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hopefulwarrier.bsky.social
@hopefulwarrier.bsky.social
Mom of brilliant girls, Advance Practice Nurse, patient advocate, food lover, avid reader, nature enthusiast
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How y’all feeling about this? I’m f*cking irate.

We’re not professionals? RNs in particular for me…..who do you think monitors for changes/care in the hospital because your MD isn’t at bedside? WHO do you think THEY depend on?

(Ps this was in Project 2025)

www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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For far too long, the story of Jeffrey Epstein has revolved around whether Donald Trump sexually abused an underage girl, committed other contemptible acts, or corruptly covered it up

When it should have always been about the victims

Release the files

Now
November 17, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Day 16 of the Trump shutdown, where every day feels like a year for American citizens.

#TrumpShutdownBadForUS
October 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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The GOP is on the verge of destroying renewable energy, which will result in much higher prices, and many more blackouts, for everybody. By @hencarnell.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Senate version of "beautiful" bill will "kill" America's clean energy sector, experts say
New taxes on wind and solar are "truly bizarre, a self-defeating measure."
www.motherjones.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.

See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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American Conversations: Senator Jon Tester on the Senate markup of the budget reconciliation bill, a committee added requirement that government sell about 3 MIL acres of public land. l'm worried that many people are missing this addition
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/-Z24G0k...
American Conversations: Senator Jon Tester
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
June 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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US Senator Alex Padilla was wrestled to ground after raising questions during US Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem's press conference, in a dramatic escalation of tensions in California. www.ft.com/content/93f1...
June 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian
NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade.

They departed Texas 5 days ago.

What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel.

(🎥 DW)
June 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Reuters poll: Trump approval

37% approve
57% disapprove

U.S. adults
April 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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These folks are monsters—just absolutely horrible people.
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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"When a US Attorney wields the power of his office to target medical journals bc of their content & editorial processes, he isn't doing his job. He's abusing his authority to try to chill protected speech." #saveourscience This is such bullshit.
Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ
At least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about 'competing viewpoints'
www.medpagetoday.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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More of this please
We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.

Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is demanding a meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele over the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and says he’ll go to El Salvador himself if the Marylander isn’t returned.
April 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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SCOTUS was never going to save us; they got us here.

For more: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawles...
April 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I really do think we’re well beyond this point.

If you pretend that your differences with friends and coworkers and family are about “politics” when in fact they’re about right versus wrong and fascism versus the rule of law, you’re doing your country a grave disservice.
April 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I made a comic on how we got here & trump/supporters - collecting things he's said that would seem to have been over the line - and how that never seems to be the case is the real problem...
on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
April 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Sweeping job cuts and reorganizations taking place at the US Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leave the United States “weaker as a nation,” Dr. Peter Marks told CNN.
Dramatic HHS cuts leave US ‘weaker as a nation,’ says top FDA vaccine official forced out under Kennedy | CNN
Sweeping job cuts and reorganizations taking place at the US Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leave the United States “weaker as a nation,” Dr. Peter Marks...
www.cnn.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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April 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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I kind of want to go
April 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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The Trump administration doesn't even want our military to know anything about its own history. This will most certainly make it easier for Trump's goons to whitewash its history even further.
April 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan:
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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The White House is preparing an estimate of what it would cost the federal government to control Greenland as a territory, the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish island into actionable policy.
White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump’s sights
It’s the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage.
wapo.st
April 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Four children of Columbia University's first Jewish President (1980-1993) Michael I. Sovern write in the Washington Post: "Our father…would be disgusted by the government’s coercion of Columbia, purportedly in the name of our religion." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
March 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM