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School principal, happily retired for >20 years. Grandmother to five amazing young adults. Mom to two fabulous older adults and their spouses. Married for 57 years to my high school sweetheart. New Yorker at heart, though I have lived in MD for >50 years.
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Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip and doesn’t rule out using American troops

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

How quickly is our 53-day descent from democracy to fascism moving? Tonight—tonight!—I published a report asking how long it would be until Musk had normalized the Nazi salute as a mockery of “wokeness.” The answer—from my time of publication—was under an hour. America is in very serious trouble.

submitted 23 days ago • 180 comments

I spent so much ink on Gitmo in my book about concentration camps because it was clear that by failing to eliminate detention there, this is where we've been headed for decades. What the US has already done is horrific, and in an unconstitutional no-man's-land, we face the possibility of much worse.

submitted 23 days ago • 81 comments

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇲

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

Another point in the "not politicizing the disaster" discussion is that the President of the United States has immediately taken to social media to start wildly speculating and casting blame, so you know what, go wild.

submitted 23 days ago • 53 comments

A must-read. This’d be worth creating a Facebook account just to read—and I know what a claim that is to make. It’s a bracing essay about Elon Musk by someone very close to him. (This is very much _not_ about me, of course, but I’ll say that if you ever doubted my writing on Musk, this will help.)

submitted 26 days ago • 340 comments

The serial sexual abuser who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy has already appointed a lifetime Supreme Court seat to a man credibly accused of sexual assault, and now he’s appointed a man who has been credibly accused of sexual assault to lead our armed forces. 😞

submitted 28 days ago • 443 comments

This is happening right now!

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

We can assume Hegseth will say yes if Trump says he wants to employ the military to shoot protestors.

submitted 28 days ago • 195 comments

Donald Trump is daring us to stop him. He is daring the courts and Congress to STOP HIM. If they don’t stop him right the fuck now, they will never be able to. Congress — STAND UP. Do your fucking jobs!!!! I’m calling my pro-Ukraine Republican Rep right now.

submitted 28 days ago • 647 comments

Last month, Sen. Deb Fischer's (R-NE) husband refused to shake the Vice President's hand. Yesterday, he tried to shake Doug Emhoff's hand. The Second Gentleman replied: "Why would you try to shake my hand when you wouldn’t shake my wife’s hand?” REPOST if you love Doug Emhoff!

submitted 31 days ago • 651 comments

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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

submitted 31 days ago • 323 comments

With pardons, January 6 offenders are now free to possess firearms and ammunition again. Their convictions would have made that a federal crime, but no more.

submitted 32 days ago • 1221 comments

Who made this 🤣

submitted 32 days ago • 714 comments

Joint statement from the International Association of Chiefs of Police and Fraternal Order of Police on Jan. 6 Pardons. Read and share it with others.

submitted 31 days ago • 235 comments

I was taught in high school to capitalize the “p” in president when referring to the president the United States. I will NEVER capitalize that p when referring to trump these next four years. I have no respect for this president and I refuse to pretend that I do.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Listen up.

submitted 34 days ago • 738 comments

Just a reminder to everyone who voted for trump because you wanted lower prices on shit: You ain't getting it. He admitted it. Said it's too hard. But he has ALREADY enriched himself and his wealthy friends with his and Melania's shit coins. He doesn't give a fuck about you.

submitted 34 days ago • 707 comments

One thing before tomorrow: Use your local libraries. Get your card. Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks. Recommend titles for purchase (usually online). Attend promoted activities. Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires. Tell your kids that libraries are good. They are. 📚

submitted 33 days ago • 183 comments

submitted 34 days ago • 690 comments

ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.

submitted 34 days ago • 1199 comments

Remember this day. The last full day with a Democratic President. We don’t know when or if we’ll ever live another day like this. 🥺

submitted 34 days ago • 1897 comments

I just checked X and Truth Social as I do occasionally. I was pleasantly surprised to see a number of posts from people disavowing MAGA and trump. But then, of course, there were also all the lies and vitriol. So I popped over to Bluesky for a breath of fresh air.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments