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Nancy Lawrence

@thoughtgarden.bsky.social

Believer in Democracy, empathy, education, science, and good people standing together for a better world.

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Wake up people!

07.08.2025 02:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Noticing a pattern here.

06.08.2025 18:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30490    ๐Ÿ” 12791    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3492    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1904
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Sections of the US Constitution have vanished from a government website. What happened? Two sections of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution have disappeared on an official government website.

๐Ÿงต 1/5 Official congressional website page, Constitution Annotated on constitution.congress.gov, is blaming the disappearance of sections detailing habeas corpus protections & rights & limitations of state governments, that according to Wayback machine were made in the past month, on a coding error!

06.08.2025 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 168    ๐Ÿ” 132    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Jessica: As for the manufacturing boom which he is talking aboutโ€”in the latest jobs report, we lost 11,000 manufacturing jobs and the manufacturing industry has contracted the most we have seen in the last nine months,

06.08.2025 22:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13405    ๐Ÿ” 4044    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 451    ๐Ÿ“Œ 182
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Trump admin slammed over 'glaring omissions' in new report on global human rights abuses A former State Department official slammed President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday after a new State Department report was leaked to the media. The State Department has "whittled down" it...

Trump admin slammed over 'glaring omissions' in new report on global human rights abuses

www.rawstory.com/trump-267386...

07.08.2025 02:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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No biggie, just an American president suggesting the federal government would take over New York City if he doesnโ€™t like who they choose as mayor.

Will of the people, be damned.

As @wkamaubell.bsky.social says,
โ€œThat is called FASCISM!โ€

06.08.2025 23:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1977    ๐Ÿ” 876    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 225    ๐Ÿ“Œ 101

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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The Numbers Donโ€™t Lie! America has spokenโ€ฆ. Release the damn files clown ๐Ÿคก

05.08.2025 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1850    ๐Ÿ” 566    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 107    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
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TEXAS @repcasar.bsky.social : โ€œImagine in another country a corrupt president was trying to change the election laws. Then that presidentโ€™s political ally threatened to remove all the legislators of the other party to get it done. Thatโ€™s whatโ€™s happening in Texas right now.โ€

06.08.2025 01:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7683    ๐Ÿ” 2889    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 177    ๐Ÿ“Œ 110
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We are turning Earth into a unlivable Hot House Earth
Earth was about 2.65 degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.47 degrees Celsius) warmer in 2024 than in the late 19th-century (1850-1900) preindustrial average.

The 10 most recent years are the warmest on record.
climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/...

05.08.2025 15:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2694    ๐Ÿ” 1063    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 179    ๐Ÿ“Œ 69
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Jessica: I also heard no complaints when Mike Johnson decided to abdicate his job to say actually congress isn't in session anymore because I don't want to have to vote on turning over the Epstein filesโ€ฆ. so be equal opportunity in your complaints about fleeing your job

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Iโ€™m Not Panicking. Iโ€™m Outraged. Read more here.

I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard โ€” the nationโ€™s top intelligence official โ€” my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.

06.08.2025 01:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10823    ๐Ÿ” 2857    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 877    ๐Ÿ“Œ 219

weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him

05.08.2025 20:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28868    ๐Ÿ” 8398    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 734    ๐Ÿ“Œ 416
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No real regrets here...GQP is gone...

05.08.2025 22:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5557    ๐Ÿ” 1354    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 228    ๐Ÿ“Œ 61
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Police: Plaque recovered, but Suni Lee bust stolen from St. Paul park is still missing A nameplate that accompanies the bronze statue was found near the shore of Lake Phalen.

This pisses me off. That was a great sculpture. If anyone knows who did this, turn those jackasses in! Help find it! bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

06.08.2025 12:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

๐Ÿ˜ I am Host Body, Hear Me Roar

06.08.2025 05:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
No economist will ever come up with a better description of why being poor is so expensive than Terry Pratchett. Such a great quote:

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.

No economist will ever come up with a better description of why being poor is so expensive than Terry Pratchett. Such a great quote: Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.

05.08.2025 12:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 420    ๐Ÿ” 132    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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๐Ÿคจ

06.08.2025 10:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 351    ๐Ÿ” 166    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Women dressed in
Handmaid regalia follow
GOP Congressman Rep. Mike Flood NEBRASKA (R)

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Crockett: This is a person that has a problem with people of color. When we look at who he says are low IQ, even though when you look at his cabinetโ€”this has to be the most incompetent cabinet we have ever had in the history of this country.

06.08.2025 01:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20979    ๐Ÿ” 5533    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 706    ๐Ÿ“Œ 312
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He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now heโ€™s facing deportation. Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.

Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like โ€œa second kidnapping,โ€ says his sister.

โ€œI felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"

05.08.2025 13:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9823    ๐Ÿ” 3965    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 308    ๐Ÿ“Œ 194
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Dems should fight on every front.

If Texas steals 5 seats, Dem states should redistrict 30 GOP members out of their districts.

We should insist DOJ release the entire Epstein File.

Not only shouldn't we bring knives to a gun fight, if they bring pistols, we should bring machine guns.

05.08.2025 23:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33672    ๐Ÿ” 10353    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1602    ๐Ÿ“Œ 806
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Iโ€™m all for this going forwardโ€ฆ. He hates Court room. โ€œFโ€ itโ€ฆ. Pay up! I guess the Grand Ball Room will have to wait ole Donny ๐Ÿ‘ฆ Boy!

05.08.2025 12:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18447    ๐Ÿ” 4429    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 549    ๐Ÿ“Œ 197
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This is a perfect representation of how Trump feels about America.

06.08.2025 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 355    ๐Ÿ” 135    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 44    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

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