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Retired school psychologist from IA, WOKE (cause I care about all people!) happily married mom of 3, grandma of 1, one sweet dog and two crazy cats. NO DMs, please! 💙 Resist! 🌈 🇺🇦 🌻
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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

Canadian wildfire smoke has infiltrated the area again and the muted sunrise is one of the results here on the northwest corner of Lake Michigan. #906Life #mymichigan

(WSJ) - Procter & Gamble said it would cut 7,000 jobs, or roughly 15% of its nonmanufacturing workforce around the world, over the next two years. @wsj.com $PG www.wsj.com/business/ret...

“In a feat of legal engineering, the president stressed the Constitution’s support structures past what experts considered their maximum load.”

Commission for a friend #elvispresley

Why is the American president repeating Russian threats without comment?

You'd think that UN concluding that member of its own permanent security council committing crimes against humanity would be bigger news.

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ONG, this gave me a good laugh

Elizabeth Warren to Sarah Eisen: "I'm sorry -- you're throwing a giant parade and tossing confetti over regulations that, let's see what happened over the last 9 months -- Wells Fargo has been tagged for money laundering, it's been tagged for engaging in consumer fraud ... that makes no sense."

This administration thinks it can cancel Pride… Oh honeybuns. We never needed your permission in the first place. Pride started as a riot. If you keep encroaching on our rights, we’ll just go back to our roots. Hint: it involves bricks.

DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

A win! A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate Job Corps a Department of Labor program that provides job training to young people entering the workforce.

A beautiful photo of a meteor moving fast through the sky. Honestly, it could be a great phone wallpaper. #Space #Astrophotography #Astronomy #Photographer #Photography

Would a civilized country limit health care and food assistance for the poor...

A rose that begins as a red bud but opens into a golden bloom. #RoseWednesday #bloomstrolling #flowers #rose #EastCoastKin

I’m so excited to return to The Late Show w/ Stephen Colbert! I did such a great job last time, they asked me back a mere 8 years later. #TheLifeOfChuck

This comes as no surprise. The man has zero respect for anything or anyone. Somebody needs to dig up that grave.

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Well done.

In case facts still matter:

Amanpour being afraid to come here should tell you everything. 😳

The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

Harvey Milk was an #LGBT pioneer and the Trump administration is trying to erase him.

HUGE NEW LEAK: By July 1, Little Marco & Do☭old Tr☭mp will secretly eliminate ENTIRE State Dept bureaus for women’s rights, public diplomacy, and humanitarian coordination... AND cut 3,400 jobs. They want to keep this quiet until it's too late to stop them.

Weather forecaster explains how cuts impact his ability to warn of hurricane dangers accurately.

"A national network that pledges to coordinate, mobilize, and support one another when any single institution comes under attack..." www.standtogetherhighered.org

POCAN: Just tell me coincidence or not. In Project 2025, abolishing the Dept of Education. You guys are doing. Is that a coincidence? VOUGHT: The president's agend-- POCAN: Ending DEI? VOUGHT: The president-- POCAN: Shifting FEMA costs to the states? Ending PBS and NPR? Banning trans people?

Can the sane among us agree — there would be far fewer of us alive today if RFK Jr. had been HHS Secretary in 2020? 🚨 CDC official overseeing COVID-19 vaccine recommendations resigns

Guess who is going to pay for the tariffs?

Yikes

Not nearly enough people put John Roberts at the top of the list of the people responsible for the existential crisis our democracy is in rn

BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

I get her...

Thank you, Nick, for standing up for the LGBTQ+ community.

Perfect.

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it will revoke a federal policy that required hospitals to provide emergency abortions when necessary to stabilize a woman’s medical condition. We will be allowed to die.

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