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Mother. Wife. Breast cancer survivor/stage4-troubleshooter. Actress. Writer/Editor. Online adventurer and current resident of Texas. :-(

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Or believed our eyes or the words that have come out of Trump’s mouth over the years…

21.07.2025 04:23 — 👍 2174    🔁 620    💬 64    📌 32
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NEW ANGLE

Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear should’ve been blown off—now completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage.

But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into place…

19.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 17800    🔁 8393    💬 2229    📌 1279

It's true, however given govt is by the people, for the people, why not start organizing our own people's HHS?

Let's create our own organizations that operate the right way, no matter what the feds are doing.

Their power is purely due to us NOT doing that

10.06.2025 22:22 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yes. They are going after the provisions of the ACA that required certain health maintenance services/diagnostics to be provided free of charge. Say buh-bye to mammograms, PAP smears, colonoscopies, lab work, yearly exams AND the pre-existing conditions clause. All to benefit private insurance.

10.06.2025 23:56 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

“He’s easily bruising. He has bone pain. He looks pale .… He has also lost his appetite …. His mom is terrified that these are symptoms that his leukemia situation might be deteriorating.”

A 6-year-old with cancer is languishing in a U.S. detention camp. Who will answer for this cruelty?

29.06.2025 00:01 — 👍 2190    🔁 953    💬 32    📌 55

Well said. That’s the experience in a nutshell.

29.06.2025 18:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In case some of you think I am wrong for advocating violence, what do you think should be done to masked kidnappers (even official ones) when there are credible reports of them RAPING CHILDREN IN THEIR CUSTODY and they won't let anyone confirm it isn't happening??

28.06.2025 02:41 — 👍 38    🔁 12    💬 5    📌 1

We’ve talked about “Alligator Alcatraz” before. Here are more details.

Starting the first week of July, when South Florida’s heat index regularly hits 100°F, they plan to detain up to 5,000 people in tents. No A/C. No real shelter. Just suffocating heat, choking humidity, and swarms of mosquitoes.

28.06.2025 01:17 — 👍 8293    🔁 3645    💬 879    📌 387

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election.

A new generation of leaders is here.

28.06.2025 01:29 — 👍 21186    🔁 4266    💬 299    📌 333
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Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!

26.06.2025 22:50 — 👍 25600    🔁 14715    💬 709    📌 705
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💰 WATCH: “How is that happening?” 🤷🏼‍♂️

@aoc.bsky.social informs a confused RFK Jr. that his own HHS is stuffing the pockets of insurance companies by doubling the rates taxpayers pay them even as they defraud us. 🤔

24.06.2025 18:13 — 👍 20071    🔁 6967    💬 1055    📌 601
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Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.

25.06.2025 01:45 — 👍 14188    🔁 2652    💬 434    📌 219

I would love to see them give the Nobel Peace Prize to President Zelenskyy, if for no other reason to see trump turn purple with envy.

I'm sure I would pass out laughing.

25.06.2025 05:44 — 👍 3669    🔁 498    💬 142    📌 31
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Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

What's happened since?

A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

24.06.2025 14:11 — 👍 13310    🔁 5980    💬 670    📌 445
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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

23.06.2025 00:40 — 👍 18330    🔁 4457    💬 1486    📌 412

It is a disgusting place to live.

23.06.2025 12:36 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It is possible that hell has frozen over.

Donald Trump and I agree on something very important: Abolish the debt limit.

20.06.2025 19:06 — 👍 477    🔁 47    💬 74    📌 7
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‘Abducted by Ice’: the haunting missing-person posters plastered across LA The handmade posters of immigrants have become a symbol of quiet resistance. Their creators reveal the story behind the project

‘Abducted by Ice’: the haunting missing-person posters plastered across LA

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

19.06.2025 04:53 — 👍 796    🔁 378    💬 12    📌 13
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NO KINGS! - FORT WORTH · Stand Up America NO KINGS. NO CROWNS. NO DAMN THRONES. FORT WORTH HAS HAD ENOUGH! This country doesn’t belong to Trump or his billionaire buddies—it belongs to the people. Fort Worth and Tarrant County...it's time to...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS! - FORT WORTH” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/standupameri...

13.06.2025 17:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

11.06.2025 18:00 — 👍 34385    🔁 17015    💬 2249    📌 2500

You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work.

You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules.

Get your lies straight.

10.06.2025 23:13 — 👍 29726    🔁 9590    💬 725    📌 396

This is why people say ALL cops.

11.06.2025 04:14 — 👍 197    🔁 90    💬 16    📌 6
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WHO Monitors New Covid Variant Spreading in America and Europe NB.1.8.1 has mutations that could increase the virus’s transmissibility and decrease the efficacy of certain neutralizing antibodies against it.

NB.1.8.1 has mutations that could increase the virus’s transmissibility and decrease the efficacy of certain neutralizing antibodies against it. www.wired.com/story/who-mo...

10.06.2025 09:02 — 👍 376    🔁 173    💬 12    📌 24
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LAPD when they think nobody is watching

09.06.2025 04:01 — 👍 27825    🔁 14325    💬 1863    📌 2126
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White House Pushes Texas to Redistrict, Hoping to Blunt Democratic Gains

Lots going on, but this is big.

White House Pushes Texas to Redistrict, Hoping to Blunt Democratic Gains www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...

10.06.2025 02:24 — 👍 1487    🔁 770    💬 67    📌 64
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47 is clearly shooting for a larger number of dead Americans this time. Stay strong, be aware and fight back.

10.06.2025 02:26 — 👍 648    🔁 181    💬 17    📌 11
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🧵1/2: We demand the immediate release of Gladis Yolanda Chavez Pineda (A 208-276-014), a long-time Chicago resident, loving mother and grandmother, and a dedicated community leader, who was unjustly detained during a routine ISAP check-in on June 4, 2025.

ocadchi.salsalabs.org/freegladis

05.06.2025 02:49 — 👍 571    🔁 201    💬 4    📌 5

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