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Unabashedly progressive. Happily married. Proud father of two amazing and successful kids. Frightened by what is happening in our country and the world.
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50-100 years from now, historians will look back on this period in the US and call it the period of national stupidity. #Trumpwatch

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Can someone please explain why so few Republicans have taken a stand for democracy and country over power?

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Just a reminder that with RFK Jr as health sect'y, innocent people are gonna die from preventable diseases.

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Here is one example, amongst many, of why private equity is bad for America. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u... PE buys businesses, sucks them dry, then puts them in bankruptcy, all in the name of greed, to the detriment of jobs and communities.

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The move by #Trump to slash regulations will free corporate interests to generate profits without concern for the safety of employees and citizens. #Trumpwatch

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#GOP, part of so- called fiscal conservancy is going to blow up the budget deficit like the Goodyear Blimp! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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#Google - interesting translation by Google Translate

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Nuff said

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Either He’s One Hell Of Broker Bro, Orrrrrrrrr

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

This is what Fascist do. The Trump administration has purged certain books from U.S. Naval Academy’s library: “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou is gone, while “Mein Kampf” remains. #Trumpwatch

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And thus it begins- #Trump defying the Courts. Not good! Trump Administration Live Updates: Justice Dept. Defies Order to Reveal Plan to Return Wrongly Deported Man

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Perhaps he will live stream it on Tik Tok www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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Who else thinks #Trump is manipulating the stock market with on again / off again tariffs, to his and his cronies’ benefit? #Trumpwatch

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Seen in today's Andrew Ross Sorkin's NYT newsletter ... just some of the reactions to the madness #Trump is foisting on the world. #Trumpwatch

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The #Trump admin assault on universities and the foreigners working at them is setting the stage for the US to lose its research and development inovation lead in the world. IOW, making us (US) less educated makes us easier to rule autocratically. Education is power. #Trumpwatch

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I am proud to say, I have never set foot inside, nor shopped online at Hobby Lobby. Their views and mine are largely antithetical.

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It will be interesting to see if the billionaires and Fortune 500 CEOs can rein in #Trump and Navarro, or if it is too late and even they have lost power in this coup.

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#Trumpwatch #Muskwatch

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#SCOTUS is dominated by tools of the far right.

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For all GOP complaints about fed'l gov't inefficiencies, I learned today that pharmacies can now pull current insurance info (at least Medicare) from a database, saving us from having to read out our insurance info. I was impressed.

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From Proud Democrats

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I just have to say it ... #Trump will go down in history as a one man global catastrophe ... economically, environmentally, and in terms of humanity. #Trumpwatch

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