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Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."
September 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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🚨BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna just motioned to SUBPOENA FCC chairman Brendan Carr in the House Oversight Committee to stop the intimidation of private businesses and assault on free speech
September 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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How can it be wrong to say these people hate America when every day they proudly declare their opposition to a pillar of American jurisprudence?

This is not me saying they hate the America I created in my head—or that I falsely believe the Founders wanted—this is them hating *basic* American shit.
September 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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You can’t talk about cleaning up crime in D.C. while a 34-count convicted felon is running the country.
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.
September 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Folks, I don’t know what end is up right now.
September 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
September 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs
September 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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For #WorldHippoDay an #Egyptian carving of a Hippo, made 5.000 years ago from calcite.
Hippopotami were regarded as very dangerous animals, but they were also associated with life, regeneration, and rebirth

On display at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

📷 me

🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky
February 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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#AncientBlueSky🏺

Red colour-coated #pottery

These were produced in Oxfordshire in the later #Roman period. They were found at Segontium, Caernarfon, north #Wales. 270-400 CE.
📸 My own.

St. Fagans National Museum of #History #Archaeology
February 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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The pages that are set to be revived include information for patients about HIV testing and HIV prevention medication, guidance on contraceptives and data on adolescent and youth mental health.
Judge orders restoration of federal health websites
The pages that are set to be revived include information for patients about HIV testing and HIV prevention medication, guidance on contraceptives and data on adolescent and youth mental health.
www.npr.org
February 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Birthright citizenship order - BLOCKED.
Federal funding cut off - BLOCKED.
Illegal feds resignation plan - BLOCKED.
Access to Treasury's vital data system - BLOCKED.
Firing 2000 USAID workers - BLOCKED.
Drastic NIH Grant Cuts - BLOCKED.
Removing public health websites - BLOCKED.
February 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Millions of federal workers are subject to drug tests; why not require members of congress to take cognitive fitness tests
February 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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This is Mrs. Florence Bell, the first nurse to go to the Royal Veterinary College of London. This is a cigarette card from my collection and in the info about her on the back it says “the more she sees of humans, the better she likes animals”. 1938.
February 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Something lovely for the weekend! 🦛❤️

Acient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!

📷 by me
February 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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What if history just didn't repeat itself, for once?
February 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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So the billionaire president’s multi-billionaire sugar daddy had his feelings hurt by the head of the FAA, so the billionaire president fired the head of the FAA — now there’s no one in charge of airline safety, and we have our first commercial airline crash in 16 years? Got it.
January 31, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Gosh, I remember when we had an actual president instead of a loudmouth bully who won't take responsibility for his actions.
January 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve
January 31, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.
January 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM