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Scientist, retired; chemist, traveler, RPG/board gamer, SF fan, genealogist, investor, UU humanist, progressive.

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Imagine these idiots finding out (FAFOing) that government actually does stuff and exists for a reason. πŸ˜†

25.09.2025 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Premium shouldn’t go up due to a given medication, just the copay. I heard the BBB Medicaid cuts were going to raise Medicare premiums but that % increase is ridiculous.

19.09.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Maybe Rudy can hock it for a few bucks, since Trump refuses to pay him millions in owed legal fees. Might as well, since the Medal is a joke now, ever since Trump gave it to Rush Limbaugh.

02.09.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is it sad that I read this headline as oldsters fighting over today’s creamed corn special at the Senate cafeteria?

02.09.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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After ten years of MAGA havoc, the grand American Experiment is getting dangerously close to being at an end.
reasonreststop.com/america-afte...

23.08.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜They have a 50 state strategy’: PragerU’s β€˜insidious’ alternative to PBS hits U.S. classrooms PragerU has found an ally in the White House and is presenting itself as the β€œconservative” option to PBS. The media company currently has partnerships with 10 states but MSNBC’s Antonia Hylton, who h...

www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

I was glad to appear on MSNBC to discuss this subject. We don't need to dumb down Oklahoma's curriculum with Prager material.

25.08.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Hey #MSM, a quote in a story in the #TulsaWorld this morning. You can use it as an example of what the press can/should do

"The public is just learning of this proposal, and we are receiving more input from constituents now that media reports have raised their awareness of the proposed changes

25.08.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We may not hear lies from Vance as often as Trump, but his lies are HUGE.

02.09.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump now has the β€œwarfighters” picking up trash near the White House. www.fox5dc.com/news/nationa...

26.08.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4565    πŸ” 1296    πŸ’¬ 741    πŸ“Œ 231

Then he needs to get the troops out of American cities and refocus them on the reason they exist.

02.09.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"We Americans....are characters in this living book of democracy. But we are also its author. It falls upon us now to say whether the chapters that are to come will tell a story of retreat or a story of continued advance." FDR, 1940

28.08.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are there still any folks on the right who will listen without threats and dismissive name calling? If so, they seem to be in hiding. Taxes or economics are the only areas where I’ve *sometimes* managed to have an actual substantive online conversation with them, for several years now.

02.09.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I salute the workers who refused to be complicit in RFK's assault on science and health. He is now the head of the Center FOR Disease.

29.08.2025 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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There you have it.

12.08.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 6869    πŸ” 2900    πŸ’¬ 499    πŸ“Œ 246

Well Putin is certainly taking advantage of him like the mental child that he is. EPSTEIN FILES!

19.08.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Release the Epstein Files. You know, the ones with all those β€œdemocrats” in them. And which exist/don’t exist. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

19.08.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

The president just issued an executive order asserting new and wide-ranging authority over the issuance of federal grants. This will have huge repercussions for the daily operations of US science. πŸ§ͺ

Also, lawyers are gonna be lawyering.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

07.08.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 310    πŸ” 149    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 13

πŸ’Έ πŸ›οΈ πŸ§ͺ

07.08.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hiltzik: Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC says the COVID vaccine protects pregnant women, babies, and children RFK Jr. turned the CDC's vaccine committee into an anti-vaccine panel, but it still heard evidence that his campaign against vaccinating pregnant women was a huge mistake.

"I've written before that Kennedy's anti-sci. campaign against vaccination β€” or more properly, his science-free campaign β€” has set the stage for a public health crisis in the US... Kennedy's actions are potentially deadly, and the CDC has the data to prove it." πŸ›ŸπŸ§ͺ😷

29.06.2025 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

Trump has broken America and has set his sight on breaking the world

18.06.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Always doing the thing he accuses others of

22.06.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GOP voters’ fealty to Trump makes it 'politically safe to take away their benefits' Senate and House Republicans appear to hope unswerving voter devotion in red states will blunt blowback from extreme cuts they’re planning for the nation’s safety net. And a New York Times analysis su...

I do not think @stephenking.bsky.social could not have written a more horrifying story.

GOP voters’ fealty to Trump makes it 'politically safe to take away their benefits' www.alternet.org/donald-trump...

26.06.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Truth.

28.06.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Kill shot’: GOP megabill targets solar, wind projects with new tax

www.politico.com/live-updates...

29.06.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

A "veritable landslide" when the victor got less than 50% of the vote.πŸ™„

I'm so tired of these gaslighters.

29.06.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
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🌹 Rest and peace, Mark and Melissa Hortman.

🌹 These are very troubling and scary times we are living in, and now you are gone for having the gall to try to make things better.

🌹 We won't forget you, and will honor your lives and your service to our country ...

29.06.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 592    πŸ” 116    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 7

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