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About 50 years ago, I was reading political thrillers, including several by Fletcher Knebel. His 1966 novel, NIGHT OF CAMP DAVID, centers on a U.S. president who has gone insane. Signs of insanity include: desire for (a) an alliance with the USSR, and (b) annexation of Canada.

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Just remember, ‘Proud Boy’s’ is a term used on farms for horses who had been neutered but still had the urge to mount a mare only to fail.

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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The social contract is null and void. We are left with a nation that’s become a powder keg stuffed with thieves and bad actors unleashing unconscionable levels of psychological abuse on the working/poor classes.

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Across the government, probationary employees and Schedule A workers—including individuals with severe physical, psychiatric, or intellectual disabilities, as well as veterans—are being let go.

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Breaking News: Roaches Elect Exterminator 🪳

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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

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They applied for NIH grants designated for researchers from underrepresented backgrounds. Then, their applications were pulled from review. chroni.cl/3WU4njj

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Supreme Court or Supremacist Court?

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My laundry folding buddies. #cat #blackcats #cowcats #softkittywarmkitty

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Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science

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Buckle up everyone this is going to be a LONG thread but if you are a current Fed you are going to want to bookmark it because it’s the roadmap for what’s coming. #SaveUSAID #SaveAmerica 1/

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This is an important read. #fbi

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1 dead, 15 taken into custody after 3 incidents at the Canada-U.S. border: all were found crossing from the US to Canada Mounties say a man is dead after he crossed from the United States into Canada at the Coutts Border Crossing in southern Alberta on Tuesday. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

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It’s surprising how few people know that some of the first groups targeted by the Nazis were gay & transgender people. The pink triangle, now a symbol of LGBTQ+ resilience, was originally used to mark them in concentration camps. History matters—let’s not forget.

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Don’t worry, the reality tv show star Secretary of Hotubsexportation is handing the FAA’s aviation systems over to the exploding penis rocket/car imploding ketamine king and his merry band of unripened incels. This is fine. Everything is fine.

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And with RFK Jr. at the helm, it’ll go from bad to apocalyptic… abcnews.go.com/Health/us-da...

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Representative @jasmineforus.bsky.social can ONLY tell it like it is. Speaking truth to power is hard to do, and I commend her bravery. Thank you Congresswoman. #blondebadbuiltbutchbody

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This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

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Feeling stressed about [gestures broadly]

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So, you mean to tell me this man can hack into the US Treasury, but not voting machines? 🤔 #elonmusk #fraud #unitedstates #makeitmakesense

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Anténor Firmin is best known for his book De l'égalité des races humaines, published in 1885 as a rebuttal to a text on Aryan superiority. He argued that "all men are endowed with the same qualities and the same faults, without distinction of color or anatomical form." #blackhistorymonth #haitian

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Um, Elon Musk wasnt on the ballot nor was he appointed a cabinet position. Who does he think he is? Where is #Congress!?

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Knowing the names of the an unelected oligarch’s underlings who are destroying the government from within is a crime now, apparently.

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Any unnecessary and/or large purchases can wait until after January 20, 2029.

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My heart is broken. A pediatric medivac flight now? This is just too much.

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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

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"In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm. ... That is spending the wind without raising the sails." - Letter to a Young Activist During Troubled Times

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I'm going to be there when the empire crumbles and falls.

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