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Heather McNamara
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I’m just really sick of it all.
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#MorningVibe

“Good energy…I don’t need no negativity around me.”

Look for the good. It’s there. ☮️
December 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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I will never forget
December 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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💥 Imagine being 18, a US citizen, asleep in a broken truck, and 8 masked ICE agents point rifles at you. Handcuffed, injured, no rights read. This is Manny Castillo’s reality. SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE!
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Powerful MAGA
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Of. Course.

One of Charlie Kirk's lieutenants pleads guilty to election fraud

Every. Damn. Time.

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Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
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November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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THE U.S. IS THE ONLY HIGH-INCOME COUNTRY WITHOUT FEDERALLY MANDATED PAID MATERNITY LEAVE BECAUSE FORMULA COMPANIES ACTIVELY LOBBY AGAINST IT
November 16, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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#TN07 The toughest fight in the country is ON.
Climate powerhouse Aftyn Behn is running to flip this seat and JanePAC is all in.
Aftyn fought to protect the TVA, expand solar, & hold polluters like Tyson accountable.
The GOP is betting on this district. Let’s prove them wrong.
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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It’s never been more important to acknowledge nonreligious and non-Christian veterans — including the proverbial “atheists in foxholes” — given the Pentagon’s recent attacks on the constitutional separation between religion and government. ffrf.us/4p7Si66
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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During WWII, Mária Telkes (1900-1995) invented a device that used only sunlight to turn ocean water into drinking water—and it fit in a life raft.

#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen
During WWII, Mária Telkes invented a device that used only sunlight to turn ocean water into drinking water—and it fit in a life raft. Born in Hungary in 1900, Mária earned her PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Budapest in 1924. A year later, she immigrated to the United States. When WWII broke out, the U.S. military faced a deadly challenge: downed pilots and shipwrecked sailors stranded at sea often died not from injuries, but from dehydration. Surrounded by water they couldn't drink. Mária Telkes solved it. She developed the Telkes solar still—a portable, inflatable device made of clear plastic that could be packed into life rafts and emergency kits. Using nothing but sunlight, it evaporated seawater, then condensed the pure water vapor, leaving the salt behind. The device could produce about one quart of fresh drinking water per day - the difference between life and death. The military added her solar stills to life rafts throughout the Navy and Air Force. They remained standard emergency equipment into the 1960s. After the war, in 1948, she began working with architect Eleanor Raymond and, funded by philanthropist Amelia Peabody, she designed and built the Dover Sun House in Massachusetts. It was the first residential building in the world heated entirely by solar power: solar collectors on the south-facing roof captured the sun's heat during the day. But here's the revolutionary part—Mária developed a chemical storage system using Glauber's salt (sodium sulfate) that could store that heat and release it slowly at night and on cloudy days. The Dover Sun House worked successfully for three winters before technical issues emerged (the salt eventually degraded and heating became uneven). But the concept was proven. It was possible. Mária continued her work for decades. She held over 20 patents. She developed thermoelectric devices for NASA. She pioneered phase-change materials for thermal energy storage—the same basic concepts used in modern s…
November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy
November 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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They’re not redistricting — they’re preparing the battlefield. If Trump gets 5 extra seats in Congress, he’ll have the votes to declare emergency rule in any city that dares to dissent. #CAVoteYesProp50
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Stopped at the JCC in Squirrel Hill and saw my sister Heidy! Let's vote Blue up and down the ballot today, and YES to retain all judges.
November 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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September 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Franca Viola, a 17-year-old girl from Sicily who simply said "no," and was kidnapped and raped for that, helped change the laws of an entire nation.

This is #feminism.

Trailer of a movie about her:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvBd...

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In 1965, Franca Viola a 17-year-old girl from Sicily who simply said "no," helped change the law of an entire nation. When she ended a relationship with Filippo Melodia, a man with mafia connections, he didn't accept rejection. On December 26, 1965, Melodia and a group of armed men stormed her family's home, beat her mother, and abducted her and her eight-year-old brother Mariano, who tried desperately to protect his sister. Mariano was released. Franca was not. For eight days, she was held captive. Raped. Terrorized. And constantly pressured to agree to marry her attacker. Because in 1965 Italy, Article 544 of the Italian Penal Code allowed a rapist to escape all punishment if he married his victim. It was called "matrimonio riparatore"—rehabilitating marriage. The idea was that marriage would "restore" the woman's honor, which had been destroyed by the rape. 1965 was the year the Beatles released "Yesterday"; the year America sent troops to Vietnam. In modern Italy, rape victims were expected to marry their rapists or live as damaged, unmarriageable outcasts. When Franca was finally released after eight days, and with her father's support, she refused to marry Filippo Melodia. Instead, she did something unprecedented: she pressed charges. She took him to court. The backlash was immediate and brutal. Her family was shunned. Their fields were set on fire. Their name became synonymous with dishonor. But Franca didn't back down. The trial became a national sensation. For the first time, Italians across the country had to confront the horror of a law that protected rapists and punished victims. Newspapers covered every detail. In 1966, Filippo Melodia was convicted and sentenced to eleven years in prison. Franca Viola became the first woman in Italian history to publicly refuse "rehabilitating marriage" and successfully prosecute her rapist. The cultural shift was seismic. Italy's President Giuseppe Saragat received her. Pope Paul VI—the Pope himself—met with her,…
October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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#PACourtsMatter

Vote YES To RETAIN 🗳️
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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He told everyone who he was and what he was going to do. And yet those who voted for him seem surprised.

Just a year ago too. Seems like a decade
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One year ago
October 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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We live in a government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.
It's time to claim it back for the working class.
October 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I have a couple of neighborhoods they can roll up in and say this sh!t to the faces of POC! I wanna see something. #Pinks #SheShed
October 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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🚨🚨🚨Fake ICE reporting site reports to ICE. Be warned:
October 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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If Winsome Earle-Sears hadn't kept interrupting me, maybe she would have heard what a real plan to make life better for Virginians sounds like.
October 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM