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Retired union leader. Enjoy travel, fruit & vegetable gardening, cooking, photography, trips to wildlife refuges and volunteering in an oyster reef restoration effort & a food forest. Care deeply about equality, justice and democracy!
June 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
So much to consider! Community, workers, farmers, all of us on our planet - Choices that belong to all of us not billionaires youtu.be/FFypWj1bjPk
Why Not Scotland? | The Rewilding Nation documentary
YouTube video by The Scottish Rewilding Alliance
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June 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
May 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Loch Moidart filled with gold....
May 19, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Late last night, Republicans on the House Budget Committee voted to advance Trump’s Tax Scam that would gut Medicaid and SNAP to give billionaires even more tax cuts.

Every Republican needs to hear from their constituents today. Call now if you’re in a GOP district: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
May 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Saint Donan was martyred in 617 here in a monastery that existed here until at least 725. The pictured church named for Saint Donan was built on the same sight in the 16th century was the church of our ancestors prior to leaving for North America in 1790.
May 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Sunset over Isle of Rum from a beautiful croft last week in Cleadale, Isle of Eigg, Highlands of Scotland
May 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Besides Democratic Leaders growing a pair, and a generational change this needs considering open.spotify.com/episode/1g99...
Democrats need to do something
The Gray Area with Sean Illing · Episode
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March 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big Twitter Ad
The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
www.wired.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) letter to chair of Senate Judiciary Cmte, which is poised to vote on confirmation of Kash Patel:

“We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”
February 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
February 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Wilcox also warns that if Trump is fully successful in nullifying the NLRA, this will, by extension, crush other independent agencies.
February 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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BREAKING: Gwynne Wilcox, illegally removed from the NLRB by Trump, is suing the President.

The lawsuit calls her firing "a blatant violation of the National Labor Relations Act" and says that if she doesn't challenge her firing Trump will have nullified the NLRA’s protections.
February 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Trump’s American Takeover
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February 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Sand Hill Cranes, Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware, Rarely seen here as we’re quite aways off the migration path. #Birds
February 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Hooded Merganser, Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware #Birds
February 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Northern Harrier, Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware #Birds
February 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
February 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
February 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.
February 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
@amillikancomposer.bsky.social Great to see you! Welcome!
February 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
68.5% of eligible voting age citizens who are not restricted felons did NOT vote for him!
February 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM