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Infectious Diseases MD, vaccine advocate, wife, world traveler, gardener, wine enthusiast, nature lover, mother & dog/cat owner. Cancer survivor due to coverage from ACA. Lifetime liberal. ⚜️ #NOLA
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Talk about doin' the Lord's work -- yesterday, a protestor priest in a Congressional hearing, attempted an exorcism on Kristi Noem.
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Talk about doin' the Lord's work -- yesterday, a protestor priest in a Congressional hearing, attempted an exorcism on Kristi Noem.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven.
The hypocrisy is stunning.
The hypocrisy is stunning.
Habba: There were individuals that were saying that this should be a safe harbor, a safe haven. Why? America is America because we protect our own.
November 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven.
The hypocrisy is stunning.
The hypocrisy is stunning.
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
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Nixon didn’t go to prison over Watergate, but 48 others were convicted and served time for the scandal - notably, his Attorney General. Attention: Pam Bondi meet John Mitchell.
December 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Nixon didn’t go to prison over Watergate, but 48 others were convicted and served time for the scandal - notably, his Attorney General. Attention: Pam Bondi meet John Mitchell.
Message from GOP to Americans-“Your healthcare doesn’t matter. Affordability doesn’t matter. Suck it up!”
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Message from GOP to Americans-“Your healthcare doesn’t matter. Affordability doesn’t matter. Suck it up!”
A Cinnabon Worker Was Fired for a Racist Slur. Her Supporters Have Raised $130,000. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Who knew the US was filled with racists? Lots of us but now our President has emboldened them. We see you for who you are.
Who knew the US was filled with racists? Lots of us but now our President has emboldened them. We see you for who you are.
A Cinnabon Worker Was Fired for a Racist Slur. Her Supporters Have Raised $130,000.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A Cinnabon Worker Was Fired for a Racist Slur. Her Supporters Have Raised $130,000. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Who knew the US was filled with racists? Lots of us but now our President has emboldened them. We see you for who you are.
Who knew the US was filled with racists? Lots of us but now our President has emboldened them. We see you for who you are.
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A billboard in Richmond, Kentucky.
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
A billboard in Richmond, Kentucky.
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Billy Strings! Tiny Desk Concert
These guys are fantastic!
👏❤️🎶 ☮️☺️
These guys are fantastic!
👏❤️🎶 ☮️☺️
Billy Strings: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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December 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Billy Strings! Tiny Desk Concert
These guys are fantastic!
👏❤️🎶 ☮️☺️
These guys are fantastic!
👏❤️🎶 ☮️☺️
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ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
Catahoula Crunch: Barking back against Border Patrol raids in New Orleans.
December 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Catahoula Crunch: Barking back against Border Patrol raids in New Orleans.
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Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
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Eileen Higgins Blows It Out In Miami, Wins 59%-40%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
Eileen Higgins Blows It Out In Miami, Wins 59%-40%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great work everyone!
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Eileen Higgins Blows It Out In Miami, Wins 59%-40%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
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Brown: Autocrats don’t fear the disease or the babies dying from whooping cough — they fear the evidence of it, because evidence exposes their failures, demands accountability, and empowers the public.
December 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Brown: Autocrats don’t fear the disease or the babies dying from whooping cough — they fear the evidence of it, because evidence exposes their failures, demands accountability, and empowers the public.
What are parents to do as doctors clash with Trump administration over vaccines?
The ACIP committee is biased & without foundational knowledge to make recommendations on vaccines. Would you be ask your plumber about open heart surgery because he knows about clogged pipes?
apnews.com/article/vacc...
The ACIP committee is biased & without foundational knowledge to make recommendations on vaccines. Would you be ask your plumber about open heart surgery because he knows about clogged pipes?
apnews.com/article/vacc...
What are parents to do as doctors clash with Trump administration over vaccines?
The nation’s leading doctors groups are in a standoff with federal health officials over vaccines. The conflict intensified when an advisory panel, handpicked by Health Secretary Robert F.
apnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
What are parents to do as doctors clash with Trump administration over vaccines?
The ACIP committee is biased & without foundational knowledge to make recommendations on vaccines. Would you be ask your plumber about open heart surgery because he knows about clogged pipes?
apnews.com/article/vacc...
The ACIP committee is biased & without foundational knowledge to make recommendations on vaccines. Would you be ask your plumber about open heart surgery because he knows about clogged pipes?
apnews.com/article/vacc...
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Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.
Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords
This is evil.
www.thegodpodcast.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.
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Mark Warner: "I hope it would remind folks that J6 was an ugly, awful day, and this administration and president basically pardoned all the perpetrators. It's that kind of picking and choosing of facts from this crowd that makes me a little bit crazy."
December 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Mark Warner: "I hope it would remind folks that J6 was an ugly, awful day, and this administration and president basically pardoned all the perpetrators. It's that kind of picking and choosing of facts from this crowd that makes me a little bit crazy."
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#Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke — who his own DOJ indicted in July for rigging a public university’s arena bid—
It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market
It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
#Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke — who his own DOJ indicted in July for rigging a public university’s arena bid—
It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market
It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market
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Family of Colombian man killed in illegal U.S. strike files human rights challenge
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
Family of Colombian man killed in U.S. strike files human rights challenge
In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing.
www.npr.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Family of Colombian man killed in illegal U.S. strike files human rights challenge
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
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Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map
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The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Melt ICE. It doesn’t belong in a swamp. Operation swamp sweep should halt.
a cartoon drawing of an ice cube with a face and arms and legs
ALT: a cartoon drawing of an ice cube with a face and arms and legs
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Melt ICE. It doesn’t belong in a swamp. Operation swamp sweep should halt.
Trump Calls Affordability a ‘Con Job’ as His Edge on the Economy Slips. True, Trump is the con man who created this con job. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Trump Calls Affordability a ‘Con Job’ as His Edge on the Economy Slips
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Trump Calls Affordability a ‘Con Job’ as His Edge on the Economy Slips. True, Trump is the con man who created this con job. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...