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Anti-dogma progressive. Believer in reason. I get by on hope. **Reject hyperbole**

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Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.

01.09.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3900    πŸ” 835    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 35

Thank you Jeffries. More dems please stand up.

03.07.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

😳😣

03.07.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. 

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country β€” as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question β€” it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. 

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. 

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. 

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country β€” as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question β€” it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

01.07.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 37283    πŸ” 6823    πŸ’¬ 643    πŸ“Œ 507
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Twitter is not real life

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"In our federal system, the National Gov. possesses only limited powers; the States and the people retain the remainder. The States have broad authority to enact legislation for the public goodβ€”what we have often called a 'police power.' The Fed. Gov., by contrast, has no such authority."-SCOTUS '14

09.06.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 12969    πŸ” 4357    πŸ’¬ 212    πŸ“Œ 111
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lol mtg is fighting with a computer about god

23.05.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 15221    πŸ” 2661    πŸ’¬ 1183    πŸ“Œ 650
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Make this make sense. πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ

23.05.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 18499    πŸ” 5211    πŸ’¬ 940    πŸ“Œ 279
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Page One in Des Moines.

@jemsinger.bsky.social

31.05.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 27289    πŸ” 7064    πŸ’¬ 1538    πŸ“Œ 743
"An Atlantic puffin on Maine's on Eastern Egg Rock appears to imitate a decoy on July 9 by standing on one leg. Decoys were used to lure the gregarious birds ashore after they were re-introduced to the island following a 100-year absence."
CREDIT:  Robert F. Bukaty

"An Atlantic puffin on Maine's on Eastern Egg Rock appears to imitate a decoy on July 9 by standing on one leg. Decoys were used to lure the gregarious birds ashore after they were re-introduced to the island following a 100-year absence." CREDIT: Robert F. Bukaty

Puffins are social, so to attract them to Maine's rocky islands, National Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program put out decoys to attract real birds.

This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg.

Seabird peer-pressure can be intense.

(πŸ“·: Robert F. Bukaty)

30.05.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7353    πŸ” 1015    πŸ’¬ 128    πŸ“Œ 72
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Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night.

When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠

30.05.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 9206    πŸ” 3153    πŸ’¬ 1870    πŸ“Œ 1975

IYKYK, man

30.05.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My….god.

30.05.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These guys had such disdain for federal government that they thought running the *FBI* was going to be easy.

29.05.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The reporter who asked Trump the TACO question should get the Pulitzer.

29.05.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3964    πŸ” 509    πŸ’¬ 387    πŸ“Œ 70
Jerry β€œJackrabbit” Tulane - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Jerry β€œJackrabbit” Tulane - SNL

Beau Shannon is a chump! @quintabrunson.bsky.social @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social

29.05.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

THIS THIS THIS THIS

28.05.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3220    πŸ” 576    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 13
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πŸ˜‚ my life would be solved if I never came back

28.05.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly β€œobstructing” ICE.

Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings.

This mess is escalating fast.

28.05.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 8033    πŸ” 3768    πŸ’¬ 242    πŸ“Œ 189
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RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

27.05.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 18771    πŸ” 5555    πŸ’¬ 507    πŸ“Œ 334
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4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care In 2023, a Mexican girl, 4, was allowed U.S. entry for lifesaving medical care. She and her parents, who live in Bakersfield, have been told they must leave.

4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times

Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

28.05.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 19500    πŸ” 7277    πŸ’¬ 948    πŸ“Œ 580
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Page One.

@nytimes.com

28.05.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 6404    πŸ” 2683    πŸ’¬ 484    πŸ“Œ 223

So Ukraine can’t defend itself against Russia - because Gaza? It’s not a zero sum situation lol

28.05.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Who the hell said they have a problem?

28.05.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Coming Democratic Civil War A seemingly wonky debate about the β€œabundance agenda” is really about power.

This democrat supports the Abundance Agenda. Get on board with me! #AbundanceAgenda

28.05.2025 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

JFC I am so ungodly sick of Clarence Thomas!!!!
#scotus

27.05.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

just absolutely insane that this is what Trump accused Biden of doing, and now he's done it himself.

26.05.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3523    πŸ” 775    πŸ’¬ 144    πŸ“Œ 44

No worries. Could be a much worse situation.

26.05.2025 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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