Teresa Stephens

Budget cuts in the wealthiest nation in the world shouldn’t cost people the ability to go to the doctor! Share your stories! #ProtectACA #deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news

Behind the Curtain: Inside post-Kirk MAGA's reality Kirk's death unleashed an escalating MAGA fight.

Behind the Curtain: Many feared the assassination of Charlie Kirk would tear apart the country.

Instead, it's ripping apart some of MAGA's biggest celebrities, escalating a fight over Israel, antisemitism and the normalization of hate speech on the right.

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

"A dark day": Pentagon confiscates badges of Defense reporters The Pentagon Press Association said the move raises public accountability concerns and weakening free speech.

Nearly every Pentagon reporter from almost every major media outlet in America turned in their press badges today, after refusing to endorse the Defense Department's new rules that they say would make it impossible to do their jobs independently.

Opinion | Trump's partisan double standard for assassinations is chilling Why Trump’s different responses to Charlie Kirk and Melissa Hortman's assassinations matter.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas | CNN A small group of writers and researchers are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including the climate.gov website.

Perhaps there is still some hope for this timeline. Preserving data for the years to come, when this hellscape we are in comes to an end, is a very important step to ensure the continuation of the scientific research that is currently being erased.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...

Guess what smart people with common sense never say ....

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I can't figure out how to credit the artist on my avatar image, so here is a link to the original artist.
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White House launches Smithsonian review aimed at removing "partisan narratives" It aims to "ensure alignment" with Trump's directives ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S.

The Trump administration told the Smithsonian Institution it's launching a "comprehensive internal review" of the world's biggest museum and research complex, per a letter the White House released today.

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl America’s $200 Billion Dollar Mistake: A Conversation with Garrett Graff

Had a wonderful conversation with Garrett Graff, the author of this article, on the pod. It’s worth your time. youtu.be/Inkc4OT9TKU?...

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl SHOCKING OPINION... Maybe We Should Have Hope.

If you're younger than me, which is probably most of you...
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Excellent bait! It's absolutely okay to click and read this article. I highly recommend it.

Muir Woods exhibit is first casualty of White House directive to erase history "In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."

And so it begins...
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Trump's claim that Democrats created the Epstein files isn't adding up.

What's next, parents opting kids completely out of class if the kid sitting next to their child is LGBTQ?

SCOTUS: Parents can opt kids out of classes with gay book characters www.npr.org/2025/06/27/n...

New Texas consent law will take effect this fall. What to know about the Summer Willis Act The Summer Willis Act amends the Texas Penal Code to provide a clear and more comprehensive definition of consent.

Hey y'all! Texas actually did a good thing. www.statesman.com/story/news/s...

They’re assaulting the mothers and fathers of US soldiers.

Roving gangs of masked men grab human beings off the street.

They send them without due process to prisons in countries they’re not even from where they are then sold into slavery.

Make it stop!!!

“Bombing for peace is like fucking for chastity.”

- a bumper sticker I had in high school

The Trump administration issued layoff notices to over 600 employees at Voice of America, a federally funded outlet known for providing independent news to countries with restricted press freedom.

Grandiloquent Word of the Day logo - Sepia-toned graphic with a baroque Victorian typeface and a pen-and-ink illustration of a happy girl enthusiastically hugging a boy.

Felicificative [FEE-lih-SIF-ih-kuh-tiv]
(adj.)
- Tending to make happy or produce happiness.

From Latin “felix” (happy)

Used in a sentence:
“The smell of fresh brewed coffee and frying bacon is always so felicificative.”

To the LAPD officers who are standing up for the people of LA, thank you. For the LAPD officers attempting to hurt civilians? The opposite.

Image reads "Me reading the back of a seed packet knowing full well I won't do any of that" and shows a scene from House of the Dragon with character Daemon Targaryen reading a parchment with raised eyebrows

Happy Earth Day! I'm in need of a little humor today. 🌱

Invasive water hyacinths are effective at removing microplastics, study finds Microplastics are pervasive in the environment and often so small they can’t be seen with the naked eye. Removing them has been a big challenge, but recent research finds that water hyacinths can be e...

Interesting article. Plants are amazing. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

WATCH: Bernie Sanders and AOC are rallying against 'oligarchy' on the Front Range today Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will rally supporters in Greeley and Denver as part of their Fighting the Oligarchy Tour.

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"More than 34,000 people filled Denver's Civic Center Park for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rally Friday evening. The speeches were the largest, in a week that saw Democrats host various events and town halls across the state."

This photograph is dangerous. Women are dangerous.

That is the only possible explanation for why it and tens of thousands of other photos of women and minorities in the military are currently being deleted from federal government websites.

Read more: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

NPS takes down web pages dedicated to transgender activists and LGBTQ history This is part of an ongoing move by the federal government to remove and alter National Park Service webpages related to LGBTQ history.

Web sites highlighting transgender activists removed by NPS www.npr.org/2025/03/05/n...

I say again, I have an overwhelming need to purchase hardcopy history books. Placing an order through my local indie bookstore right now.

The Post-Trump Populist Revolution Will Begin in Texas—and It Won’t Look Like Anything Before I want to be there when it happens.

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Interesting perspective. Texans are definitely united under Texas pride. I could see that boosting a populist movement.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

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