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Anti-fascist researcher, painful-truth teller, environmental scientist & activist, good-trouble maker, anti-authoritarian, anti-bigoted, aging 60's hope-filled past, single, Malamute lover, Nature lover, mountains, travel, free thinker, info-lover.
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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Trump's crypto scam is even worse than you think. Jason Kander and Ravi Gupta break it down on Majority 54.

Trump reduced British auto tariffs to benefit luxury carmakers like Rolls Royce. Meanwhile, the costs of essential goods like strollers, medications, and clothing are skyrocketing. So the rest of America has to go without but he's happy to help his rich friends buy luxury cars?

Shocking that the world's ugliest vehicle that's prone to catching fire and getting stuck and is associated with Nazis and the destruction of government isn't more popular.

I'm watching the serious meltdown by Trumpists about the new pope, but hey, did they REALLY expect they would get a pope that would support their core policies of weakening health care, abandoning the poor, imprisoning immigrants & political opponents, & destroying the environment?

Trumpers think the law is whatever Trump says it is. Like in any other dictatorship.

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Trump nominated a Witch Doctor for Surgeon General.

The GOP budget plan kicks 5.5 million off Medicaid—and 2.4 million will be left with no health insurance at all. This isn’t belt-tightening. It’s a death sentence dressed up as “fiscal responsibility.” #MomsForMedicaid

The new pope supports common sense gun safety reforms.

Reupping, bc the best response I can think of to Pete Hegseth's purge of trans service members is to note he is far less honorable than they are. Honesty, Humility, Integrity: Pete Hegseth Fails to Meet Standards He Claims Trans Service Members Lack www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/30/h...

Would you want to be transported by a company that values your safety as little as this?

What was even the point if no one was going to read these? Was the entire purpose of these emails to make people feel insecure and threatened?

🚨BREAKING: Right wing group DISMISSES case challenging the Arizona's maintenance of its voter rolls. Another victory for Arizona voters and for my law firm and its clients. www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizon...

Ed Martin out. But Jeanine Pirro? This is truly an unserious administration.

I don’t know how Fox is going to recover from this talent drain.

So, #WokePope means *checks notes* Pope who believes in the things Jesus said about poor people?

🚨BREAKING VIDEO: In a scathing ruling, a panel of three federal judges struck down Alabama’s 2023 congressional map as a violation of both the Voting Rights Act and the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Paige and I explain. youtu.be/IlCtcyh1QnU

They're going to try to force Europeans to eat toxic meat to get a trade deal, aren't they?

He’s like a kid in the 8th grade who didn’t complete his homework assignment offering up lame BS explanations to the teacher. He couldn’t even get the FBI budget done on time and has no timeframe for having it done. These people are grossly incompetent. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Things I did not have on my 2025 bingo card: ✅ American pope ✅ Drunk Fox News host interim U.S. Attorney ✅Conspiracy theory podcaster FBI Director ✅Drunk Fox News host Defense Secretary ✅Madman and his hackers with full access to our data—including Social Security numbers Add yours…

Is selection of an American Pope an effort to counteract Trump's inhumane policies?

Thank God DEI was ended so we can get back to a true meritocracy: putting people in positions based solely on their willingness to suck on to Trump on TV.

If you were looking for someone to remove any doubt that the Department of Justice is being weaponized against Trump’s political opponents there would be no one better for the job than an election denying, Jan. 6th defending, political hack. So, in that sense, this is a perfect pick.

Imoortant voting rights victory as LDF & ACLU keep fighting. “[T]ry as we might, we cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than an intentional effort to dilute Black Alabamians’ voting strength and evade the unambiguous requirements of court orders standing in the way,” the judges wrote.

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

This is the best way to get appointed to a senior position in the US government when Trump is president.

St. Louis needs care, not chemicals! Read the full article: buff.ly/3UVRvDr

The fastest endorsement of Pirro comes from the guy getting threatened the last 24 hours from MAGA after he blocked Ed Martin’s appointment.

With Trump’s tariff trade war, he screwed over mom-and-pop businesses that import items to sell on eBay, Etsy, and Amazon. These folks make a living this way—and now their businesses are in jeopardy.

“The agreement now is pushing more lawyers to leave, people familiar with the matter said, spurred by anger that the firm capitulated to Trump instead of fighting back against an administration campaign that many in the industry believe to be unconstitutional.”

In other words another loon, completely unfit for the job to which she has been nominated. Narcissist Trump, entering his last years, doesn't really care whether anyone survives him or not. In fact, if sunsetting all the rest of us gave him a last little thrill of potency, he'd jump at it.

The media still tiptoes around it, but let’s be clear—Donald Trump is a bigot. That’s not up for debate.

Because she can’t stand his stank ass! 📌 Melania Trump has spent fewer than 14 days at the White House since her husband was inaugurated 108 days ago. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/u...

I’m sure Jeanine Pirro will just be working hard in the office on personnel issues and supervising big cases/investigations and won’t have time to do a bunch of Fox interviews because she will be totally focused on the job.

Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate in the 2024 North Carolina state Supreme Court election, finally conceded six months after losing the race to incumbent Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat. Marc Elias and Paige Moskowitz discuss. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpOx...

Trump just fired the first Black person to serve as the Librarian of Congress. She has been in that position since 2016 and is the first professional librarian to hold the position since 1974.

Thank you Texas AG Ken Paxton for helping stop Trump's pick for top DC prosecutor Ed Martin's nomination ... 😇 www.oag.state.tx.us/news/release...