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Rachelle
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Gardener, baker, reader who loves SciFi, fantasy, and history.
March 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
March 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🚨The House Republicans unveiled their budget for billionaires.

That means their buddies will get a tax break while my Tampa Bay neighbors lose health care coverage and access to critical services.
youtube.com/shorts/ZogoA...
🚨The House Republicans unveiled their budget for billionaires
YouTube video by RepKathyCastor
youtube.com
February 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Washington, D.C. yesterday. "Shut down the Senate, Shut down the Senate." Chanted for hours.

More massive #USprotests, ongoing. Sources here report, "Millions of people are getting ready as we speak to take this country back and save the USA. Their days are numbered. Stay tuned." #3E
February 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
In Germany over 200,000 protestors in Munich gathered against the Musk backed far-right / neo-Nazi AfD ahead of the German election.

Thousands chanted "Save Democracy" and "Oppose Nazis" #3E
February 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
art Jeon Pil-hwa
©️Pilhwa Jeon (South Korea)
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February 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Dangerous and costly!

Cancer research at Moffitt Cancer Ctr + USF/UF Alzheimer’s, diabetes, & medical research to be scaled back per order of Elon Musk &Trump. New cures delayed, treatments taken from patients, & a gift to China that wants to lead world in biomed health.wusf.usf.edu/npr-health/2...
NIH announces new funding policy that rattles medical researchers
The National Institutes of Health has dramatically changed its grant-making terms by limiting how much it will disperse for costs such as equipment and administration.
health.wusf.usf.edu
February 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I keep trying to find something enlightened & hopeful to say but I just can’t right now
February 8, 2025 at 2:31 AM
February 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
February 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
There are some elements of this administration from which the country will never recover.
"Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed an executive order late Monday directing his deputies to submit a plan to him within 15 days for opening federal lands to more mining, including national monuments currently off limits to miners." news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
February 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
A new Congressional Research Service report says plainly that "the president does not have the authority to abolish [USAID]; congressional authorization would be required to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID." punchbowl.news/in12500/
February 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Many people are asking me if Elon Musk is stealing tax-payer money or using our private information to enrich himself?

I’m a Member of Congress on the committee for Government Oversight and I can’t tell you that he’s not. That’s a problem.
February 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
This. Make it hard for the Republicans to destroy the country.
Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.
February 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
art by Jerome Steuart:
The Gulf of Empathy
January 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt
January 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Solitary house in the Isle of Wight
January 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
January 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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January 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Blue butterfly plant, clerodendrum ugandense Of course, it’s brown sticks today, but we know it’ll come back, blue & beautiful as ever
January 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM