Sandra ✒ SL Gore
@gorenielsen.bsky.social
An old gypsy living my life between a California beachtown and Copenhagen. Been an activist forever. Author time travel trilogy The Red Mirror 🔥
School Board, Parks & Rec and Planning Commissioner. Fiercely Democratic. #KeeperOfTheFlame 💙
School Board, Parks & Rec and Planning Commissioner. Fiercely Democratic. #KeeperOfTheFlame 💙
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Sandra ✒ SL Gore
@gorenielsen.bsky.social
· Nov 11
The media and misinformation plus racism and misogyny elected him. So obvious it doesn't warrant more explanation.
I have to go back to Denmark and face my friends and family who cannot understand how America could be so stupid.
I have to go back to Denmark and face my friends and family who cannot understand how America could be so stupid.
Please read this beautifully written tragic tale
Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Please read this beautifully written tragic tale
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Actual humans who are knowledgeable about such things concluded the same.
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Actual humans who are knowledgeable about such things concluded the same.
I watched this with my mom. We had been sent home from school early. Called us all to special assembly in the gym, then we piled into school busses. Everyone was quiet, in shock. We only knew JFK had been shot.
Walter Cronkite on CBS delivering the announcement of JFK’s death, 62 years ago today.
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I watched this with my mom. We had been sent home from school early. Called us all to special assembly in the gym, then we piled into school busses. Everyone was quiet, in shock. We only knew JFK had been shot.
Social and society come from same root
socius: friend, companion
socialis: allied
sociare: to share or unite
socius: friend, companion
socialis: allied
sociare: to share or unite
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Social and society come from same root
socius: friend, companion
socialis: allied
sociare: to share or unite
socius: friend, companion
socialis: allied
sociare: to share or unite
Any crazy convoluted scheme to avoid the easiest and most sensible solution - Medicare for all.
Trump has said he wants to give consumers the federal dollars that would go to health insurance companies.
Trump Says He Wants Obamacare Alternative Done By End Of January—After Subsidies Expire
Trump has said he wants to give consumers the federal dollars that would go to health insurance companies.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Any crazy convoluted scheme to avoid the easiest and most sensible solution - Medicare for all.
I wish I could believe this will be averted
"Too little was done too late”: New commentary with PIK director Johan Rockström warns of rising planetary risks after a missed decade of action. Climate & biosphere pressures keep increasing, but stabilising the Earth system is still within reach.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I wish I could believe this will be averted
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mailed my 100 hand written postcards to TN7 this morning as per turnoutpac.org/postcards instructions. @aftynbehn.bsky.social i really hope you do shock the world!
you've got this cause the whole country is rooting for you💙
#flipTN7
#shocktheworld
#thetnholler
#bittersoutherner
you've got this cause the whole country is rooting for you💙
#flipTN7
#shocktheworld
#thetnholler
#bittersoutherner
November 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
👏👏👏
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BREAKING: AOC on MTG retiring:
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
BREAKING: AOC on MTG retiring:
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
Trump's Peace Plan is a sellout to Putin.
‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Trump's Peace Plan is a sellout to Putin.
Trump so wishes he had a son like this.
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Trump so wishes he had a son like this.
MbS and Zohran. I'd say Donald has a type.
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
MbS and Zohran. I'd say Donald has a type.
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Zohran Charmdani
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Zohran Charmdani
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Reporter: Would you feel comfortable living in New York City under a Mamdani administration?
Pres. Trump: Yeah, I would.
Pres. Trump: Yeah, I would.
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Reporter: Would you feel comfortable living in New York City under a Mamdani administration?
Pres. Trump: Yeah, I would.
Pres. Trump: Yeah, I would.
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he never looks at JD that way
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
he never looks at JD that way
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#GrumpyPolitics This race is so close, and definitely worth celebrating. You can go to mobilize.us and help with phone banking
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#GrumpyPolitics This race is so close, and definitely worth celebrating. You can go to mobilize.us and help with phone banking
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The first independent poll of this election has me tied for first place!
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The first independent poll of this election has me tied for first place!
We have so much talent in California
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 AM
We have so much talent in California
Long-standing policies are broken every day in the Trump regime.
CIA reportedly 'alarmed' by the meeting, which broke a longstanding policy of not speaking with convicted spies.
White House unaware that US ambassador to Israel met with convicted spy
CIA reportedly 'alarmed' by the meeting, which broke a longstanding policy of not speaking with convicted spies.
bit.ly
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Long-standing policies are broken every day in the Trump regime.
This is the new America and everybody needs to wake up fast.
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This is the new America and everybody needs to wake up fast.
Thank you for the reminder
'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.'
h/t @cocacolakid
h/t @cocacolakid
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Thank you for the reminder
Dare I ask who/how/when put those signs up?
Here’s the Mexican Marines removing signs stating that the Mexican beach is a restricted area by the US Department of Defense. Yes, it’s real.
November 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Dare I ask who/how/when put those signs up?
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Still think we’re not there yet?
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Still think we’re not there yet?
Until SCOTUS steps in.
Sorry to be so cynical, but truly I tire of this.
Sorry to be so cynical, but truly I tire of this.
A federal judge has halted Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C.
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Until SCOTUS steps in.
Sorry to be so cynical, but truly I tire of this.
Sorry to be so cynical, but truly I tire of this.
Hollywood could not have contrived an international conspiracy on this scale.
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hollywood could not have contrived an international conspiracy on this scale.