Political Disruption with North Carolina's Kate Barr Once in A While We Have to Break the Boxes We're In

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Home | Kate Barr Can Win Kate Barr Can Win and her campaign to Make America Fair for Once. Learn why she's running in the Republican Primary in her gerrymandered North Carolina Congressional District 14 against Tim Moore.

Meet KATE BARR from heavily gerrymandered state of North Carolina! She's a political disrupter who wants to end gerrymandering and make elections fair so she's running for U.S. House District 14. If you live in NC, please SHARE this.
If you live outside NC, please SHARE this. www.katebarrcanwin.com

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…

The FCC (censorship) wouldn't allow Stephen Colbert to have Talarico on his show, so Colbert put the interview w/Talarico on Youtube.
Naturally, this made me want to 100% see the interview.
Here it is. Thank you Colbert for standing up to censorship.
Please SHARE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

'Walk for Peace' concludes as Buddhist monks arrive in Washington after 15-week trek A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., after completing a 15-week trek from Texas that captivated the country.

19 Buddhist monks arrived in Washington DC today, completing their 2300 mile Walk for Peace. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

2016; trump: "We're going to drain the swamp!"? --a vague promise to to clean up government corruption.

2026-We're discovering and uncovering that trump and whoever he's ever been and continues to be connected with, IS the swamp.
And it's seeming ever-deeper and uglier by the day...

You're able to show gratitude
even as you do your job, from hell.
Remarkable.

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

NBC edited out the audible booing at Vance and his wife at the Olympics. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

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Thank you for reposting my announcement about where people can find peaceful and important protests for Good, for democracy, and against ICE's unlawful raids in our country. Blessings.

Thank you Critter Life for reposting my announcement for peaceful protests happening this weekend!

Demonstrations This Weekend

ICE Out For Good!

Here is the LINK to get locations of demonstrations across the country. Pass it along. www.mobilize.us/map/?tag_ids...

ICE Out For Good Coalition Announces Nationwide Weekend of Action Demanding Accountability After ICE Killing of Renee Nicole Good - Public Citizen WASHINGTON, D.C. —  A broad national coalition, including Indivisible, MoveOn Civic Action, the American Civil Liberties Union, Public Citizen, Voto Latino, United…

ICE out for Good!
Stand up for Good, speak up for democracy, stand against fascism. We stand together now, or we'll fall together later.
Click link to sign up for peaceful protest near you. www.citizen.org/news/ice-out...

Wishing peace and sovereignty for Ukraine.
Wishing inner peace for you, Yara.
Hoping each person embraces the Jewish concept of Tikkun olam, which means 'repairing the world' in Hebrew. Each of us has a role to improve creation through acts of kindness, justice, and ethical responsibility.

Happy New Year 2026!

This year may we all embrace the Jewish concept of Tikkun olam; which translates from Hebrew as, 'repairing the world'; humanity's role in improving creation through acts of kindness, justice, and ethical responsibility.
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I'm delighted to hear all this. Sounds like you shared lots of warmth and fun together!

Yes, it was lovely. I was with my daughter (Emma), her partner (Rae), my brother (Raymond) and sister-in-law (Jo), and good friend Nuriye. We feasted on chili and cornbread, then played some board games together. Delightful and so fun!
And you? How did you spend Christmas/Holidays?

Merry Christmas Clare! Wishing you a Happy New Year as well!

Merry Christmas Yaroslava, to you and your family. I still remember the Ukrainian traditions you've shared. I think of you and Ukraine when I hear "Carol of the Bells" whose melody is based on "Shchedryk", a traditional Ukrainian folk song by Mykola Leontovych. Hauntingly beautiful. Take care.

Yes, but the only place I've found to watch it is here: www.facebook.com/share/v/1HKu...
and I don't know how long it'll be before it's taken down. Please post and keep re-posting this video to watch, every time they take it down, keep re-posting. Americans need to see this.

3 of 3 (con't)...and “Jeanine Pirro is the U.S. District Attorney for DC.”
“Since none of these statements are true,” it told Morris, “they undermine credibility unless signposted as hyperbole, fiction, or satire.”
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2 of 3 (con't)... “[t]he current Secretary of Defense is a former talk show host for Fox News,”, “[t]he Deputy Director of the FBI used to guest-host Sean Hannity’s show,” ...

1 of 3
Heather Cox Richardson wrote:
"...G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers asked ChatGPT to fact-check an article for him yesterday. The chatbot...told him there were “multiple factual impossibilities” in his article [such as]...

YouTube video by First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis Message: "A Different Kind of Bravery" with Guest Speaker Rev. Victoria Safford

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Words of hope, kindness, bravery, and of course, fairness and decency, that we need. Thank you Rev. Victoria Safford.
Please Share.

Delightful aspect about being able to vote in an elementary school: seeing children's art displayed on the walls! Who couldn't help but smile seeing these kindergarteners' Leaf People? So sweet!
Esp. love the one with 3 eyes.
{I was careful to not photograph names}

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Medicare Advantage: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Want the truth on just how f--ed up Medicare Advantage is?
Enrollment is soon so I thought I'd share this to spare people the pain of being taken advantage of by Medicare Advantage. Spoiler alert: Don't buy it
FUN ALERT: video below tells the truth with humor added.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejoi...

YouTube video by NC Senate Dems HQ Sen. Michael Garrett Delivers Powerful Speech Against Republican Rigged Maps

Republicans were so scared that people would hear this speech, they voted to erase it from the official record.
The whole speech is wonderful. But if you're short on time start at 8:45 in the video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY8K...

trump tore down the f-ing White House.
The PEOPLE’S HOUSE— *not his* to smash apart.
It’s illegal.

he tore down the f-ing White House.
Still republicans do nothing.
What exactly DOES he have to do for republicans to impeach and imprison him??

he tore down the fucking White House.
💔😡

If trump were to be shown a clip from the 2013 movie, "Sharknado" would he deploy troops to save our nation from being ravaged by sharks?

Sunday thought: America without a president Friends,

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I disavow donald trump as President of the United States as he has repeatedly and egregiously violated his oath of office. I encourage you to do so as well.
Robert Reich--details on disavowing trump as President, here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Sunday thought: America without a president Friends,

Please Share.
Robert Reich provides details on disavowing trump as President here: substack.com/home/post/p-...