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ligrl.bsky.social
Native LIer, retired teacher, "Happy Nonna," animal lover, progressive-Jesus was a revolutionary. DMs will be blocked.
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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

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Only a mentally ill person would think they can be a draft dodger, consistently insult veterans, active duty military, and dead heroes, and think they deserve to have a military parade in their own honor… Just sick!

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Yup. Scared. We'll have to wait for Rachel and Lawrence on Monday.

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#HANDSOFF #NYC

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The President could not be bothered to meet the bodies of the 4 soldiers who lost their lives in Lithuania. Lithuanians lined the street to respect their sacrifice.

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

I love how all of these republicans are crying now. Didn't they see they were dealing with a sick SOB the first time around? They were only worried about their own wallets, their own political careers. They needed to invoke the 25th These are the people Bernie was always talking about. F*ck them

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Claiming that vaccination is an issue of “personal choice” — as HHS Secretary Kennedy often does — disregards the fact that choosing not to get vaccinated strips *other* people of their personal choice to stay healthy or live a normal life. My latest: weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/no-vaccina...

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Project 2025 have banned our government agencies from using these words among others. “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy" “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” www.yahoo.com/news/agricul...

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

They're not even trying to hide it anymore. Republican House Rep. Keith Self quotes Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.

submitted 11 days ago • 73 comments

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Someone explain to me why it's illegal to give an old lady a bottle of water as she's waiting on line for hours in the sun to vote, but it's totally cool for an ultra-billionaire to bribe voters with million dollar checks in Wisconsin.

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