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Genealogy keeps me very busy and challenged. My roots are in Portugal and Italy. I don't read or write either language. Photography is my therapy and passion. Love music, Christmas, animals, birds, card making with the help of my Cricut.
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Congress has an oversight role and I’m using it. I will always stand with our proven military leaders.

The GOP wants to TAKE AWAY healthcare from 72 MIL people! This will lead to delayed diagnoses, untreated illnesses, and unnecessary deaths. All to fund tax breaks for the rich. These are the same folks that have been trying to pass legislation that forces women to give birth. #DontCutOurMedicaid

The great @joyannreid.bsky.social signs off her last @msnbc.com show. Their loss, not hers.

Maddow on the @msnbc cancellations ( @joyannreid.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social Wagner etc ): “A mistake. Indefensible. And I do not defend it.”

Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.

Joy Reid signs off at the end of her final MSNBC broadcast. Jen Psaki then begins her show by thanking her.

Here to support my friend @joyannreid.bsky.social as she signs off, her last show! She's one of the best!!!

Joy on our crisis of democracy: "Tonight on our final ReidOut, we’re going to talk about what people are actually doing to resist this and get some great advice from some of our favorite friends on what more we can do."

A newfound RESPECT for @maddow.msnbc.com for keeping it real about what’s going on at MSNBC and how she really feels about it. She didn’t have to say this, but I’m so glad she did. Take 2 minutes… (1 of 2)

Sad news - #RobertaFlack, ’70s R&B Vocalist Known for ‘Killing Me Softly,’ Dies at 88 A legend. A teacher. A classically trained pianist. May her memory be a blessing. @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n...

⚡️European leaders are set to gather in Paris on Feb. 17 for an emergency summit over concerns that the U.S. is advancing peace talks with Russia without Europe, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced on Feb. 15.

Map shows states to get hit hardest by Trump's tariffs

60 years of progress in expanding rights is being rolled back by Trump − a pattern that’s all too familiar in US history https://buff.ly/3Qk6nOo

This is a quote ascribed to Napoleon Bonaparte, who launched a coup against the French Republic and installed himself as First Consul and later Emperor of the French Empire. So, yeah, things are going great.

This is an administration led by people who view numerous other people here and abroad as human dirt. That’s it. An objective analysis of the matter

Kash Patel, the Trump loyalist tapped to run the FBI, said he had participated in an American Bar Association program that promotes diversity while a student at Pace University’s law school in 2003.

The National Treasury Employees Union said that it has sued President Trump to block an executive order that would enable him to fire career federal workers across the government.

Pete Hegseth’s former sister-in-law made a sworn statement to senators that the secretary of defense nominee was abusive toward his second wife. nyti.ms/4hol9z8

We have seen a great migration in the #Genealogy so I thought I would ask How did you start your #Genealogy journey? Here’s how I started mine How it started, How it’s going.......... buff.ly/3IiQWjt… via @chiddickstree #Blog #FamilyTree #FamilyHistory #Ancestry #Ancestors #Writing

A starting point for #Genealogy on Bluesky! Let me know if you would like to be added to it! If you’re interested & post about genealogy / family history — happy to add you (if I haven’t already) go.bsky.app/GMfGrzr Please repost this to help share with others!