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Menopause and the downfall of democracy—because who doesn’t want hot flashes while the world is on fire? Married to Dan (28 yrs so far), 2 amusing adult kids, boxer Milly, cats Kip and Gertie.
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The Hortman family helped raise and train dogs to partner with veterans. One of the many reasons we will miss Melissa and Mark.

Trump’s move to halt an initiative to restore abundant salmon runs drew condemnation. “The Administration’s decision to terminate these commitments echoes the federal government’s historic pattern of broken promises to tribes,” a tribe member said. With @opb.org‬

There were only a couple of thousand people at Trump's Nazi parade. Meanwhile there were millions of people at the over 2000 anti-Trump protests! 😂

Chicago ✊

I’m a few tequilas in to the night and the No King protests are making me cry with hope and admiration for every single person who took to the streets today. Sending much warmth from Canada.

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

UPDATE: A former Minnesota House speaker and her husband were killed and a state senator and his wife were wounded in targeted shootings Saturday at their homes near Minneapolis, officials said.

i'm surprised by how low energy and farcical that whole military parade situation was. I was expecting Moscow 1945 and we got Spirit Halloween instead.

“When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.” —Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

We may make the squeaking our ringtone

Trump's parade could have been an email

This!!! None of these fucks can be trusted.

The conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark are untenable. With serious security lapses, numerous reports of mistreatment by staff of detainees, complaints of persistent food shortages, and a troubling lack of transparency from facility administrators…

ICE agent at a workplace raid: “you guys understand we have a signed warrant to be here” Worker: “And here’s my bag of fucks”

According to the MAGA Republicans, the first photo is a peaceful field trip, merely a tour of the capitol (a day of love 🙄) - the second photo is a violent riot, an insurrectionist. (an actual veteran, peacefully protesting tyranny) This is what perverted justice looks like, it's an abomination.

The Illinois secretary of state asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas sheriff seeking a woman who had an abortion. news.wttw.com/2025/0...

It’s not a game, dipshit.

A police chief saying he expects to be arrested and jailed by the federal government for how he chooses to do his official job—esp when it seems to be in the context of NOT interfering w ppl using their constitutional rights—feels like a really bad thing.

Just so those of you outside of California know, the little red circle is the area that the National Guard and Marines are there protecting. There’s 5 times more troops then protesters. This is unacceptable

THIS, Stephen Moran told the truth about Stephen Miller & ABC fired him over it. This is another reason I watch no TV news & haven't for years now.

Democracy will not collapse all at once in America. It will happen bit by bit, state by state. We just saw US senator Alex Padilla thrown to the floor and handcuffed for trying to ask the Homeland Security Secretary a question. Hold the line, California. Hold the f-ing line.

‘Morale is not great’: Troops say they feel 'used' by Trump's LA deployment www.rawstory.com/troops-in-lo...

Dumb as a box of rocks

The Department of Homeland Security is lying. @padilla.senate.gov identified himself. Urging everyone to go out and righteously and peacefully exercise your freedom of speech and assembly. That’s how we take back our country.

This is a goddamn outrage. Krisiti Noem and her coterie of goons are going to get people—and maybe even elected officials—killed. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Goldman: "These are people doing in the right way, who are nonviolent, noncriminal, and they're getting arrested. So what message does that send? Obviously it sends the message, 'Go further underground. Don't appear in court. Don't pay your taxes' ... that's just going to make the public less safe."

Our CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social delivered a message to the House Oversight Committee: "The American people are in danger and our democracy is in crisis."

Man ‘fitting the general description’ of someone wanted by ICE arrested at courthouse. It turned out to be a US Marshal

Good one 👇⚖️👀

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"Many of the students facing discipline and marginalization are themselves Jewish. They don’t need protection from their own political views – they need protection from institutions that would force them to choose between their Jewish identity and their political conscience."

a racist chud gets jealous of a person of african descent and tries to being the force of the state against them, many such cases www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/w...

Trump has created & manufactured violence in LA to distract from the #BigUglyBill that will strip 16 million Americans of their health care. @kamlager-dove.house.gov’s #CupOfJoe speaks truth to power. Tell your senators to #KillTheBill! (202) 224-3121

Gov. Pritzker: “It's wrong to deploy the National Guard and active duty Marines into an American city over the objection of local law enforcement, just to inflame a situation and create a crisis.”

Republicans are rushing through a bill to “defund” Planned Parenthood, which would devastate access to basic reproductive health services like birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing, abortion, and more. We won’t let the GOP get away with it. Contact your senators: ppact.io/care #IFightForPP

Florida officials threaten librarians with criminal prosecution over Judy Blume book popular.info/p/florida-of...

It's amazing how when people disagree with a Billionaire, somehow the place they're in is a real echo-chamber. Alternatively when they all agree with the billionaire, the place they're in is a think tank full of good ideas.

They rolled up at car washes in my district and violently kidnapped two dozen people. One didn’t even work at the car wash and was just profiled while getting his car cleaned with his children. Today I joined the devastated families and our traumatized community.

Gee, who woulda thunk that loosening gun laws would lead to more gun deaths? 🤔 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Fuck every one of the active duty soldiers that cheered for the POS president and the POS Secretary of Defense. Fuck all of them. I am ashamed of the #82ndAirborne #NoKings

Keeping tabs on MAGA’s perception of the situation in LA and they are absolutely convinced the city is aflame and on the brink of total collapse. This altered reality legitimizes incredible violence and is so reminiscent of disinformation that had fueled sectarian violence.

Enjoy your canned vegetables for Thanksgiving, people. This is only going to get worse.

When Los Angeles actually *was* burning down six months ago, these people didn't give a damn about us. Now they're spreading fake AI videos showing LA burning