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Private brass instructor, retired music teacher, lover of the environment

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Pretty sure - "does not tolerate rogue job dges" means...does not follow the laws of the land!!!?

23.07.2025 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NO KINGS Richmond Β· No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

13.06.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Socialism is what they called public power.Β 

Socialism is what they called social security.Β 
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Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
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Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

β€”Harry Truman, 1952

05.03.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 9392    πŸ” 2554    πŸ’¬ 137    πŸ“Œ 82

WTAF?!?!?

05.03.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Grrrr!

05.03.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Grrrrrrr!

05.03.2025 03:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!

28.02.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well duh!!

28.02.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Live updates: Trump and Zelensky meeting devolves into shouting match over Ukraine war | CNN Politics President Donald Trump is meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House Friday. Follow for live updates.

If Russia and Putin WERE to have a mole rise to the level of US President, I can't imagine it could go any better than the 1st month of FOTUS47's administration!
www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

28.02.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why does this administration always end up doing business like a bad reality TV show!!

28.02.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A large herd of Bison on spring grass with scattered sage in Lamar Valley.

A large herd of Bison on spring grass with scattered sage in Lamar Valley.

All our public lands could and should look like this.
The only thing stopping a recovery
Are welfare ranchers.

27.02.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2235    πŸ” 258    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 7
Lone bull bison in a forest under heavy snowfall.

Lone bull bison in a forest under heavy snowfall.

;-)

27.02.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 323    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an β€œeconomic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

28.02.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 47300    πŸ” 15182    πŸ’¬ 1457    πŸ“Œ 905

Idiots!!!!

28.02.2025 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Such a POS!!!!

27.02.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Come on BlueSky where is #NeedAngryButtononBlueSky

23.02.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yep...pretty much!!

20.02.2025 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thursday News: Climate Crisis in Overdrive, with Record Heat in 2024; Trump, Trapped in Russian β€œDisinformation Bubble,” Is the American President of Putin’s Dreams”; Trump Has GOP Senators β€œScared S... by LowellHere are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, February 20. As Paul Krugman says "Why the frantic lying? I suspect that it’s

Thursday News: Climate Crisis in Overdrive, with Record Heat in 2024; Trump, Trapped in Russian β€œDisinformation Bubble,” Is the...President of Putin’s Dreams”; Trump Has GOP Senators β€œScared Shitless”; β€œVirginia’s GOP delegation chooses Trump over the Constitution” bluevirginia.us/2025/02/thur...

20.02.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I think a huge advance could be setting up ranked choice voting which pulls candidates towards the center instead of towards the extremes (if you know of anyone who is advocating for this... please let me know)! Anyway, what do you think? 6/6
@bluevirginia.bsky.social @abigailspanberger.com

20.02.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So hive mind, I'd be interested in hearing any ideas you have as to how we could break out of our individual camps to have a dialogue about what most of us in the middle can identify as being the problems, and work on a solution that embraces both instead of excluding one for the other! 5/

20.02.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Progressives are concerned with the manner in which those cuts are being made, following legal processes as set out in our statutes and Constitution. I think these things are reasonable concerns and that, if we could step out of our circled wagons, we would admit that they need addressing. 4/

20.02.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

...the list goes on. Conservatives are understandably and rightly concerned with expenditures that many of us would find to have little return on investment, be excessive, or not be an apparent benefit to those of us in the United States. 3/

20.02.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe looking at one of the hot button issues of the day would be instructive to finding common ground.

Let's take peoples' perspective on DOGE cutting waste in many activities of the federal government going on right now... USAID, Department of Education, the National Parks, NIH, CDC, EPA 2/

20.02.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the things that keeps us divided into camps is the understandable necessity of focusing on a couple main issues or themes that are important to us to the exclusion of others. Our brains are designed to shut out cognitive dissonance so that we can focus on that which is most important. 1/

20.02.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, itΒ isΒ hereby ordered: Section 1.

rather than bolstering them!! Maybe they could walk the walk instead of talking the talk! 4/4
#MakeAmericaHealthyAgain #MAGA #DerGropenfuhrer #RFKJr
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

16.02.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

to protect citizen and environmental safety..and muzzling agencies like the EPA, FDA & CDC who have been charged with maintaining and advancing those missions.
That makes a "Presidential Commission" feel a little disingenuous when the administration's actions are removing the checks in the system 3/

16.02.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Many oppose "regulation" because it's bad for business!! Now we see the Trump administration cutting pesky inspectors and inspector generals...the few Federal employees we have providing oversight to the admittedly lax rules we have compared to the rest of the world 2/

16.02.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The identification of problems with our health in this proclamation is 100% on point!! I wonder though if the problem could be that we here in the US put profits and return to shareholders above all else? 1/

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