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Ph.D. Geologist, presently image analyst. Empty nester watching news unfold with trepidation.

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05.03.2026 12:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The meaning of life is sharing a meal with a friend

20.02.2026 22:09 👍 200 🔁 42 💬 18 📌 16
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‘The American System Was Tested and It Works’ Says Toy Maker in Tariff Case Rick Woldenberg, the Illinois-based educational-toy business CEO who sued over President Trump’s tariffs, called the Supreme Court’s ruling an exciting precedent that will go down in history. “We feel...

Meet Rick Woldenberg, CEO of the toy company his grandfather started in 1916, and the plaintiff who sued Trump over the tariffs:

“Someone you've never heard of, working for a company you've never heard of, can say: 'I think the laws have been improperly applied.'"

1/ www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

20.02.2026 19:44 👍 305 🔁 89 💬 12 📌 10
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The inadvertent truth exposed by the Justice Department’s creepy new Trump banner The fascistic display doesn’t show a commanding figure; it shows a flailing politician pretending to convey strength.

We’re apparently supposed to see Trump's fascistic DOJ banner and hear the implicit questions: “Don’t I appear imposing? Isn’t it clear how powerful I am?”

The answer, however, is “no.”

The banner doesn’t signal strength — it reflects desperation.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

20.02.2026 20:40 👍 161 🔁 52 💬 22 📌 3
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What $70 million in taxpayer money buys: a private luxury jet for Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski to jet-set around on.

And we’re supposed to believe it’s used for deporting undocumented immigrants.

20.02.2026 05:53 👍 7423 🔁 3672 💬 605 📌 281
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Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."

20.02.2026 18:37 👍 8984 🔁 3476 💬 1777 📌 1629

Trump’s crazy

20.02.2026 20:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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19.02.2026 17:58 👍 15807 🔁 5487 💬 1498 📌 486
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NEW: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband has been barred from entering Labor Department HQ after two female staffers accused him of sexual assault inside the building, according to NYT. One alleged incident was captured on security cameras and is now part of a criminal investigation.

19.02.2026 23:00 👍 12015 🔁 4760 💬 1296 📌 570
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Quick reax to SCOTUS ruling Trump's tariffs illegal.

20.02.2026 17:35 👍 1557 🔁 559 💬 93 📌 44
Why Everyone's Talking About Stephen Colbert, CBS, The FCC And James Talarico
Why Everyone's Talking About Stephen Colbert, CBS, The FCC And James Talarico YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Colbert has truly had a great relationship with CBS, even after he was told his contract wasn’t going to be renewed. So let me say: It’s stunning to me that, as he explains here, nobody at CBS told Colbert about the statement today.

This is a must-watch: youtu.be/OQIljje2B_Q?...

18.02.2026 05:37 👍 743 🔁 204 💬 15 📌 24
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Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, (1868 – 1944)
Hoornuil, (Horned Owl) 1915

12.02.2026 18:11 👍 101 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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‘You’re a washed-up loser lawyer’: Pam Bondi taunts Democrats over Epstein US attorney general goes on attack during questioning by House judiciary committee over handling of files

“You’re not even a lawyer,” Pam Bondi yells at Jamie Raskin, who graduated from Harvard Law School, has written several books about the legal system, and has taught constitutional law for more than 25 years.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

11.02.2026 22:43 👍 1036 🔁 327 💬 92 📌 45
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One of them has TDS, but it isn’t Massie

Massie: “this is bigger than watergate”

11.02.2026 17:30 👍 1705 🔁 493 💬 151 📌 39
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Swalwell plays Bondi a clip of Kash Patel *lying under oath* about how many times Trump's name appears in the Epstein files

11.02.2026 16:39 👍 4516 🔁 1249 💬 82 📌 41
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Swalwell details death threats he and his wife and children have gotten and points out that the DOJ has refused to prosecute some of them

11.02.2026 16:45 👍 3571 🔁 1107 💬 102 📌 55
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CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

11.02.2026 21:27 👍 12414 🔁 5508 💬 559 📌 507
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Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges The “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence” — updated for the first time in 15 years — eliminates some 90 pages about climate science and comes just as numerous climate cases make their way through ...

NEW: A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science.

It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.

10.02.2026 20:16 👍 821 🔁 543 💬 54 📌 41
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MAGA Republicans are terrified of women voting. So they’re pushing the SAVE America Act to choke our registration, demand papers many don’t have, and purge us from the rolls. They fear our power, our rage, our turnout. We will not be silenced. Call 202-224-3121.
#HandsOffHerVote

11.02.2026 17:36 👍 452 🔁 310 💬 17 📌 0

In a sign of how poorly this hearing is going for Pam Bondi, Fox News has cut away from live coverage which is highly unusual for a high-profile hearing of this sort

11.02.2026 16:35 👍 6202 🔁 1236 💬 181 📌 61
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BREAKING: Pam Bondi appears to have just committed a federal crime by lying under oath.

Ted lieu just caught her in a lie and called for her resignation live on TV.

11.02.2026 17:03 👍 10956 🔁 4313 💬 775 📌 411
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Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.

Now would be a good time to read my @motherjones.com story with @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social about Pam Bondi’s insane plan to get voter rolls from all 50 states & why it poses such a grave threat to the right to vote www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

11.02.2026 20:02 👍 102 🔁 76 💬 2 📌 3
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They're not stopping at your birth certificate. SAVE 2.0 would END online voter registration in, KILL mail-in registration, and STOP voter registration drives.

It's a full-scale attack on your right to vote.
Call your MoC (202) 224-3121 and tell them #StopTheSaveAct

social.demcast.com/s/TxRgzkPM

10.02.2026 22:16 👍 486 🔁 385 💬 23 📌 23
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Insane levels of corruption.

www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

11.02.2026 03:31 👍 4643 🔁 2221 💬 146 📌 97
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I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does.

Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.

We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.

This is something significantly bigger and scarier.

11.02.2026 09:37 👍 11057 🔁 5232 💬 349 📌 318
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

10.02.2026 10:09 👍 8382 🔁 4443 💬 161 📌 473

We must destroy Palantir.

10.02.2026 20:48 👍 1244 🔁 367 💬 51 📌 16
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Authoritarian regimes make you feel like shit because they will never admit they’re losing.

But Trump is losing — and it’s because of the organizing work you’re doing.

10.02.2026 00:10 👍 2336 🔁 804 💬 52 📌 28

Don’t look away from MN. ICE is still wreaking havoc across the state - changing their tactics to deceive Minnesotans - pretending to be construction workers or folks delivering groceries. Still over 2,000 ICE agents in the state. They’re not going anywhere, your anger and outrage shouldn’t either.

10.02.2026 19:07 👍 4508 🔁 1574 💬 78 📌 35
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