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I’m a retired journalist and now an avid hiker with a hankering to conquer the PCT. It’s nice to be here, away from the bots

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Thank you.

01.04.2025 01:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Democrats love to send letters

28.03.2025 15:47 — 👍 105    🔁 10    💬 12    📌 0

Have a great vacation, Lynne.

21.03.2025 13:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center. ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.

This is a very sad story, but what makes me crazy is that people tried to explain that this is what would happen and got caricatured as "woke" hysterics www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

16.03.2025 14:01 — 👍 9597    🔁 2271    💬 997    📌 689

I can’t generate any sympathy for Trump voters who thought all the hurt would be for others and not them.

16.03.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dr. Mehmet Oz may have underpaid Medicare and Social Security taxes, Senate Democratic memo finds The report comes as Oz, Trump's nominee to lead the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is set to face a Senate confirmation hearing Friday.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

13.03.2025 19:37 — 👍 3211    🔁 804    💬 301    📌 69
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White House withdraws Trump's pick Dave Weldon as CDC director pick The White House is withdrawing President Donald Trump's nomination of Republican former congressman and vaccine critic Dave Weldon to serve as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a source briefed on the matter said on Thursday.

Trump just withdrew the bad CDC nominee after public blowback about the measles vaccine.

Scientists, we can achieve the same with the bad NIH nominee. Public pressure can force out Bhattacharya.
Your voices are needed now. Please take action. 🧪

13.03.2025 13:38 — 👍 1644    🔁 413    💬 32    📌 17

And there are lots of good alternative choices out there. We just got a new Ford Escape hybrid. It gets 42 mpg, nearly double our previous car, and it didn’t cost a small fortune. F Elon, the whiny crybaby who is happiest ruining the lives of other people.

13.03.2025 14:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Donald Trump told to 'get a hearing aid' as he suffers age issue in Oval Office

Donald Trump touted employment rates in his presidency during an unexpected Oval Office address on Friday but viewers were more concerned when he misheard a reporter's question.

08.03.2025 00:21 — 👍 36    🔁 10    💬 6    📌 1
"These attacks on science from the federal administration are just unacceptable."
YouTube video by Mother Jones "These attacks on science from the federal administration are just unacceptable."

"I work in economic development based on science and innovation, so I know how important science is to our economy, our economic well-being, and these attacks on science from the federal administration are just unacceptable, anti-intellectual and self defeating for our country."

08.03.2025 00:37 — 👍 197    🔁 41    💬 5    📌 3

This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.

07.03.2025 21:01 — 👍 49944    🔁 7775    💬 807    📌 305

The whole world knows what he is. Good that the Times finally figured it out.

23.02.2025 20:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Person with sign Trump Musk's Tool

Person with sign Trump Musk's Tool

We can all get involved

Protesters of all ages

Sharing concerns

Opinions

Truths

#Voices4Victory

23.02.2025 15:27 — 👍 100    🔁 38    💬 3    📌 0
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Washington Post backs out of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ ad order The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause.  The group …

What a disgrace.

Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them.

*This* is how democracy dies.

17.02.2025 14:56 — 👍 14058    🔁 3859    💬 833    📌 326
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Experts Call NIH Budget Cuts an 'Apocalypse' for Science The reductions target indirect costs that cover administrative and equipment costs.

I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all.
time.com/7216299/nih-...

15.02.2025 21:28 — 👍 2074    🔁 911    💬 45    📌 21

Sad.

15.02.2025 16:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is Donald Trump Afraid of Elon Musk? The president has long operated without anything resembling worry when it comes to appointments or executive action, but as his most powerful—and richest—political ally chainsaws his way through the f...

No doubt about it.

08.02.2025 20:53 — 👍 705    🔁 154    💬 75    📌 7

Rest up, Lynne. I think we’re finally starting to come out of the icebox here.

14.02.2025 14:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“Slightly?”
That’s putting as much lipstick as possible on a pig

13.02.2025 15:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Take care of yourself, Lisa.

13.02.2025 15:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

11.02.2025 21:53 — 👍 7150    🔁 3180    💬 649    📌 535

No denying that at this point.

08.02.2025 14:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Exactly. Musk knew what he was and approved. He’s just trying to act like it never happened. Nazis gonna Nazi.

07.02.2025 14:51 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I live in the same town in Arkansas that my ancestors settled in the 1800's. I really never left my hometown.

But somewhere along the way, my hometown has started to leave me.

As I walk my neighborhood, I grieve.

I don't know if my hometown wants people like me anymore, yet I'm here.

07.02.2025 12:56 — 👍 585    🔁 63    💬 45    📌 2

So there are no checks on his conflicts of interest.

06.02.2025 15:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Navy fires CO of Naval Information Warfare Training Group San Diego
YouTube video by Military Times Navy fires CO of Naval Information Warfare Training Group San Diego

Apparently there’s no longer room for highly qualified women and black men in our Navy!
Only straight, christian, white males need apply!

Good job Blacks for Trump
Good job Latinos for Trump
Good job Women for Trump

🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾
#ProudBlue

youtube.com/shorts/u2VHO...

06.02.2025 02:46 — 👍 102    🔁 59    💬 13    📌 3

Same to you, Lynne.

06.02.2025 15:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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