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Committed to equal rights for all! I’m a scientist, mom, wife, writer, walker/runner, reader, Desert Dweller, NJ expat. Not necessarily in that particular order.

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Imagine being born in slavery and living up until 5 months before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Anna Julia Cooper is one of my favorite people in history. She was born on August 10, 1858, and lived to the age of 105.

I can't sum her up in a single post, but she was born 167yrs ago today

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Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

Just utterly out of words to describe what we’re seeing.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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i wanted her in Chicago but a great pickup for Indy.

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Yes! ❤️

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Kelsey Mitchell to Aliyah Boston with a strong finish!!

10.08.2025 01:18 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Every day Trump bloviates about some new nonsense is another day he’s covering up the Epstein files…because he obviously has plenty to hide. Don’t let this drift to the back burner, people.

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MeTV Channel 388 on XFinity

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WTF are we we having to watch the #WNBA on garbage TV because #CBS is showing football????

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here's another #lighthouse on #NationalLighthouseDay with the Point Reyes Lighthouse overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the #sunshine for #smArtist

#EastCoastKin

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Sophie!!! #WNBA #FEVER

08.08.2025 02:48 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
ICE is hiring!

US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team.

Open positions include:
Senior Goon
Racism Enforcement Office
Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time)

Experience with children a plus

usajobs.gov

ICE is hiring! US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Office Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov

From this month's edition of The Onion.

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Or any sporting event

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THE WNBA REFS EVERYWHERE ARE THE WORST!!!!

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it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

06.08.2025 02:47 — 👍 6939    🔁 2059    💬 107    📌 50
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Tonight, I was honored to welcome Texas Democrats who are bravely fighting the GOP‑led mid‑decade redistricting plan.

05.08.2025 03:17 — 👍 65    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey Smithsonian American History Museum: this is how it's done! 👇

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal

02.08.2025 13:10 — 👍 1561    🔁 597    💬 67    📌 22
PATCO workers on the picket line.

PATCO workers on the picket line.

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1981: Almost 13,000 air-traffic controllers go on strike after negotiations with the FAA to raise their pay and shorten their workweek prove fruitless. Two days later, Reagan fired more than 11,000 who had not returned to work. /1

03.08.2025 19:33 — 👍 228    🔁 117    💬 17    📌 12

I was there for all of AARI MCDONALD’s college games at #Arizona #WNBA
❤️🐻⬇️ 🌵

03.08.2025 19:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So i guess this is what it felt like when Scar took over and turned everything into Shadowland.

02.08.2025 16:51 — 👍 5356    🔁 830    💬 122    📌 40

Wow. Who could’ve guessed the party that’s led to country to a recession every time they’ve been in charge in the last 40 years would lead the country to a recession again?

02.08.2025 01:13 — 👍 7805    🔁 2257    💬 209    📌 96

🎯

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No, Good People Don't Still Support Him Everyone believes they're essentially a good human being.

At this point, the only reason left to support a man like this is that he reflects your hateful heart: he shares your contempt of people of color, your hostility toward outsiders, your toxic misogyny, your ignorant bigotry, and your feelings of supremacy.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-good-pe...

02.08.2025 11:45 — 👍 2381    🔁 925    💬 127    📌 81

Anybody surprised by where we are hasn’t been paying attention to the Republican Party for the past 40 years.

02.08.2025 15:26 — 👍 127    🔁 29    💬 14    📌 1

Don't like the numbers? Just fire the person responsible for gathering them.

Trump's doing what every tyrannical regime has always done: wiping out the truth and replacing it with lies.

01.08.2025 23:54 — 👍 2034    🔁 584    💬 97    📌 13

Aari McDonald!! #WNBA ❤️❤️

02.08.2025 01:35 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CPB says it is shutting down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by Congress — marking the end of a nearly six-decade era in which it fueled…

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a cornerstone of American culture for three generations, announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by Congress.

01.08.2025 20:32 — 👍 270    🔁 152    💬 54    📌 43

Pretty soon all economic and jobs data released by the federal government will be handwritten with a black Sharpie

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