 days ago • 261 comments

RFK Jr.’s dangerous decision to fire all members of ACIP enables him to fill the committee with conspiracy theorists and endanger our public health.

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

Elon (an actual billionaire) neutered Trump in front of the world last week... so Trump launched a war inside America this week in hopes everyone will forget.

submitted 6 days ago • 140 comments

Instead of using this money to fund, say, the National Weather Service right before hurricane season, they're using it to send Marines to Los Angeles. THIS is waste and abuse.

submitted 6 days ago • 344 comments

The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality

submitted 8 days ago • 721 comments

Democrats should introduce articles of impeachment for RFK jr Even if it doesn’t work, which it probably won’t, democrats need to make clear that he’s not gonna get away with it

submitted 7 days ago • 337 comments

Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

submitted 7 days ago • 527 comments

This is what’s happening in DC while we’re all watching LA.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: RFK Jr. removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on vaccine use, pledging to replace them with his own picks.

submitted 7 days ago • 129 comments