We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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If we’re serious about more efficient government and better everyday life in America - which we all should be - that means actually improving government, not cutting health care for poor people and slashing support for veterans.
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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So the Republican Party has historically blocked:
-Paid sick leave
-Paid family & medical leave
-Universal childcare
-Universal pre-K
-Expanded Child Tax Credit
-Programs to support reproductive health
And they're wondering why more people aren't having children?
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We are going Live during our soundcheck in Austin today!
Today marks the last show of The Process tour.
We will be Live from 215-245.
See you there!
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There’s a term in psychology called habituation: the way we stop noticing things we see often. A painting on the wall. A familiar view. Even a person’s kindness.
The brain filters the predictable to save energy. But in doing so, it risks filtering out what makes life feel full.
Not everything that becomes familiar should be forgotten.
Sometimes, attention is an act of love.
Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
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I didn't want to need a miracle, but that's where we were.
And now? I believe we're in the midst of one.
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Here's my first message to our new community! Here I am! There you are! Here we are!
Love,
The Woman Who Knows Time Goes By Fast.....and is fine with that.
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So are we still more upset about Diverse, but qualified, yet presumed unqualified hires, than DUI hires?
(Asking for anyone who cares about US National Security)
Pete Hegseth needs to go for the safety of the United States & the allies that we still have.
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One thing I love about spring — how wild it is.
Dead things bursting back to life.
Everything is a little disheveled, shaking off the dull winter brown.
It’s bold and assertive in a way that the pastel color palette doesn’t let on.
My hedges look spindly. Trees stretch skyward as limbs unfurl new leaves. Dandelions assert their dominance over greening lawns.
Spring is pretty metal honestly 🤘
Myron Mixon Barbecue Co. is coming along nicely. The acclaimed pitmaster will have his best creations in his namesake place on the Parkway in downtown Gatlinburg starting next month!
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The Loneliness No One Talks About
No one warns you about the loneliness that comes with growing.
The silence when old friendships stop fitting, but new ones haven’t formed.
The ache of outgrowing places, conversations, even versions of yourself.
Growth is beautiful, but it can also be isolating.
Keep growing anyway. You’ll find your kindred spirits.
What you consume, you become:
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• The content you watch.
• The people you spend time with.
• The thoughts you feed your mind.
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Ukraine has been resisting the “second strongest army in the world” for 1,154 days.
3 years, 1 month, 30 days.
We are still here.
🇺🇦
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TC, I needed this today. I speak profanity and sarcasm with supervisor rated 100% fluency and have been sputtering incoherently for a week. My wife is a freaking basket case so I limit my expressions of disgust.
Where the fuck is the party that has less than two months with the executive branch and Senate? Do the things, people, do the goddamn things that need to be done before everything goes in the shitter.
The current administration is doing what they've done for 4 years, behaving as though this is "business as usual" and the only things left for them are to straighten out the files, pardon the turkeys, and get ready for the movers to come. That they are passing up a huge opportunity to set at least a speed bump in the way of the Trumpista Express leads me to use a lot of language that I discourage my adult daughter from using. Biden has a very real chance to destroy a legacy that would otherwise have been pretty positive.
My opinion (which is still developing) is that this particular administration is less the problem than the %@$# Democratic Party. I've been voting Democratic for decades because the GOP was unspeakably awful. It took them more time to become awful in my state (MA) -- Charlie Baker, our two-term governor (for whom I never voted) who didn't run for re-election in 2022, was better than most -- but now we've got a Democratic governor who looks like Charlie Baker light blue. My take (at the moment) …
I don't disagree Susanna. The current administration is more like the culmination of Party shortcomings and right now the question is how we will manage to resurrect the Democratic Party and preserve the democratic system.
Preserving the democratic system is my higher priority at the moment -- although I don't think we've ever had a democratic system to *preserve*. More like we have a democratic potential to *realize*. And doing that involves getting the unelected fourth branch of government (wealthy individuals and corporations) under control of the elected branches. What to do about the Supreme Court? Beats me!
I think we're in agreement on the priority and the solution might be the end of both parties. As far as the Court is concerned, term limits, expanding the Court, and maybe a couple of impeachments to may clear that there is accountability would help but, in the end, respect for the Court and its decisions depends on the respectability of the Justices and that's something that can't be legislated.
Trouble is, economic power undergirds and drives both parties, and their transformations over the many decades. Not to mention the composition of the Supreme Court, and not just its current makeup. Until we start to deal with what I like to call the "unelected fourth branch of government" -- big wealth, corporate and otherwise -- I'm not holding my breath. (Currently reading Heather Cox Richardson's HOW THE SOUTH WON THE CIVIL WAR, which discusses economic alliances across regions, I'm even less optimistic than usual.)
It seriously is, and if my dislike of "required reading" didn't date back to high school, I would call it "required reading." <g>
Highly recommended reading might work better. That battle never really ends; the best we can hope for is to combine grassroots activism with enough support from mavericks like FDR to preserve what we have and make occasional progress. One problem that too many progressives have is an intense and unshakeable desire to have everything right now and, if they can't get it, take nothing. Scorched earth approaches typically end up with nothing more than burnt dirt.
Good analysis.
Thanks Ally.
What legacy, as a giant of diplomacy - resulting in America being the arms dealer to a wanted war criminal?
I wouldn't recommend revisiting Joe Biden's inauguration speech either, unless you can handle the sour taste of bitter pills. bbc.com/news/world-us-c…
Granted, I'm neither Jewish nor an expert on antisemitism, but I have a strong hunch here that the Trump administration canvassing college faculty to find out who's Jewish on campus for "record keeping" is probably about neither keeping Jewish people safe nor combatting antisemitism.
I just brought my husband home from the hospital in Toronto. He has multiple sclerosis and needed an implant to deliver a medication called baclofen directly to his spine.
Two-and-half hours of delicate spinal surgery with a top neurosurgeon and her team, five-and-a-half days in a private acute care room, all meds, physiotherapy and consultations included.
Bill: $0.00.
Welcome to the Canadian health care system.
For those who are cynical about socialized medicine, we pay lower taxes than our many f…
No, Senator Slotkin, the problem isn't that the majority of Americans probably couldn't define the term "oligarchy" if asked.
The problem is politicians who directly and shamelessly enable an oligarchic system and then awkwardly pretend to be folksy and salt-of-the-earth and it falls flat because it's inauthentic and condescending and reveals them to be woefully unaware that their constituents understand oligarchy better than they do.
We have can have a robust conversation on American political…
