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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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The US government is now nonstop performative idiocracy.

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

Q: How evil do you have to be to cut a Dolly book program? A: Pretty f*cking evil. Solution: Dolly for Prez! Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton... cc @drjengunter.bsky.social

Members of the military are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not the president. Changing that seems to have been the point of the Friday Night Massacre. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result is demagoguery and corruption.

'Buckle up': Ex-GOP lawmaker warns even Republicans in safe districts are at risk. Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) was jeered back home by an angry crowd of constituents who oppose the slashing of government staff and services. #Voices4Victory share.newsbreak.com/bofpktxa?s=i16

Upon this response, JK burst into a million shards and a great wind scattered her unhappy soul beneath the arc of a newly formed rainbow.

Kristi Noem’s week: • Sent 400 ICE agents to Colorado and made ONE arrest. • Got the Acting Director fired. • Played dress-up cosplay. • Cheated with Corey Lewandowski. • Wacked more puppies and goats.

Social Security Administration: DOGE Cannot Make Changes to Benefit Payments www.kiplinger.com/retirement/s...

Republicans are WEAK !!!!

Our latest: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Please consider reading and sharing. No paywall.

Wise man…

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

I posted this longer version on X #Emails2DOGE cc: [email protected]

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

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?