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Retired Conservation Biologist (NOAA), grandma, mom, liberal, introvert, bibliophile, sapiophile, amateur birdwatcher, dog lover, gardener, storm spotter…

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Eisenhower

02.03.2026 00:12 — 👍 7908    🔁 2949    💬 202    📌 163
Today should be your 38th birthday..
When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

02.03.2026 00:24 — 👍 12372    🔁 3281    💬 285    📌 197
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Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.

"The attack came despite US intelligence assessments that Iran was unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the US mainland within the next decade."

So why do it?

"A weeks-long lobbying effort by Israel and Saudi Arabia..."

Ah. Not just weak, but cheap, too.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

01.03.2026 14:54 — 👍 4003    🔁 1686    💬 333    📌 98
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You're a little fucking late, Hakeem. Maybe you shoulda started opening your mouth while Trump was massing US forces as Bibi was playing war whisperer.

28.02.2026 17:25 — 👍 1725    🔁 324    💬 323    📌 56
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Small steps, but it's nearly all Russia being pushed back.
Russian troops have no Starlink, no Telegram, terrible tactics, poor logistics and training - against a determined, well-trained and better equipped Ukraine. 🇺🇦🤞🏽

01.03.2026 13:04 — 👍 140    🔁 30    💬 7    📌 1

Thank you! 😊

01.03.2026 16:37 — 👍 53    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Here’s a radical idea for Congress: abolish ICE, dismantle DHS, then take that ICE/CBP BBB slush fund and rebuild our national security apparatus, joint terrorism task force, and alphabet agencies as independent entities. We’re going to need them again. Trump won’t sign it, but let’s write it.

01.03.2026 17:28 — 👍 2943    🔁 765    💬 87    📌 26

Let’s all call Massie today and get him to switch parties. Then force Gonzalez to resign. Then get the gavel, issue some subpoenas, and impeach some motherfuckers

01.03.2026 17:00 — 👍 23798    🔁 5703    💬 1083    📌 400

Right-wing billionaires already own the leading social media platforms and several news outlets.

They're using them to warp what news you see and what truth you believe.

Forty years of trickle-down economics has given billionaires control over the rest of us.

Tax the rich.

01.03.2026 16:18 — 👍 35    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0
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That's a fact - Donald Trump would be in prison if not for our corrupt system.

#TrumpCrimeFamily

01.03.2026 21:00 — 👍 409    🔁 170    💬 17    📌 9
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Their Monarchy Is Acting More Republican Than Our Republic Britain sacrifices their spoiled lecherous prince to save the institution. America sacrifices the institution to save our spoiled lecherous prince.

Britain sacrifices their spoiled, lecherous prince to save the institution.
America sacrifices the institution to save our spoiled, lecherous prince. . johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/their-mona...

01.03.2026 20:50 — 👍 705    🔁 207    💬 11    📌 3

This is a graph of the death of US science.

01.03.2026 19:20 — 👍 332    🔁 172    💬 7    📌 3

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

28.02.2026 08:30 — 👍 19091    🔁 3909    💬 318    📌 114
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Hard to argue

01.03.2026 01:49 — 👍 10112    🔁 3032    💬 589    📌 332

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now.

Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity

01.03.2026 00:36 — 👍 26073    🔁 7009    💬 1268    📌 346

I would like to say Midterms may help us but unfortunately despite the people telling me he can't openly interfere in an election I feel he is going to try his best to do just that. And Congress will allow it.

28.02.2026 14:58 — 👍 5520    🔁 1135    💬 471    📌 94

ICE recruits should be the first ones shipped off for “war.”

28.02.2026 15:03 — 👍 10755    🔁 2152    💬 461    📌 189

It's painfully obvious to me that a whole lot of people who are telling us the elections can't be interfered with are totally clueless concerning what has been done in several important states that will allow them to do just that.

28.02.2026 17:32 — 👍 3629    🔁 864    💬 163    📌 36

We all know the president is starting a war to distract from the Epstein files.

28.02.2026 13:05 — 👍 8532    🔁 2027    💬 457    📌 127

I actually am unhinged enough to think it’s not out of the realm of possibility that he launches a war to distract from Epstein files and have a reason to declare a national emergency to suspend voting. It’s not as if lost lives matter to him.

28.02.2026 17:40 — 👍 11716    🔁 2378    💬 907    📌 192

Every ICE officer who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.

27.02.2026 23:41 — 👍 15497    🔁 3119    💬 587    📌 156

Oh no did an unpopular right wing president fail to come through on any of their promises while they crash the economy and unilaterally start a war to 'distract' from it? Again?

What fucking year is this?

28.02.2026 15:58 — 👍 1729    🔁 288    💬 62    📌 0
'Follow the money': Maddow’s INSTANT REACTION to U.S. striking Iran
YouTube video by MS NOW 'Follow the money': Maddow’s INSTANT REACTION to U.S. striking Iran

If you missed Rachel Maddow's commentary this afternoon on Trump's War with Iran, here it is!

She, like the NY Times, refutes the BS propaganda predicate being pushed by the Trump Regime

Maddow posits: this war is 𝘾𝙪𝙞 𝘽𝙤𝙣𝙤 for those who funnel BILLIONS to the Trump family
youtu.be/QiNsRu2E1As?...

28.02.2026 19:58 — 👍 143    🔁 84    💬 5    📌 4

If the United States is going to go around the world causing regime changes, we should practice here first.

01.03.2026 00:24 — 👍 12063    🔁 2531    💬 341    📌 129
A photograph of a pink flower with a yellow center and the ocean in the background

A photograph of a pink flower with a yellow center and the ocean in the background

Carpobrotus today in Bodega Bay, California
#photography #art #flowers #macro #bloomscroll

28.02.2026 02:11 — 👍 1719    🔁 158    💬 53    📌 7
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This is the First Lady you should be questioning about the Epstein Files, not Hilary.

27.02.2026 18:33 — 👍 4391    🔁 1515    💬 250    📌 72
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'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair." n.pr/3N9Foa8

28.02.2026 20:55 — 👍 2091    🔁 708    💬 77    📌 52

The whole world knows you raped children. Then you go start another war. Do you really believe we'll forget? Do you think this makes you look less guilty?

28.02.2026 20:56 — 👍 827    🔁 270    💬 32    📌 9

It’s been over $4.00 here for months.

28.02.2026 20:58 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war.

Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.

28.02.2026 20:27 — 👍 5388    🔁 1320    💬 86    📌 26