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RN wife mother grandmother to 4 under 5. Democrat. Member of the resistance and #Team Justice. Avid reader, writer, love cooking,gardening, music, nature and sports. LBGTQ ally
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Many people don't know that fed gov workers have Clearances that Trump, Elon, & most of his Cabinet members could only dream about getting. Can't have charges, can't have many of the allegations they have, can't have neighbors/family/friends say anything negative about you, can't have financial (1)

Sadly, it’s time to revive this 2017 TIME cover.

I’m sorry to say it but: The emporer is actually naked.

What happened to Little Marco?

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

🕵🏻‍♀️ BREAKING while we were distracted with Ukraine…Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-ski...

A reminder for these times.

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

Worth noting that when the war started Zelensky’s English was very shaky and he’s clearly spent a ton of time improving it for exactly this purpose.

This is exactly what a frightened abused wife would send to her family about her abusive husbands actions at thanksgiving, because he’s checking her phone It’s sick and sad

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.

who told this pampered asshole he has the right to speak to anyone like this?

There’s something so dark and disturbing about Musk’s voracious appetite for attention being accommodated by a media hungry for spectacle as he is knowingly advocating starving children. It’s like just focusing on John Wayne Gacy’s clowning.

Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.

Saturday morning Hope

So, actually, it always was Russia.

Yes

In the last days of the Biden administration, Montgomery County, Pa., was awarded $5 million by HUD to help about 200 families avoid homelessness Then Trump came and no one knows what happened to the money. Another human tragedy. Story by @jessebunch.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/politics/mon...

I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤️ if you do, too.

Trump White House scrambles after allowing Russian state media into briefing www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

Just posted by President Zelenskyy

Marco Rubio just sat there like a useless sack of shit. What a global embarrassment.

If you don’t have a local library card, it should be your New Year’s resolution to get one. It’s an easy resolution to keep and you’ll actually use it, trust me.

NEW: People who work to counter human trafficking & child exploitation tell @wired.com that USAID cuts/State Dept funding pause have impacted their ability to protect children and pursue cases against abusers/traffickers. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/doge-u...

So Trumpers, three options: He's senile. He's a liar. Or both.

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

RFK Jr.’s mix of ignorance and being unmoored from reality makes him not just wrong, but a real danger to public health. newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

The wealthy commit fraud WAY MORE than the rest of us do. They also serve WAY LESS time in prison.

Opt out tomorrow!

For folks disheartened by the Bezos Washington Post debacle, recommend you instead subscribe to both @contrariannews.org and @thebulwark.bsky.social.

CALL TO ACTION: Call your representatives at (202) 224-3121 and ask what criteria they plan to use when “vetting” their constituents.

Yay!! A federal judge in California sided with a coalition of unions, temporarily barring the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to terminate probationary workers, stating that the firings were ‘illegal, should be stopped, and rescinded.’

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

Pancreatic cancer is notoriously hard to treat, with a mortality rate of about 90%. In today’s episode,  we talk with a scientist  who is fighting the cancer with an mRNA vaccine. Listen here 🎧: https://buff.ly/3ES4ndw

Wow. From an email sent around by appalled USAID officials: "The termination to contracts, grants, and assistance agreements over the last two weeks and the huge bulk last night were not done according to federal laws, regulations and procedures..." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-midnight...