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Lori Downey
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Inspiring women to step into their collective political power. Mom of two awesome kids 🏀🎾 Life-long learner 📚Travel enthusiast 🌎
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A 58-year-old poll worker is among the 60,000 North Carolina voters whose ballots could be disqualified if a Republican judge's election challenge succeeds.

“I want people to know today it’s North Carolina, and tomorrow it’s another state,” she said.

Read more: https://propub.li/40Jcbpc
February 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Buy your avocados tonight 🥑
February 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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"If you get tired
Learn to rest
Not to quit"

Credit Banksy

Fox Friday
January 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The collective PTSD and extreme anxiety across the nation is off the charts...
February 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
No surprise here...GOP wants "strings attached" to relief funds for the CA wildfires for so-called mismanagement by Dem leaders--where are the demands for funding and accountability from Big Oil CEOs who literally poured gasoline on this fire with their efforts to deny climate change?
Killer CEOs: How Climate Change Became Big Oil’s Biggest Crime
Why the fossil fuel billionaires and their companies bear some responsibility for the fires in Los Angeles…
open.substack.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Take action if you live in North Carolina. Griffin needs to know how we feel about him trying to steal our votes! 🤬

progressnc.actionkit.com/letter/JGCon...
Tell Jefferson Griffin To Concede | ProgressNC
progressnc.actionkit.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Another nail in the coffin of mainstream media. Truth is dead.
December 16, 2024 at 9:27 PM
They will never not choose themselves...never.
This is why I support DEI. The existing system operates to exclude women and minorities. Period.
December 16, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Learning to crochet is turning out to be just the distraction I needed this season. Highly recommend finding something that is both absorbing and stress relieving.
a woman wearing a hat and glasses is holding a glass of wine in a black and white photo .
ALT: a woman wearing a hat and glasses is holding a glass of wine in a black and white photo .
media.tenor.com
December 16, 2024 at 3:21 AM
December 9, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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Thou shalt not accuse others of being criminals when you just made a criminal the commander in chief. Thou shalt stop being a gigantic hypocrite every second of thy life.
December 2, 2024 at 6:41 PM
The NCGA has expanded its voucher scheme with nearly a half billion more dollars while our public schools languish with chronic underfunding...
publicschoolsfirstnc.org/blog/?fbclid...
Blog – Public Schools First NC
publicschoolsfirstnc.org
November 25, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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We remember when they pretended to not know what this was like it was just a few weeks ago. Oh wait…
Ingraham: Project 2025.. a lot of their ideas were just classic MAGA ideas. A lot of them. It was classic. 

Gasparino: This stuff is not insane. This is like classic conservatism. Maga conservatism.
November 24, 2024 at 3:15 AM
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Not watching MSNBC or any other outlet that normalizes this administration whatsoever. Not participating in the bullsht.
November 18, 2024 at 8:44 PM
What is this? Who would actually accept this invite?
November 16, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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Because 73+ million of us are gonna have lots of use for this:
November 15, 2024 at 3:20 AM
When you understand that the goal of Project 2025 is to dismantle the Fed government, Trump's cabinet picks make complete sense.
November 15, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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Just in case I forgot to post Daniel Hunter's fantastic guide here. wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...
10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won
The key to taking effective action if Trump wins is to avoid perpetuating his goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.
wagingnonviolence.org
November 15, 2024 at 2:41 AM
November 15, 2024 at 2:19 AM