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I like the outdoors, music, mountains and so much more. Spent some time in the medical field as an RN. Currently wondering what happens next. Glad to leave the ‘other place’ behind.
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If you haven’t heard yet, Trump’s narcissism has found yet another way to disrupt our American experience. Read about it here:
PSA of the Day: Buy Your National Park Pass in December and Avoid Trump's Ugly Mug
No one wants next year's pass.
www.lovelyparkspeople.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If you haven’t heard yet, Trump’s narcissism has found yet another way to disrupt our American experience. Read about it here:
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Here are four news stories Democracy Docket published today that are aren't likely to find in the national legacy media. If you agree that independent, pro-democracy media is more important now than ever before, please support Democracy Docket with a membership today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
December 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Here are four news stories Democracy Docket published today that are aren't likely to find in the national legacy media. If you agree that independent, pro-democracy media is more important now than ever before, please support Democracy Docket with a membership today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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ICE ADMITTED they had mistakenly yanked them as they drove to school BUT CONTINUED TO HOLD THEM!
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
ICE ADMITTED they had mistakenly yanked them as they drove to school BUT CONTINUED TO HOLD THEM!
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He wants to kill Obamacare, but has no other plan. He is not satisfied with his deportation operation because his ICE agents are not abusive enough. He plans to continue murdering people in the Caribbean Sea because the law and these humans are of no concern to him. All this thanks to John Roberts.
November 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
He wants to kill Obamacare, but has no other plan. He is not satisfied with his deportation operation because his ICE agents are not abusive enough. He plans to continue murdering people in the Caribbean Sea because the law and these humans are of no concern to him. All this thanks to John Roberts.
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a woman just trying to get home gets shot
June 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
a woman just trying to get home gets shot
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Two dolls
Five pencils
Tariff break for Bentleys
A memecoin contest for dinner w/Trump & White House tour
A $2 billion stablecoin purchase
A free 747 for Trump's presidential 'library' (libraries do not need 747s) from Qatar
A lot of news the last few weeks
Five pencils
Tariff break for Bentleys
A memecoin contest for dinner w/Trump & White House tour
A $2 billion stablecoin purchase
A free 747 for Trump's presidential 'library' (libraries do not need 747s) from Qatar
A lot of news the last few weeks
May 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Two dolls
Five pencils
Tariff break for Bentleys
A memecoin contest for dinner w/Trump & White House tour
A $2 billion stablecoin purchase
A free 747 for Trump's presidential 'library' (libraries do not need 747s) from Qatar
A lot of news the last few weeks
Five pencils
Tariff break for Bentleys
A memecoin contest for dinner w/Trump & White House tour
A $2 billion stablecoin purchase
A free 747 for Trump's presidential 'library' (libraries do not need 747s) from Qatar
A lot of news the last few weeks
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Back in the USSR
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Here’s a joke for you: “After a speech, Brezhnev confronts his speechwriter. "I asked for a 15-minute speech, but the one you gave me lasted 45 minutes!" The speechwriter replies: "I gave you three copies..."
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Back in the USSR
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Here’s a joke for you: “After a speech, Brezhnev confronts his speechwriter. "I asked for a 15-minute speech, but the one you gave me lasted 45 minutes!" The speechwriter replies: "I gave you three copies..."
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May 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Back in the USSR
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Here’s a joke for you: “After a speech, Brezhnev confronts his speechwriter. "I asked for a 15-minute speech, but the one you gave me lasted 45 minutes!" The speechwriter replies: "I gave you three copies..."
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Back in the USSR
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Here’s a joke for you: “After a speech, Brezhnev confronts his speechwriter. "I asked for a 15-minute speech, but the one you gave me lasted 45 minutes!" The speechwriter replies: "I gave you three copies..."
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Farm trade wars are wild because we've already done similar things in the past, and it did NOT work out for the US farmers in question.
Let's talk about the trade war part of the US Civil War, one of the biggest farmer self-owns in world history.
Let's talk about the trade war part of the US Civil War, one of the biggest farmer self-owns in world history.
April 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Farm trade wars are wild because we've already done similar things in the past, and it did NOT work out for the US farmers in question.
Let's talk about the trade war part of the US Civil War, one of the biggest farmer self-owns in world history.
Let's talk about the trade war part of the US Civil War, one of the biggest farmer self-owns in world history.
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Trump is requiring the United Kingdom to get rid of laws protecting LGBTQ people before he will agree to a trade deal with them.
Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal
‘Good chance’ of agreement, says JD Vance – but sources say his concerns over Britain’s hate speech laws ‘are still a red line’
www.independent.co.uk
April 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Trump is requiring the United Kingdom to get rid of laws protecting LGBTQ people before he will agree to a trade deal with them.
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DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
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This whole thread & reply chain
i have heard from 3x separate manufacturers this week (not even through work, these are friends) that they're shutting down manufacturing due to tariffs.
April 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This whole thread & reply chain
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grammar nerds, assemble
April 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
grammar nerds, assemble
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The Signalgate “idiot” who caused — and is now investigating — the scandal reportedly hosted multiple chats about national security on the app.
You can’t make this shit up. 🙄
You can’t make this shit up. 🙄
Signalgate ‘Idiot’ Actually Had Lots of Sensitive Group Chats
U.S. officials said that Mike Waltz had started several “sensitive national-security conversations” on Signal.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Signalgate “idiot” who caused — and is now investigating — the scandal reportedly hosted multiple chats about national security on the app.
You can’t make this shit up. 🙄
You can’t make this shit up. 🙄
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HOW TO REFUTE the error of WHATABOUTISM:
1/ Whataboutism is a powerful fallacy because it doesn’t just avoid the original issue— it attacks the person raising it! Instead of addressing the problem at hand, it shifts focus by accusing the other side of hypocrisy or pointing to their own flaws.
1/ Whataboutism is a powerful fallacy because it doesn’t just avoid the original issue— it attacks the person raising it! Instead of addressing the problem at hand, it shifts focus by accusing the other side of hypocrisy or pointing to their own flaws.
March 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
HOW TO REFUTE the error of WHATABOUTISM:
1/ Whataboutism is a powerful fallacy because it doesn’t just avoid the original issue— it attacks the person raising it! Instead of addressing the problem at hand, it shifts focus by accusing the other side of hypocrisy or pointing to their own flaws.
1/ Whataboutism is a powerful fallacy because it doesn’t just avoid the original issue— it attacks the person raising it! Instead of addressing the problem at hand, it shifts focus by accusing the other side of hypocrisy or pointing to their own flaws.
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Now "other benefits" can mean a lot of things: tax cuts, deregulation, etc.
But tax cuts & deregulation only help so much. They're useless if you lose your farm to trade wars!
What *does* keep your farm afloat during a trade war, though? Free money!
But tax cuts & deregulation only help so much. They're useless if you lose your farm to trade wars!
What *does* keep your farm afloat during a trade war, though? Free money!
March 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Now "other benefits" can mean a lot of things: tax cuts, deregulation, etc.
But tax cuts & deregulation only help so much. They're useless if you lose your farm to trade wars!
What *does* keep your farm afloat during a trade war, though? Free money!
But tax cuts & deregulation only help so much. They're useless if you lose your farm to trade wars!
What *does* keep your farm afloat during a trade war, though? Free money!
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"So why do y'all keep supporting him?"
He mumbled something about how there are "other benefits" to being in the Trump coalition that his farmers & industry group members "didn't want to miss out on." So they prefer to "support Trump in public, and negotiate out their differences quietly."
He mumbled something about how there are "other benefits" to being in the Trump coalition that his farmers & industry group members "didn't want to miss out on." So they prefer to "support Trump in public, and negotiate out their differences quietly."
March 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"So why do y'all keep supporting him?"
He mumbled something about how there are "other benefits" to being in the Trump coalition that his farmers & industry group members "didn't want to miss out on." So they prefer to "support Trump in public, and negotiate out their differences quietly."
He mumbled something about how there are "other benefits" to being in the Trump coalition that his farmers & industry group members "didn't want to miss out on." So they prefer to "support Trump in public, and negotiate out their differences quietly."
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Last year I had a sit-down with a major farm lobby rep.
I said "Hey, we both know Trump'll stab you in the back. You know he doesn't care if your farms are viable or not. He'll wreck your livelihood just because he's feeling mad about China that day."
And he said "Yeah, we know!"
I said "Hey, we both know Trump'll stab you in the back. You know he doesn't care if your farms are viable or not. He'll wreck your livelihood just because he's feeling mad about China that day."
And he said "Yeah, we know!"
March 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Last year I had a sit-down with a major farm lobby rep.
I said "Hey, we both know Trump'll stab you in the back. You know he doesn't care if your farms are viable or not. He'll wreck your livelihood just because he's feeling mad about China that day."
And he said "Yeah, we know!"
I said "Hey, we both know Trump'll stab you in the back. You know he doesn't care if your farms are viable or not. He'll wreck your livelihood just because he's feeling mad about China that day."
And he said "Yeah, we know!"
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Trump's trade wars will push fert & fuel prices up- for ex, 80% of the US's potash fertilizer comes from Canada. Trump just tariff'd it.
And US farmers will lose lots of sales as trade wars shut off their export markets.
Farmers knew this bc he ran on it!
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
And US farmers will lose lots of sales as trade wars shut off their export markets.
Farmers knew this bc he ran on it!
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
US, Canadian farmers face soaring fertilizer prices amid Trump trade war
With only weeks until spring planting on both sides of the border gets underway, Canadian and U.S. farmers, already facing low grain prices, are bracing for another economic blow: even bigger fertilizer bills amid a North American trade war.
www.reuters.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Trump's trade wars will push fert & fuel prices up- for ex, 80% of the US's potash fertilizer comes from Canada. Trump just tariff'd it.
And US farmers will lose lots of sales as trade wars shut off their export markets.
Farmers knew this bc he ran on it!
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
And US farmers will lose lots of sales as trade wars shut off their export markets.
Farmers knew this bc he ran on it!
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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If you remember 2022 when I kept saying "The global wheat shortage is not real. Stop panic-buying & driving up prices" & I was right? (Foreign Policy does!)
This is me telling you "the US farm situation right now is very bad. We SHOULD worry about this."
foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/12/r...
This is me telling you "the US farm situation right now is very bad. We SHOULD worry about this."
foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/12/r...
Panicky Markets Are the Greatest Danger to Global Food Supply
The loss of Ukrainian and Russian wheat can be made up elsewhere.
foreignpolicy.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If you remember 2022 when I kept saying "The global wheat shortage is not real. Stop panic-buying & driving up prices" & I was right? (Foreign Policy does!)
This is me telling you "the US farm situation right now is very bad. We SHOULD worry about this."
foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/12/r...
This is me telling you "the US farm situation right now is very bad. We SHOULD worry about this."
foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/12/r...