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Used to be very active in politics; rethinking that! Left the other place the day the rich dude bought it - been looking for a place to follow journalists, sports, weather, education issues, legal issues, etc. Hope this turns out to be it. Retired educator

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Dekalb County Officer David Rose.

Killed in the line of duty...responding to multiple shots fired at The Centers for Disease Control.

11.09.2025 17:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 71    ๐Ÿ” 50    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡

11.09.2025 05:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 378    ๐Ÿ” 55    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid

Hereโ€™s a story thatโ€™s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

11.09.2025 00:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16605    ๐Ÿ” 6175    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 457    ๐Ÿ“Œ 224
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Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader' Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

10.09.2025 23:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26024    ๐Ÿ” 7226    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 202    ๐Ÿ“Œ 223
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A Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband Are Lying in State. Next to Them: Their Golden Retriever.

I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

11.09.2025 02:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13994    ๐Ÿ” 4185    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 182    ๐Ÿ“Œ 153

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

10.09.2025 20:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24470    ๐Ÿ” 5246    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 380    ๐Ÿ“Œ 152

Two things can be true:

1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &

2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.

11.08.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11677    ๐Ÿ” 2838    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 401    ๐Ÿ“Œ 124

Thunder Up!!!

22.06.2025 23:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war thatโ€™s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America canโ€™t afford Meals on Wheels anymore.

Make it make sense.

22.06.2025 20:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 50505    ๐Ÿ” 14704    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1123    ๐Ÿ“Œ 480
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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

31.05.2025 00:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35256    ๐Ÿ” 11112    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1095    ๐Ÿ“Œ 812
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America isโ€ฆ cooked.

25.04.2025 21:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18217    ๐Ÿ” 3821    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1634    ๐Ÿ“Œ 503

He was on FIRE!๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

26.04.2025 03:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well

ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...

26.04.2025 01:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2425    ๐Ÿ” 1566    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 57    ๐Ÿ“Œ 165
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๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿฝ

20.04.2025 01:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23689    ๐Ÿ” 6844    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 360    ๐Ÿ“Œ 233

The fact that I know more about Katy Perry and Lauren Sรกnchezโ€™s 11-minute space trip than I do about Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alitoโ€™s decades-long crime spree shows exactly what is terribly wrong with todayโ€™s political mainstream media.

19.04.2025 19:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12871    ๐Ÿ” 3171    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 243    ๐Ÿ“Œ 135

Today in weird statistical coincidences

17.04.2025 00:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 994    ๐Ÿ” 337    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

The Dodgers blow up the poor Rockies pitcher with 7 runs in the 1st inning

17.04.2025 02:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your repโ€”this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

09.04.2025 16:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34677    ๐Ÿ” 17079    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1465    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1228

The credibility of the US government is completely shot.

Gone.

Annihilated.

Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration.

Ever.

09.04.2025 18:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 57375    ๐Ÿ” 11775    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2251    ๐Ÿ“Œ 686

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

09.04.2025 17:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 87773    ๐Ÿ” 16170    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3086    ๐Ÿ“Œ 824
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Massive #HandsOff rallies across the country ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

05.04.2025 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28473    ๐Ÿ” 6462    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 591    ๐Ÿ“Œ 427

Alright, Studio City! Another great sign.

05.04.2025 23:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 558    ๐Ÿ” 62    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The entire DOGE operation is irresponsible. They act as if they are a vulture capital takeover, gutting the federal government hoping to sell off the remaining pieces to people who can make a profit on services that our taxes no longer pay for.
Meanwhile, *their* taxes are lower. Horror show.

06.04.2025 00:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is correct.

04.04.2025 21:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2044    ๐Ÿ” 329    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 37    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Heโ€™s tanking the economy, destroying our standing in the world, depriving women and LGBTQ communities of their fundamental rights, attacking the environment, disappearing legal immigrants, gutting Veteranโ€™s benefits and Social Security. And heโ€™s making you pay for his golf trips while heโ€™s at it.

04.04.2025 23:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27587    ๐Ÿ” 7900    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 881    ๐Ÿ“Œ 354
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This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.

04.04.2025 16:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48123    ๐Ÿ” 14895    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5135    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1493
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The @financialtimes.com is not mincing words

"Americaโ€™s astonishing act of self-harm"
on.ft.com/3YjtOLV

04.04.2025 08:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17594    ๐Ÿ” 5875    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 682    ๐Ÿ“Œ 283
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The assholes who refused to wear a mask to protect their own grandparents are demanding we endure a depression to protect Donald Trump's ego.

03.04.2025 22:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1039    ๐Ÿ” 255    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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The Axe Rises Over Medicare and Medicaid Earlier this week I noted the fact that the Center for Medicare...

CMS is the agency that manages Medicare, Medicaid and other govt health programs. On Monday they were instructed to devise a plan to cut their budget by roughly one third and four days to decide what to cut. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-a...

03.04.2025 22:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 778    ๐Ÿ” 524    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42    ๐Ÿ“Œ 51

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