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Retired academic librarian. Baker. ebiker. Gardener. ⛷️. Wife. Mother. Sister. Auntie. Red Sox Fan. Anti-fascist. #Genealogy in San Cataldo & Caltanissetta Sicily; Blekinge & Jämtland, Sweden; & Nord-Trondelag, Norway). #museums #pie 🔵
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#Library champion Chris Kluwe protested a proposed #MAGA acrostic plaque outside of Huntington Beach Central Library for the library’s 50th anniversary.

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Putin 2022 is to Ukraine as Hitler 1938 was to Czechoslovakia. #Munich

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This is utterly damning. Of Adams. Of Bove. Of Bondi.

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#Pope speaks out against POTUS deportation plan 👏🏼… cruxnow.com/vatican/2025...

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This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!

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Trump really looked like he’d been struck.

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@maddow.msnbc.com cracked me up tonight. Thanks for lifting my spirits. So tough to stay positive with what’s happening. Feeling optimistic about the #resistence Rachel’s mocking chuckles were searing. 💙

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Pleased that the Vatican is speaking out for USAID. Its charity Caritas Internationalis is headed by Cardinal Michael Czerny. apnews.com/article/vati...

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SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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One reason Musk might be so driven to shut down USAID? The agency's inspector general opened a probe into Starlink last year. Now the Trump administration says Musk will self-determine his conflicts of interest. Hello?

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This tells you who their constituents are. Not American voters. Not Americans at all. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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📞 Script to Oppose Russel Vought Contact: ✅ @lisamurkowski.bsky.social — (202) 224-6665 ✅ Mitch McConnell — (202) 224-2541 ✅ Susan Collins — (202) 224-2523 ✅ @chuckgrassley.bsky.social — (202) 224-3744 ✅ Bill Cassidy — (202) 224-5824 ✅ Thom Tillis — (202) 224-6342 ✅ John Cornyn — (202) 224-2934

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‼️”Last month, Trump said he wanted to replace former archivist Colleen Shogan, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden. The president believes the National Archives provided information to the DOJ on the classified documents case against him.” ABC news wire… abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

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3 hours to leave her house. This is how they treat a 4-star Admiral and Commandant of the Coast Guard. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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#genealogy finds like this reach back >100 yrs thanks to the details known by 1819 witnesses for this 95-yr-old: his PARENTS, late wife and that he was a miller by profession. Wish it was my fam.

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#Indivisible guide to how to fight back

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Last night, I wrote in my newsletter, Civil Discourse, about Trump's new coup. I base my analysis on the facts and the law, not hyperbole. We are at a serious tipping point. I hope you'll subscribe if you feel the same way, or if you just want to learn more. joycevance.substack.com

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magic chocolate pudding from #Baking with Mary Berry, 2015 🧑‍🍳

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This is a national emergency:

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FYI: The five Democratic Senators who have obeyed in advance most often to tRump so far are Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania; Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire; Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, both of Arizona; and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan. #DoNotObeyInAdvance #DoNotForgetThis

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“Trump is Misleading the American People on Purpose of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Initiatives”

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Sen. Sanders says to #RFKjr there are research articles showing autism not caused by vaccines. “If you show me those studies….” Me: Haven’t consulted the research on this?!! Call a library? UNACCEPTABLE ANSWER. UNINFORMED. LAZY MIND. CLOSED MIND. Yes, I’m shouting.)

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@indivisiblemv.bsky.social Rachel Maddow just feature your group in a photo collage of four indivisible groups. 🙂

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There is much here about him to disgust us and to disqualify him, certainly, yet the heart breaking, worst part is his leading his family members to drugs. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

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Blitzkriege of cruelty and illegality

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Regarding press secretary Karoline Leavitt, I think America needs to watch @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com tonight. We are not crazy; she is for thinking Americans know nothing.

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#lingonberries 😋

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By Rachel Tashjian WAPO: #Melania Trump has a new look. As the incoming first lady walked into St. John’s, the Episcopal church in Lafayette Square, she cut the figure of a mafia widow or high-ranking member of an obscure religious order, and a bit of “My Fair Lady.”

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“Fascists depend on convincing us to give our power away and fall in line, that the fight is over, and we lost. And while we must be clear-eyed about the threat, we must not do the fascists’ work for them by giving them powers they do not have.”

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This is not a time for neutrality. Civility is very important, but do not be silent. “Facts are stubborn things.”

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