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Las Vegas resident; love music, the Smith Center, low stakes table games and researching local history. Progressive and mad as heck.
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The FACTS *People think foreign aid accounts for 25% or even 50% *In reality, it is about 1% of the federal budget *American aid helps millions of people all across the world who are facing famine and malnutrition, disease, disaster, and death. *And shows our compassionate, democratic values

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From ProPublica: "[The] project ran into trouble with Republicans . . [because] NSF [used] “diversify,” referring to the biodiversity of plants, and “female,” where the application noted how the project would support a young female scientist on the research team." You can't make this crap up.

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"Quick facts: -72 million Americans rely on Medicaid. -41% of births in the US are paid for by the program. -Medicaid is the primary payer for nursing home care -One estimate suggests 36 million people could lose their healthcare coverage as a result of the bill. " (from Indivisible)

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight (From ProPublica) And with Tesla Gigafactory near Reno, Musk (with massive state tax incentives) has bought the state - and all the Congress representatives and Senators too.

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I do not support my Nevada's Senators. They are silly and naïve. They protect the moneyed elite of the state - the casino owners, mining owners, and the Bezo's and the Musk's.

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Today: "Catherine Cortez-Masto of Nevada and Jacky Rosen of Nevada joined all Republicans present to overturn the (drilling) rule." Democrats In Name Only

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I served my country, but it didn’t serve me nevadacurrent.com/2025/02/25/i...

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The working poor will lose their medical insurance if the Republicans cut Medicaid. Real working people. Do you think Bezos will help? Total # on Nevada Medicaid 2024 1 AMAZON.COM SERVICES INC 18,093 2 WAL-MART ASSOCIATES INC 9,279 3 CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 7,476 4 WYNN LAS VEGAS LLC 3,317

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Saw this today:

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I guess we can cheat on our taxes now.

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Those who save our Democracy and obey the rule of law, save our Country.

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It's going to be worse than you think. Plan accordingly.

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My DINO (Democratic in name only) Senators do not have bluesky accounts. They do have accounts in Musk's drivel site and mealy mouth meta boy's thing. I thought they were "bipartisan". Guess not.

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"Federal statistics show US border authorities seized 21,889 pounds of fentanyl in the 2024 fiscal year. Of that amount, 43 POUNDS WERE SEIZED AT THE CANADIAN BORDER — ABOUT 0.2% — compared with 21,148 pounds at the Mexican border, about 96.6%." cnn 25% tariff for .02% seized? Hmmm. . .

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So MAGA wants to eliminate the "head of household" designation in your income taxes. Which of course, is used for single, divorced and widowed mothers (and fathers) for a little break in their taxes. Unbelievable. FAFO

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...

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