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Retired. Taught jr.high/middle school English for 31 years in Miami. Still in touch with amazing former students. Now in a red area near Gainesville. Love my family especially liberal activist daughter & grandkids. #Angret
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Anyone want to explain to me how it makes any sense that the US and Russia are trying to negotiate the end to the war in Ukraine without any sort of Ukrainian delegation?

Russia isn’t our friend. Bush tried. Obama tried. Trump tried during his first term. It’s an admirable goal, but it doesn’t work. No matter how much Trump capitulates to Putin, Russia won’t be our friend.

@gastonbrian.bsky.social Sending love!

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

I swear I thought this first tweet from Trump was fake. Wtf indeed.

Criminal records of J6 Rioters who were pardoned by Trump includes rape, domestic violence, drug trafficking, and manslaughter. Cool, cool. Maybe would have been smart to research a few of those before pardoning everyone, huh? www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

This is the very definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face. new.deepleftfield.info

I am excited to endorse Jocelyn Benson for Governor of Michigan. We share a passion for marathon running. Just as she has conquered the miles, I am confident she will tackle the challenges facing Michigan with the same determination and spirit she exhibits as Michigan's Secretary of State.

Senator: I’ll speak in his defense because to err is human. Who among us hasn’t shown up drunk to work? Who here hasn’t cheated on their wife? Hegseth: Please stop helping me Senator: Who hasn’t taken off their pants at the zoo?

“How can we ask our soldiers to train at the highest level of standards, when we're being asked to lower the standards to confirm a SecDef." Senator Tammy Duckworth

Make America Good Again.

These 44 Republicans voted against forest management wildfire prevention in December.

WCK

We survived an insurrection 4 years ago today, only to certify the insurrectionist today.

I don't even have anything insightful to say today. I still can't believe he won after his actions 4 years ago today.

Zuckerberg went super homophobe the same week he started publicly sucking dick.

I won't be live-tweeting the inauguration. Mainly, because I have no intention of watching even one second of it.

OMG! I guess they don’t care if we live or die anymore.

LA restaurants offering free meals to fire evacuees: Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations) Bar Etoile (East Hollywood) Fiorelli Pizza (Venice) Bé Ù (Silver Lake) Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood) Oy Bar (Studio City) Sunday Gravy (Inglewood) Dudley Market (Venice) LaSorted's (Silver Lake)

A federal judge struck down Biden’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students, erasing progress on gender identity and sexual orientation discrimination. Civil rights advocates call the decision a setback, reverting to decades-old interpretations and stifling free expression.

Elon Musk’s $2T spending cut goal through his “Department of Government Efficiency” is already halved. His plan? Slash jobs with forced office returns, audits, and cuts to services Americans rely on. With his wealth up 60% under Trump, Musk’s “golden age” clearly favors billionaires, not the public.

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.

“For my next attention seeking trick, I will have you concentrate on Greenland, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Panama Canal—instead of my absurdly unqualified cabinet picks or that I have no real plans to fix the border or bring down food prices. Look, America, a rabbit!”

Fact check: false Trump is bringing Stephen Miller with him, and while not strictly a pet, he does turn into a bat to feed upon the blood of the innocents from time to time.

The only way there aren’t elections in 2026/ 2028 is if we allow it to happen. Full stop. I don’t plan on allowing it to happen - do you?

x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

“Four years ago, dozens of companies denounced the invasion of the U.S. Capitol and pledged to withhold support from those who disputed the 2020 election results. Now, many of those companies are lining up to fund Donald Trump’s inauguration.” From the @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/tru...

This brings me to the toughest part: the fact that we are on our own. Institutions that assured us they would be in the fight for democracy are already backing down. People who claimed they saw Trump clearly for what he is now have voluntarily put blinders in front of their own eyes.

The party of law and order, ladies and gentlemen.

Jeff Bezos' genuflection to Trump is rightly causing a movement of staff out of WaPo. Here, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist @anntelnaes.bsky.social explains her reasons. She does fantastic work, btw. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Everything stated in this post is a provable fact. You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts. Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.

Ever since the election, I've been dreading 2025. But now that it's about to happen, I'm ready for it. Bring it on, bitches. I'm not going down without a fight.

Thank you, President Carter for a life well-lived. You were always an example of the best of us. We’ll take it from here.