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Virginia native. Sic Semper Tyrannis!👢 VPI&SU '89🦃Go Hokies! Researcher, Battelle (retired) Mother of two
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VP Vance drags popularity of AfD in Germany

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Another piece I wrote for the @thebulwark.bsky.social on yesterday’s negotiation with Russia. www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-neg...

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“The widespread adoption of vouchers, Cowen explains, was a policy coup staged by billionaires who were libertarians or religious zealots or both.” Yet vouchers don’t work. So honored by The Privateers review from the great @dianeravitch.bsky.social @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.

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Not good

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We Are Compromised.

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Toddler in Chief

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Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

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Stansbury and Connolly (Virginia) both ranking members of the House Oversight Committee have been pushing back against the bl00dless digital coup 💪🏽

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WATCH: House AG committee chair Rep. Chris Todd still silent about Trump’s policies hurting farmers, especially in West Tennessee where he’s from👇🏽 🧑‍🌾 “Farmers in precarious economic positions as Trump executive orders put programs in limbo”: tennesseelookout.com/2025/02/19/b...

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Science... bye friend we barely knew ya

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"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

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Go Hokies

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@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

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“An unelected billionaire is now bulldozing the research arm of the Department of Education,” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said. “Cutting off these investments after the contract has already been inked is the definition of wasteful.” By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

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It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

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Trump’s latest directive reportedly sets women’s sports back 25 years, likely diverting tens of millions of dollars from college women’s programs to men’s.

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Trump eliminating the Department of Education would have major repercussions for college students. Here's what we know ⤵️

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Sen. Baldwin brought up the lawsuit accusing Linda McMahon of involvement in a WWE sex abuse scandal. Here's that clip.

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NEW: With $4 BN in NIH funds set to start going away Monday, a Nobel Laureate & others detail the impacts. Musk called the $ a "ripoff," but others discuss how NIH $ helped extend the lives of those w/ cancer, cystic fibrosis and congenital heart disease. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

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Murphy: "I continue to get reports from Connecticut that agencies there, like Head Start programs and community health centers, are actually not receiving the funding they are due. So I think there's a big question as to whether the administration actually is implementing the court order."

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Started/going

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