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I'm a happy pragmatic progressive from the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. I love most humans and am fascinated by science and the natural world. MVP Harris Democrat. Anti-MAGA. Stand with Canada.

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How black slaves were routinely sold as ‘specimens’ to ambitious white doctors The horrors of slavery also spread to research: black bodies provided easy targets for medical experiments.

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 The only thing that is shocking about this is that we weren't taught about it. Cruel medical experiments on slaves in the South were common.

Black "specimens" were subjected to (cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

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05.03.2026 13:22 👍 873 🔁 538 💬 86 📌 39
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"At the top of this bill, we will talk about kids… but when you actually open the hood, it’s being used as a smokescreen for everything that Big Tech lobbyists want.”

@ocasio-cortez.house.gov calls out Republicans’ partisan bill that lets Big Tech off the hook for kids’ online safety.

05.03.2026 16:42 👍 222 🔁 61 💬 2 📌 3

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck

04.03.2026 13:39 👍 1943 🔁 367 💬 195 📌 26

Thank you for writing this @andrewjweinstein.com. This is the analysis that every American should read.

01.03.2026 18:33 👍 165 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 0
Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas.
"There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.

Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas. "There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.

Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

01.03.2026 15:10 👍 4899 🔁 990 💬 201 📌 181

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

28.02.2026 14:20 👍 26293 🔁 8893 💬 289 📌 334

So unnecessary it breaks me in two. The 🍊💩 is fucking desperate for attention no matter who he hurts to get it. From rape, to murdering citizens in Minnesota, Concentration camps, fishing boats, kidnapping, Venezuela, IRAN, NATO, SNAP, medical insurance, destruction of the WH the list is endless

28.02.2026 19:40 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1

I like U.S. Senate candidates who don’t cut and paste their policies from other candidates’ websites from other states.

This rundown of Jasmine Crockett’s original, Texas specific policies is exactly what doing your own homework actually looks like.

24.02.2026 00:37 👍 2242 🔁 939 💬 186 📌 57
@MaiValentrans posted:

I've got like quadruple the followers
I had the last time I said this, so I'm
gonna say it again. When all the
camps in Germany were liberated
in Germany after WW2, the captives
with pink triangles got sent to prison
to finish out their sentence because
homosexuality was illegal.

That's not something that any history book
feels the need to bring up. The queer history
of the world is constantly erased, and then we
are told by indignant bigots that our identities
are simply modern trends.

@MaiValentrans posted: I've got like quadruple the followers I had the last time I said this, so I'm gonna say it again. When all the camps in Germany were liberated in Germany after WW2, the captives with pink triangles got sent to prison to finish out their sentence because homosexuality was illegal. That's not something that any history book feels the need to bring up. The queer history of the world is constantly erased, and then we are told by indignant bigots that our identities are simply modern trends.

Know your history, because nobody really talks about this:

05.02.2026 05:27 👍 33 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 1

As bluesky grows, so does the disinfo. Check yourselves. Block doomers and disinfo accounts on sight. We have months and it's just going to get worse. A lot of large accounts gained followers in order to flip and influence. The problem is repubs. Anyone telling you otherwise is suspect.

05.02.2026 05:04 👍 34 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

Whatever Kamala Harris is announcing tomorrow, I support it. She has earned the right to do whatever the hell she wants to do as far as I’m concerned. If it’s a podcast, I support it. If it’s running again, I support it. If it’s buying Warner Brothers, I support it. I’m down for any and all of it.

05.02.2026 04:44 👍 65 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 0
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Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13)
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

04.02.2026 17:07 👍 22059 🔁 6929 💬 540 📌 414
"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW
"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

This is superb. Ian McKellen delivers a blistering pro-immigration monologue written by Shakespeare, that makes you want to punch the air with exhilaration. Wow, wow, wow.

An absolute must-watch. (Starts at 20:10 but the entire interview is a joy.) youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag

05.02.2026 08:46 👍 191 🔁 98 💬 4 📌 22
How to safeguard the midterms
How to safeguard the midterms YouTube video by Amanda's Mild Takes

How to safeguard the midterm elections.

youtube.com/shorts/ElsHw...

02.02.2026 22:43 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Here’s Your Damn Playbook, Democrats Party leaders can’t seem to process that Trump’s policies are in fact staggeringly unpopular. Minneapolis is showing politicians how it’s done.

Here’s Your Damn Playbook, Democrats newrepublic.com/article/2055... via @newrepublic.com

24.01.2026 05:54 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Immigrants: pay attention!

This woman echoes what many Black Americans have told you for decades:

Stop climbing into bed with white supremacy! Many of you did and look what's happening right now!

*Part 1 of 2

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

20.01.2026 17:53 👍 478 🔁 230 💬 26 📌 12
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This 9th Grader Invented a Soap That Can Treat Skin Cancer - Nice News A Virginia 14-year-old won $25,000 and earned the title of America’s Top Young Scientist this past fall for developing an affordable soap that can treat

What a remarkable and empathetic young person. A needed point of light as a reminder of the good out there.

22.01.2026 22:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pay attention because they certainly are.

20.01.2026 10:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What's good for the goose (steppers) is good for the Resistance. Mask up friends.

14.01.2026 23:15 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Excellent instructional video pass it on

13.01.2026 04:09 👍 5630 🔁 3496 💬 281 📌 245

A hero through and through. THIS is who I want to be among the chief architects of the next iteration of our nation.

01.01.2026 01:59 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

He's now eligible for Nuremberg II.

01.01.2026 01:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The daycares, employees, parents, and the state should sue this white supremacist larvae into nothingness. Then sue him again. The proof of harm from his actions is all over the news and the harm is egregious.

01.01.2026 01:46 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Smith: He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.

31.12.2025 22:11 👍 22158 🔁 7226 💬 330 📌 270
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BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.

30.12.2025 19:47 👍 38991 🔁 12425 💬 1397 📌 1011
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The Return of the Antebellum Constitution The Supreme Court and the president are undermining the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.

Over the next year, the Roberts Court “will face more cases that could further erode both the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, pushing America back toward what some on the right believe is the true, Antebellum Constitution,” Adam Serwer argues.

28.12.2025 02:45 👍 117 🔁 63 💬 11 📌 2

What a lovely story.

25.12.2025 23:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Merry Christmas, Mark

25.12.2025 19:53 👍 1278 🔁 86 💬 35 📌 7
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You guys caught this too, right?

“Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” ███████ noted some girl with a funny name “took me into a fancy hotel or building, that’s how it happened.”

Also this: she was advised to call the police. But she replied, “I can’t, they will kill me.”
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25.12.2025 19:09 👍 4480 🔁 2372 💬 185 📌 128
A selfie of Kamala Harris and Douglas Emhoff on Christmas 2025.

A selfie of Kamala Harris and Douglas Emhoff on Christmas 2025.

From our family to yours, merry Christmas! We hope your day is filled with good people and good food.

25.12.2025 20:30 👍 40912 🔁 3636 💬 1454 📌 213