RESpencer
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RESpencer
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Just hoping for a better world. DM and I block
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Why did the narcissist cross the road?

They thought it was a boundary🙃
December 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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While in Chicago, I took a tour around the Obama Presidential Center. I can’t wait for you all to visit in June 2026. Here’s a sneak peek:
December 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Hmmmmmmmm where did I see this… fucking yesterday! bsky.app/profile/altc...
RFK Jr. has cancelled federal grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics, claiming the work they fund “no longer aligns with departmental priorities.” Those grants weren’t about ideology.
December 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Mass shooters are usually loners but they never act alone.
They are aided & abetted by 220 House members, 53 Senators, 6 Supreme Court justices, 1 President, and the NRA.
#EndGunViolence
December 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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So, the person who stopped the bad guy with a gun was a good guy without a gun. It says all ou need to know about bullshit.
December 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Number of convictions for assaulting Border agents/ICE agents.

2024: 1
2025: 1

Methinks this uptick in assaults on ICE is bullshit.
December 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Are we healthy again, Secretary?
December 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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😲 They’re going to destroy VA healthcare so they can privatize it.

wapo.st/4q4Lx58
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
wapo.st
December 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?"

Yes: 80%
No: 8%

Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%.

Maybe a political party could lead on this issue.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.

They are openly saying this.

Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.

If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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This is SICK!!
Immigrants who jumped through all of the hoops & paid exorbitant fees to become citizens were pulled out of line the day they were supposed to be granted citizenship on Dec. 4th in Boston! Why? Because of their countries of origin!

people.com/immigrants-a...
Immigrants Approved for Citizenship ‘Plucked Out’ of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report
Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the ceremony. The incident comes after USCIS told employees to halt all immigrat...
people.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Holy shit this back and forth between Kagan/Alito/Jackson/&the SG.

Kagan: Doesn't your logic mean a whole raft of other agencies must be invalidated?
SG: Yes, but that's not being litigated right now
Kagan: So what?
Alito: What if we just want to say "but maybe don't apply our logic elsewhere?"
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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A tiny company called Vulcan Elements won a (no-bid) contract with the DEFENSE DEPARTMENT for $620 MILLION.

Guess who has a multimillion dollar stake in that company?

Donald Trump, Jr.

But it’s all aboveboard, right?

Remind me again what Hunter Biden did.

newrepublic.com/post/203954/...
Trump Jr.-Backed Company Cashes In on Massive Pentagon Contract
What a coincidence!
newrepublic.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Immigrants commit fewer crimes.

Immigrants pay taxes.

Immigrants contribute over $2 trillion to the U.S. economy.

The problem isn't immigrants.
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Remembering we have not bottomed out economically. Trump has not hit the depths of his erratic senility. And the more he loses touch with reality the more people like Miller push even more unpopular violences.
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.

I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.

Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM