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Pragmatic. Charming (mostly). Mother. Fighter against injustice. NFL fan - Chiefs have been my team since before TSwift was born.❤️ Looking for hope instead of hate. Love gardening/landscape design & totally here for pet content. 🐱🐶🪴🌱
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Friends, I was at the grocery store today when a lovely older man approached me with a bunch of carnations in his basket & handed me one. I smiled & thanked him. He said, don’t you want to know why? I said, yes please. It was his wife’s birthday. She had been gone “a while.” We proceeded to chat. 1/
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Important update about Congressional efforts to prevent the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from being dismantled. Last week the White House threatened to veto any appropriations bill that protects NCAR. Despite this attempt at intimidation ... (1/ )
January 15, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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The motion to hold a vote also depends on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (SD). If you or anyone you know lives in these states, please let them know this rare opportunity to give NCAR legal protection. Let’s show these senators that they are not alone in defending this indispensable institution.
https://wclivestream.com/act/
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January 15, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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With Trump going full authoritarian on Venezuela-Greenland, ICE, and the Fed, the response has to be serious. Four Republican senators (Tillis, McConnell, Murkowski, Collins?) could announce they’ll caucus for now with the Dems to give them control of the Senate to check Trump.
January 12, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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The most enlightening and disappointing thing to come out of this ICE shooting is that the right legitimately does not give a fuck about human life if it harms their political narrative.

Watching people malign a 37 year old mother for being murdered by her country is insane.
January 8, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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Seen near the U.S. Embassy in London, UK 🇬🇧 (Nonce is UK slang for pedo.)
January 8, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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If you beat up and injure a cop at the Capitol the Trump admin will pardon you.

If you drive away from an ICE agent they will kill you.
January 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Five years ago, Donald Trump instigated a violent insurrection in the Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election. The fact that the GOP coddled him, protected him, renominated him, and now support him in office, is a stain that will never be erased.
January 6, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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“Republicans told the truth then, why won’t they now?”
January 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
January 3, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too.

Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.
Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
January 3, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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The Trump voters did this — the bloodthirsty, racist, bigoted assholes wanted to punish anyone not like them and now look

No new wars my ass.
January 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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"In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In Washington DC, the dedicated Trump administration operatives who help cover up his vicious sex crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Special MAGA Propaganda Unit. These are their stories."
December 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Ruin them! From @mollycrabapple.bsky.social:
“Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim”
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Michael Wolff sitting on critical information about Trump for more than a decade was certainly a choice.

By Maggie Haberman
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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⚡️UPDATE: @SenatorHagerty (who is rich) says he will NOT sue to stuff his pockets with taxpayer dollars (for Jack Smith doing his job)

Now @MarshaBlackburn is the only Tennessee senator who plans to enrich herself — it’s clear what kind of governor she’d be. #MarshasMoneyGrab
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I mean, fuck the rest of us Feds who showed up to work every day without pay, apparently🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Kristi Noem hands out $10,000 bonus checks to select TSA workers
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Are you telling me that we *already* have two "missing tape" stories *this week* when all of Watergate only had one?!
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:

ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Many in Trump’s administration now live on military bases, to shield themselves from the majority of Americans they are screwing over in favor of the oligarchs.

Many Republicans won’t do town halls.

They avoid the citizenry because they’ve stopped serving them.

We deserve much better.
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM