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Retired medical professional, current legal editor, single senior cat lady. Spending much of my time in the art world where it’s much more peaceful than current reality.
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Raskin: Perhaps he could have yelled fore on the greenway so tens of millions of Americans could have taken our retirement savings out of the stock market before he hit us in the head with a golf ball

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AARP sounds the alarm on declining Social Security service - Business Insider

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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

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I wonder how many people realize the tariff on auto parts causes car insurance premiums to go up?

submitted 6 days ago • 1303 comments

There are no tariffs being put on Russia. Hmmm

submitted 6 days ago • 2162 comments

100% the US didnt get a price on the Switch 2 today because Nintendo knew it couldnt commit to a price before the dipshit put tariffs on everything. Great Job anti woke gamer asshats the new switch will be $75 to $100 bucks more expensive but the Mushroom Kingdom wont have DEI.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social. #TrumpTariffs

submitted 5 days ago • 225 comments

I spoke to an expert in authoritarianism, who explained to me that things like this are extremely meaningful and they help protect democracy, even if there’s not a straight line between this and actual legislating

submitted 6 days ago • 531 comments

He wore the cheesehead hat in WI. Spent $20 million. Paid people to sign petitions. Paid people to canvas. Did million dollar giveaways. A rally. TV interviews. But I guess people in Wisconsin didn’t appreciate an oligarch trying to buy their civil liberties.

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Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.

submitted 7 days ago • 1260 comments

Bernie was n the House !! #WTFAmerica #ThreeHourTour #Greenland

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Don’t forget!

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Important points. #HandsOff #DemVoice1 #DemCast

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Okay who did this?🤣

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

What if they gave a White-House correspondents dinner, and nobody came? www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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We will not be distracted. We will not be discouraged. We’ve got our eyes on the prize. And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve. The time to organize is now. OcasioCortez.com

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mobilize.us/s/5VlJ9c

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h/t @peff.com

submitted 11 days ago • 1126 comments

I think there is going to be a Red Rural Recession and soon if all the cuts continue as is All the firings, cancelling of grants and contracts with companies , the closing of offices, disproportionately impact small towns, cities and states. Their finances will be turned upside

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Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

submitted 13 days ago • 1700 comments

Love it.

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Waltz says he never met Goldberg. (Hat/tip Anna Bower)

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Hey, I have a question. If there was a “Houthi PC 𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡 group” text chain, might there have been another chain for a 𝙗𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙧 group?

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NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."   The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."

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The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to let it cancel $65 million in teacher-training grants that it contends would promote DEI. The court indicated that it would act quickly on the government’s application.

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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal - The Atlantic

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Help Bernie get the message out across the country! www.facebook.com/share/v/1A9Z...

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www.npr.org/2025/03/25/n...

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Shaken. Not stirred. Yet still tastes like death.

submitted 15 days ago • 30 comments

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

submitted 15 days ago • 3137 comments

Rally Against Hate www.facebook.com/share/14LBVE...

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Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

submitted 17 days ago • 4513 comments

Ossoff: This is why things don’t work for ordinary people. It’s not because of trans kids or woke college students. It’s not because of our new arch-enemy… Canada.

submitted 17 days ago • 103 comments

On April 5, we’re mobilizing to show the strength of our movement — because the fight against President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump is just starting. Join us: handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible

submitted 17 days ago • 60 comments

How is this okay?

submitted 17 days ago • 2776 comments

“President Donald Trump has repeatedly floated sending American prisoners to serve prison sentences outside the country — this time threatening the people charged with vandalizing Teslas.” www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

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Sanders: In our form a government, unless you are a coward, you don’t sue the media because they report on things you don’t like.

submitted 18 days ago • 351 comments

I've always wanted a car with a roof that flies off for no reason, but doors that don't come off while you're burning alive inside it. My dreams have come true.

submitted 19 days ago • 977 comments

One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

submitted 20 days ago • 226 comments