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Sonja
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👋 Live music brings me great joy. So does food. 📚
🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴‍☠️ 🔵
Here to learn, share, vent, debate, laugh.
She/her, disabled 💉😷 novid.
Secular humanist tst member. Indy/IN/USA. Part time badass.
Sinclair owns hundreds of local tv affiliate stations. They edit all their local news stations and force mandatory right-wing stories. They have waiting for a moment to prove their loyalty to the lead magat.
I'm sure the "news programming" replacing Kimmel's show will be quite comical.
September 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
September 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"The ability to tell the truth, especially when it does not suit any particularly partisan aims, is an essential prerequisite for a free society."
Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
www.science.org
August 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"The Episcopal Church announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling the Afrikaner refugees."
White South African Afrikaner refugees arrive in U.S. on a government-chartered plane
The first group of white Afrikaner South Africans granted refugee status by Trump administration arrive in U.S. as most other refugee admissions still suspended.
www.npr.org
May 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
PBS kids was my early childhood education. Beyond my ABCs and 123s, it taught me a passion for learning, to treat others with kindness, to understand and appreciate the world outside of my own experience.
#ProtectMyPublicMedia
#savethelibraries
#SaveEducation
#SaveKnowledge
#SaveTheUSA
Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR
The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS."
www.pbs.org
May 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
It's too bad politicians work harder to spin than represent people.
Democracy at a Crossroads: How Americans View Trump’s First 100 Days in Office | PRRI
PRRI interviewed more than 5,000 adults to assess Americans’ views on President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office. This survey explores voter satisfaction and regret, Trump’s job approval and fa...
www.prri.org
April 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The kitties are not amused.
April 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Gift article. I haven't read it yet. Not enough spoons tonight.
‘I Run the Country and the World’
Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.
www.theatlantic.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
They will try it if he survives this term.
Trump store is selling ‘Trump 2028’ hats
The “Made in America Trump 2028” hats retail for $50 on the Trump Store website.
ground.news
April 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The Department of Homeland Security is now doxxing US citizens.
Trump’s DHS posted Jennifer Vasquez Sura’s home address online—while her husband, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is trapped in an El Salvador prison the courts ordered him returned from. Now she and her kids are in a safe house. This is cruelty, not governance.
April 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Reposted by Sonja
WATCH: After he got lit up by Dems for his multiple anti-DEI bills, we caught up with @AronMaberry — who tried to tell us DEI discriminates against Black people 🤔

(He also had never heard of the Rooney Rule, which @HakeemForHouse later explained to him)
April 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Day 3 of 40mg prednisone for bronchitis.
My mind is all over the place, like ADD on crack.
My emotions... extreme, also all over the fucking place.
I would love to sleep through the 5 days I'm on it.
Ambien isn't even slowing it down.
Prednisone is the devil.
April 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Fired for refusing to recommend Mel Gibson get his gun rights back, former DoJ attorney was warned not to testify. Intimidation failed.
Attorney fired from DOJ sounds alarm on "ongoing corruption"
Liz Oyer, a former Justice Department attorney, was allegedly fired after objecting to actor Mel Gibson regaining his gun rights.
www.newsweek.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
More destruction to "prove" it's broken
April 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Are war planning conversations usually on record? Is that why they were on signal, to avoid a record? No one seemed concerned that it was a security risk? Or is this the norm?
March 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Reposted by Sonja
Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…

“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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March 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The self-proclaimed victim of discrimination has gone viral. There have been threats made to the beloved inclusive jazz club.
#notoleranceforintolerance #Chatterbox #bluedot #Indy
Elise Hensley’s Disturbing Pattern of Hate Unveiled: From Anti-LGBTQ Slurs to a Vile School Shooting Wish
March 19, 2025 – Indianapolis, IndianaBy Hoosier Enquirer StaffElise Hensley, recently dubbed the “MAGA Hat girl” after a viral confrontation at Indianapolis’ Chatterbox Bar, has found herself at the ...
www.hoosierenquirer.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
March 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM