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Wisconsin born and raised, PNW explorer, avid reader, curious about all things health & science. Live with my partner + 77 yo MIL + a doodle adjacent dog.
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World War 2 & Vietnam War lasted a combined 27 years, or just shy of 10,000 days. In that time, a total of 132 journalists were killed.
Israel has sieged Gaza for just under 700 days & killed 242+ journalists.
This violates Art 79 of Add’l Protocol (I) of Geneva Conventions.
These Are War Crimes.
Israel has sieged Gaza for just under 700 days & killed 242+ journalists.
This violates Art 79 of Add’l Protocol (I) of Geneva Conventions.
These Are War Crimes.
August 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
World War 2 & Vietnam War lasted a combined 27 years, or just shy of 10,000 days. In that time, a total of 132 journalists were killed.
Israel has sieged Gaza for just under 700 days & killed 242+ journalists.
This violates Art 79 of Add’l Protocol (I) of Geneva Conventions.
These Are War Crimes.
Israel has sieged Gaza for just under 700 days & killed 242+ journalists.
This violates Art 79 of Add’l Protocol (I) of Geneva Conventions.
These Are War Crimes.
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Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to allow a chronically homeless person to live on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we are paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…
www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to allow a chronically homeless person to live on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we are paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…
www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to allow a chronically homeless person to live on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we are paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…
www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to allow a chronically homeless person to live on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we are paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…
www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...
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This video is just incredible, a bunch of guys whose favorite movie is Boondock Saints in eBay tacticool gear doing their personal imaginary version of charging out of the LSTs onto Omaha beach but they’re in a Penske truck in a Home Depot parking lot and they’re the Nazis.
Border Patrol at a Home Depot in Los Angeles days after the 9th circuit affirmed a court order that purports to block this exact behavior. They don't even know who they're chasing! This is insane. Send them all to jail.
August 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This video is just incredible, a bunch of guys whose favorite movie is Boondock Saints in eBay tacticool gear doing their personal imaginary version of charging out of the LSTs onto Omaha beach but they’re in a Penske truck in a Home Depot parking lot and they’re the Nazis.
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It's honestly heartbreaking... She has the same look in her eyes that Hillary Clinton had after 2016... The painful realization that yes, they really do hate us that much.
August 1, 2025 at 4:12 AM
It's honestly heartbreaking... She has the same look in her eyes that Hillary Clinton had after 2016... The painful realization that yes, they really do hate us that much.
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This is moving.
Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through.
What could have been…
Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through.
What could have been…
August 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is moving.
Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through.
What could have been…
Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through.
What could have been…
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I've long believed 2016 Russian operation in US was most successful intelligence operation in recent history.
With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...
With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...
How John Durham and Chuck Grassley Covered Up Getting Ass-Handed by Russia - emptywheel
John Durham (with Chuck Grassley's help) tried to obscure that on the same day as the Russian spy report that drove his entire investigation, Russian spooks discussed seeding conspiracies about "dark ...
www.emptywheel.net
August 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I've long believed 2016 Russian operation in US was most successful intelligence operation in recent history.
With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...
With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...
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Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy should do a movie on the destruction that her brother Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has wrought on vaccines, science, and public health infrastructure in the U.S.
She could lead with the clip of Caroline Kennedy accurately calling RFK Jr. a predator.
She could lead with the clip of Caroline Kennedy accurately calling RFK Jr. a predator.
July 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy should do a movie on the destruction that her brother Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has wrought on vaccines, science, and public health infrastructure in the U.S.
She could lead with the clip of Caroline Kennedy accurately calling RFK Jr. a predator.
She could lead with the clip of Caroline Kennedy accurately calling RFK Jr. a predator.
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“There is no moral difference between telling people they can have a shower so you can gas them in gas chambers and telling people they can have food so you can shoot them at aid sites. A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and the world is silent.”
- Mohamad Safa, PVA rep. to the UN.
- Mohamad Safa, PVA rep. to the UN.
July 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
“There is no moral difference between telling people they can have a shower so you can gas them in gas chambers and telling people they can have food so you can shoot them at aid sites. A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and the world is silent.”
- Mohamad Safa, PVA rep. to the UN.
- Mohamad Safa, PVA rep. to the UN.
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There's always a tweet
July 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's always a tweet
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“More than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.”
and yet people are still demanding US politicians enthusiastically support this regime. fuck that.
and yet people are still demanding US politicians enthusiastically support this regime. fuck that.
Israeli soldiers opened fire near a food distribution site in southern Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 32 people, Gazan health authorities said. The UN said this past week that more than 670 Palestinians had been killed in similar episodes near aid sites.
Gaza Health Ministry Says Israeli Military Killed 32 Near Aid Site
The latest deaths add to U.N. figures showing that more than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.
trib.al
July 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
“More than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.”
and yet people are still demanding US politicians enthusiastically support this regime. fuck that.
and yet people are still demanding US politicians enthusiastically support this regime. fuck that.
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Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump supporters are the same people.
July 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump supporters are the same people.
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I cannot wrap my mind around how a person or a people can engender so much hate that they commit the endless brutal acts. But it’s happened again and again throughout history. It’s happening in Palestine, Congo, Myanmar… Humans are capable of unspeakable evils.
Doctors in Gaza are now reporting that the Israeli military is shooting Palestinian teenage boys in the genitals. They're luring them in with food, then shooting them in the testicles.
This. Is. Genocide. Horrific beyond words.
This. Is. Genocide. Horrific beyond words.
July 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I cannot wrap my mind around how a person or a people can engender so much hate that they commit the endless brutal acts. But it’s happened again and again throughout history. It’s happening in Palestine, Congo, Myanmar… Humans are capable of unspeakable evils.
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Alligator Alcatraz = internment camp.
This broke me…
“32 individuals inside a cage. It was 81° where we were standing…inside it was probably even hotter. How do I know? Because there was individuals sweating with their shirt off, while they chanted libertad, libertad, libertad.” - State Sen Jones
This broke me…
“32 individuals inside a cage. It was 81° where we were standing…inside it was probably even hotter. How do I know? Because there was individuals sweating with their shirt off, while they chanted libertad, libertad, libertad.” - State Sen Jones
July 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Alligator Alcatraz = internment camp.
This broke me…
“32 individuals inside a cage. It was 81° where we were standing…inside it was probably even hotter. How do I know? Because there was individuals sweating with their shirt off, while they chanted libertad, libertad, libertad.” - State Sen Jones
This broke me…
“32 individuals inside a cage. It was 81° where we were standing…inside it was probably even hotter. How do I know? Because there was individuals sweating with their shirt off, while they chanted libertad, libertad, libertad.” - State Sen Jones
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Trump and Noem fired the people who answer the emergency phone line.
It’s not really incompetence because they know what they are doing. They are intentionally breaking government - even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis.
It’s not really incompetence because they know what they are doing. They are intentionally breaking government - even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis.
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Trump and Noem fired the people who answer the emergency phone line.
It’s not really incompetence because they know what they are doing. They are intentionally breaking government - even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis.
It’s not really incompetence because they know what they are doing. They are intentionally breaking government - even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis.
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Q: “What keeps you up at night?”
JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: “The state of our democracy.” 🇺🇸 😕
JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: “The state of our democracy.” 🇺🇸 😕
July 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Q: “What keeps you up at night?”
JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: “The state of our democracy.” 🇺🇸 😕
JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: “The state of our democracy.” 🇺🇸 😕
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We want ICE out of our Hospitals.
July 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We want ICE out of our Hospitals.
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The median FBI agent today is a lawyer who joined up to prevent another 9/11.
The median ICE agent tomorrow will be a dude with a high school diploma who watched guys in masks and full tactical snatching and beating day laborers and wants in on the action.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The median ICE agent tomorrow will be a dude with a high school diploma who watched guys in masks and full tactical snatching and beating day laborers and wants in on the action.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The American Police State Is Here
ICE is about to eclipse the FBI as America's most important law enforcement agency. That's bad. Super-duper bad.
www.thebulwark.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The median FBI agent today is a lawyer who joined up to prevent another 9/11.
The median ICE agent tomorrow will be a dude with a high school diploma who watched guys in masks and full tactical snatching and beating day laborers and wants in on the action.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The median ICE agent tomorrow will be a dude with a high school diploma who watched guys in masks and full tactical snatching and beating day laborers and wants in on the action.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
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Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane.
This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
July 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane.
This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
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Today, a DOJ lawyer confirmed that the U.S. plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia if he’s released from pre-trial criminal detention.
The lawyer said the government won’t wait until Abrego faces trial.
Less than two weeks ago, a White House deputy press secretary decried that as “fake news.”
The lawyer said the government won’t wait until Abrego faces trial.
Less than two weeks ago, a White House deputy press secretary decried that as “fake news.”
July 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Today, a DOJ lawyer confirmed that the U.S. plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia if he’s released from pre-trial criminal detention.
The lawyer said the government won’t wait until Abrego faces trial.
Less than two weeks ago, a White House deputy press secretary decried that as “fake news.”
The lawyer said the government won’t wait until Abrego faces trial.
Less than two weeks ago, a White House deputy press secretary decried that as “fake news.”
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As someone who lived in New Orleans during the thing you call Katrina, I’m here to say that the time to politicize governmental failure in a tragedy is when anyone is still paying attention.
July 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
As someone who lived in New Orleans during the thing you call Katrina, I’m here to say that the time to politicize governmental failure in a tragedy is when anyone is still paying attention.
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Why are folks mad at the working mom with kids on Medicaid and SNAP rather than companies like Walmart that refuse to pay her a living wage and provide health insurance?
July 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Why are folks mad at the working mom with kids on Medicaid and SNAP rather than companies like Walmart that refuse to pay her a living wage and provide health insurance?
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I’m not offered health insurance where I work 50 hours a week.
Now what, Champ?
Now what, Champ?
July 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m not offered health insurance where I work 50 hours a week.
Now what, Champ?
Now what, Champ?