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Retired health care administrator; lucky to be married to a lovely lady who makes my day every day. Avid gardener, and tai chi participant.
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Phang: We don’t need the Ten Commandments hanging in Texas schools. What we need is common-sense gun legislation—so the kids can live. If my kid goes to a public school in Texas and they can’t come home alive, I don’t give a shit about the Ten Commandments being posted on the wall.

New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.  If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.

"Dems all too often defend the procedures of government instead of exercising power in the rare instances we have it. But unlike Trump, we can exercise it in a virtuous way... We can be both aggressive in our application of power and righteous in how we apply it; they’re not mutually exclusive."

New in PN: Trump is withdrawing whiteness from white immigrants "When Trump targets people like Fabian Schmidt and Kasper Eriksen, it's because he believes America is only for citizens who are white people and white people who are citizens."

#ZNPP

NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit Tuesday morning in federal court against the Trump White House over the president's executive order that purportedly bars the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for NPR and PBS. www.npr.org/2025/05/27/n...

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The public radio network's chief executive said in a statement that the US president's order was a 'clear violation of the Constitution.' www.ft.com/content/f7a3...

COVID-19 is not over.

All Hat and No Cattle

General Mark Milley (Ret.) speaks with the conviction we need to hear. substack.com/@demwinsmedi...

Happy Taco Tuesday! 🥳 Thank you! @pattyger.bsky.social 🙌 Nice to see everyone. 💃🪇👋🍸🌶🥑🌮🌸🕺

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Afforestation and oceanic carbon dioxide removal can be combined without compromising each other, as a new study by #LMU geographers shows. 🌱 This offers flexibility in designing diverse, sustainable mitigation strategies and helps reduce pressure on land areas. 🌳 #geography