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Flower lover; dog lover (cats too); poetry & art are awesome; grateful for thoughtful, informed, informative, &/or funny posts. Semi-retired educator.
Still send snail mail. Prefer some anonymity, so won't ever be verified, but I'm real.
Still send snail mail. Prefer some anonymity, so won't ever be verified, but I'm real.
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CEOs at Davos concocted a new euphemism for their shameless cowardice: "Adaptive Normalcy." I have a lot of thoughts about this that you don't want to miss. Become a Democracy Docket premium member to access this and a lot more. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
January 23, 2026 at 3:43 AM
CEOs at Davos concocted a new euphemism for their shameless cowardice: "Adaptive Normalcy." I have a lot of thoughts about this that you don't want to miss. Become a Democracy Docket premium member to access this and a lot more. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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Tierra Walker knew that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was clearly on the line.
At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia.
At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia.
Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans
Our reporting has found that abortion bans generally don’t include exceptions that cover health concerns pregnant women with chronic conditions can face — or if they do, doctors aren’t using them.
www.propublica.org
January 23, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Tierra Walker knew that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was clearly on the line.
At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia.
At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia.
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Why are we allowing tacky Donald to have another ballroom? He used the last one to showcase highly classified documents.
January 23, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Why are we allowing tacky Donald to have another ballroom? He used the last one to showcase highly classified documents.
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Federal jury rejects Bovino murder plot after attorney calls on it to 'stop the overreaching government'
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story on today's not guilty verdict in the Bovino murder-for-hire trial: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story on today's not guilty verdict in the Bovino murder-for-hire trial: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Federal jury rejects Bovino murder plot after attorney calls on it to 'stop the overreaching government'
It took jurors roughly three hours to acquit Juan Espinoza Martinez of a murder-for-hire aimed at U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, the face of Operation Midway Blitz.
chicago.suntimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Federal jury rejects Bovino murder plot after attorney calls on it to 'stop the overreaching government'
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story on today's not guilty verdict in the Bovino murder-for-hire trial: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story on today's not guilty verdict in the Bovino murder-for-hire trial: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Yes!
These type of people are America's only shot at ever being great. In other words, they are the opposite of empathy-free Donald Trump and his terrorizing Gestapo goons who are destroying our country. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Volunteers in Minnesota Deliver Groceries So Immigrants Can Hide at Home
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Yes!
I’m reposting myself bc I can’t stop thinking about this—or being enraged about the different standards.
I thought Republicans want the same standards to be held for everyone?
I thought Republicans want the same standards to be held for everyone?
I keep thinking about how Biden had a cold & sounded old for 1 hr, & EVERY media outlet spent two weeks+ questioning his fitness to be president. Pages & hours & posts galore! Trump sounds like an immature 3yo EVERY DAY. I’m waiting for ALL the media to tell us non-stop for 2 wks he’s not fit.
January 23, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I’m reposting myself bc I can’t stop thinking about this—or being enraged about the different standards.
I thought Republicans want the same standards to be held for everyone?
I thought Republicans want the same standards to be held for everyone?
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Today, Jack Smith laid out his airtight investigation into Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. He was clear: the facts are the facts. The law is the law. He will not be intimidated - and we will not accept anything short of the truth for Americans.
January 23, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Today, Jack Smith laid out his airtight investigation into Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. He was clear: the facts are the facts. The law is the law. He will not be intimidated - and we will not accept anything short of the truth for Americans.
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Some criminologists suggest "the decreases, which began under former president Joe Biden, are linked to the Biden administration’s aggressive pandemic-era spending on community-based violence intervention and wraparound social services."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
U.S. crime has dropped sharply since the pandemic. Here’s where it stands.
Homicide rates have undergone the most striking change, with some of the nation’s 52 largest cities recording the fewest murders in half a century.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Some criminologists suggest "the decreases, which began under former president Joe Biden, are linked to the Biden administration’s aggressive pandemic-era spending on community-based violence intervention and wraparound social services."
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
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Clarification: Judge William Young issues an order protecting noncitizen students targeted for deportation for their activism, and at the conclusion of the order quotes Ronald Reagan.
January 23, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Clarification: Judge William Young issues an order protecting noncitizen students targeted for deportation for their activism, and at the conclusion of the order quotes Ronald Reagan.
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Ro Khanna on The Epstein Files, ICE overreach, and "Establishment Democrats."
Khanna joins The Left Hook to describe how he's different from "Establishment Democrats" when it comes to criticizing ICE, demanding accountability, and fighting for progressive reform.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Khanna joins The Left Hook to describe how he's different from "Establishment Democrats" when it comes to criticizing ICE, demanding accountability, and fighting for progressive reform.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Ro Khanna on The Epstein Files, ICE overreach, Jack Smith's testimony, and "Establishment Democrats"
Rep. Ro Khanna joins The Left Hook to describe how he's different from "Establishment Democrats" when it comes to criticizing ICE, demanding accountability, and fighting for progressive reform.
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Ro Khanna on The Epstein Files, ICE overreach, and "Establishment Democrats."
Khanna joins The Left Hook to describe how he's different from "Establishment Democrats" when it comes to criticizing ICE, demanding accountability, and fighting for progressive reform.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Khanna joins The Left Hook to describe how he's different from "Establishment Democrats" when it comes to criticizing ICE, demanding accountability, and fighting for progressive reform.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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Never letting this go. Thank you, Stephen Colbert!
January 23, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Never letting this go. Thank you, Stephen Colbert!
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🧵Trump had banned this research funding his first term; Biden restored it; now Trump & Bhattacharya have cut it off again. #WeAreNotThem
You may think it's creepy, but it's really important. This research is used to:
🔹️get stem cells used to produce vaccines, ...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/h...
You may think it's creepy, but it's really important. This research is used to:
🔹️get stem cells used to produce vaccines, ...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/h...
Trump Administration Cuts Off Funding for Fetal Tissue Research. Again.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:49 PM
🧵Trump had banned this research funding his first term; Biden restored it; now Trump & Bhattacharya have cut it off again. #WeAreNotThem
You may think it's creepy, but it's really important. This research is used to:
🔹️get stem cells used to produce vaccines, ...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/h...
You may think it's creepy, but it's really important. This research is used to:
🔹️get stem cells used to produce vaccines, ...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/h...
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Since Kirk Milhoan says that he doesn’t “like” established science and that science is what he observes, I nominate him to be in the control group of the first clinical trial of parachutes.
I’ll take the intervention. Always wanted to skydive anyway.
I’ll take the intervention. Always wanted to skydive anyway.
January 22, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Since Kirk Milhoan says that he doesn’t “like” established science and that science is what he observes, I nominate him to be in the control group of the first clinical trial of parachutes.
I’ll take the intervention. Always wanted to skydive anyway.
I’ll take the intervention. Always wanted to skydive anyway.
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Imagine starting a new enterprise comprised of world leaders called Board of Peace - invitation only - but two of your most prominent members cannot attend the inaugural event because they'd get arrested for war crimes.
January 22, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Imagine starting a new enterprise comprised of world leaders called Board of Peace - invitation only - but two of your most prominent members cannot attend the inaugural event because they'd get arrested for war crimes.
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Trump has removed signs at George Washington’s house in Philadelphia that inform the public about the history of slavery and signs at Fort Sumter that inform the public that the fort is at risk due to climate change.
Because history and science are like COVID: If you ignore them, they go away.
Because history and science are like COVID: If you ignore them, they go away.
January 22, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Trump has removed signs at George Washington’s house in Philadelphia that inform the public about the history of slavery and signs at Fort Sumter that inform the public that the fort is at risk due to climate change.
Because history and science are like COVID: If you ignore them, they go away.
Because history and science are like COVID: If you ignore them, they go away.
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problem children we've seen before:
Henry Cuellar (TX)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX)
Laura Gillen (NY)
Jared Golden (ME)
Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA) Don Davis (NC)
Tom Suozzi (NY)
Primary those bozos!
& be sure to call ☎️ your Senators to tell them vote no.
Contact info:
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
Henry Cuellar (TX)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX)
Laura Gillen (NY)
Jared Golden (ME)
Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA) Don Davis (NC)
Tom Suozzi (NY)
Primary those bozos!
& be sure to call ☎️ your Senators to tell them vote no.
Contact info:
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators
www.senate.gov
January 22, 2026 at 11:05 PM
problem children we've seen before:
Henry Cuellar (TX)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX)
Laura Gillen (NY)
Jared Golden (ME)
Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA) Don Davis (NC)
Tom Suozzi (NY)
Primary those bozos!
& be sure to call ☎️ your Senators to tell them vote no.
Contact info:
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
Henry Cuellar (TX)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX)
Laura Gillen (NY)
Jared Golden (ME)
Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA) Don Davis (NC)
Tom Suozzi (NY)
Primary those bozos!
& be sure to call ☎️ your Senators to tell them vote no.
Contact info:
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
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🚨BREAKING: Democratic lawmakers and pro-democracy advocates are intensifying scrutiny of the coordination between the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and an advocacy group looking to overturn election results, disclosed in a recent Trump administration court filing.
Democrats, advocates probe DOGE coordination with election deniers as outrage grows
House Democrats launched legislative efforts and outside watchdogs filed public records requests aimed at uncovering the full scope of DOGE’s activities.
www.democracydocket.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:10 PM
🚨BREAKING: Democratic lawmakers and pro-democracy advocates are intensifying scrutiny of the coordination between the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and an advocacy group looking to overturn election results, disclosed in a recent Trump administration court filing.
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Dear all journalists -
Just because the president has long believed [X] or has always wanted to [Y], that doesn’t make it, y’know, a thing. Or legal.
Thanks.
Just because the president has long believed [X] or has always wanted to [Y], that doesn’t make it, y’know, a thing. Or legal.
Thanks.
January 22, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Dear all journalists -
Just because the president has long believed [X] or has always wanted to [Y], that doesn’t make it, y’know, a thing. Or legal.
Thanks.
Just because the president has long believed [X] or has always wanted to [Y], that doesn’t make it, y’know, a thing. Or legal.
Thanks.
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There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
January 22, 2026 at 8:04 PM
There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
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Funny how the right is outraged at Fanone flipping off a congressman just days after celebrating a president flipping off a working American .
January 22, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Funny how the right is outraged at Fanone flipping off a congressman just days after celebrating a president flipping off a working American .
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I don't know about you all, but $50 million to investigate a president who tried a self-coup and stole highly secret classified documents seems like a bargain at twice the price.
January 22, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I don't know about you all, but $50 million to investigate a president who tried a self-coup and stole highly secret classified documents seems like a bargain at twice the price.
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Reminder that our Constitution guarantees due process to ALL persons — not just citizens — and enshrines habeas corpus as a fundamental right.
Either everyone has due process — or no one does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=metN4EiDtmQ
Either everyone has due process — or no one does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=metN4EiDtmQ
What is Due Process?
It’s more important than ever to understand your right to due process. Here’s what you should know.
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Reminder that our Constitution guarantees due process to ALL persons — not just citizens — and enshrines habeas corpus as a fundamental right.
Either everyone has due process — or no one does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=metN4EiDtmQ
Either everyone has due process — or no one does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=metN4EiDtmQ
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"I believe they will do everything in their power to do that because they have been ordered to by the president," Jack Smith said told Congress today after being asked if he thinks Trump's Justice Department would "find some way" to indict him. www.axios.com/2026/01/22/j...
Jack Smith expects to be indicted by Trump DOJ
"I will not be intimidated," the former special counsel said.
www.axios.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:13 PM
"I believe they will do everything in their power to do that because they have been ordered to by the president," Jack Smith said told Congress today after being asked if he thinks Trump's Justice Department would "find some way" to indict him. www.axios.com/2026/01/22/j...
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Smith: Again, and I think all of us, if we're reasonable, know that there's going to be more crimes committed by these people in the future. I do not understand why you would mass pardon people who assaulted police officers. I don't get it. I never will.
January 22, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Smith: Again, and I think all of us, if we're reasonable, know that there's going to be more crimes committed by these people in the future. I do not understand why you would mass pardon people who assaulted police officers. I don't get it. I never will.
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Jack Smith: “Trump was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on & he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.”
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
January 22, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Jack Smith: “Trump was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on & he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.”
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice