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Retired old lady. Love: nature/wildlife, pets, music, old movies, books, baseball, photography. Democrat
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Sad! www.wsmv.com/2025/03/06/t...

“There is never a time that our parks should be politicized. And a threat to one park is a threat to all of them.” - NPCA's Crystal Davis, who our oversees advocacy at national park sites near Chicago, like Indiana Dunes and Pullman National Historical Park

We examined some of the key misleading, exaggerated, or false statements that the president made during his address to Congress earlier this week. to.pbs.org/3QKhXSS

President Zelensky has shown exemplary courage and leadership in resisting Putin’s barbarous invasion. Ukraine deserves our support! It is unconscionable that the US has stopped sharing our intelligence about Russian activities there.

Trump continues to tank the economy, the market is melting down, his ridiculous tariffs on Mexico and Canada will raise prices immediately, and the forecast from the Atlanta Fed says a recession is now more likely. Is this what his voters want?

Starting this week, we’ll all pay more at the store because of the Trump tariffs, even while he’s finalizing a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy. All the bluster is meant to get us talking about literally anything else.

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

Things that will get more expensive in America, thanks to Donald Trump's trade war: Buying a home. Buying groceries. Replacing appliances. Fixing a car (or buying a new one). Paying an energy bill. Starting a business. Guess that’s what he’d call “fun for the whole family.”

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Many Americans are resisting the current administration in their actions. We are citizens of America not Russia.

You might not see it in the mainstream media, but over 10,000 people protested today at Tesla showrooms across the country, another 10,000+ rallied in support of national parks, and more than 1,000 gathered in Vermont to protest Vance’s visit.

Are we going to allow the current political regime to define us or refine us? It’s time to start speaking out every time this country behaves like a bunch of deranged hoodlums and condemn it in front of the world. This is not who we are folks.

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The Blue Report is amazing. The most clicked on articles are right here theblue.report

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.

www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...

If you're on X, do you ever check to see how Grok describes you? A few days ago Grok said I'm a singer/songwriter from the UK. I googled and found Carla May Wainwright. Had never heard of her until then. Grok sucks! www.businessinsider.com/grok-3-censo...

The Grinch Who Stole Education open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

To me, the funniest thing about this is that Elon has two left feet.

Remembering Roberta Flack. She died today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEbi...

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and other hits made her one of the top recording artists of the 1970s, died Monday. She was 88.

"This is something that does not belong to the president or the White House. It belongs to the American people.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump isn’t going to end the war in Ukraine. He’s going to make it easier for Russia to keep what it stole and greenlight Putin to go after other countries.

Oops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers newrepublic.com/article/1917... via @newrepublic.com

"Presidents only get so much political capital. Trump has decided to invest his finite capital into supporting Putin's authoritarian regime in Moscow..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

What does the National Park Service look like with fewer staff? NPCA's Kristen Brengel told @apnews.com to expect: -Shorter visitor center hours -Delayed openings -Closed campgrounds "These actions are pushing an already overwhelmed Park Service to its breaking point."

NPCA's Kristen Brengel to @usatoday.com: "We're losing dedicated professionals who've been doing a fabulous job, and that loss of expertise will hurt the Park Service over time...This termination just adds more pain to the understaffing."

President Trump said he will continue to restrict The Associated Press’ access to his events and news conferences until the outlet goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico in its reports. He acknowledged that the move was a presidential retaliation against AP's editorial policy.

Trump's politics of spite are front and center in his second term. It's a virus that has spread to the entire Republican Party, making his presidency more about "owning the libs" than effecting any positive change. Todd Beeton dug into this mindset for The Big Picture.

Democrats must make clear that, of course, we believe in changing government for the better - and show how different that is from Trump's destruction of government's capacity to protect workers, consumers, and families.

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Black Beauty Ranch in Texas shelters rescued animals, from tigers to lemurs. Conor Knighton explores its mission and the Humane Society’s rebranding as Humane World for Animals. cbsn.ws/5375

Snoopy. Happy #Caturday

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.