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💜 You don’t stop being family just because you're a Senator.

In his first Senate speech, @kim.senate.gov opened up about becoming a caregiver for his father as his dad battles Alzheimer’s.

He reminded us that caring is something our country should value. seiu.co/3MtvQWT
In maiden Senate speech, Andy Kim promises to care for his father and for America - New Jersey Globe
Exactly one year after he was first sworn in as a U.S. Senator, Andy Kim gave his maiden speech on the Senate floor today. The speech, technically Kim’s
seiu.co
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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We agree @georgetakei.bsky.social! Help us send the Quack Packin' here:

www.standupforscience.net/taking-down-...
December 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.

It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”

- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Dr. Bill Cassidy’s legacy as a hepatologist, will be that he brought about more liver disease. Put that in his obit.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Heron and Cranes
December 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.
December 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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So am I.
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Praying for the two soldiers attacked yesterday in DC and for calm and compassion toward the tens of thousands of Afghan refugees making this country better each day.

Let us not react in a way that causes them to live in fear.
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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What would you call this if you saw it happening in another country?

www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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people older than me and people younger than me are equally ignorant of climate change as a global crisis

Captain Planet target audience stands firm
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Who remembers those early Palantir trades
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.

This isn’t controversial.

A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses, as hate symbols.

The fuck?

wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Most Americans want science to govern our public health policy. Not crackpot ideas.

This move marks a dire turning point for the CDC that the next Congress and administration must correct ASAP.

www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-up...
CDC Updates Website To Promote Debunked Theory On Vaccines And Autism
“DO NOT TRUST THIS AGENCY. This is a national embarrassment,” said ex-CDC vaccines chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis.
www.huffpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The aurora australis dances over the peaks of the Freycinet National Park peninsula and Schouten Island.
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#auroraaustralis #aurora #freycinetnationalpark #freycinet
November 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Demand Congress support the discharge petition that will force a vote on extending ACA tax credits:
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
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November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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New Mexico's free universal child care program is a model for the nation.

www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...
November 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.

Racial profiling, no warrant, no due process; but what else can one expect from a regime committing extrajudicial murder on the high seas?

Trump's gotta go.
November 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”

basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.

i feel that with my dad.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."

Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:

www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM