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Avid family historian with determination of a badger — currently focusing on US, Irish, and Jewish trees. https://smithwickfamily.org/
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The former head of the Social Security Administration says he expects the agency to miss on some payments over the next three months, interrupting some people's benefits, for the first time in Social Security's history of eight decades: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

submitted 11 hours ago • 348 comments

Trump just helped bring Andrew Tate — who is literally charged with rape and human trafficking — into our country.

submitted 1 day ago • 1178 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 1 day ago • 1856 comments

The GOP leaders and members of Congress are complicit in the surrender of the US to Russia.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Here is a 2018 conversation between Jeff Bezos and German publisher Matthias Döpfner at a Business Insider event. Presumably, he is as crimson as a Washington State cherry today:

submitted 5 days ago • 381 comments

Who wouldn’t want the ride that just screams “Nazi”?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I feel for this family, but I wish NPR had included the part we are all asking ourselves — did he vote for Trump?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

You can tell if they are lying when you see their mouths are open.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Who knew how many Grima Wormtongues would be hanging around Trump ready to do his bidding?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

How happy is Putin right now to see his agents turning the US inside out?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

www.kyivpost.com/post/47630

submitted 8 days ago • 485 comments

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

submitted 9 days ago • 309 comments

Last night, we stayed at a wonderful guest house in Golden, Tipperary (the White Barn), and (duh) I realized we were 8 minutes from Athassel Abbey where some 1700s Smithwicks lived. Worth a visit. #genealogy #ancestourist

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I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 10 days ago • 514 comments

These dicks want us using stone tools and not living into our 60s. #makeamericagruntagain

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday I got to stand on the property where my great-grandfather, James Howard, was born. Looking around at the twisty lanes, crumbling homes, fields, and hedge of Croaghbeg, Antrim was moving. It was a kind of homecoming. #genealogy

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Wow: City of Clarksdale, Mississippi got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:

submitted 12 days ago • 258 comments

Since anyone can now choose new names for international bodies of water, I'm going to start calling the five oceans Tito, Jermaine, Jackie, Michael, and Marlon.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

We can be assured there will be no fair and common sense re-assessment of these cuts coming from the right -- only reelection-motivated carve-outs. Self-preservation is a powerful instinct.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Some of the thousands of people who lost their government jobs this week voted for Trump or did not vote. I hope you choose differently in the next election.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This Valentine's Day, in gratitude for the Supreme Court clearing the path for our President to end 250 years of democracy, why not hit up their contact form and send them a little note of appreciation? It's free and better than flowers.

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Patriots. Heroes.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve got precious little sympathy for people who heard his words and voted for him anyway.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Fake Christians have a special level reserved in their hell place.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Trump wants Panama, but is it China or just retaliation?

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment