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Life-long Democrat and progressive. I want everyone to be able to live a dignified life, no exceptions. Born in Des Moines, now living in Spokane.

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“Be a Rainbow in Someone’s Cloud”

Maya Angelou, the poet, the civil rights activist, was one of the most powerful voices in American Literature & Social Justice!

Maya taught the world a truth that still scares the powerful!

Be A Maya👊

#SheShed
#StrongWomen
#StillIRise

07.03.2026 16:42 👍 510 🔁 249 💬 35 📌 17

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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

07.03.2026 02:01 👍 1006 🔁 589 💬 50 📌 54
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U.S. May Have Committed War Crime In Sinking Of Iranian Ship The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to “take all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”

07.03.2026 00:03 👍 1112 🔁 530 💬 63 📌 125

I don’t remember Trump campaigning on Americans needing to make financial sacrifices for foreign wars. bsky.app/profile/atru...

06.03.2026 16:43 👍 2659 🔁 736 💬 269 📌 29
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Pardon Industry Offers Rich Offenders a Path to Trump

Pardon Industry Offers Rich Offenders a Path to Trump

One inmate paid lobbyists and lawyers with ties to the president’s team and walked free. Others are following his blueprint, but it is not always clear who can deliver.
Gifted: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...

07.03.2026 02:03 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

🚨 BREAKING — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) officially withdraws his re-election bid, missing the 5pm PT filing deadline. He is the 32nd House Republican not to seek another term.

The open seat improves Democrats’ chances of flipping CA-48. The newly drawn district voted Harris +3.

07.03.2026 01:05 👍 92 🔁 32 💬 5 📌 10

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

06.03.2026 17:22 👍 3259 🔁 674 💬 54 📌 61

There are 86 million family households and 49 million non-family households (which average 1.34 adults).

The gap between current household size and the long-term trend is about 15 million adults, which would have formed about 11 million non-family households if they averaged 1.34 adults.

06.03.2026 00:36 👍 46 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

I have never liked age gate laws, but I am now becoming an anti-age gate crusader. This shit is getting insane. The porn bans were bad, but Kansas wants to make you age gate to use your phone and California just adopted age gates for operating systems.

The fuck we doing here folks?!

06.03.2026 03:35 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Respect my existence or expect my resistance

Respect my existence or expect my resistance

A fabulous woman to be proud of 💙💙 #WomanPower

06.03.2026 20:15 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Kamala Harris: "I predicted a lot about what's happening right now. I'm not here to say 'I told you so,' but we did see it coming."

06.03.2026 21:20 👍 11922 🔁 2695 💬 666 📌 647

Absolutely escalation. I have a son who serves in the Army. He understands that if he crosses the line and obeys illegal orders, we’re going to have a problem.

06.03.2026 21:28 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Every sycophantic ass-kissing unqualified loser hanging around Mar-a-Lago for the last 4 years saw Trump’s presidency as an opportunity to fleece taxpayers with one corrupt scheme after another knowing they could get away with it because the boss is worse and Congress won’t care.

06.03.2026 01:40 👍 2285 🔁 516 💬 56 📌 15
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📌Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, Greg Landsman of Ohio and Juan C. Vargas of California just voted with Republicans to support Trump's illegal Iran war.

They get the John Fetterman award for cowardice under fire, and will be awarded blood-stained hoodies for their gutlessness.

05.03.2026 23:36 👍 366 🔁 142 💬 30 📌 13

Damn! Aren't you nice!

06.03.2026 04:34 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

You know why….everyone in this administration from Trump down is in on the grift making millions

03.03.2026 22:45 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Republican Senator Grills Kristi Noem Over Self-Glorifying TV Ads Louisiana's John Kennedy wanted to know why the DHS secretary spent $220 million on an ad campaign featuring her on horseback.

Louisiana's John Kennedy wanted to know why the DHS secretary spent $220 million on an ad campaign featuring her on horseback.

03.03.2026 22:36 👍 57 🔁 28 💬 7 📌 1

This Administration is bleeding us dry. We will go bankrupt because of this administration.

03.03.2026 21:37 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1

This has been public knowledge for awhile. It just gets lost among the dozens of daily scandals.
When all is said and done, and we get a forensic accounting of the books from this administration, the scale of financial corruption is going to be hard to grasp.

03.03.2026 21:14 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

I’m more and more inclined to think she recorded her puppy-killing episode in her book to become more aligned with the Trump puppy-murdering episode reported by Sascha Riley…which would suggest she knew about Trump’s disgusting sordid past all along. Why else would she brag about killing Cricket?

03.03.2026 21:41 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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03.03.2026 21:12 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Hope to hell so! I hate to admit - as I respect them - Obama and Biden disappointed on this; crimes committed. Of course additional/unknown to me POWERS at play... But gawd damn - can we not just hold the ALL criminals accountable? RICH or Poor, Black or WHITE?

03.03.2026 23:00 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Corruption in broad daylight. The grift knows no bounds. These people will be investigated for every dime they spend when this administration is out

03.03.2026 21:22 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 0
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Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign, which has secretly benefited a firm with ties to Kristi Noem.

(Published Nov. 2025)

03.03.2026 20:48 👍 2391 🔁 1187 💬 178 📌 96

This is a great article and got too little attention when it first came out. @propublica.org is doing amazing work.

05.03.2026 18:39 👍 1749 🔁 704 💬 59 📌 29
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@robertgarcia.bsky.social on Trump's claims of exoneration: "That's a joke. Exonerated by who? No one's exonerated Donald Trump. He's in the Epstein files more than anyone. Mar-a-Lago is oftentimes where they trafficked girls."

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MASSIE: “Iran is not Venezuela. The Ayatollah was not a president. He was a religious leader… 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 turned him into a martyr, expended billions, 6 🇺🇸 families must now lay to rest their sons & daughters. And for what? This administration can't even give us a straight answer.”

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