Ruth Malone, RN, PhD

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Got our #Prop50 ballots ready to drop! Let’s save democracy! #California fighting back

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem expected in Portland for ICE facility visit Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem could be coming to Portland today.

Kristi Noem is cosplaying as a public official. In reality, she's been sent by Trump to incite violence. Don't tar and feather her as Speaker Johnson suggested for Governor Newsom. The best response to her playacting as cop? Ignore her and keep supporting our community.

These people have NO IDEA what it’s like to worry about health care. NO IDEA

Whitehouse: "It obviously makes a big difference when you have a professional DOJ and there's no alleged involvement of the president in a sex trafficking operation. This is different. This is a MAGA DOJ conducting an investigation into a trafficking operation in which POTUS may well be implicated"

Yes, delicious

AUGH, Velveeta! I haven’t thought of that on years but salivating like Pavlov’s pup. Also, Cheez Whiz

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
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Stalling Adelita Grijalva’s swearing-in also delays vote on release of Epstein files Democrats say House Republicans are delaying the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva – elected by landslide last week to replace her late father in Congress – to stall release of the Epstein files. The Tu...

“The Tucson Democrat stood on the House floor during a pro forma session that lasted less than three minutes, enough time for an opening prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Fellow Democrats chanted ‘Swear her in!’

But the Republican presiding over the House gaveled the session to an abrupt end.”

Teen charged with murder in hit-and-run that killed two friends on e-bike: Officials The prosecutor's office said a black 2021 Jeep Compass struck two girls while they were riding the e-bike on a residential street.

My one little voice isn’t going to change anything, but I’m gonna say it anyway.

Perhaps we should stop splitting bicycles into different categories.

If it’s legally a bicycle, we should just call it a bicycle. Are we adding to the confusion somehow?

I don’t care what kind of bike they died on.

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

“I don’t know this woman, Ghislaine Maxwell — never met her. My lawyer only coached her for, what, eight hours? Then she gets transferred to Club Fed’s Yoga Camp. Total coincidence!” - DJT

There’s just not enough attention being paid to how unqualified, psychologically unfit, and dangerous so many of these new ICE hires potentially are.

If we had a Congress, there’d be investigations & oversight into this.

Mr. Trump said "We could have much better health care than we have right now."

No kidding.

20+ million will see their premiums double. 15 million thrown off health care entirely.

Pres. Trump, in case you didn’t know, this is what the shutdown is about.

End your health care cuts.

We secured the 218th signature. The press conference was scheduled. Epstein’s survivors were ready to speak. So what did Republican leadership do?

They sent us home during a shutdown.

Bring Congress back. Swear @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social in. It’s time to vote to release the Epstein Files.

YouTube video by American Experience | PBS Fannie Lou Hamer's Powerful Testimony | Freedom Summer

6 October is Fannie Lou Hamer's birthday.

"Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to get her off the air. But his plan backfires."

Anything but those fucking Epstein files. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/10/01/government-shutdown-trump-epstein-files/86439899007/?taid=68dd295e271201000190a84a

SOOOO tired of this hyped up crap

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

Imagine if a water pipe broke and the water department had to ask city council whether to fix it and then spend 12 months asking everyone on the street their opinion of how to fix it before they could start work.

That's how cities manage curbs.

Republicans have been trying to kill Obamacare for 15 years. Trump has been promising to unveil a replacement plan in two weeks — and he’s been promising that for eight years now. Still no plan! Now Republicans are saying reopen the government and they’ll fix healthcare by the end of the year.🙄

With misinformation coming directly from federal health agencies, it's more important than ever that each of us are active public health advocates and spread awareness about the availability and importance of COVID vaccines to our family, friends, and communities.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

It’s right in front of our face.

As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

I Have Decided to Live the Remainder of My Life as a Simple Woodland Creature Admittedly, this plan raised some eyebrows when I brought it up with my husband. First just: “What?” Then: “Seriously, what the hell are you talkin...

"What if you could just let the sights and sounds of a peaceful, friendly forest erase every last annoying or exhausting or terrifying thought in your head?"

No political movement will collapse faster than Republicanism the moment Trump is out of the picture. All of his heirs can't wait to knife each other and none of them individually has even 10% of the juice that Trump has with the median chud voter.

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One-third of Angelenos do not drive Walking back the "car-free" games promise is unconscionable in a city where the people who don't drive are also the most vulnerable users of our streets

Reflections on last week's #WeekWithoutDriving in a city that still refuses to acknowledge the existence of its nondrivers — which a comprehensive new report claims make up one-third of LA's population

If Republicans keep blocking the extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits, policy experts are warning that we are going to end up in what’s called an “insurance death spiral.”

Here’s what that is and why we’re all screwed if it happens.

PS — call your GOP reps. @5calls.org has a script.

Resistance by a professor. When there is a will, there is a way to fight fascism.