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I'm a total nerd (-the math skills). Mother of cats. Army Brat. RN, retired. Married to my best friend. Lifelong Dem šŸ”µšŸŒŠ. šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆšŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø ally. Irreligious. Gamer girl. 🚫DMs—I got 99 problems but blocking ain’t one.
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Phang: If you were scrolling on social media and saw a dog locked up in the middle of the Everglades—in the sun, in the heat, in the humidity—the outrage would be wild, wouldn’t it? But then—we’re okay with human beings being treated like that?

lol www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/p...

LENOIR CITY, TN — pregnant fiancĆ©e of an American lost her baby in ICE detention after they denied her prenatal care after pleading for help for days. (@ltgovmcnally & @lowellrussell21’s district) Unimaginable cruelty. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

You didn’t vote for Kamala because you thought she was a warmonger and you spread that message to others. How you all holding up tonight?

Orange Donny embarrassed himself in front of the world so now we have to go to war with Iran.

CNN put together a collection of clips of Netanyahu warning Iran is close to a nuclear weapon going back to 1996 ht: @acyn.bsky.social

30 years

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism ā€œ'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

70,000 people marched through Seattle at the No Kings rally. It was loud, it was huge, and it was only a start. While downtown swelled with speeches, ICE tear-gassed protesters in Tukwila. Showing up once isn’t enough. The fight doesn’t end when the march does.

An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

ā€œMedical staff are still required to treat veterans regardless of race, color, religion and sex, and all veterans remain entitled to treatment. But individual workers are now free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly prohibited by federal law.ā€

What we learned yesterday. The Times They Are a-Changin'

IMPORTANT: Stop calling the troops in LA National Guard Troops. They are not. When Trump activated them against the wishes of the Gov they became FEDERAL troops… like the 82nd airborne with no Law enforcement power! Don’t let them confuse you!

This is what it looks like without a United States Congress.

You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.

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

In an act of integrity and resistance, a supervisor in the Nashville federal prosecutor’s office resigned over how the Abrego Garcia case was being handled. The charges are bogus, pure political theater meant to justify a wrongful abduction.

Are we clear now a private businessman shouldn’t be in a position to control the space program—that this richest man in the world fueled by drugs, ego & hate shouldn’t be partnering with a malignant sociopath in the WH immunized by the SCOTUS & bent on pocketing billions & flouting the Constitution?

Happy Musk vs Trump day for all those celebrating.

Happy pride month ā¤ļøšŸ³ļøā€āš§ļøšŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ

The pardon power exists to correct legal errors, not to let reality TV hosts monetize it.

headline construction masterclass

Apparently states’ rights stop the moment women board a plane with autonomy in their carry-on.

We were likely years away from making HIV a thing of the past. Humanity triumphing over one of its worst diseases Instead we'll live in a world where people continue getting sick because of a greedy few who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes

lawfare is of course when you try to hold political figures accountable for crimes they commit

Civics 101: presidents are not kings…

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

Said it before, I’ll say it again. We shouldn’t privatize NASA. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/s...

ā€œThe Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." — 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, unanimously ratified by the US Senate, signed by President Adams Comments like Johnson’s are what happens when you ban books instead of reading them.