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Richard Carl Askins
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Retired; Was Prof. Licensed NJ Engineer; Wedded wonderful Princeton lady at 🎓; fantastic, math🧠 & 🎼🎹📯 gifted adult son @ home bc of 50yrs greedy $B-aires, RESIST FASCISTS 2 END, 1 next evolutionary step may be loving group marriage, Looking 4 LT FwB
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Trump's Attacks Have a Deeper Motive
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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WAKE UP:
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here

With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
December 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Cognitive Decline? These Were Trump’s 11 Most Senile Moments This Year

When Donald Trump wasn’t busy falling asleep in front of the cameras, he spent his first year in office struggling to form coherent thoughts.
newrepublic.com/article/2047...
Cognitive Decline? These Were Trump’s 11 Most Senile Moments This Year
When Donald Trump wasn’t busy falling asleep in front of the cameras, he spent his first year in office struggling to form coherent thoughts.
newrepublic.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The President Who Can’t Stop Naming Things After Himself

The Narcissist-in-Chief is Worried We'll Forget Him. I hope we do, in the dustbin of history.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-presid...
The President Who Can’t Stop Naming Things After Himself
The Narcissist-in-Chief is Worried We'll Forget Him. I hope we do.
adamkinzinger.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
December 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
December 26, 2025 at 4:09 AM
🚨📢 Unconscionable !!

Another Mass Staffing Purge at the VA

Up to 37,000 positions may be dropped, with the VA transformed into a facilitator for outsourcing, sources tell the Prospect.
prospect.org/2025/12/18/a...
Another Mass Staffing Purge at the VA - The American Prospect
Up to 37,000 positions may be dropped, with the VA transformed into a facilitator for outsourcing, sources tell the Prospect.
prospect.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Reposted by Richard Carl Askins
Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.
December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reposted by Richard Carl Askins
Merry Christmas.

Trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax designed to enrich the wealthy and corporations while draining money for the middle class and the poor.

Pass it on to a conservative family member near you.
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Reposted by Richard Carl Askins
Conservatives yell “socialism” at every initiative designed to help people.

Maybe you've heard the word a few times already today.

But this is nothing more than an old scare tactic.

A functioning government requires pooling resources for the common good. Let me explain.
Socialism Fear-mongering is Bananas | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
9/11 Trauma Physically Altered Responders’ Brains, Study Finds

WTC responders living with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have measurable physical changes in their brains, new research shows, illustrating how trauma can leave long-term biological scars.
dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/h...
9/11 Trauma Physically Altered Responders’ Brains, Study Finds
World Trade Center responders living with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have measurable physical changes in their brains, new research shows, illustrating how trauma can leave long-ter...
dailyvoice.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:51 AM
♥️ Can Help Heal a Damaged Heart

In some, a deep emotional loss — like a loved one's death — can result in a temporary: 'broken heart syndrome.' Now, there’s more evidence to suggest the opposite may also be true: Supportive relationships can improve cardiovascular ills.
nicenews.com/health-and-w...
Love Can Help Heal a Damaged Heart, New Review Suggests
Loving relationships may help improve heart health for people with cardiovascular disease by promoting better health behaviors.
nicenews.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
December 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Ethics Shmethics

Why are America's most powerful professional associations silent in the face of professional disgraces in the Trump regime?

Organizations such as the American Bar Association and the Amer. Medical Association...
robertreich.substack.com/p/ethics-shm...
Ethics Shmethics
Why are America's most powerful professional associations silent in the face of professional disgraces in the Trump regime?
robertreich.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Video Clip: And so this is Christmas from the Visibility Brigade Movement
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TikTok video by Michelle
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December 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
December 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
December 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Deregulation Was Never About “Freedom”—It Was About Permission to Poison

They turned clean air into “socialism,” turned polluters into victims, and turned America into a profit center with our kids as casualties…
hartmannreport.com/p/deregulati...
Deregulation Was Never About “Freedom”—It Was About Permission to Poison
They turned clean air into “socialism,” turned polluters into victims, and turned America into a profit center with our kids as casualties…
hartmannreport.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The only common sense solution is:
PUBLIC FINANCING OF ELECTIONS

Chapter 6: The Death of Democracy Is Profitable

Your weekly excerpt from one of Hartmann's books: "The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink"
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Chapter 6: The Death of Democracy Is Profitable
Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink"
hartmannreport.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Not 100% conclusive. Still, makes an awful lot of common sense.
December 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Earliest Evidence Of Making Fire Has Been Discovered, Dating To 400,000 Years Ago

And it wasn't made by Homo sapiens.
Hint: Likely a related sub-species.
www.iflscience.com/the-earliest...
The Earliest Evidence Of Making Fire Has Been Discovered, Dating To 400,000 Years Ago
And it wasn't made by Homo sapiens.
www.iflscience.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Santa Claus for Billionaires, Debt for You: Thanks Trump

The playbook that showers the rich, spikes the debt, then demands you sacrifice Social Security and healthcare…
hartmannreport.com/p/santa-clau...
Santa Claus for Billionaires, Debt for You: Thanks Trump
The playbook that showers the rich, spikes the debt, then demands you sacrifice Social Security and healthcare…
hartmannreport.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
December 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The bill is coming due...

Trump and his regime have corrupted the media, abusing the American people’s trust and sense of decency. I explain how journalists like Sharyn Alfonsi are fighting back, and why Trump’s reckoning is finally arriving.
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-bill-i...
The bill is coming due
Trump and his regime have corrupted the media, abusing the American people’s trust and sense of decency.
steveschmidt.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
December 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM