Marcia Tucker, BSc, MSc

Eeeek! X is now FLOODED with posts from MAGidiots that I never followed. It’s over, I’m gone.

Welcome! Always glad to hear your voice of reason in this mad world!

It's shocking and dismaying that MSM "world news" is anything but. I haven't seen a decent report on Syria, South Korea, Ukraine. I'm an American and I have to go to BBC America to get coverage. If you think we don't need to know about the rest of the world, you need a history lesson.

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From that other place but a great thread. Yes, why??

YouTube video by WILD VERSUS U.S. Releases 14 Canadian Wolves Into the Wild and Saves $94 Billion

Wow, what a story! You take care of our planet, and she takes care of us all, y'all. PLANT FORESTS! And most of all, SCIENCE MATTERS! This reminds me of a Nature episode on PBS about keystone species that are critical in an ecosystem. For Yellowstone, it's wolves!
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This sort of "joking" is straight up bullying and harassment. Nothing funny there.

Musk accuses Trump whistleblower Vindman of ‘treason,’ says ‘he will pay’ Elon Musk on Wednesday suggested retired Army Lt. Col Alexander Vindman “committed treason” and “will pay” after the former Trump impeachment witness accused the tech billio…

Vindman did everything by the book.
Witnessed blatant Constitutional violation.
Didn’t leak it, followed proper procedure, alerting superiors. They reviewed it, and following the law, gave it to Congress.
When called by Congress, Vindman testified honestly under oath.
Did his duty. No more, no less.

"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it" - Winston Churchill. Ahem, we need to LEARN history first, and learn the lessons from it, then MAKE SURE we do not repeat it. Um, and we already are... but it's not too late to roll it back... I hope!

Aging is something every human has to go through if they reach a certain age. Yet we do not know how to prepare for it and go through it with grace. Mental health is a strong key, yet we aren't managing it well. As a disabled senior, I fight every day to keep positive and survive. Much less thrive.

31 nations around the world have had universal health care since before the year 1995 (Israel in that year.) The United States of America does not. It's mortifying that our "great nation" cannot consider health care a basic right of citizenship. And now it's about to get worse. Help.

I really like this guy's perspective!
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I'm not at all confident that the Trump administration won't dump this, as back in '17 they changed the Medicare directive that would have paid for my badly needed knee replacement, requiring my body mass index to be below an impossibly achievable level. Boo.

Book Club today discussed People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. I love her deep research and stellar writing! It's an awesome portrayal of people of differing faiths and cultures coming together in adversity. I now need to read up on the history of the Bosnian war. Study history, y'all!!

There are clear signs that Russian economy is headed toward a collapse:

◾️ Resources are being used to the maximum. This means they will be increasingly expensive for enterprises, and not everyone will be able to afford them.

It can't possibly be constitutional for anyone to have charges or convictions dismissed purely because they won a national election. NO. ONE. IS. ABOVE. THE. LAW.

Someone explain to me why color has anything to do with gender. But you might not want to get me started on gender reveal parties for babies.

She's just showing off how brainwashed she is - like color and skinniness (okay, we all know this is 'shopped) have anything whatsoever to do with gender. It's like declaring "Look, I buy into all the unrelated stuff!"

Hi Blueskyers. I run the organization @protectdemocracy.org which aims to do just that.

Over the past decade we’ve won countless cases to protect voters and truth, helped pass legislation, and unfortunately predicted much of what’s happened.

Follow and repost so we can keep doing that here.

Perspective. To deliberately starve a people is genocide, pure and simple. Never forget! x.com/ElenaTarasiu...

Yesterday was the Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine, marking the national tragedy in 1932-33 when Stalin forced a famine upon the Ukrainian people that resulted in millions of deaths. How many Americans know about this? I did not until I took an interest in Ukraine after 2/24/22. Never forget.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth on Face the Nation just now twice referred to Republican capitulation to Trump's questionable cabinet picks as "rolling over for Trump." There are several meanings of that phrase... heh. I think I know which one she prefers.

I think I've followed as many of my usual Pro-Ukraine accounts from X that I can find. Any that y'all can recommend to follow, especially reporting from Ukraine in English, that are over here in the Blue Skies?

Canada’s top military commander, Gen. Jennie Carigna:
"After 39 years of career as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations across the world, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify the contribution of women to their defense and to their service, in their country."

What about Tim Walz or Mark Kelly or Jon Ossoff? I love Kamala but sadly this country can’t seem to elect a woman.

Thanks!!

I'm noticing that most of my feed is opinions and commentary, much less news. I normally go first to the Bird to get up to date news, but not all those news accounts are over here on the Butterfly. Any suggestions of news accounts here, especially if liberal, progressive and pro-Ukraine??

She's lusting after Lindsay Graham's senate seat. That's pretty much it.

We understand the assignment!