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Wife, Mom, RN, author. Center-left. Do all the good you can wherever you can.

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Feb 3

Republicans tell us rural folks are the “real” Americans, but I guess they don’t require real hospitals. This is shameful.

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Feb 2

NEW: Even with 54% of Mississippi's rural hospitals in danger of collapse without Medicaid expansion, Gov. Reeves urged Republicans not to “cave under the pressure of Democrats and their allies in the media who are pushing for the expansion of Obamacare." mississippifreepress.org/30720/as-missi

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JAMES BALDWIN addresses the the University Of Cambridge during his epochal debate with William F. Buckley in 1965. This is oratory and content of the very very highest order. To listen is to learn.

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The debt ceiling is only a problem for Republicans when a Democrat is in the White House. Trump’s Tax Cuts added trillions to the national debt. They loved it. Now they want to cut Social Security and Medicare and keep the 1% tax cuts because all of a sudden spending matters. 😐

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1. Don’t create “elite” police units who get special privileges, less oversight, and get to take shortcuts. 2. Definitely don’t give those units names like “Scorpion.” 3. The cops who really, really want to work on those units are the last cops who should be working on them.

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Egg-celent reporting here by

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Mung bean omelet, anyone? Sky high egg prices crack open market for alternatives

Eggs have roughly tripled in price in the last few years. Now a raft of competitors are hoping to lure Americans away from their beloved breakfast food.

LadyTbirdRN

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Jan 26

I’ve lived elsewhere, but I am and always will be a proud #Michigander.

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Jen

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Jan 26

Happy 186th Birthday Michigan

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Random pretty Michigan water pics + "if you seek a pleasant peninsula look around you"

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Carl Feher

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Jan 24

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I think it might be time for the National Archives just to have an amnesty day for returning Top Secret documents just like libraries do for overdue books.

13 years ago, the Supreme Court opened the floodgates to dark money with Citizens United. Republican justices decided unlimited corporate spending wouldn’t corrupt our politics. They have been proven badly wrong.

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🚨 🚨 WHITEBOARD DeSantis’s banning of AP African American Studies is disturbing and dangerous. In my most watched whiteboard, I explain how censoring our history of its worst moments is a tool designed to obscure CURRENT attacks on a diverse democracy. WATCH and RT:

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Everyone needs to see this. The dark, putrid underbelly of our Republican Party. Rev. Robert Schenck describes when the conservatives in the Supreme Court made a deal with the evangelicals.

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He toiled for two straight days, forcing himself to stay awake by telling himself: “In one hour I can make 30 blank documents. If I sleep for an hour 30 people will die.”

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Adolfo Kaminsky Dies at 97; His Forgeries Saved Thousands of Jews

His talent for creating realistic documents helped children, their parents and others escape deportation to concentration camps, and in many cases to flee Nazi-occupied territory.

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Yes, Kevin McCarthy's plan to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics will make it harder to hold corrupt Republicans accountable. But it'll make it just as hard to hold corrupt Democrats accountable. This isn't a partisan issue, it's just about giving a pass to corruption.

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What if the past wasn’t better? What if it would suck then too, except with fewer distractions? What if people you don’t know being happier doesn’t actually harm you? What if your view of the superior past is from ads and Hollywood, while your view of the present is from life?

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If you're a Republican and think Congress is full of corrupt Democrats, you've gotta be questioning why Kevin McCarthy's first act as Speaker is to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics.

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The American people can have every confidence that after the 27th Speaker vote and 9th fistfight on the floor, House Republicans will begin serious business like Hunter’s laptop, Fauci hearings, a month on Ray Epps, Biden impeachment, and a hearing to abolish the FBI.

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It's always astonishing to see the SEETHING ANGER bad people have toward good people, like President Zelensky, President Biden, Dr. Fauci, Nancy Pelosi, Stacy Abrams, and President Obama. It's like they don't actually BELIEVE that people can be good, and it's all an act.

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“This morning I discovered the newborn year on my doorstep, begging to be welcomed into the house. I hesitated a moment for fear of what might come in its wake. But it continued to plead until I picked it up, not out of pity, but because I had to.” RS Thomas, Welsh poet. 1997.

