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Lately the Neal Diamond song “America” has been playing in a continuous loop in my head. I can’t help but look down in shame and wonder how much longer will people be “… coming to America.” It’s a sad, sad time for the USA.
December 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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"The day that will live in infamy" has mostly died of neglect.
December 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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RFK Jr wants to stop vaccinating babies for Hep B.
Children will suffer and die.
Needlessly.

I will say it again and again and again: RFK Jr is the most dangerous man in this regime. He will go down in history as destroying America's public health and causing the deaths of millions bc of it.
RFK Jr. Is Coming For Another Vaccine That's Been Around For 44 Years
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December 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Republicans have a million ideas regarding health care. Except one.

They will never acknowledge that health care is a human right — to be guaranteed to ALL.
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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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
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."

This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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good work guys you picked a fight in which Dems can stand up out of their permanent defensive crouch and go “our guy is a fucking astronaut and you’re an alcoholic tv host”
Gallego to Hegseth: "You will never ever be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are. I can't wait until you are no longer the secretary of defense."
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Pileated Woodpecker

Hard at work...
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Donald Trump is now saying Democratic lawmakers who encouraged servicemembers to follow the law should be put to death.

When are Republicans going to grow a spine to call this out?
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I’m bummed.
Gutted by the Dems caving after the blue-wave wins of last week? Sick & tired of us snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? I hear you! Might I suggest you calm yourself, relax, take a deep, cleansing breath... then see if this photo of 2 pandas cuddling is of any help.
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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A leaked memo shows Trump is trying to deny furloughed federal employees the backpay they are legally entitled to after the government shutdown ends. This won’t be allowed to stand. And it’s because of a law he signed!
Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims
Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...
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October 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Trump is once again threatening federal workers. This time, it’s because he wants to avoid a conversation about lowering folks’ health care costs. He is unbelievable!
September 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Today, we pause in remembrance of the thousands of lives lost on September 11, 2001.

To the families and communities still grieving their loved ones, no matter how many years pass, we will never forget your loss.
September 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Really sad news for Augusta County, where the local medical group had the courage to say that they’re closing three clinics because of the Big, Ugly Bill. They’re among the first, but they won’t be the last – we’re all going to be footing the bill when this disastrous bill goes into full effect.
September 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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This administration won’t stop until it undermines all our independent institutions and centralizes power under its far-right cronies.

From the Fed to the CDC, they’re chasing out nonpartisan career professionals that don’t bow to their crazy ideas.
August 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.
August 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Great Blue Heron

Contemplation...
August 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Tuesday
August 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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No “President” has a right to strip citizenship and deport people who challenge his policies. That’s fascism, not America.
July 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Floral snapshot, July, in case your brain is noisy and overloaded:
July 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. 

A reminder that abortion bans are not "pro-life."

They are pro-poverty & pro-inequality. https://youtu.be/SN3oLwO0OEE?si=eRK9ZK-0doOhECIj
Why Abortion Bans Aren’t Pro-Life | Robert Reich
Being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term means: Families are 4x more likely to live below poverty line Parent
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June 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Three years after the Dobbs decisions turned back the clock 50 years, restricted access to health care, and risked women’s lives, I’m still fighting to restore the right to abortion.

I’m proud to reintroduce legislation to restore reproductive health care across the country.
June 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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This emergency ruling is as bad, if not worse than any of the worst written rulings in the history of this country.
Beyond #immoral, #inhumane: #SCOTUS says not only can people be #kidnapped, w/o due process, by masked men, and sent, with NOTHING, to a place unknown to them. Prob one at war. There are no #Christians or believers in anything in the US govt. Last gift article. wapo.st/3HUZO3J #IMPEACH them all.
Supreme Court for now allows Trump to deport migrants to ‘third countries’
The case centered on President Donald Trump’s attempt to deport migrants from Cuba, Vietnam, Myanmar, Mexico and elsewhere to South Sudan.
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June 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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June 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM