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Dawn Dumm
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News junkie, Arts fanatic, anti-racist, democracy, kindness advocate, Exvangelical, LGBTQ Ally, caretaker of neurotic pets.
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When we show up and make our voices heard peacefully, we are too loud to ignore! Nearly seven million protesters, gathered yesterday for the #No Kings rallies in opposition to Trump’s authoritarian agenda. Protesters rallied across more than 2,700 US cities and towns Saturday.
October 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I was lucky enough to get an copy of this book early, and I'm so glad I did! Dr. Lester weaves his own story into this book to make the research on poverty and education he shares personal.
September 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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April 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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“Department of Government Efficiency.”
April 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
A very moving discussion on events and the intersection with Holy week: youtu.be/hRfFG7Ky7Zc?...
The Crucifixion of Jesus and our Political Moment
YouTube video by The Convocation Unscripted
youtu.be
April 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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A play in two acts.
April 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Good morning.

Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.

It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
April 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This series has been a light in the darkness. youtu.be/Z4Crfd5_DNc?...
April 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Today DOJ announced a three-year prison sentence for a DOD employee, a 26-year-old civilian woman from Nevada, who mishandled Top Secret documents by taking them home from a secure facility.
Former federal employee sentenced to prison for mishandling classified materials
AUGUSTA, GA:  A former employee of a U.S. Department of Defense component agency was sentenced to federal prison for mishandling sensitive documents.
www.justice.gov
March 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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John Ratcliffe lied on his resume. In the private sector, he’d be unemployable.

www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/u...
Trump’s Pick for Top Intelligence Post Overstated Parts of His Biography (Gift Article)
Aides revised old claims about Representative John Ratcliffe’s role in prosecuting a prominent terrorism case.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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he’s crashing out
Hegseth: My job, as it said, on top of that, everybody's seen it now. Team update is to provide updates in real time, general updates in real time. Keep everybody informed. That's what I did. That's my job.
March 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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🚨 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE

Senator Schiff calls for resignations of Trump officials over “Signal-Gate”
EXCLUSIVE: Senator Schiff calls for resignations of Trump officials over “Signal-Gate”

Schiff: They should be fired, or they should quit.

Meiselas: Senator, you’re calling for those resignations?

Schiff: Yes, I am.
March 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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"It will be the first time a Democrat has held the seat since it was redistricted in 1980." www.wgal.com/article/pa-s...
Special election results: 36th state Senate District
Voters in Lancaster County are casting ballots for their state senator in Tuesday's special election for the 36th state Senate District.
www.wgal.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Trump Text Fiasco Worsens as Tulsi Gabbard Implodes and Fox Melts Down

As the controversy grows over a breach in a war-planning text chat, an expert in national security law explains how DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s Senate testimony made things worse — and why Fox’s spin is dumber than usual.
Trump Text Fiasco Worsens as Tulsi Gabbard Implodes and Fox Melts Down
As the controversy grows over a breach in a war-planning text chat, an expert in national security law explains how Tulsi Gabbard’s Senate testimony made things worse—and why Fox’s spin is dumber than...
newrepublic.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Himes: "Apparently all this mayhem is cheered by the president of the United States and by 20-somethings with laptops and names like Big Balls. But I've been doing this for a long time, and I know that Moscow and Beijing and Tehran and Pyongyang cannot believe their luck."
March 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Hear ye, hear ye...

Billions missing from the company of dude in charge of finding government fraud.

futurism.com/huge-amount-...
A Huge Amount of Money Is Missing From Tesla
As the Financial Times reports, a whopping $1.4 billion is unaccounted for in Tesla's financial statements.
futurism.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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At the Bernie AOC rally Denver, probably 30k people.
March 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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March 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Segregation was never just separate facilities
It was paying more & getting less in your neighborhood
It was getting the Phd, but still not getting hired
It was needing police for the police
It was building up a newspaper & having it burned (Wells)
It was building a school & having it shot up (JSU)
March 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM