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Farmer’s daughter recently retired from an IT career. Blue dot in a red state. Daily goals: Learn, make, give, thank. I post about #genealogy and politics.
Reposted by America is an idea
Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.
Reposted by America is an idea
Trump is going to keep saying unhinged things.
But here's what he and Democrats are really fighting about: whether millions of people are going to lose their health care and millions more are going to have their premiums double.
Every American should know this.
But here's what he and Democrats are really fighting about: whether millions of people are going to lose their health care and millions more are going to have their premiums double.
Every American should know this.
September 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Trump is going to keep saying unhinged things.
But here's what he and Democrats are really fighting about: whether millions of people are going to lose their health care and millions more are going to have their premiums double.
Every American should know this.
But here's what he and Democrats are really fighting about: whether millions of people are going to lose their health care and millions more are going to have their premiums double.
Every American should know this.
Reposted by America is an idea
Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
Add more depth to your #OnePlaceStudies by asking a native to give you a walking or driving tour of places significant to them. I've learned a lot about areas I thought I knew well. Fun to see old places with new eyes! Family homes, schools, workplaces, churches, favorite haunts.
September 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Add more depth to your #OnePlaceStudies by asking a native to give you a walking or driving tour of places significant to them. I've learned a lot about areas I thought I knew well. Fun to see old places with new eyes! Family homes, schools, workplaces, churches, favorite haunts.
Reposted by America is an idea
Fifteen years after Citizens United opened the floodgates of corporate and dark political money, the Center for American Progress has figured out how to slam them back shut.
CAP published its groundbreaking how-to report today: "The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant."
CAP published its groundbreaking how-to report today: "The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant."
The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant
By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics.
www.americanprogress.org
September 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Fifteen years after Citizens United opened the floodgates of corporate and dark political money, the Center for American Progress has figured out how to slam them back shut.
CAP published its groundbreaking how-to report today: "The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant."
CAP published its groundbreaking how-to report today: "The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant."
Fire this guy
Live fact check of RFK:
- Medicaid bill cuts $800 billion, adds $50 billion. Hospitals will close, that’s a fact
- American Medical Providers - the ones you’d want caring for your loved - do NOT support RFK, despite his claims
- Chronic disease has always existed. It’s not “Biden’s fault.”
- Medicaid bill cuts $800 billion, adds $50 billion. Hospitals will close, that’s a fact
- American Medical Providers - the ones you’d want caring for your loved - do NOT support RFK, despite his claims
- Chronic disease has always existed. It’s not “Biden’s fault.”
September 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Fire this guy
Reposted by America is an idea
They can’t disappear the tax cuts for billionaires (lower rates than plumbers) and huge corporations (some zero tax)—big political donors.
Trump aides plan megabill marketing reboot for GOP lawmakers
A Wednesday briefing will urge a focus on "working families" after the president questioned his "big, beautiful" branding.
www.politico.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
They can’t disappear the tax cuts for billionaires (lower rates than plumbers) and huge corporations (some zero tax)—big political donors.
Reposted by America is an idea
Signed before flood relief. Before flood warning sirens. Before any other bill on his desk.
The governor's no. 1 priority was always the racist, rigged maps.
#txlege
The governor's no. 1 priority was always the racist, rigged maps.
#txlege
Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday signed into law a new congressional map President Donald Trump requested to give Texas Republicans five new seats in Congress and help the GOP hold the House during the midterms.
bit.ly/45XVTvi
bit.ly/45XVTvi
August 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Signed before flood relief. Before flood warning sirens. Before any other bill on his desk.
The governor's no. 1 priority was always the racist, rigged maps.
#txlege
The governor's no. 1 priority was always the racist, rigged maps.
#txlege
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-25-.... JB is not playing along
August 25, 2025
This morning, President Donald J.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-25-.... JB is not playing along
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I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/
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In the Matter of Lisa Cook
Trump’s attempt to fire a Fed governor is illegal. Now we find out whether that matters.
paulkrugman.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-the-mat...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-the-mat...
Good advice from Jay Kuo. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Not So Fast, Donald
Trump’s plan to “deploy troops” into blue cities is a paper tiger. We can’t let its roar provoke us into escalation.
open.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Good advice from Jay Kuo. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Reposted by America is an idea
There is wisdom in his words.
August 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There is wisdom in his words.
Reposted by America is an idea
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
August 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
Reposted by America is an idea
Holy shit. This legit gave me chills.
Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.
WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.
Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.
WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.
August 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Holy shit. This legit gave me chills.
Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.
WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.
Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.
WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.
Reposted by America is an idea
It amazes me that they thought they could steal all those billions of words so painstakingly produced and get away with it. But questions for publishers who have clearly colluded without remunerating authors. I've belatedly been asked to sign an agreement for use of work already in use by AI bots..
August 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
It amazes me that they thought they could steal all those billions of words so painstakingly produced and get away with it. But questions for publishers who have clearly colluded without remunerating authors. I've belatedly been asked to sign an agreement for use of work already in use by AI bots..
Reposted by America is an idea
mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants.
RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.
RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.
August 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants.
RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.
RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.
Reposted by America is an idea
Fantastic piece by @jamellebouie.net on the VRA and the long arc of the American Republic(s)
(gift link)
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Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Fantastic piece by @jamellebouie.net on the VRA and the long arc of the American Republic(s)
(gift link)
(gift link)
Reposted by America is an idea
Pure Americana.
August 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Pure Americana.
Reposted by America is an idea
Ken,
TX Constitution, Article 3, Sec. 14:
PRIVILEGE FROM ARREST DURING LEGISLATIVE SESSION. Senators and Representatives shall, except in cases of treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during the session of the Legislature, and in going to and returning from the same.
TX Constitution, Article 3, Sec. 14:
PRIVILEGE FROM ARREST DURING LEGISLATIVE SESSION. Senators and Representatives shall, except in cases of treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during the session of the Legislature, and in going to and returning from the same.
August 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Ken,
TX Constitution, Article 3, Sec. 14:
PRIVILEGE FROM ARREST DURING LEGISLATIVE SESSION. Senators and Representatives shall, except in cases of treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during the session of the Legislature, and in going to and returning from the same.
TX Constitution, Article 3, Sec. 14:
PRIVILEGE FROM ARREST DURING LEGISLATIVE SESSION. Senators and Representatives shall, except in cases of treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during the session of the Legislature, and in going to and returning from the same.
Reposted by America is an idea
This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.
September 28, 2024 at 6:34 PM
This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.
Continuing my study of 1800s migrants from Oberpullendorf district of Hungary (now Austria) to Kansas, identifying connections among the 48 Hungarian passengers of the Bark Johannes in April 1866 and reading up on the looming war that they escaped.
#OnePlaceStudies
#OnePlaceStudies
July 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Continuing my study of 1800s migrants from Oberpullendorf district of Hungary (now Austria) to Kansas, identifying connections among the 48 Hungarian passengers of the Bark Johannes in April 1866 and reading up on the looming war that they escaped.
#OnePlaceStudies
#OnePlaceStudies
Reposted by America is an idea
My friend, David Pepper of Ohio, wrote a book called Laboratories of Autocracy . This is what he was talking about.
Our states have been run as authoritarian proving grounds for decades. What they’ve done to us, they plan to do to the entire country.
Our states have been run as authoritarian proving grounds for decades. What they’ve done to us, they plan to do to the entire country.
July 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
My friend, David Pepper of Ohio, wrote a book called Laboratories of Autocracy . This is what he was talking about.
Our states have been run as authoritarian proving grounds for decades. What they’ve done to us, they plan to do to the entire country.
Our states have been run as authoritarian proving grounds for decades. What they’ve done to us, they plan to do to the entire country.
See how close he came to saying “personal principles “?
Mike Johnson is used to giving up on his personal preferences.
July 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
See how close he came to saying “personal principles “?