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An artist at heart, currently working on becoming a pediatric OT. Background in fine art photography. Over 10 years as a community radio show host. Lover of art, music, literature, child development, democracy, social justice, freedom.
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Stock market’s crashing, retirement savings are disappearing… and he’s out golfing.
April 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...
U.S.D.A. Freezes Funding for Maine Amid Battle Over Transgender Athletes
The administration concluded last month that Maine had violated federal law by allowing transgender athletes to play on girls’ or women’s teams.
www.nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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America has never been subject to this level of authoritarianism, and quite frankly, sheer incompetence.

Out of the ashes, this moment should radicalize us to embark on an era of new reform — of our economy, our democracy, and our commitment to social justice and the law.
March 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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March 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Oligarchs buying elections with million dollar giveaways. Hopefully people in Wisconsin won’t allow the South African to purchase a seat on your Supreme Court just like he bought the US federal government.
March 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
March 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab.

Over a million people so far are marching across the country. Join us! #HandsOff #Indivisible
Join me on April 5th
app.sosha.ai
March 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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This isn’t legal, Elon.

Musk steps up calls to impeach judges, offering $100 to voters who join in. America PAC is paying registered Wisconsin voters to sign its petition against “activist judges.” Talk about paid protesters. Now, judges are receiving violent threats online.
March 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.
I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
March 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Fact: They didn’t fear what breaking the Dept of Education would do to their kids. Their kids are in fancy private schools.

They are dismantling the Dept of Ed so our kids have no choice but to be undereducated and work for their kids.
March 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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we believe we are special and we simply are not
People are unwilling to believe this country could actually fall apart. They've been unwilling for the last 10 years. And it's that unwillingness that may well kill us in the end.
March 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Bernie hits hard: “Only a coward like Trump sues the media for reporting things he doesn’t like.” I agree. You don’t impeach judges for doing their jobs. You don’t silence free speech because the truth hurts. Trump’s war on democracy isn’t strength—it’s fear. And we should call it what it is.
March 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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bernie and AOC are fucking up our strategy of doing nothing
March 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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🔥 WATCH LIVE: AOC and Bernie Sanders hold MASSIVE Fighting Oligarchy rally in Denver
LIVE: Fighting Oligarchy Tour with AOC And Bernie Sanders (DENVER, CO)
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
www.youtube.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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The wildest part of the JFK files is when Justice Earl Warren writes, "If you are reading this, it means your rights are being shredded by a treasonous autocrat and he is distracting you with bullshit while his oligarchal buddies rob you blind."
March 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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British cartoonist Becky Burke who spent 20 days in harsh conditions in a Tacoma detention centre for a trivial visa issue while crossing into America from Canada is finally on her way home.

The US needs travel warnings now.
March 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
March 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
“Halting a project like that in the middle of the work, that’s an environmental crime,” said Jan Haemers, CEO of another organization that previously worked in Vietnam to clean up Agent Orange in the soil. “If you stop in the middle, it’s worse than if you never started.” #USAID
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
Diplomats in Vietnam warned Washington that halting USAID’s efforts to clean up the massive deposit of postwar pesticides would be a catastrophe for public health and relations with a key strategic pa...
www.propublica.org
March 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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There are more cases of measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA.

Guess which the Republicans are more worried about.
March 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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A Fulbright scholar flees the county after ICE came looking for her - per NYT her social media activity was liking pro-Palestine posts.

We are in deep, folks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...
March 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
February 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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"Even a rogue marshal’s service, in other words, is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law. If courts have the courage, the legal tools are there." -- Prof. David Noll
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...
If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders
Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.
www.democracydocket.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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The point of repeating antisemitic tropes while claiming to fight antisemitism is to evacuate any meaning from the term "antisemitism"
My latest essay: "'Antisemitism' and Antisemitism: The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon"
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
March 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM