Sandra Zahn
sandylongozahn.bsky.social
Sandra Zahn
@sandylongozahn.bsky.social
Wife and mother
retired History and Anthropology teacher
special interest studying Rock Art
Board member San Diego Rock Art Research Association
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Rage Against the Regime Rally” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Rage Against the Regime Rally · Indivisible
Please join us to stop Trump’s cuts! Senate Republicans rammed through their Medicaid and SNAP slashing reconciliation bill. Now it’s headed back to the House for one final vote. So it’s time to turn...
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July 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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NO KINGS Del Mar · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
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June 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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"Humble Francis: A memory of transcendent humanity in Rome"
Others, more knowledgeable than me, will write memorials today. I want to share a single detail from one day in Rome, in January 2018.
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Humble Francis
A memory of transcendent humanity in Rome
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April 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
San Diego, California, Del Mar Heights groups of seniors protesting
April 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.
April 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War.
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Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
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March 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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What California needs now is a little bit of hope and a whole lot of grit. That's why I'm running for Governor.

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Katie Porter for Governor | Official Campaign Website
What California needs is a little bit of hope and a whole lot of grit. Join our team today to help Katie Porter stand up to Donald Trump and lower costs for Californians.
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March 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937
March 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
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February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Given that the Trump people did nothing to induce Russia to end the war, it’s fair to conclude that the whole idea of pursuing peace was just a pretext to renew relations with Russia.
February 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Trump likes being #2, he likes doing the PR work, being in front of the camera, getting the adulation, but serving the boss. Musk will dominate him at home and Putin will dominate him abroad. He will deliver their lines, as he has just done for Putin in shocking fashion, and does for Musk every day.
‘The US Is Doing Russia’s Work’ Say Ecstatic Propagandists

Putin’s mouthpieces are in a lather of excitement over the US administration’s willingness to make a deal to their liking.

My latest for @cepa.org:

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‘The US Is Doing Russia’s Work’ Say Ecstatic Propagandists
Putin’s mouthpieces are in a lather of excitement over the US administration’s willingness to make a deal to their liking.
cepa.org
February 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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"I am on a night train from Kyiv, bound for Zaporizhzhia, a city in the southeast of Ukraine which is about twenty miles from the front... As I get ready to go to sleep, I find myself thinking that Americans are also speeding towards a line."
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Crossing a line
Borders between one kind of life and another
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February 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM