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CA expat living in coastal Maine. Genealogist. Likes kitties and booze and food and knitting. Intolerant of TERFs and bigots and racists and douchebags. Friend of DeSoto. She/her. 2547.
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And a golden retriever.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

submitted 5 days ago • 1666 comments

Congratulations to the 13 brave women who risked their careers and reputations to stand up to Cuomo’s sexual predation

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

🔥🔥🔥

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

@pingree.house.gov what the hell???

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder: Law Professors: The Constitution still exists and the Courts will protect us. Historians:

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

@pingree.house.gov We’re waiting for you to impeach this maniac!!!!! #NoWar

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has now demonstrated he will attack a country when it suits him and do so despite constitutional requirements to get congressional support. Canada and Greenland need to recognize that the US President has dictatorial powers when it comes to war-making. #ElbowsUp #CanadaStrong

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

submitted 8 days ago • 1646 comments

"thank you for your attention to this matter" he says, as though he's an office manager asking staff not to microwave fish in the break room

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

So this week we’ve had a man impersonating an ICE agent tie up a woman and steal $1000; a man impersonating a police officer assassinate a top Democratic politician & her husband (and shoot another Democrat & his wife); and a man impersonating a king hold a military parade for his birthday

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

If the Secretary of Homeland Security shows up in your state to say she’s “liberating” a city from the elected government, you’re goddamn right the state’s US Senator should barge in to ask some questions.

submitted 17 days ago • 26 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 19 days ago • 596 comments

Grigori Rasputin was a grifter who used his charisma to con Tsar Nicholas II into believing that he, and only he, could heal the Tsar’s son, who suffered from hemophilia. He was also a serial philanderer who had all sorts of nasty habits. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is our Rasputin.

submitted 19 days ago • 48 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 19 days ago • 310 comments

TFW you’re on Newsom’s side

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

@pingree.house.gov Why haven’t you impeached this maniac yet?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

While we were distracted by Marines marching on L.A., that dude from the health food store with the "Don't Tread on Me" bumper sticker who's always going on about chem trails catapulted us back to the days of blood-letting & leeches.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

GAHHHHHHHH

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

More of this, please.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This is monstrous. @pingree.house.gov please look into this!!!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

"Separating the art from the artist" is for people like Picasso, who was a total bastard a very long time ago but also an artistic genius whose work is actually important to human culture It is not for a mid tier kids' author that is actively trying to eliminate a whole group of people right now

submitted 32 days ago • 54 comments

The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

submitted 33 days ago • 497 comments

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

submitted 33 days ago • 722 comments