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NC mom hoping our country survives the next 4 years. And trying to eke out what joy I can find in Steeler football, a good IPA and the hope that the new Marvel movies live up to the trailers.

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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17 February 1931 | Dutch Jewish boy, Marius Leendert Carol Flesseman, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in February 1943 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

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🚨 WHOA!!! Sen. Whitehouse: Mark my words. This Patel guy will come back to haunt you. Every piece of evidence shows that.

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Hell yea, Jasmine. I love her.

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If you take down a Confederate memorial that was literally dedicated to promote white supremacy, that’s “erasing history.” But if you hide pictures of accomplished women, that’s just fighting wokeness.

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Has hell frozen over? First time I can say I agree with Mitch.

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Love that Canadians are standing up for America more than many Americans are.

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The eggs know what’s up, and it’s not just their price….

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1/10 🚨 Radical-right populists weaponize disinformation to destabilize democracies & consolidate power. A groundbreaking study analyzed 32M tweets from 26 countries, showing their lies aren’t accidental—they’re central to their strategy. Let’s break it down. 🧵 #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy

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In the spirit of renaming the Gulf of Mexico, Trump should rename Canadian Geese to American Geese. After all, they are loud, rude, and aggressive like us, leave their crap everywhere without cleaning up like us, & since they summer up North it will put more Americans on Canadian soil for takeover

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Someday, I can only hope more Christians speak up like John Pavlovitz. The Carrie Underwood variety are awful.

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So I saw Dear Leader say he wouldn’t rule out military action to acquire Panama and Greenland and that’s not the top headline right now? God help us.

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NEW: A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover in right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. This is his story, by @josh-kaplan.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

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The older I get, the more I realize how much of our history I didn’t learn in school.

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Is this Elon’s version of “deplorables?”

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Plus - the unsurprising utter lack of self awareness to comment on the promotion of celebrity over substance coming from a guy who supports Trump? The saddest part is this proves he knows better and just doesn’t care.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Serious question - can we ever get this kind of interference out of the system or is it just now and forever a tug-o-war between billionaire donors? I’m feeling very disheartened about ever seeing change in my lifetime. Assuming our democracy even survives the next 4 years.