Debra
@kalaka58.bsky.social
Wikitree ADDICT (it's FREE). Genealogy is my passion. DM me for help finding your roots (no charge). Over 67, PNW was my home, now a Texan, RESISTER, adult children & dog Mom, widowed, disabled. I follow followers. Ask me for money - BLOCKED, as r WEBGIRLS
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Debra
@kalaka58.bsky.social
· Jul 26
Meet our Members: Debra Downs - WikiTree G2G
Hi everyone! It's time to get to know another one of our wonderful WikiTreers. This week's ... for helping to make WikiTree the best tree possible".
www.wikitree.com
As you all probably know, I'm a HUGE Wikitree fan. This interview is a few years old, but we have an ongoing
MEET THE MEMBERS segment, this is mine
www.wikitree.com/g2g/1388354/...
MEET THE MEMBERS segment, this is mine
www.wikitree.com/g2g/1388354/...
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"It outperformed semaglutide."
Scientists Say They've Figured Out a Way to Reprogram the Pancreas to Produce GLP-1s Without Ozempic
Scientists say they've come up with a way for the body to produce its own store of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1).
trib.al
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"It outperformed semaglutide."
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"If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined."
Trump Posts Claim About Health Care System Cited to "Dunning-Kruger Times," a Website Making Fun of Stupid People
President Donald Trump made a post attacking Barack Obama for allegedly profiting off of Obamacare, which of course was total nonsense.
trib.al
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined."
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"This would mean that 3I/ATLAS exploded at perihelion and we are witnessing the resulting fireworks."
The Mysterious Interstellar Object May Have Just Exploded
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may have just broken up into well over a dozen pieces.
trib.al
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
"This would mean that 3I/ATLAS exploded at perihelion and we are witnessing the resulting fireworks."
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"We will not honor the Google AI specials."
Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don't Exist
A restaurant is begging its customers to please stop using notoriously unreliable Google AI to ask about its menu items.
trib.al
August 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"We will not honor the Google AI specials."
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"This is the direction of technological development: to help people, not replace them."
Chinese Firefighters Using Robot Dogs With Huge Hoses Attached
Chinese company Unitree is unleashing robotic dogs to fight fires in all kinds of real-world disaster scenarios.
trib.al
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"This is the direction of technological development: to help people, not replace them."
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Keep hammering the Orcs!
According to Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), nearly 160 successful strikes have been conducted in 2025 against oil extraction and refining facilities, leading to fuel shortages and a 37% drop in refining capacity.
Russia's air defenses are wide open — there's just one problem
Ukrainian drones — and the occasional missile — have been causing havoc across Russia for months.
According to Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), nearly 160 successful strikes have been conducted in 2...
kyivindependent.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Keep hammering the Orcs!
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November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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DAYLOG MON 10 NOV 25 / STEALING ELECTIONS? As discussed in an article from THE GUARDIAN ("Trump's assault on voting intensifies" by Andrew Gumbel, 9 November 2025), Donald Trump is clearly determined to cheat on elections. [1/more]
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
DAYLOG MON 10 NOV 25 / STEALING ELECTIONS? As discussed in an article from THE GUARDIAN ("Trump's assault on voting intensifies" by Andrew Gumbel, 9 November 2025), Donald Trump is clearly determined to cheat on elections. [1/more]
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This is how all insurance works.
Lets take Car Insurance, for example.
You pay your car insurance every year, and most years you never file a claim.
But you rarely complain that you've not had an accident and therefore your car insurance is worthless.
Lets take Car Insurance, for example.
You pay your car insurance every year, and most years you never file a claim.
But you rarely complain that you've not had an accident and therefore your car insurance is worthless.
is it possible that an MD doesn't even understand how insurance works at all? I can't even comprehend the misunderstanding here, tbh.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This is how all insurance works.
Lets take Car Insurance, for example.
You pay your car insurance every year, and most years you never file a claim.
But you rarely complain that you've not had an accident and therefore your car insurance is worthless.
Lets take Car Insurance, for example.
You pay your car insurance every year, and most years you never file a claim.
But you rarely complain that you've not had an accident and therefore your car insurance is worthless.
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Trump fan OWNS himself WITHOUT REALIZING
YouTube video by Parkergetajob
youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Trump in DISBELIEF on Monday as His Cabinet COLLAPSES: Was It an Accident or REVENGE?
YouTube video by Fastepo
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Black Friday/holiday deals are starting, so I'll be dedicating my streams for the next few weeks to looking at some of the synths I own (software and hardware) in case you're thinking of buying some of them!
Give me a sub here:
www.youtube.com/@etherdiver
#LiveStream #Synthesizer #BlackFriday
Give me a sub here:
www.youtube.com/@etherdiver
#LiveStream #Synthesizer #BlackFriday
Ether Diver
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Black Friday/holiday deals are starting, so I'll be dedicating my streams for the next few weeks to looking at some of the synths I own (software and hardware) in case you're thinking of buying some of them!
