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Still an optimist despite it all.
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Before you are allowed to swear to defend the Constitution, you should have to read it beginning to end and pass a test on the contents.
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More fuckery from 45.
Here’s an article with details.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
March 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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israel is committing genocide against palestine and the foundation of the united states is being torn apart to punish the people who think this is bad.
March 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
More abuse and disregarding of the first amendment.
President Trump’s administration has officially expelled South Africa’s ambassador to the U.S., a spokesman for the South African president said on Saturday, calling the decision “regrettable.”
Trump Administration Expels South Africa’s Ambassador to the U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio had lashed out on social media over comments critical of President Trump that the ambassador had made to a think tank in Johannesburg.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Before you are allowed to swear to defend the Constitution, you should have to read it beginning to end and pass a test on the contents.
March 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms
March 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…
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March 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
March 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
There are only two colors—green and brown. Red is not a thing. I’ve never seen it. And color blindness is not a disability.
March 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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We all deserve the freedom to be ourselves – not who Donald Trump wants us to be.

Tell the State Department: Allow transgender people to have control over our own identities.
Tell the Federal Government to keep the Trump Administration’s hands off our data by December 16. Send your comment now.
The Trump administration is denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people – so I’m joining the ACLU to fight back. Urge the State Department to reject this dangerous attack on ou...
action.aclu.org
March 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
February 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Making beans and rice for dinner tonight. Eating in. Playing a board game. Fighting the patriarchy. Watering my plants.
#LatinoFreeze #EconomicBlackout
February 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Give me your rich, your oligarchs, your colluding patriarchs yearning with greed, the felonious excess of your corrupt callousness. Send these, the over-housed, the tempest-cause, to me, I lift my vote and open the door to endless riches.
February 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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February 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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A 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota who had been missing since December was subjected to violence and torture before his body was found last week in a field in New York, the authorities said. Five people were arrested in connection with his death and charged with murder, the police said.
Trans Man Killed in New York Was Tortured for Two Months, Police Say
The body of Sam Nordquist, 24, was found in a field after he had been reported missing. The district attorney in Ontario County, N.Y., called the circumstances surrounding the death “beyond depraved.”
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed, marking the legal end to Jim Crow in the USA. Its Title VI banned discrimination by race among any institution that receives Federal funds.

On Friday, the Acting head of the Ed Dept sent out this letter to all 50 states:

www.ed.gov/media/docume...
www.ed.gov
February 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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You know, the rest of the White House Press Corps could collectively decide to not attend briefings, pressers, or pools until their AP colleagues are reinstated with access, but that would take a modicum of courage and integrity in this moment, wouldn't it?
February 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This and the comments that follow are the best thing on the Internet today.
My son is afraid a hummingbird might rip through his body at 9000mph. Can any professionals on here tell him he is stupid and full of shit
February 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Trans rights are human rights.
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · Feb 13
BREAKING: A federal court temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order aiming to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under age 19 nationwide.

This is a major victory for our freedom to access life-saving care.
February 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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February 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Don’t give in unless you have no choice.
February 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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2 insurrections, same President.
February 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Now updated with the breaking news that Elon Musk's team has been granted full access to the Treasury Department's federal payment system.
February 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“Overhaul” or “dismantling?”
BREAKING: The White House on Tuesday began offering buyouts worth seven months of salary to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by Feb. 6 — part of President Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the U.S. government.
Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months' pay in effort to shrink size of government
The White House has begun offering buyouts worth seven months of salary to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by Feb. 6.
apnews.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM