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No room for narcissists. Content with my own company. True blue thru and thru in a blue state. I love art, music, animals and words. I’m a total empath. Retired Paralegal. 🚫 DM’s! 🚫 MAGA! ❤️🦋🌊 🐶
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He nails it.

BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

And who they didn't like

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

Economic blackout 2/28/25

Surprised?

“If FBI agents who are just doing their jobs aren’t free of the risk of political prosecution, then who is? In a country run by a president who has accumulated all power into his own hands, you never know who might run afoul of the leader’s good graces.” joycevance.substack.com/p/kash-patel...

share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

My patient told me today that there’s a silver lining to being old and having metastatic cancer: she’s not going to live long enough to see the aftermath of this administration. Excuse me while I go cry now.

Jeez, I wonder why an organization that has people living undercover in hundreds of countries around the world would want to recruit “diverse” individuals? The stupidity is breathtaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

Is it too much to ask to want the government to stop the president from doing the illegal stuff?

JUST IN: HNL Lab Medicine will begin subtyping all positive influenza A samples from hospitalized patients to detect H5N1 bird flu.

This sounds about right.

I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. As you know, my name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan—after the warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.

Stephen King has returned to Twitter. 10/10. No notes. 🔥

It was always Rand Paul’s destiny to be the last man to board the political Titanic and the first one to shove a woman out of the way to take the last seat on a lifeboat.

Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

Trump administration backtracks on eliminating thousands of national parks employees ☀️🇺🇸 “Following a loud public outcry and a relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts across the country — it looks like the Trump administration has reconsidered.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

Today's front page of The New York Post.

Are congrats in order in a case like this? 🤨

We write to you today with a heart overflowing – overflowing, that is, with a potent cocktail of bitter disappointment, simmering rage, and a profound, sarcastic gratitude….. Read the full open letter to the media below 👇🏽 open.substack.com/pub/fafonews...

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

Never forget.

I created Democracy Docket in 2020 to help keep you informed on the fight for democracy in court. Five years later, it continues to be fearlessly independent and unapologetically pro-democracy. Support the work of its 19-person team: www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

"Dolly Parton has called on Indiana’s governor to reverse course on plans to do away with her... 'Imagination Library' program. (Parton), who started the book gifting program to encourage early literacy, urged Gov. Braun to reconsider the state’s proposed budget...." The Daily Beast 2/19 📷NOLS

Remember when America had friends? Like a month ago?

Goodnight from Australia. Please stay safe 💕

The good news is that he’s not very popular, the bad news is he is very very very very ensconced

This.

Is it a genuine mistake? Or a mistake because they are being called out on it? My bet is on the latter. www.aol.com/news/exclusi...

An Alabama grand jury has recommended that a city's police department be "immediately abolished," finding there is a "rampant culture of corruption," officials said Wednesday while announcing the indictment of five of the agency's officers, including its police chief abcnews.go.com/US/hancevill...

Without friends

I’m a very straight forward person. 1) I don’t like liars. 2) I don’t like cheaters. 3) I don’t like people who pretend they’re something they’re not. In short, I am living in the wrong times or wrong timeline.

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

To the @GOP senators and Congressmen who claim to support Ukraine, you do have some power… if you’re unwilling to exercise it then don’t pretend to care about your country more than your political career:

Appearing today in The Week:

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

Hey everyone! I did an emergency live over on Substack, reminding us all that we will win this thing! Take a look! adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

Pulling out the same type of device on a traffic stop that was used to beat police officers on Jan 6 is probably not the best plan.

— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.