Give me a sub here:
www.youtube.com/@etherdiver
#LiveStream #Synthesizer #BlackFriday
Give me a sub here:
www.youtube.com/@etherdiver
#LiveStream #Synthesizer #BlackFriday
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From the politics community on Reddit: Former Jan. 6 defendant arrested on kidnapping and aggravated assault charges
From the politics community on Reddit: Former Jan. 6 defendant arrested on kidnapping and aggravated assault charges
submitted by /u/Tenchi2020 [link] [comments]
www.reddit.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
From the politics community on Reddit: Former Jan. 6 defendant arrested on kidnapping and aggravated assault charges
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Motivator in chief: "‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’" www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’
The president “wouldn’t last five minutes as an air traffic controller,” Biden-era Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg responded.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Motivator in chief: "‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’" www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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see what your tax dollars are doing in Chicago under Trump blockclubchicago.org/tag/operatio...
Operation Midway Blitz Archives
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
see what your tax dollars are doing in Chicago under Trump blockclubchicago.org/tag/operatio...
For anyone that might not be on top of the latest in SoDumb's arsenal to kill the ACA
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump’s new plan for Obamacare leaves Americans to fend for themselves
We finally know what “concepts of a plan” looks like – and it’s not good.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
For anyone that might not be on top of the latest in SoDumb's arsenal to kill the ACA
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Hanging my head in shame. I'm not nearly this organized.
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Hanging my head in shame. I'm not nearly this organized.
As have so many of his people that he PARDONED
PUTTING CRIMINALS BACK ON THE STREETS OF AMERICA
PUTTING CRIMINALS BACK ON THE STREETS OF AMERICA
Jonathan Braun was accused of assaulting his children's nanny, swinging an IV pole at a nurse and dodging tolls in his Lamborghini and Ferarri.
Man Granted Clemency By Trump Sent Back To Federal Prison For New Offenses
Jonathan Braun was accused of assaulting his children's nanny, swinging an IV pole at a nurse and dodging tolls in his Lamborghini and Ferarri.
www.huffpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
As have so many of his people that he PARDONED
PUTTING CRIMINALS BACK ON THE STREETS OF AMERICA
PUTTING CRIMINALS BACK ON THE STREETS OF AMERICA
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Tapper: You sell trump kneepads—
Newsom: Signature series. Sold out at the moment. Because people have sold out and because universities have been selling out, because law firms have been selling out, because corporate leaders have been selling out, people are selling out this country.
Newsom: Signature series. Sold out at the moment. Because people have sold out and because universities have been selling out, because law firms have been selling out, because corporate leaders have been selling out, people are selling out this country.
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Tapper: You sell trump kneepads—
Newsom: Signature series. Sold out at the moment. Because people have sold out and because universities have been selling out, because law firms have been selling out, because corporate leaders have been selling out, people are selling out this country.
Newsom: Signature series. Sold out at the moment. Because people have sold out and because universities have been selling out, because law firms have been selling out, because corporate leaders have been selling out, people are selling out this country.
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“Hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism.”
Nick Cave
Nick Cave
January 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism.”
Nick Cave
Nick Cave
Which is why I follow you.
One of the hardest things for me on Bluesky (& before that, on Twitter, & before that, on DKos) is that I have several years, from several different perspectives, occasionally as a participant in what was happening, of seeing how caucuses work. And the press covers them horribly.
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Which is why I follow you.
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DOT put out a ~proposal~ "Brand New Air Traffic Control System" back in May. An RFS went out in August. Bids were due September 21. The winner would then have 3 1/2 years to implement the new system.
So what is he even talking about?
So what is he even talking about?
TRUMP: US TO LAUNCH NEW AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM WITHIN 2–3 WEEKS
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
DOT put out a ~proposal~ "Brand New Air Traffic Control System" back in May. An RFS went out in August. Bids were due September 21. The winner would then have 3 1/2 years to implement the new system.
So what is he even talking about?
So what is he even talking about?
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ICYMI
I wrote a funny book to trick children into reading literature!
I wrote a funny book to trick children into reading literature!
After generations of family adventures, Sawyer Lee is determined to sink in the couch! The problem is that it will take a regrettable amount of energy for him to escape the mysteries, conspiracies, and gourd-based festivities the whole town throws his way.
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
ICYMI
I wrote a funny book to trick children into reading literature!
I wrote a funny book to trick children into reading literature!
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Supreme Court denies review of Kim Davis’ petition that sought to overturn Obergefell www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
Supreme Court denies review of Kim Davis’ petition that sought to overturn Obergefell
The county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples had filed a long-shot petition to the justices.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Supreme Court denies review of Kim Davis’ petition that sought to overturn Obergefell www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...