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@jljacobson
Lifelong advocate for human rights (*for EVERYONE), public health, evidence-based policy. Jewish. Intolerant of lying, hatred, and denialism. Entrepreneurial non-profit leader. Writer/editor. Mom of two amazing kids and two very, very good dogs.
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And of ALL the lies she has told, for however many breaths she's taken in a day, that have DESTROYED people's lives, and which Trump has also lied about or taken her side, this is the one we fixate on?
I am no Kristi Noem fan (stating the obvious), but I am both amused and alarmed that so many people automatically took Trump's word on whether or not he knew about those ads.
People... when does he tell the truth? He has often denied things we KNOW he knew. I would not automatically take his word.
All of that
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DOJ βaccidentallyβ withheld 53 pages of Epstein files tied to Trump. NPR caught it. Now 16 more quietly appearβ¦ leaving 37 pages still missing.
Apparently βmistakenly tagged as duplicatesβ is the DOJβs new filing system.
#EpsteinFiles #DoYourJob
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...
Condoleezza rice was seen entering the White House.
War criminals reunion at the White House.
I think you are missing my point. It's not the presence or lack of a college degree that makes him an awful choice.
We ALL deserve better than the current GOP and at least half the Dems we have in office.
Criticizing Israel based on facts is not antisemitic.
That Israel is an apartheid state is a fact.
As a Jew, I can't ignore the truth of Israel's war crimes, crimes against Palestinians, or other injustices. Doing so only makes ALL OF US unsafe.
Pro-Israel groups dying on the hill that saying that some people are saying that it's apartheid is antisemitic is uneqovically great for me but seems pretty shortsighted for them
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That's a different issue. And again, I am NOT arguing against education! I worked my way thru college; started saving for my kids' college the day they were born. My daughter is a doctor. but I do NOT discount the intellect, strategic insights, opinions, and concerns of people W/O degrees. Period.
You don't know that someone did not graduate because they "lacked initiative," and that claim is a problem.
Erin Brockovich did not have a law degree, but she is brilliant, tenacious, and fought injustice in a case others ignored. A degree is not the determining factor of intellect or commitment.
As was my mom.
I am sorry you face that shit.
Yes. Those are two of my most important indicators... curious and intuitive, along with a sense of justice, and a well of compassion.
Agreed, as somebody who finished my undergrad late in life. We should want people who are curious and intuitive, and can prove they can hold it together enough to get a degree
Not inherit daddyβs plumbing company. Weβve got enough of these business dorks ruining Congress and America
Credentials do not guarantee anything morally, ethically, or knowledge-wise. We have numerous members of SCOTUS who decide to ignore facts in nine-tenths of cases.
I would never claim education is not valuable, but not every non-college grad is uneducated.
A degree does not guarantee anything about how you make decisions. I am not arguing education is not valuable, but some people are informally educated more than people who graduated Yale law. Some people have deeper understanding of other communities; some did not graduate bc of family issues.
If there will be trials for war crimes, these House Repubs are aiding and abetting
Laughed out loud at your Bluesky handle.
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i hate when liberals pull shit like that. i know part of it is because its a sensitive topic for me but you'd think we would have less credentialism when the two worst presidents of the last 50 years went to fucking yale and wharton.
Yes. I simply object to a post circulating that lists "he has no college degree" as one of the reasons he does not belong in the Senate.
I know there is trepidation about his willingness to fight, and the jury is out. But this is fight. This is moral leadership. It may not be loud and angry, but it is fight of a different kind. If he brings this consistently to every issue in the Senate, he can be a powerful force.
Markwayne Mullin is awful and corrupt for many reasons.
Not having a college degree is not one of them.
I know plenty of people W/O degrees who have more moral backbone, smarts, common sense, and compassion than at least half of Congress. Mullin isn't one, but not bc he did not graduate college.
In case you needed more evidence that Russia is working to destroy our country with its willing fool at the helm.
Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
We could start by caring for the veterans we already have instead of creating more? Just a thought.
ICE lies. It always has. This is not new.
This regime lies about EVERYTHING. This child was murdered, it was not disclosed for 11 months, and then the only witness mysteriously later dies in a car accident.