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I live in the Pacific Northwest and love traveling, hiking, birdwatching, sailing, reading and music of all kinds. My Golden retriever and my geriatric cat keep me company while I watch vintage TV series, knit socks, do sudoku, and crosswords

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Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

β€œthe girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

09.10.2025 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 8113    πŸ” 1565    πŸ’¬ 157    πŸ“Œ 113

Also, I guess it's now becoming a state crime to...describe reality?

18.09.2025 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1143    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 3

Remember that authoritarians have ZERO sense of humor. About anything.

18.09.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 6313    πŸ” 1031    πŸ’¬ 226    πŸ“Œ 66

An INTENDED result of going after free speech is it scares people into being silent in a moment where we need everyone to be the loudest.

18.09.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4471    πŸ” 1412    πŸ’¬ 128    πŸ“Œ 81
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ICE threw me and other protestors to the ground on Friday because we dared to stand up for our neighbors. I’m okay, but our communities aren’t.

We can't afford apathy or inaction from our leaders right now. Abolishing ICE is a moral necessity.

14.09.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 15929    πŸ” 5296    πŸ’¬ 455    πŸ“Œ 245

I'm so glad we can all revisit our opinions on the Biden age thing again. Perhaps we can even relitigate our favorite factional disputes from the 2020 primary while we're at it? Ah heck, let's go back to the old grudges about 2016, hold nothing back, it's not like our country's on fire or anything

15.05.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 474    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 19
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Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government (RNS) β€”Β In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,' the pr...

BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

12.05.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 8613    πŸ” 2588    πŸ’¬ 227    πŸ“Œ 386

This is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.

27.03.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 17749    πŸ” 3544    πŸ’¬ 802    πŸ“Œ 164
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EXCLUSIVE: This just happened onstage in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphys concert. "This is America, no kings here!" @dropkickmurphys.com nails it again!!

16.03.2025 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 46199    πŸ” 11180    πŸ’¬ 1073    πŸ“Œ 1172
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

05.03.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 82124    πŸ” 25918    πŸ’¬ 1688    πŸ“Œ 2841
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a man in a white shirt is standing in a field of tall grass ALT: a man in a white shirt is standing in a field of tall grass
27.02.2025 06:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
"Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights.

"If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not 'inalienable' and they're not 'rights.'

"We don't have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins.

"And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with."

"Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights. "If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not 'inalienable' and they're not 'rights.' "We don't have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins. "And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with."

I've been screaming this for years.

24.02.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7887    πŸ” 2779    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 68
TEXT: My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions β€” but in deference to my obligations.

TEXT: My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions β€” but in deference to my obligations.

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

21.02.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 44221    πŸ” 9796    πŸ’¬ 1109    πŸ“Œ 388
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BREAKING CROSSPOST: Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename β€˜Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief Byline Times has crashed due to a DDOS attack and the original story blocked: a former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman

🚨BREAKING CROSSPOST AFTER DDOS ATTACK

Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename β€˜Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief

A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/breaking-c...

21.02.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1167    πŸ” 816    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 147
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Trump was recruited by KGB with codename 'Krasnov', claims ex-Soviet spy Former Chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee Alnur Mussayev claims the Soviet KGB recruited Donald Trump before the collapse of the USSR, assigning him the alias Krasnov

Also reported in the Daily Mirror.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

21.02.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

I see a man running toward me

20.02.2025 06:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MeidasTouch Beats Joe Rogan, Takes Over #1 Podcast Spot If you aren't following The MeidasTouch Podcast, now is the time to start.

My latest: MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com Is Now #1 Podcast, Beating Out Joe Rogan

20.02.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 20301    πŸ” 3384    πŸ’¬ 442    πŸ“Œ 161
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In rural West Texas, a measles outbreak grows with no end in sight At least 49 cases have been confirmed. Health officials β€” who are scrambling to get a handle on the vaccine-preventable outbreak β€” suspect 200 to 300 people may be infected.

"Most cases are in school-age kids, and 13 have been hospitalized..."
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

17.02.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 8043    πŸ” 2795    πŸ’¬ 848    πŸ“Œ 229
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Huge turnout to protest the abuses of the Trump administration and save the civil service in downtown Seattle. Thousands in attendance.

17.02.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1521    πŸ” 403    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 24
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Last Fall, the Washington Post allowed a right wing group to run a full page ad falsely attacking me for protecting voting rights. Today, Bezos' paper won't accept ads criticizing Elon Musk.

Support pro-democracy media.
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17.02.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 16230    πŸ” 5838    πŸ’¬ 613    πŸ“Œ 364

Well said.

16.02.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 804    πŸ” 229    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 10
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Try and find a better descriptive quote for the state of MSM today.

11.02.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 296    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2
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βœŠπŸ˜†
Governor JB Pritzker
@govpritzker.illinois.gov

07.02.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3302    πŸ” 719    πŸ’¬ 220    πŸ“Œ 131

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17.12.2023 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 16775    πŸ” 3727    πŸ’¬ 869    πŸ“Œ 244
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British Columbia is already pulling the American liquor.

02.02.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 38158    πŸ” 6494    πŸ’¬ 1453    πŸ“Œ 539
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Beautiful walk at Billy Frank Jr Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge

02.02.2025 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The RFK Jr. Op-Ed the Los Angeles Times Didn’t Want You to Read Eric Reinhart submitted a column critical of RFK Jr. to the troubled newspaper. What they printed under his byline bore little resemblance to what he submitted.

The New Republic has kindly published what the LA Times and its RFK Jr-supporting billionaire owner Pat Soon-Shiong tried to suppress: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

01.02.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 826    πŸ” 229    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 10

The store is now selling "I will de-Nazify shit but I will not re-Nazify shit" tshirts and I hope they sell a million of them, lol

31.01.2025 07:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2866    πŸ” 619    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 19

Query: If β€œDEI” is the reason for the plane collision, why is this the first accident in [checks watch] 16 years? πŸ€”

30.01.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 13017    πŸ” 2614    πŸ’¬ 323    πŸ“Œ 127

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