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Bleeding heart 💙 Cleveland born and raised 🧡 Living WAY past my life expectancy with Cystic Fibrosis & trying to figure out what to do next 💜
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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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incredible exchange, @marisakabas.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 334 comments

An important point to keep in mind.

submitted 5 days ago • 633 comments

☎️ Vets in crisis USE THIS LINE 2024 🆘 >7.6M Calls 🆘 360K Texts 🆘 910K Online Chats 🚨I in 3 vets struggle w/mental illness 🚨~18 VETS DIE by SUICIDE DAILY ONE IS TOO MANY! We CAN'T allow vets who served to protect OUR freedoms to DIE at the hands of assholes who NEVER served! #Voices4Victory #BSV

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was abruptly cut off in response to the United States’ freeze on USAID funding. Pe Kha Lau, a refugee from Myanmar living in a displacement camp in neighboring Thailand, died only four days after she was forcibly discharged from a…

submitted 10 days ago • 556 comments

I have Cystic Fibrosis and the genetic modifiers that Vought’s daughter is taking are keeping me alive. This is such a betrayal of the CF and disability community.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.

submitted 11 days ago • 674 comments

When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?

submitted 12 days ago • 1713 comments

The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

submitted 12 days ago • 179 comments

Hearing nonsense that Ds are threatening a shutdown. False. Entire matter is in GOP hands. What's happening is that Rs are coming hat in hand to Ds for help because they can't agree among themselves. Ds shld have a simple demand. No help until the criminal conduct stops.

submitted 15 days ago • 305 comments