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Blue dot in a red state. Married with 3 adult children and 3 grandchildren. We have a boxer named Izzy.
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February 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go, love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.”
~L.R. Knost
November 27, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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We don't know what Elon Musk meant with that hand gesture but we do know he's reinstated Hitler apologists on X, praised an extreme far-right German political party and endorsed the claim that Jews push "hatred against whites" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Antisemitism was rising online. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it.
Antisemitism has long festered on the internet, but the Israel-Gaza war and the loosening of content moderation on X have propelled it to unprecedented levels.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents federal government employees in 37 agencies and departments, has sued President Donald Trump over his order that makes it easier to fire career civil servants and replace them with political loyalists.
Live updates: Trump to meet with GOP leadership after action-packed Inauguration Day
President Donald Trump is set to meet with Republican leaders about his legislative agenda after he issued numerous executive orders on Inauguration Day.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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President Trump has pardoned or ordered the release of virtually all who were federally prosecuted for Jan. 6, including those convicted of seditious conspiracy or assaulting police officers.

Here's free access to my colleagues' extraordinary coverage of that day:

www.pulitzer.org/winners/wash...
January 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Today, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde boldly called out Donald Trump for his hatred and bigotry at the National Cathedral Prayer Service. Now, the GOP is attacking her for speaking truth to power.

REPOST if you stand with Bishop Budde against Trump!
January 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM