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World Citizen. ProDemocracy, psychologist, deeply concerned about our future, natural resources, and most vulnerable in society. Blue 💙 in SC. #Resist! 💪 🌏 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ Also: new to birding, my all-natural medicine for these times. 🐦🪿🐦‍⬛
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Wow! German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius SLAMS JD Vance's speech as undemocratic and calls it "not acceptable." “Here in Germany, we fight for your right to disagree against us.” He’s 100% right!

submitted 8 days ago • 305 comments

Something more to #resist, right here in SC. Lovely.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

For a humor break & stress relief- for your viewing pleasure, comes a proposal for renaming Gulf of Mexico / Golfo de Mexico:

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

NCMEC isn't just some nonprofit, they were created (and are funded) by Congress to run the mandatory reporting system for CSAM. They run the filtering system tech companies use, too. Shutting them down, you might as well issue a proclamation saying CSAM is legal now.

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

Attempted Coup- let’s keep it out of the red and move it back!! The Website has links to great resources. #Resist! 💪

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: President Trump has withdrawn the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council. This move will erode efforts to protect universal human rights and undermine the work of international bodies that hold all governments accountable.

submitted 18 days ago • 50 comments

1/2 "One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle." ~Carl Sagan

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Carl Sagan: 2/2 "We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

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D Suicide: Let's say you, and I are friends, and one night, we decide to go out and hit the town...and party it up. You want to go to Nightclub X. I want to go to Nightclub Y. We both stand our ground and wind up parting...each going to our chosen Nightclub. The next afternoon, we text each 1/5

submitted 20 days ago • 52 comments

Is there political science/political psychology/sociology literature on the relationship b/t MAGA and health & wellness conspiracy theorists? (I mean, I imagine there is, and would appreciate suggestions!)

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

1/2: “This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.”

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

2/2 "And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want." - Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) German historian and philosopher

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

“As Trump attempts to purge much of the federal government…it’s the rank-and-file workers who are refusing to back down. The leaders aren’t going to save us. That job is falling to normal people, who never asked for it.” www.thebulwark.com/p/please-don...

submitted 21 days ago • 36 comments

Attn: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system!

submitted 21 days ago • 337 comments

My latest:

submitted 21 days ago • 51 comments

Started, going — Musk is now inside the treasury edition. Welcome to the United States of Oligarchy. 🇺🇸 💵 🤷🏻 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 21 days ago • 56 comments

1,100 EPA employees have been notified of imminent termination.

submitted 21 days ago • 292 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 21 days ago • 4939 comments

Intelligent, compassionate women may yet save the world from the mayhem and cruelty of the new Trump administration | Barbara Riddle-Dvorak

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

In light of Trump II’s predictably cruel and bonkers beginning, many people are asking: “What can I do now?” Here are 10 recommendations. robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-c...

submitted 30 days ago • 145 comments

We will have victories and setbacks, good days and bad. We must understand that this will not be over in one election or with the defeat of any one candidate. This is the fight of our generation, and it will take time. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

submitted 28 days ago • 432 comments

That is the story! Wake up MSM

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

As a Sociologist, I need to tell you the chaos cascade (200+ exec orders) isn't dysfunction — it's disaster capitalism's playbook. your confusion = their strategy.

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments

Men diagnosed with ADHD had a reduction in life expectancy by 4 ½ years to nine years, while women’s life expectancy was shortened by 6 ½ years to 11 years, according to the study

submitted 31 days ago • 34 comments

Trump exploded in fury at Bishop Marian Budde on Truth Social a little after midnight, calling her a "hater." As we argue on today's pod, there is nothing MAGA despises more than appeals to common decency and humanity. newrepublic.com/article/1905...

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