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Advancing global health, safe surgery; Trail running; scuba diving; travel

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Love this poster seen in DC. So true.

07.11.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Donald Trump needs to release SNAP funding immediately. Do what's right, for once.

California will keep fighting to make sure Trump doesn't force millions of Americans to go hungry by illegally withholding federal food benefits.

31.10.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2204    πŸ” 588    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 19
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Taxpayers don’t owe Donald Trump a dime for his legal battles. While he’s trying to get $230 million from the federal government to pay his own lawyers, families across this country are struggling to keep up with grocery bills and rent.

29.10.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2553    πŸ” 682    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 20

I’ve been clear from the very beginning: Trump’s attempt to deploy the military against American citizens is unlawful.

We are pleased by the Ninth Circuit’s decision to reconsider Oregon’s case. As in our case, the President must answer for his abuse of power.

29.10.2025 02:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1424    πŸ” 355    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 4
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This land return and tule elk reintroduction is a significant milestone in California's relationship with the Tule River Indian Tribe.

We're taking critical steps to confront the historical wrongs committed by the state against the Native people of this land.

29.10.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4430    πŸ” 1030    πŸ’¬ 122    πŸ“Œ 38
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California and 20 other states are suing the Trump Administration for suspending next month's SNAP benefits despite having funds ready for this kind of situation.

This is cruelty. The federal government is abandoning the 5.5M Californians relying on this critical program.

28.10.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1887    πŸ” 532    πŸ’¬ 66    πŸ“Œ 23
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Survey shows sharp gender gap in political harassment Female mayors face higher rates of politically motivated violence and harassment, a new poll finds.

Female mayors experience political violence at a much higher rate than their male counterparts, according to a new study.

29.10.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 146    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 3

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is β€œthe president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

23.10.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 32234    πŸ” 11020    πŸ’¬ 1868    πŸ“Œ 632
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Here’s what’s at stake in the shutdown:

If Republicans get their way, 50,000 Americans will die unnecessarily every year.

15 million will lose their health care.

20 million will see their premiums double.

All so they can give a trillion dollar tax break to the 1%.

22.10.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1417    πŸ” 420    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 14

During the government shutdown, President Trump:
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- Raised $250 million from billionaires for a ballroom
- Gave Qatar an Air Force facility in Idaho
- Doubled Argentina's bailout to $40 billion
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What happened to America First?

23.10.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1918    πŸ” 492    πŸ’¬ 107    πŸ“Œ 18

California is fighting back against the GOP’s attempt to defund Planned Parenthood health clinics by providing $140M+ to life-saving centers.

I refuse to let Donald Trump & right-wing extremists in Congress destroy Californians’ reproductive freedoms & health care access.

23.10.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1290    πŸ” 302    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 10
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Send troops to San Francisco and we will sue you.

22.10.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 14885    πŸ” 3627    πŸ’¬ 502    πŸ“Œ 148
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There are more of us than there are of them. Thank you for a truly historic day of peaceful protests across America. #NoKings

19.10.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4738    πŸ” 1241    πŸ’¬ 114    πŸ“Œ 112
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Here is a map showing the exact spot a CHP vehicle was struck by shrapnel after a shell detonated over I-5 during the Trump-Vance missile firings at Camp Pendleton:

19.10.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4126    πŸ” 1488    πŸ’¬ 282    πŸ“Œ 92
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Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

19.10.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 20805    πŸ” 5810    πŸ’¬ 912    πŸ“Œ 267
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Boston. Wow.

18.10.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 34303    πŸ” 6670    πŸ’¬ 618    πŸ“Œ 352
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The hidden cost of malnutrition? Psychological wounds.

In northern #Nigeria, our teams are responding to a rise in children needing treatment. Our work aims to break the cycle by addressing physical and psychological needs of children and caregivers.

ow.ly/vk6n50Xc3M2

16.10.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Haiti: MSF supports the reopening of a major maternity hospital in the capital | Doctors Without Borders / MΓ©decins Sans FrontiΓ¨res (MSF ... MSF and Haiti’s health ministry reopen IsaΓ―e Jeanty maternity hospital to restore vital care amid violence, rising maternal mortality and limited medical access.

#CitΓ©Soleil, #Haiti: Since reopening, our teams at the IsaΓ―e Jeanty maternity hospital are working hard to support our patients!

πŸ”΄ Prenatal visits rose from 56 in January to 547 in July.
πŸ”΄ Deliveries increased from 10 in April to 134 in August.

ow.ly/JjjB50XcEtW

17.10.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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No Kings Maine

18.10.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 9308    πŸ” 1523    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 61

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of β€œwe’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

18.10.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 14907    πŸ” 3760    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 107
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β€œMillions of Americans are coming out today not because they hate America. We’re here because we love America.” #NoKings

18.10.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3197    πŸ” 702    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 17
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Military Veterans to Join Millions Nationwide for Saturday's Anti-Trump 'No Kings' Protests "No Kings" protests garnered national and international attention in June, when rallies coincided with President Donald Trump's birthday and the 250th U.S. Army anniversary parade.

Does Mike Johnson have a theory why so many veterans would attend a hate America rally? www.military.com/daily-news/h...

17.10.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 421    πŸ” 137    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 7

If anyone wonders why we call them wannabe authoritarians, here you go.

They’re now shitting on the Bill of Rights.

14.10.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2293    πŸ” 749    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 22

Calling for gas chambers. Expressing love for Hitler. Endorsing rape. Using racist slurs.

I'm demanding Rep. James Comer open a House Oversight Committee investigation into these shocking, deeply offensive messages that were exchanged by Young Republican leaders from across the country.

15.10.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2926    πŸ” 1066    πŸ’¬ 170    πŸ“Œ 49
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Donald Trump is a wartime president.

War on women.
War on voting rights.
War on Latinos.
War on California.
War on institutions.
War on history.

13.10.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6821    πŸ” 1976    πŸ’¬ 309    πŸ“Œ 87

Trump wants to DOUBLE Argentina's bailout to $40 billion to save his political ally.

Yet he is doing nothing to prevent 15 million Americans from losing their health care and 20 million from seeing a doubling in their premiums.

Is this what TrumpΒ means by America first?

15.10.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2149    πŸ” 659    πŸ’¬ 130    πŸ“Œ 30

β€œThe Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

10.10.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 19038    πŸ” 5131    πŸ’¬ 227    πŸ“Œ 95

They’re targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James for one reason: she had the courage to hold Donald Trump accountable.

This is political weaponization of our courts, plain and simpleβ€”and proof that when you stand up to corruption, they come for you.

09.10.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4394    πŸ” 1144    πŸ’¬ 126    πŸ“Œ 28

The government is officially shut down. Make no mistake: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is THEIR shutdown. They had every tool to govern and chose chaos instead. The American people are the ones paying the price.

01.10.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6130    πŸ” 1794    πŸ’¬ 181    πŸ“Œ 58
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23.09.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5326    πŸ” 1068    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 54

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