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Thinking Artist with passion for active #Democracy by & for The People 💙. Support a free #Ukraine & #Crimea 🇺🇦 & elimination of the #ElectoralCollege.
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Support #Empathy, people with #Disabilities employment & #MentalHealth.
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Lately following several subjects & organizing info:
- #Ukraine #PeaceTalks, #Ukraine view, #Russian demands & #EU responses
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- #Trump #Legal issues
- #US #Protests: privacy, gutting govt, attack on safetynets, elections/democracy
Lately following several subjects & organizing info:
- #Ukraine #PeaceTalks, #Ukraine view, #Russian demands & #EU responses
- #TrumpAdministration #Incompetence & #Overreach
- #Trump #Legal issues
- #US #Protests: privacy, gutting govt, attack on safetynets, elections/democracy
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Remember when I said he's getting worse?
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember when I said he's getting worse?
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You know, apropos of nothing in particular, and although I haven't researched it yet, I strongly suspect that a president starting a foreign war to distract from his extensive ties with child sex traffickers is probably a high crime or misdemeanor under the Constitution's impeachment clauses.
November 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
You know, apropos of nothing in particular, and although I haven't researched it yet, I strongly suspect that a president starting a foreign war to distract from his extensive ties with child sex traffickers is probably a high crime or misdemeanor under the Constitution's impeachment clauses.
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Hegseth is a dude-bro sporting some questionable tattoos, a creation of television who’s acting as if he won "The Apprentice: The Nuclear-Weapons Season."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job
He should be secretary of defense.
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Hegseth is a dude-bro sporting some questionable tattoos, a creation of television who’s acting as if he won "The Apprentice: The Nuclear-Weapons Season."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Bondi really wants to go to prison when this is over.
🚨BREAKING: The FBI has requested interviews with a group of Democratic lawmakers who reminded U.S. military and intelligence service members in a video last week that they are obligated to refuse illegal orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
FBI Investigating Dems Who Warned Military of Unlawful Orders
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Bondi really wants to go to prison when this is over.
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If his cabinet was moral, competent, and wanted what’s best for America, I think that having Trump distracted by the ballroom would be a good thing, but I fear that his cabinet may have started this to keep him distracted so they could do worse things than even he would agree to.
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
If his cabinet was moral, competent, and wanted what’s best for America, I think that having Trump distracted by the ballroom would be a good thing, but I fear that his cabinet may have started this to keep him distracted so they could do worse things than even he would agree to.
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25th AMENDMENT to the U.S. Constitution
sections 4 =
"provides the procedure for replacing the PRESIDENT or Vice-President in the event of death,
*REMOVAL,
*RESIGNATION, or
*INCAPACITATION 🤪
sections 4 =
"provides the procedure for replacing the PRESIDENT or Vice-President in the event of death,
*REMOVAL,
*RESIGNATION, or
*INCAPACITATION 🤪
November 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
25th AMENDMENT to the U.S. Constitution
sections 4 =
"provides the procedure for replacing the PRESIDENT or Vice-President in the event of death,
*REMOVAL,
*RESIGNATION, or
*INCAPACITATION 🤪
sections 4 =
"provides the procedure for replacing the PRESIDENT or Vice-President in the event of death,
*REMOVAL,
*RESIGNATION, or
*INCAPACITATION 🤪
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Every National Holiday... he issues an extra spicy hateful post
It's as if he can't stand to think of US having a day where the attentions isn't on him... and wants to eff up everyone's good time. Goblin.
It's as if he can't stand to think of US having a day where the attentions isn't on him... and wants to eff up everyone's good time. Goblin.
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Every National Holiday... he issues an extra spicy hateful post
It's as if he can't stand to think of US having a day where the attentions isn't on him... and wants to eff up everyone's good time. Goblin.
It's as if he can't stand to think of US having a day where the attentions isn't on him... and wants to eff up everyone's good time. Goblin.
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A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits."
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits."
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First, the temperature/boreal forests turned to carbon source from sink, now the tropical forests are comfirmed to be sources also (instead of sinka what they used to be). That leaves oceans, which are heating up fast... this all is not good at all 1/n
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Africa’s forests transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, study finds
Alarming shift since 2010 means planet’s three main rainforest regions now contribute to climate breakdown
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
First, the temperature/boreal forests turned to carbon source from sink, now the tropical forests are comfirmed to be sources also (instead of sinka what they used to be). That leaves oceans, which are heating up fast... this all is not good at all 1/n
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Some valuable local reporting with national implications
🧵 Every year since Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest event in Phoenix began, there has been an afterparty hosted by the Republicans for National Renewal fascists which brings together more of the extreme right that hangs around AmFest and multiple local elected officials. This year is no different…
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The Christmas Crusade
Join Republicans for National Renewal and NICO PAC for a fun night of conservative Christmas cheer.
DECEMBER 20TH, 2025
8:00-10:00 PM
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AZ Senate President Warren Petersen
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Republicans for National Renewal
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State House candidate David Rose
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December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Some valuable local reporting with national implications
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The UN warns of a sharp rise in civilian casualties amid escalating Russian attacks.
Here are the main points of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine report, November 25, 2025.
Here are the main points of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine report, November 25, 2025.
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The UN warns of a sharp rise in civilian casualties amid escalating Russian attacks.
Here are the main points of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine report, November 25, 2025.
Here are the main points of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine report, November 25, 2025.
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Is Ukraine winning or losing this war?
🔗 ukraineworld.org/en/articles/...
The real question is no longer whether Ukraine can resist Russia, but whether the world chooses to give Ukraine what it needs to turn resistance into victory or leaves it to fight a superpower with a half-empty magazine...
🔗 ukraineworld.org/en/articles/...
The real question is no longer whether Ukraine can resist Russia, but whether the world chooses to give Ukraine what it needs to turn resistance into victory or leaves it to fight a superpower with a half-empty magazine...
Is Ukraine winning or losing this war?
Ukraine is not winning the war so far. On the battlefield, every success is paid for twice: first in blood, then in sustaining it.
ukraineworld.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Is Ukraine winning or losing this war?
🔗 ukraineworld.org/en/articles/...
The real question is no longer whether Ukraine can resist Russia, but whether the world chooses to give Ukraine what it needs to turn resistance into victory or leaves it to fight a superpower with a half-empty magazine...
🔗 ukraineworld.org/en/articles/...
The real question is no longer whether Ukraine can resist Russia, but whether the world chooses to give Ukraine what it needs to turn resistance into victory or leaves it to fight a superpower with a half-empty magazine...
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I'm a very pro-vaccine physician.
Last weekend, I went to the biggest gathering of anti-vaxxers.
More of my public health colleagues should've been there.
I explain why for @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/c...
Last weekend, I went to the biggest gathering of anti-vaxxers.
More of my public health colleagues should've been there.
I explain why for @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/c...
I’m a physician who went to the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest gathering. More of my colleagues should too
A pro-vaccine physician went to the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest gathering. He warns that public health must learn what it’s up against.
www.statnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I'm a very pro-vaccine physician.
Last weekend, I went to the biggest gathering of anti-vaxxers.
More of my public health colleagues should've been there.
I explain why for @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/c...
Last weekend, I went to the biggest gathering of anti-vaxxers.
More of my public health colleagues should've been there.
I explain why for @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/c...
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Remember Andrew Wakefield?
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.
Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.
Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.
Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.
Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Remember Andrew Wakefield?
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.
Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.
Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.
Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.
Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.
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GOP Sen. Roger Wicker, chair of Senate Armed Services committee, opened an investigation into Pete Hegseth’s boat strikes war crime—
Meanwhile it appears #Trump may be on the brink of starting a war with Venezuela — congressional approval be damned
Meanwhile it appears #Trump may be on the brink of starting a war with Venezuela — congressional approval be damned
November 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
GOP Sen. Roger Wicker, chair of Senate Armed Services committee, opened an investigation into Pete Hegseth’s boat strikes war crime—
Meanwhile it appears #Trump may be on the brink of starting a war with Venezuela — congressional approval be damned
Meanwhile it appears #Trump may be on the brink of starting a war with Venezuela — congressional approval be damned
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The fact that 12% of federal judges are Black shows the corruption of DEI. The fact that 67% of Supreme Court Justices belong to a small legal cult called the Federalist Society shows the power of meritocracy.
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The fact that 12% of federal judges are Black shows the corruption of DEI. The fact that 67% of Supreme Court Justices belong to a small legal cult called the Federalist Society shows the power of meritocracy.
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This has got to be one of Gavin Newsom's best...
December 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This has got to be one of Gavin Newsom's best...
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The president is such a bumbling idiot he thinks tweeting out the word "hereby" a couple times on his white supremacist social media site is the same thing as making an actual law.
The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.
The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.
It should go without saying, but the president has no authority to do this, and anyone reporting the story needs to say as such.
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The president is such a bumbling idiot he thinks tweeting out the word "hereby" a couple times on his white supremacist social media site is the same thing as making an actual law.
The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.
The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.
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Thread about an actual drug smuggler who’s about to be pardoned by Trump
Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted by a jury of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Thread about an actual drug smuggler who’s about to be pardoned by Trump
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WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
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During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
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No more pretense or excuses. Trump and his team have made the white supremacist foundations of this project explicit and clear.
If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way.
Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.
If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way.
Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.
To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
No more pretense or excuses. Trump and his team have made the white supremacist foundations of this project explicit and clear.
If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way.
Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.
If you enable this you need to face who and what you are. But you can always choose another way.
Choose humanity. Decency. Equality. Democracy.
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They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
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Remember the ringleader of prison torture at Abu Ghraib, Charles Graner? Was a corrections officer at a notorious prison in Pennsylvania where guards were repeatedly accused of abusing prisoners.
Sent to Abu Ghraib as a military prison guard.
We just REFUSE TO LEARN.
www.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/w...
Sent to Abu Ghraib as a military prison guard.
We just REFUSE TO LEARN.
www.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/w...
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Remember the ringleader of prison torture at Abu Ghraib, Charles Graner? Was a corrections officer at a notorious prison in Pennsylvania where guards were repeatedly accused of abusing prisoners.
Sent to Abu Ghraib as a military prison guard.
We just REFUSE TO LEARN.
www.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/w...
Sent to Abu Ghraib as a military prison guard.
We just REFUSE TO LEARN.
www.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/w...