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Creative on a Journey for Soul Fuel
Authenticity | Positivity | Kindness | Love 🏳️‍🌈
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1. For weeks, EITM has reported that Republicans would push a trans healthcare ban in their ACA negotiations.

Now, the plan is released, and it includes heavy restrictions on ACA plans, a medicaid ban, an EHB ban, and more.

Democrats must not capitulate.
Democrats Must Reject The Premise Of Trans Healthcare Bans In Republican Healthcare Offer
Republicans new healthcare bill would bar transgender healthcare as an essential health benefit, bar trans medicaid coverage, and would bar HSAs from considering trans healthcare medically necessary.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Not quite old enough to be vintage. Retro?

1990s Yamaha

RX-395
KX-W392
CDC-555

Douk VU3 Pro on top.
December 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
When the Zune battery needs charged, use the mini-disc player.

#vintageaudio
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Cleaned the crossover switches and recapped my first vintage speaker.

Pioneer CS-88a

#vintageaudio
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Vintage Pioneer CS-88a crossover. Getting cleaned and recapped. #vintageaudio
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Elton John. The One. On cassette.
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
She glows again. This time with LEDs.
November 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Trying to ‘gather’ supplies for some projects. God I miss Radio Shack.
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
3D printing parts to touch up the appearance of my vintage Bose 301 series II speakers.
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
She went with a Yamaha. It sounds so good.
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The full audio wall. Getting ready to add a vintage receiver. Yamaha or Sansui? Stay tuned.
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Making my 17-year old a mixtape. Kind of. It’s an album he wanted with about 15 minutes of fill.
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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1. A groundbreaking new study published in Nature Medicine shows that feminizing hormone therapy shifts trans women's blood protein to resemble cis women after only 6 months.

HRT really is effective and changes the human body heaivly.

The latest from S. Baum.

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Study Finds Trans Women's Blood Proteins Resemble Cis Women's After 6 Months on HR
“Feminizing GAHT [gender-affirming hormone treatment] skews the plasma proteome toward a cis-female profile,” the study concluded.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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This is what No Kings Day felt like 🐸🐔🦄🐿️✨
“Tʜɪs ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ʟɪᴋᴇ!“ 🗣️✨

This country belongs to the people.

#StandTALL 🚀🗣️

(Prints at www.Nikkolas.Art)
October 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A little before and after. Tweeters repaired (on both speakers). I’m sure refoaming large woofers is way easier. I think I could do it better if I had to do it again. Also picked up some Pioneer CS-G204s. I think I have enough speakers.
October 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The (mid-grade) HiFi system of teenage Ava’s dreams. In a vintage radio, turntable and tv cabinet to boot!
October 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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The Supreme Court is poised to overturn 32 state bans on conversion therapy and explicitly legalize the abusive and torturous process.

They don't care how many LGBTQ people this traumatizes and kills.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...
Supreme Court to decide if states may ban attempts to ‘convert’ gay and transgender youth | CNN Politics
Matt Salmon remembers getting into a circle with the other teenagers in his group therapy session and shouting obscenities at a gay boy forced to stand in the middle.
www.cnn.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Ava’s audio journey continues. Picked up a pair of Pioneer CS-88a speakers at an estate sale for $40. Foam repair kits for the tweeters are on the way. Other than that, they sound pretty good for 53 year old speakers.
October 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I buy music to support my favorite artists and to enjoy. Yes. That is a Breach first pressing by Twenty One Pilots.
October 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Replaced the Aiwa XC-35M with a Yamaha CDC-555. Love the simplicity of design, great sound, and matches the year and aesthetic of the KX-W392.
October 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I’m on a quest to own my music again. Can I borrow some CDs or cassettes?
September 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Mix tape complete. On a Sony hi-fi cassette. To go back to making something in real time was magical.
September 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I’m making an honest to goodness mix tape. On cassette. What song do I start with?
September 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Did it cost more that it would have new? Sure. But it’s had the belt replaced and it’s been serviced so I can enjoy it without worry.
September 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM