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Martha K.
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No matter who or where we are,
We're all under the same moon
No one is above the Rule of Law
#maskingsaveslives
Piano accompanist / Ret.teacher
#musiceducationmatters
Nature 👉 mental health
Beach sunset fanatic / 💛🐢❤️💚
Never ever lose hope. SoCal
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This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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"For every 1,000 measles cases, there are between 1 and 3 deaths from breathing complications or brain swelling. If there are a million cases, that’s about 1,000 deaths that doctors consider preventable with the use of vaccines"

Also: about 200,000 hospitalized (1 in 5 cases in unvaccinated people)
September 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Abhorrent. My tax dollars being used to handsomely reward people to destroy, to cause pain, to damage .... when so many people doing work to help, to heal, to teach, are struggling to get by.
This is super hard to take.
Notice ICE recruits aren’t hiding their faces. Disgraceful way to make a living!

We’ve got money to hand ICE fat salaries, signing bonuses, even student loan forgiveness (no college degree required). But we can’t afford to pay teachers, fund better healthcare, or keep Social Security alive.
September 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”
August 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Schools where I work and live in California are planning on lockdowns if (when) ICE shows up.
Desperate times.
Orange County Schools Prep for ICE
Here’s how five different school districts in OC are preparing in case federal immigration agents show up to one of their campuses.
voiceofoc.org
August 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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🧵1/6

Hours before a gunman fired nearly 500 rounds 🔫 into CDC HQ — killing Officer David Rose 🚔 and forcing hundreds of us into lockdown — RFK Jr.’s hand-picked vaccine advisor posted a gun photo with this caption:

“Five out of six scientists have proven that Russian roulette is harmless.” 🎯
August 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…
August 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Lesson from a battle worn warrior.
Key point (and difficulty): harnessing the rage for productive action without it consuming me.
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all the time. So that the first problem is how to control that rage so that it won’t destroy you.”
— James Baldwin
August 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Pointless indeed.
Unless the point is cruelty
via hubris.
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 6, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Awareness saves lives.
August 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The 14th Amendment was ratified on this day in 1868. It guarantees:

✔️ due process for all
✔️ birthright citizenship
✔️ equal protection under the law

Now more than ever, we're determined to protect these essential rights.
July 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is great because helplessness is the worst.
July 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Exposé by an Israeli newspaper.
Primary sources are IDF soldiers.
--"Gaza doesn't interest anyone anymore.... It's become a place with its own set of rules. The loss of human life means nothing."--

This is what genocide looks like.
We stop caring at the risk of our humanity. 🧵
June 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." -Thomas Mann
June 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This is the crux. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
I will be watching the court case closely.
June 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
We have the deets. Now we just need the courage.
The missing votes uncovered in the Rockland case are just the tip of the iceberg, which spans across the swing states & into Texas.

The statistical anomalies were concentrated & targeted to swing states, Texas, & specific to Election Day voting.

<The usual suspects in comments>
She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.
How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.
substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My senator. Wtf.
US SENATOR.
Wow. California Sen. Alex Padilla is wrestled and detained by federal officers after showing up to DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference in LA. (video from Bill Melugin of Fox News)
June 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
My god, exactly this.
You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work.

You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.

Get your lies straight.
June 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Believe the people on the ground. They were NOT even there to protest they were IN THEIR CARS. Protests are going to need to implement strategies to counteract these aggressive actions.
Be careful out there.
ICE crossed a line in LA
June 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Yeah wow what a sad embarrassing sad situation it is to identify as a Dem these ... past YEARS. Leadership? What is that. Where is that!?!?! 😣
May 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Respect. Dignity.
And let's not forget affordable equitable healthcare.
Today on Mother’s Day, let’s remember every mother deserves a livable wage, affordable child care, paid family leave, and the ability to retire with dignity.

America must become a nation which treats all mothers and their kids with the respect and dignity they deserve.
May 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
We all need to know that this is happening. Over and over, in multiple states.
“Of course they don’t explain… The crowd chants "Don't take the mother!" over and over again…”

A harrowing account of this horrific scene in Worcester, as ICE grabbed a woman without telling anyone why over the screams over her family: www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...
May 9, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The simplicity ...
... it's elegant, really.
(Sighs and looks off into the distance)
Your School House Rock moment.....
May 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM