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Deb Howitt

@phyllae.bsky.social

Canadian, retired M.Ed, liberal, woke. Value truth, science, facts! Books, cats, nature, love all make my world a better place.

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What Jesse Waters was saying about vengeance was nothing. This guy is suggesting that we kill the homeless.
What the hell America?

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MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City.

He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.

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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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Trump recently ordered the Department of the Interior to halt work on a huge wind farm.

1,000 union workers had already completed 80% of the project.

Now they're fired.

He made sure the oil and gas billionaires got their tax breaks, though.

Happy Labor Day, I guess.

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A rush of people converge at 14 & U

A rush of people converge at 14 & U

Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting β€œFree DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning.

I love you, DC.

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Robert Mueller’s Has Parkinson's And Can’t Testify Before Congress, Report Says Mueller, the former FBI director and special counsel, had been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee as part of an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

Mueller, the former FBI director and special counsel, had been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee as part of an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

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Dear God, please make it stop just make it stop

13.08.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member.

RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.

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Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's international sex trafficking ring | 60 Minutes Australia
YouTube video by 60 Minutes Australia Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's international sex trafficking ring | 60 Minutes Australia

πŸ“£ RE-UP! SHARE!
*Do not stop talking about this*

60 Minutes Australia has been far ahead of U.S. broadcast media in featuring survivors of Epstein and Maxwell β€” a year ago!

πŸ“Ί youtu.be/VQOOxOl9l80?...

#LetSurvivorsTestify

🚨 πŸ“Ί 60 Minutes Australia Epstein Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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It’s weird so many liberals shoot the messenger on this. It’s as clear day to me that as far as post democracy, we are just about all the way there.

I wonder if so much of the denial is folks are taught that Jim Crow was about water fountains and not violent political and economic repression.

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www.motherjones.com

#MotherJones
current issue:

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Well said,
(from that other site)

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Oh, JD’s just practicing for when he gets handed the big job.

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Trump’s War on Big Law Means It’s Harder to Challenge the Administration Some of America’s largest law firms are refusing to take pro bono and paid legal work from groups that seek to hold the government to account on issues like environmental protection, LGBTQ+ rights and...

β€œLaw firms that once proudly contributed thousands of hours of pro bono work to a host of causes ... have withdrawn from such work because it is disfavored by the Administration,” the American Bar Association wrote in its lawsuit.

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Remembering Virginia Giuffre Daughter, Sister, Mother, Survivor, and Fierce Advocate

Virginia Giuffre fought for survivors until the day she died.
Her abusers still walk free. Her story must be told.
Honor her life by making sure the world hears it.
open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...

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Letting go of ego is not always easy, but it is good for us and good for the world. The less ego, the more compassion and empathy.

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How crass tacky can you get? Even used car salesmen are a step up from felon 47.

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Sign on a telephone post: Whatever you allow your government to do to others they will eventually do to you.

Sign on a telephone post: Whatever you allow your government to do to others they will eventually do to you.

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Nixon's resignation letter.

Nixon's resignation letter.

Fifty-one years ago today.

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It makes sense once you realize that every accusation is a confession.

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YOU should get to decide if, when, and how to grow your family. We are fighting to make it so.

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I envision him sitting the oval office screaming "More gold! I said MORE GOLD DAMMIT!!!"
And staff members furiously ordering all the tacky crap they can find off of Temu with 2 day shipping.

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A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.

And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

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The FBI As We Knew It is Gone It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it.

I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...

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