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Non-fiction reader. Amateur genealogist. Knitter. Vote 💙 🐈‍⬛ &🦉 lover. Feminist. WI-born stuck in KS making JoCo Blue. LGBTQIA+ ally. 🇮🇱 ✡️ Tikkun Olam matters. Life-long democrat. Boomer on the right side of history. 🚫MAGA‼️ 🚫 DMs
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Reproductive freedom is a Jewish value, FULL STOP. That’s why we are partnering w/ @ncjw.bsky.social this #ReproShabbat on February 21 to celebrate reproductive freedom & continue advocating for it We will study Jewish texts that explore Judaism’s values on #choice us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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As you know,I'm a senior,80. I live in a HUD facility for seniors & seniors w disabilities who live below the poverty level. There are 75 apts in this blding. Every one of them is filled w ppl who are scared to death they're going to lose their housing & their Soc Sec. It didn't hav to be this way.🇺🇸

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

This:

submitted 8 days ago • 166 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 10 days ago • 418 comments

A moment of calm beauty to begin the day. We need this.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

submitted 13 days ago • 638 comments

Let's get this circulated!! 😤

submitted 17 days ago • 849 comments

Excellent advice. I need to follow it. substack.com/@jaykuo/note...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s the hacker cutting off access to your hurricane and tornado warnings.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

An utterly worthless senator and disgusting human.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Rolling up soft power and going home

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans. And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump. It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other. Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.

submitted 20 days ago • 3218 comments

As the EOs and orders keep coming, I keep thinking of the exhibit in the Berlin Jewish Museum that displays the 962 anti-Jewish laws and policies in order as they came down. These kinds of drumbeats are designed not just to oppress but to normalize oppression. www.jmberlin.de/en/jmb-journ...

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

Advice that makes sense. Where is @timothysnyder.bsky.social ‘s People’s Cabinet? It’s past time for the Dems to organize the opposition. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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Someone finally gives a truthful accounting of FOTUS presser. apple.news/Auw4KfF4CTD6...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

@MassGovernor, presented to @schumer.senate.gov an excellent strategy to pushback on Trump. Also @senatedemocrats.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social must use the media to flood the zone with the truth. Must be done 24/7 4yrs

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Absolutely spot on.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump is responsible for the deaths of 65 dead Americans killed in last night's plane/Blackhawk collision after firing 400 FAA senior officials, the TSA head, and 3,000 air traffic controllers just 8 days ago.

submitted 24 days ago • 102 comments

Ebola has broken out in Uganda and seems likely to spread. Thank goodness we have someone with a solid grasp of infectious disease as incoming head of HHS, and that he can rapidly coordinate the CDC's response with WHO, a partnership that played a key role in containing the big 2014 Ebola outbreak.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Dear Democratic Leaders, You need to step up and be more visible right now. We are losing hope without hearing your strong voice and supportive words. Please show us your support. Sincerely, Democratic Voters

submitted 26 days ago • 19 comments

Hooray!

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submitted 31 days ago • 1472 comments

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked." She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

submitted 31 days ago • 186 comments

BREAKING NEWS: President Biden Negotiates Israel-Gaza Ceasefire Trump will spend the next few years taking credit for this but he had nothing to do with it. Benjamin Netanyahu is a close friend of his—and if Netanyahu wanted Trump to be involved in this or get credit for it, it would have been so.

submitted 39 days ago • 128 comments

Free speech has consequences As it should

submitted 39 days ago • 7 comments

This whole thread is really important to understanding where we’re at and what might be ahead. Thanks to @ilangoldenberg.bsky.social for the insights!

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

"I think there should probably be conditions on aid, that's my personal view." ~Speaker of the House, channeling Jesus

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

this isn’t disappointing it’s disgusting and infuriating.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Do not mess with old ladies like her or me. We are fed up, well informed, and have no more effs left to give. Not every mature adult is a MAGA bigot.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

This Navigator survey of 5000 voters once again highlights a conclusion that people are scared to state plainly: the better informed a voter was, the more likely they were to vote for Harris. Trump's was a coalition of the ill-informed & ignorant. navigatorresearch.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 75 days ago • 8 comments