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Retired classroom teacher, family counselor, and court competency trainer. Big fan of constitutional democracy and equal application of the law. Kindness, empathy, and compassion are underrated.
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These are my intentions. We the people, need to show up. In unprecedented numbers!

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Be there!

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Worth remembering.

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I’m comforted by the fact that Defense Secretary Pete Hogsbreath will be keeping a vigil throughout the long night with his trusty assistant Jack Daniels monitoring the military strike by Israel on Iran.

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Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

submitted 1 day ago • 370 comments

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

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For some reason, this one affected me deeply. This person’s only “crime” being working to feed his family and attempt to live comfortably while putting food on our collective table. So depressing.

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Get there.

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This is the content I needed to see to help overcome the depression I feel about recent developments. This whole psychodrama is so fucking stupid and unnecessary.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Holy fuckin shit. Will legacy news have the guts to show this? Don’t count on it.

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He stood in front of our troops today and gave a mean spirited, partisan speech. He stood in front of our troops today and attacked Americans by name. He stood in front of our troops today and goaded them into booing their fellow Americans. Never become desensitized to this.

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The Mayor of LA has issued a curfew tonight — not because the citizens are out of control BUT BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT IS.

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

ABC News fired reporter Terry Moran for criticizing Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, proving once again that corporate media is rudderless, cowardly and utterly complicit in enabling fascism.

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On June 14th, we show up. Coalition members will be present at all 1,800 events nationwide, over 90,000 strong, helping monitor local conditions. Many veterans have stepped forward to support protesters, stand in solidarity, and defend our right to be heard. We thank them.

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My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

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OMG, so funny and true that it’s painful.

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Haven’t seen any American media demand answers from the regime about this. Are we just supposed to move on and accept this senseless brutality?

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“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

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Abrams tanks weighing 140,000 pounds will be featured in the orange man’s vainglorious birthday parade on Saturday. Make road damage great again! No word on whether any vintage planes from the Revolutionary War airfields will participate.

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As a career elementary school teacher, this breaks my heart.

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