Lea
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Sometime around 2010 or so, my nephew David got a dog. Smallz was half Labrador retriever, half Newfie: a big black bundle of love, the size and *energy* of his adventurous Labrador dad, and the coat and strength of his Newfie mom.
May 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Sometime around 2010 or so, my nephew David got a dog. Smallz was half Labrador retriever, half Newfie: a big black bundle of love, the size and *energy* of his adventurous Labrador dad, and the coat and strength of his Newfie mom.
Happy birthday to the love and light of my life, my beloved Theo. Your compassion and grace lighten every day for me, and I look forward to the rest of our lives together. Love you dearly, darlin' mine!
May 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Happy birthday to the love and light of my life, my beloved Theo. Your compassion and grace lighten every day for me, and I look forward to the rest of our lives together. Love you dearly, darlin' mine!
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This is a familiar pattern, and not familiar in a good way.
So Donald Trump is creating an Autism Registry. Guess it's easier for RFK Jr to eliminate "undesirables" once there's a list of them...
🔗: www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
🔗: www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
April 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
This is a familiar pattern, and not familiar in a good way.
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The Guardian reports that people at the SSA, the agency that manages benefits for nearly 70 million Americans, worry that it’s in a “death spiral” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doge’s attack on social security causing ‘complete, utter chaos’, staff says
Understaffed agency sent into ‘death spiral’ as employees warn Musk-led cuts will lead to structural collapse
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The Guardian reports that people at the SSA, the agency that manages benefits for nearly 70 million Americans, worry that it’s in a “death spiral” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Is this the same guy who tore into people for criticizing judges when he spoke at the Justice Dept *checks calendar* just last week?
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Is this the same guy who tore into people for criticizing judges when he spoke at the Justice Dept *checks calendar* just last week?
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BREAKING: Donald Trump Calls For The Impeachment Of The Federal Judge Who Ruled Against Him. This is a SIGNIFICANT escalation. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
BREAKING: Donald Trump Calls For The Impeachment Of The Federal Judge Who Ruled Against Him
This is a significant escalation in rhetoric, and the first time Trump directly called for a federal judge's impeachment.
open.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Donald Trump Calls For The Impeachment Of The Federal Judge Who Ruled Against Him. This is a SIGNIFICANT escalation. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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Surely the people who are outraged about tearing down Confederate statues are...hold on, I've been handed a note.
Trump’s Pentagon is erasing Navajo Code Talkers—Indigenous warriors who helped win WWII—from military websites. This isn’t about “efficiency.” It’s about whitewashing history and erasing those who don’t fit his MAGA narrative.
MORE: www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
MORE: www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
March 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Surely the people who are outraged about tearing down Confederate statues are...hold on, I've been handed a note.
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If you haven't read Sinclair Lewis' IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE, that's okay. It's good and short and makes a lot of excellent points about the creeping spread of fascism, but you've seen these same points retread over and over again since he wrote it...
...in 1935.
...in 1935.
March 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If you haven't read Sinclair Lewis' IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE, that's okay. It's good and short and makes a lot of excellent points about the creeping spread of fascism, but you've seen these same points retread over and over again since he wrote it...
...in 1935.
...in 1935.
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💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
February 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
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RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen.
1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.
1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.
February 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen.
1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.
1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.
Excerpt: "even if nothing ever comes of this idea (Trump implying that he may use force), ... the damage has already been done. The message has gone out from the leader of the free world that its OK to threaten your neighbours by force if you want their territory."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Leaders set for Munich Security Conference as world order in danger of crumbling
The BBC's Frank Gardner says Nato's unity is badly dented with decisions over Ukraine set to be discussed in Munich.
www.bbc.com
February 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Excerpt: "even if nothing ever comes of this idea (Trump implying that he may use force), ... the damage has already been done. The message has gone out from the leader of the free world that its OK to threaten your neighbours by force if you want their territory."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
LOCK. YOUR. CREDIT. Go to Experian, et. al., find out how to lock your credit, and DO IT.
"Musk's team have already gained entrée to data on federal student aid, including the personal information for millions who receive student loans from the government..."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts
Department of Government Efficiency workers embedded in the Education Department have been processing sensitive agency data using artificial intelligence.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
LOCK. YOUR. CREDIT. Go to Experian, et. al., find out how to lock your credit, and DO IT.
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President Biden, offering unequivocal support for battling the California wildfires without threatening to withhold aid, and no lecture on raking the forest.
I will miss President Biden's common sense and decency. 😔
I will miss President Biden's common sense and decency. 😔
January 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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For everyone saying that SCOTUS can’t constitutionally end birthright citizenship… look, they’re not going to come outright and say “we overrule the 14th amendment of the United States.”
They’ll to do it the way they’ve overruled our other rights: by chipping away at it until nothing’s left.
They’ll to do it the way they’ve overruled our other rights: by chipping away at it until nothing’s left.
December 8, 2024 at 10:37 PM
For everyone saying that SCOTUS can’t constitutionally end birthright citizenship… look, they’re not going to come outright and say “we overrule the 14th amendment of the United States.”
They’ll to do it the way they’ve overruled our other rights: by chipping away at it until nothing’s left.
They’ll to do it the way they’ve overruled our other rights: by chipping away at it until nothing’s left.
November 25, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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I would like to speak up today for the trans community.
You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1
You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1
November 17, 2024 at 6:19 PM
I would like to speak up today for the trans community.
You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1
You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1
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Get you some Democratic representatives who look at their Republican opponents like Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke looks at her opponents in the Aotearoa/New Zealand parliament as the conservative wing tries to take away their rights as she winds the haka up during a session in Commons.
November 15, 2024 at 3:51 AM
Get you some Democratic representatives who look at their Republican opponents like Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke looks at her opponents in the Aotearoa/New Zealand parliament as the conservative wing tries to take away their rights as she winds the haka up during a session in Commons.
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Free Geek in Portland -- a wonderful resource that recycles tech products for use by people who can't afford them -- has just had a fire. They're fundraising to help cover the costs: secure.givelively.org/donate/free-...
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September 16, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Free Geek in Portland -- a wonderful resource that recycles tech products for use by people who can't afford them -- has just had a fire. They're fundraising to help cover the costs: secure.givelively.org/donate/free-...