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Allen Y. Tien MD MHS 田一彦

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Jan 1

#Diabetes #RiskFactors #Loneliness neurosciencenews.com/loneliness-dia #SharedFacts #HealthScience #BrainFunction

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Loneliness Associated With Double the Risk of Developing Diabetes - Neuroscience News

Higher rates of loneliness were associated with an increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes during a twenty-year follow-up, a new study reveals.

Kyrsten Sinema's staffer handbook makes it clear that being senator is not actually a priority.

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Read About Kyrsten Sinema's 37-Page Guide To Serving Her Needs

According to an internal memo obtained by The Daily Beast, the Arizona senator is as picky as a rock star on tour.

"At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities" - Jean Houston Weddell seal in Antarctica #photography

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The anti-Fauci stuff comes from the same emotional place as the Hunter Biden fantasies: the desperate hunt for a scapegoat for Trump's 2020 defeat to absolves Trump and his supporters of responsibility for their own mistakes and crimes.

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WATCH: Fuentes = Fox News/Tucker Fox is poison.

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Gay people aren't shooting up straight night clubs. Black people aren't shooting up white grocery stores. Latinos are not shooting up Walmarts. Jewish people are not shooting up Christian churches. The violence is coming from one demographic: Alt-right radicalized men.

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School choice proponents don’t actually want disadvantaged kids to have better schools. If they wanted that, they would’ve funded local schools from the beginning. Instead, they pulled funding in an effort to kill public education. School choice is a grift.

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The violent news from Colorado Springs is sickening and heartbreaking - the more so because there is a pattern. We can not, will not, allow hate to win. We must end this in our time. No rest until all of us, including all of us in the LGBTQ+ community, can be, and feel, safe.

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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." - Elie Wiesel What are you doing out there?

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LadyTbirdRN

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Nov 18, 2022

You’ll find me here if Twitter collapses.

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Heartbreaking to read that Roberta Flack is suffering from ALS and can no longer sing. Sending love and positivity to the beautiful Ms. Flack.

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The caravan never came. Teachers just wanted to teach your kids. Inflation is going down. You were played. Hard.

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John Wright, Speaker of the House

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Nov 8, 2022

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Someone should do a "Who Said It: Donald Trump or Michael Scott?" quiz.

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Nov 9, 2022

88% of evangelical Christians voted for Herschel Walker, not Warnock, the candidate who has devoted his adult life to Jesus Christ. Let that sink in.

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Meanwhile in Russia: Putin's crony Yevgeny Prigozhin about U.S. elections: "We have interfered, we're interfering and we will continue to interfere. Carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way; we know how to do it."

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Early election returns in Michigan could produce a so-called "red mirage" showing Republicans ahead as precincts begin reporting in-person votes while thousands of absentee ballots remain uncounted. Key races in could remain unclear when you head to bed.

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Michigan election could see 'red mirage' with early returns showing Republicans ahead

A time-intensive absentee ballot process and a partisan divide in voting preferences could show Republican candidates ahead in early election returns.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

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Nov 6, 2022

The Republicans do, indeed, intend to cut Social Security and Medicare. They have said so, repeatedly, and it is central to their logic. Tired of hearing this called "scare tactics." It's real, folks. twitter.com/mmfa/status/15

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Media ran a ton of racist propaganda stories about Critical Race Theory and got Glenn Youngkin elected by doing so. Of course they won’t follow-up in equal measure to inform people Youngkin's “CRT tip-line”was recently deactivated due to lack of tips. Because it was a fake issue.

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A Michigan judge tried to block an abortion rights measure. His ex-wife says he helped her get an...

Brian Zahra is up for re-election to Michigan’s Supreme Court, with a prominent anti-abortion group spending heavily to boost his candidacy.

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“People hardly ever make use of the freedom that they have, such as freedom of thought. Instead, they make do with freedom of speech as compensation.” —Soren Kierkegaard “The price of a product depends on the gullibility of the purchaser.” —Will Durant

Charging eight dollars a month to be verified on Twitter? Is Elon Musk hoping everyone else makes terrible financial decisions like him?

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Of Harvard’s white (and therefore socio-economically privileged) applicant pool, only 10% are regular admits. 54% are legacy, athletes, dean’s list, staff children. Whatever you say about Oxbridge, there is nothing here that comes close to this repugnant class patronage system.

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