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Margaret Heilbrun. Editor, archivist, writer, mother. #TCMParty. Train station home. Hoarder of details. Despondent Lefty Democrat. Zone 5b gardener.
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Prison libraries are some of the most vulnerable to loss of funding

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This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.   If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

I am Democrat Shawn Harris. I am a husband, father, retired General and farmer. I have announced my candidacy to defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene and I know we will together. Her hate and conspiracies do not belong in Congress. Let’s end the chaos together. Share and join me in this fight:

Just a reminder: Assaulting a Senator or a member of Congress is punishable under federal law. Just ask Rand Paul's neighbor about that. He got 8 months in prison and had to pay $580,000 in damages.

When President Johnson activated the Nat'l Guard in Alabama in 1965 over Gov. Wallace's objection he did it to protect protesters advocating for voting rights for Black people who had previously met violence at the hands of state troopers. Very different situation.

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Day 56. 🇺🇸

I think Mad Holiday (1936) on Watch TCM may be just what I need tonight. A light detective comedy I’ve never seen. Edmund Lowe is very handsome but his voice is a bit light. And Zasu Pitts!#TCMParty

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

Chayito has been harvesting radishes in Ventura County for the last 15 years. She has a lot of experience and is very fast. She's on her knees for up to 10 hours a day. #WeFeedYou

Buried deep in the text of the more than 1,000-page bill is a measure to restrict the federal courts’ authority to hold officials in contempt if they violate court orders.

66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE. That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids. In what world is starving children "efficient"?

I think Martha Stewart as Mildred Atkinson is charming and quite touching in her role here. #TCMParty

NEW: Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Trump’s attempted takeover of the Library of Congress after a brief standoff with DOJ officials this morning. w/ @ktullymcmanus @jordainc t.co/BJ79oZAj9C

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

Trump just pulled his nominee for US Attorney Ed Martin, who praised white nationalists and supported violent insurrectionists, after Republicans started to oppose him.

That’s the flag raising on Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima. It happened in February 1945. It has nothing to do with victory in Europe.

Best strange advice I’ve ever gotten: If you catch yourself having negative thoughts about yourself, start hearing them in Trump’s voice. You’ll immediately begin defending yourself.

This gets papered over as old man yelling at clouds but this is impeachable by itself. Greenland is our ally which has allowed a continual U.S. military presence since WWII, including a vital part of our missile defense and space surveillance. Threatening them is unacceptable.

I’m watching on my iPhone to make it less scary. #CineMon

I always get Vera Miles and Sylvia Miles mixed up. 🤭 #CineMon

A Hard Day’s Night guy, right? (Sorry I’m behind you all!) #cinemon

Funny how the paperwork only matters when it’s a woman or minority voter.

Fascinating! I wish she’d gotten the chance!

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Pro-life? My ass. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."

Useful definition from the U.S. Holocaust Museum: "What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process."

Think about how much of an entitled prick you’d have to be to think calling other human beings “peasants” when you’re the Vice President is an ok thing to do. The world’s worst diplomat strikes again. Also: we don’t borrow money from them. That is nonsense.

In fact, can somebody explain Dick Powell’s appeal? He had a nice tenor voice for those musicals, but what did he have without singing? #TCMParty

Boston is ready for Saturday’s national day of action: handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible

CNBC's Steve Liesman doesn't mince words about the way the White House calculated its tariff rates: "Nobody ever heard of this formula. Nobody has ever used this formula. So I’m sorry, but the conclusion seems to be the president kind of made this up as he went along... these are off the charts."

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‘Target suffers eighth week of foot-traffic losses since caving on DEI Costco, which resisted demands to end DEI, extends its streak of foot-traffic gains to 13.’