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She/Her/Hers/Doctor 🌎 Best Auntie Childless bibliophile 📚 🧑🏻‍🎓PhD 🐶 mom Blue dot 🔵 in a red state
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What a different world we could have.

SILENCE IS COMPLICITY!

Exactly this.

Today I said goodbye to my best friend of 13 years. Fly high, baby girl. I’ll see you someday. 🌈

I refuse to normalize him. I did not vote for him, he does not represent me, and I do not believe he is at all deserving of being here—and so I grieve his ascension and resist his ugliness. I will not comply, bow, or obey. FULL POST: johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-do-not-o...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Promises made, promises kept!

Dear Canada and Mexico, We’re with you. Sincerely, Decent Americans

James Harrison, a blood donor famed for having saved the lives of more than 2 MILLION babies, has died. Harrison’s plasma contained a rare antibody known as Anti-D which was used to manufacture a medication given to expectant mothers. Harrison donated plasma every two weeks from age 18-81

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

GOVERNMENT WASTE

Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

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I signed my strike card!!! Sign yours today. March 15. Winter is coming.

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Inflation is now the highest it’s been since June. Gas, groceries, electronics, appliances, cars, housing & utilities are all up. Americans can’t afford to fly, dine out or buy booze. And egg prices just hit a record high.

It gives me no pleasure to say she was right.

Nailed it…

Well, that’s weird…

I just don’t think this is a very strong or effective message.

People who didn’t understand Kendrick Lamar‘s halftime show also don’t understand how tariffs work.

Republicans 2002: “We need evidence-based education policy” Republicans 2025: “Pls destroy any evidence that could inform education policy”

BREAKING NEWS Inflation surged a WHOPPING 3% in January - that’s the biggest leap in over 2 years. On a monthly basis, costs jumped 0.5% - the most since August 2023 - up from 0.4% in December.

He’s insane.

"The weakest people are bullies, you know that?" Yeah motherfucker, we know. We're looking right at one.

BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A good follow. @democratvalues.bsky.social

Trump has spent literally half of his presidency at Mar-a-Lago.

Good morning!

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