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Opinion | The Grace That Gives Us Hope

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A hamster / mister saddlebags with EXTREMELY chubby cheeks

The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979. 

Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth. 

Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

The eventual fate of the GOP

The Secret Supreme Court Lobbyists Who Want To Stay Hidden Dark money groups tied to conservative power broker Leonard Leo are trying to kill a rule forcing them to disclose who’s funding their judicial pressure campaigns.

🚨NEWS: Leonard Leo-linked dark-money groups are trying to repeal a federal rule requiring disclosure of billionaires & corporations funding efforts to lobby judges to deliver rulings they want.

The rule was created by a panel led by Justice John Roberts.

This. Shout this from the rooftops. Add in the propaganda that tricks voters into thinking this is the American way and you’ve got the MAGA playbook.

This is a welcome decision, and I'll be glad to see our federal workers back doing the work to keep our communities safe and healthy, but we can't forget the damage that has been done in their absence.

Thank you! I appreciate your stand and wish more were with you!

Delaware, I won't vote to give away your voice.

I'm voting NO on this Republican funding bill.

Don't be fooled: every time he says ‘tariffs’, Trump is talking about alienating our allies and raising the cost of everything you buy.

He doesn’t care about you, he cares about the chaos he can use as a distraction to enrich himself and his friends.

During his first term, Trump ran up the national debt giving his rich friends massive tax breaks.

Now in his second term, he wants to pay for another huge tax cut by slashing your Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

This time is different, and so much worse.

Using the bully pulpit doesn’t actually mean being a bully.

This is a totally unreasonable way to conduct diplomacy, and a disgraceful way to treat an ally. We should all be standing with Ukraine as they continue their fight on the front line of democracy.

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

A map of the 2025 SPC Tornado outline across 8 southern states.

NOAA's Storm Prediction Center suggests a tornado could move across the South next week. Meanwhile, 11 out of 38 NWS offices in central U.S. are now “critically” understaffed, and NWS employees credit cards are limited to $1, preventing travel and repairs needed for tornado damage surveys.

Know who else needs accurate weather forecasting? Firefighters.

The National Weather Service cuts today are a great example of how these decisions will compound, weakening government’s ability to do its job across multiple industries.

The CDC just fired the exact people who would’ve responded to this mystery disease outbreak in the Congo. Hope "thoughts and prayers" are an effective containment strategy.

'No Amazon, no Walmart, no fast food': What's behind the 'Feb. 28 economic blackout' The People's Union USA, a self-described “grassroots movement” founded by John Schwarz, is encouraging Americans to refrain from making non-essential purchases on Friday.

Let’s go www.yahoo.com/news/no-amaz...

THE CUT A 'Bright Spot' in Washington Us being here has real-world implications. At this stage of our lives, we don't need to be superstars. We're here to get the work done... It truly is a blessing that we are here together. We both take it very seriously. - Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester

We may have made history, but we are really here to make an impact.

So proud to be serving with my sister senator,
@alsobrooks.senate.gov!

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www.thecut.com/article/angela-alsobrooks-lisa-blunt-rochester-senate-interview.html

Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.

After three years of failure, Putin can’t win on the ground, but he can win in his enemies’ heads—if we let him.

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

February 23, 2025 Something is shifting,” scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder posted on Bluesky yesterday.

February 23, 2025

Musk’s cost-cutting team is laying off workers at the auto safety agency overseeing his car company Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the latest federal agency to be hit with DOGE layoffs.

That's the same agency that has investigated crashes involving Tesla's self-driving cars.

This was never about "efficiency."

Thank you!

Michelle Beutler cleared 67 trees off a U.S. Forest Service road in two days. It was the spring of 2023, after a record-breaking winter in the Stanislaus National Forest in California’s Sierra Nevada. Beutler, 59, worked alone with a chain saw to remove every fallen tree on a 10-mile stretch of road between the town of Long Barn in Tuolumne County and the popular Hull Creek Campground. She single-handedly finished the work so the road could open in time for Memorial Day. As a recreation technician based out of the Summit Ranger Station in the Stanislaus National Forest, Beutler’s job was to clean toilets, pick up trash and maintain recreation sites and campgrounds up and down Sonora Pass. She’d typically drive her Forest Service truck 100 miles a day. She sprayed pit toilets with a fire hose. She wiped away graffiti and removed thousands of pounds of house trash, old furniture and useless stuff that people dumped in the forest. She extinguished hundreds of abandoned and illegal campfires. She assisted law enforcement during emergency accidents, helping officers navigate a swath of rugged forest land that she grew up on and knows intimately.

When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump.

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He's talking about people like Gregg: