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@louisehopes

It isn't broken. What is needed is thoughtful updating to benefit the greater good by competent honest brokers not in it for themselves.

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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

04.09.2025 19:44 👍 26702 🔁 7803 💬 577 📌 457
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Brett Kavanaugh says there’s a good reason Supreme Court rulings can sometimes be so cryptic In remarks to a judicial conference, Kavanaugh also defended Chief Justice John Roberts.

Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.

04.09.2025 21:30 👍 8346 🔁 2485 💬 360 📌 182
I Hear a Rhapsody
I Hear a Rhapsody YouTube video by Jane Jarvis - Topic

Jane Jarvis

youtu.be/TFr09KvvBkA?...

05.09.2025 02:43 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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State steps in to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccine Public health order counters potential limitations set by the USFDA

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.

States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

31.08.2025 02:53 👍 15764 🔁 4869 💬 323 📌 393
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#bookban #UCP

30.08.2025 20:49 👍 6812 🔁 1166 💬 184 📌 80
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The Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms once a year at night.

13.07.2025 14:01 👍 15704 🔁 2357 💬 558 📌 252
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Hmmm, I’m thinking knowing about this chart may come in handy if things go south after 1 Aug.
🇨🇦💪 #cdnpoli

12.07.2025 12:32 👍 215 🔁 117 💬 25 📌 19
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Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman.

She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.

14.06.2025 21:20 👍 38445 🔁 6223 💬 745 📌 225

Horrifying news out of Minnesota this morning as political violence takes the lives of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. @Chasten and I are holding their loved ones in our hearts and praying for State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette as they recover.

14.06.2025 15:19 👍 23577 🔁 3725 💬 516 📌 144
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It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

14.06.2025 16:18 👍 17740 🔁 4988 💬 231 📌 138
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Double.

11.06.2025 17:18 👍 72444 🔁 17318 💬 3248 📌 1256
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BREAKING: Kamala Harris issues statement on Los Angeles.

08.06.2025 23:33 👍 23044 🔁 6612 💬 520 📌 377

A radical transformation of our way of life is underway. Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking this administration is normal.

01.06.2025 15:23 👍 17199 🔁 4479 💬 489 📌 156
Water iris and reflection in a pond at the Denver Botanic Gardens on an overcast day.

Water iris and reflection in a pond at the Denver Botanic Gardens on an overcast day.

Water iris and reflection in a pond at the #Denver Botanic Gardens.

#MayBlooms #Connected #MobilePhotography #Photography 📷 🌱

19.05.2025 21:51 👍 735 🔁 73 💬 37 📌 4
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I’m not religious but this seems important…and true.

19.05.2025 00:02 👍 962 🔁 219 💬 28 📌 12
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Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid.

Members of Congress should take note.

☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121.

Defend Medicaid!
Defeat Cancer!

19.05.2025 21:06 👍 16370 🔁 6810 💬 602 📌 343
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Walz: We don’t need to run government like a business, because we’re not in the profit-making business. We’re in the business of improving lives and looking toward the future.

And second, this guy has a proven track record of being an absolute failure.

08.05.2025 01:35 👍 26080 🔁 6393 💬 451 📌 309

Donald Trump is lying to the American people when he says that Republicans do not plan to cut Medicaid.

04.05.2025 17:21 👍 2182 🔁 521 💬 185 📌 26
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After paying people to leave, one federal agency is scrambling to fill positions USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has opened up 73 jobs to internal candidates. They include roles just vacated by people who are receiving full pay and benefits through September.

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has opened up 73 jobs to internal candidates. They include roles just vacated by people who are receiving full pay and benefits through September.

03.05.2025 14:47 👍 4937 🔁 1770 💬 377 📌 276

MAGA,
Couldn't you have just settled for a thriving economy and a safe place to live? 👠

27.04.2025 17:08 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Quick point. Congress can use the spending fight in September (remember Chuck Schumer surrendered till then) to prevent a single dollar from being used to house prisoners in El Salvador.

16.04.2025 21:56 👍 26731 🔁 6413 💬 988 📌 311
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and their three children, and has never been charged with any crime.

The Department of Homeland Security issued him a work permit, and he joined a union, working full time as a sheet metal apprentice.

15.04.2025 21:15 👍 26529 🔁 7672 💬 492 📌 360

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

16.04.2025 02:53 👍 41745 🔁 7491 💬 2020 📌 480


From Steve Inskeep of NPR, “ If I understand this correctly, the US president has launched a trade war against the world, believes he can force the EU and China to meet his terms, is determined to annex Canada and Greenland, but is powerless before the sovereign might of El Salvador. Is that it?”

15.04.2025 14:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Forget about the legal case.

A man was wrongly deported and placed in a notorious prison with leaders of a gang out to get him.

Anyone with an ounce of basic human decency would fix the mistake and return that man to the United States

13.04.2025 13:51 👍 15040 🔁 3578 💬 870 📌 193
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Democracy is not a spectator sport. Make good trouble.

🗣️ @janefonda.com

13.04.2025 15:42 👍 366 🔁 124 💬 7 📌 11

When I was a child, the computers were the ones who would scream when we got online

11.04.2025 14:46 👍 1477 🔁 215 💬 39 📌 10
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Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

12.04.2025 01:06 👍 45065 🔁 15072 💬 834 📌 568
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When I get to the Senate, I'll support a bill to ban Congressional stock trading on day one.

No elected official should be cashing in while the American people see their retirements go down the drain.

10.04.2025 23:21 👍 11729 🔁 2656 💬 335 📌 107

BREAKING: The Supreme Court says the government must facilitate the RETURN of Abrego Garcia from El Salvador to the United States. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

10.04.2025 22:55 👍 18912 🔁 3850 💬 991 📌 383