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Eleanor Martinez

@northstar1939

San Jose, CA native living in VT on 9 acres w/husband of 42 years and our 2 old cats. NO RED/BLUEMAGA! 0$ here, so don't ask. GOP is batshit crazy. Dems pushing right, making things worse for all of us while they lust for donor $$+ignore their voters.

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Video suggests Trump’s ICE lied about its first known killing of a US citizen Materials released over the weekend by the Texas Department of Public Safety regarding a homeland security officer’s killing of 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez last March in Texas appeared to provide t...

Materials released over the weekend by the Texas DPS regarding a homeland security officer’s killing of 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez last March in Texas appeared to provide the latest evidence that federal agents have misled the public about the circumstances surrounding fatal shootings.

#SheShed

10.03.2026 12:24 👍 548 🔁 314 💬 34 📌 11
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Court documents expose Rubio, Wiles and Conway's ties to $50 million scam And they're just the tip of the iceberg

www.alternet.org/trump-admini...

11.03.2026 04:31 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Gaza today
68,000 to 71,000 killed
1120,000 injured
92% of the infrastructure destroyed
87% of the farmland destroyed
Cost of the War estimated at $112 billion in U.S. dollars
2 million living in Refugee status

What is Bibi's End Game here..Greater Israel
Control from the Nile to the Euphrates ?

06.03.2026 09:44 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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The infuriating history of the law that doomed abortion rights The men behind the Hyde Amendment saw it as their ticket to paradise.

The infuriating history of the law that doomed abortion rights www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

11.03.2026 04:22 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

Another candidate for a trip to Iran to fight..

11.03.2026 04:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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11.03.2026 04:20 👍 141 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 0

No. Send them out in Elon's exploding rockets.

Destination if the rockets don't explode: outside of the Solar System..

11.03.2026 04:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don't forget the Treasonous Six in SCOTUS.

11.03.2026 04:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is clearly fine with the GOP.

11.03.2026 00:47 👍 8837 🔁 3714 💬 355 📌 157
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💥BREAKING💥

Nearly 100 Kansas Citians are packing our Food Service Workers’ Town Hall right now!

10.03.2026 00:57 👍 894 🔁 160 💬 8 📌 2
Seattle City Council unanimously approves emergency moratorium on detention centers - Seattle City Council Blog Rinck-sponsored bill similar to other regulations adopted throughout the region and beyond Today Seattle City Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck (Position 8) celebrated the passage of emergency legis...

Seattle City Council unanimously approves emergency moratorium on detention centers
council.seattle.gov/2026/03/10/s...

11.03.2026 04:08 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

For those caring for aging parents... if you feel you've hit the wall, you just want to break down, I feel you.

Taking care of their affairs, constantly assessing their needs -- it's a lot.

We seem reluctant to share these struggles.

If you're there, I'm with you. I know we're not alone. 💙

11.03.2026 02:22 👍 334 🔁 35 💬 30 📌 4

No one who tells the truth has lost their shit.

11.03.2026 04:10 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Bernie Sanders: "You pay a lot in taxes."

Leena-Kaisa Mikkola: "93% of people in Finland feel paying taxes is an important civic duty. When we pay, we get something in return. When I retire, it's guaranteed I don't have to live in poverty."

11.03.2026 03:58 👍 501 🔁 126 💬 21 📌 5

The Charleston Post and Courier. 23k subscribers.

11.03.2026 03:58 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Let's send Andy to go fight in Iran. Then, let's not let him back into the USA.

11.03.2026 03:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

been held at the El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville, while his brothers Caleb, 14, and Joshua, 12 (also mariachi performers) and their parents were confined at a separate facility in Dilley, hundreds of miles away. Following bipartisan advocacy, the family has now been reunited and released.

11.03.2026 02:28 👍 555 🔁 45 💬 6 📌 0

Great news! Three high school mariachi musicians and their parents have been freed from federal immigration detention facilities in Texas after lawmakers from both parties pushed for their release. Eighteen-year-old Antonio Gámez-Cuéllar had

11.03.2026 02:28 👍 1508 🔁 204 💬 12 📌 4
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Tonight's film: Born In East LA

#filmsky

10.03.2026 03:20 👍 1377 🔁 100 💬 81 📌 14
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Government Denies Unpaid Work Exists In Canadian Airlines The federal unpaid work study has largely validated a compensation structure flight attendants struck to overturn.

“Even airlines like Air Canada and Porter...acknowledge that unpaid work exists in the airline industry. How, then, is the government keeping a straight face as it tells Canadians and workers in this industry that #unpaidwork does not exist?”
www.readthemaple.com/government-d...

10.03.2026 13:45 👍 73 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 1
Starting a colourful dishcloths on my knit picks needles 

Cindy knew that I know how to crochet and knit but she loved making them so I always gratefully accepted them 

We lost her a year and a half ago to cancer 

She was one of my best friends and I miss her every day

Starting a colourful dishcloths on my knit picks needles Cindy knew that I know how to crochet and knit but she loved making them so I always gratefully accepted them We lost her a year and a half ago to cancer She was one of my best friends and I miss her every day

I haven't made a dishcloths in more than 15 years because my lovely neighbour used to make them for me

Missing her while I cast on

#KnitSky

10.03.2026 20:31 👍 186 🔁 5 💬 7 📌 1
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"There's a video where Trump is having sex with children. They will be published and put an end to his presidency once and for all," - Canadian journalist Mark Slapinski

10.03.2026 12:33 👍 1127 🔁 331 💬 232 📌 47
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Reuters reports 150 wounded U.S. troops so far According to Reuters news service and as further reported by U.S. News and World Report and Newsweek, as many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded thus far in Operation Epic Fury: The figure has not b...

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

11.03.2026 03:26 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
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Citizens Bank: Stop financing CoreCivic and The GEO Group. CoreCivic and the GEO Group have seen skyrocketing profits in the last year as a result of their direct involvement in Trump’s violent deportation agenda. CoreCivic saw a nearly 70% increase in net in...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ci...

11.03.2026 03:25 👍 33 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1

Since I wasn’t clear in my last post, lemme try again:

WOW. A democrat got enough votes to force a runoff in this very red district. That it’s even close is bananas. This is MTGs old seat.

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😕

11.03.2026 00:16 👍 3717 🔁 1014 💬 349 📌 96
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Not really breaking any news here.

11.03.2026 01:39 👍 21788 🔁 4693 💬 1026 📌 344

Note:
Our counterterrorism apparatus has been totally hollowed out.

Now we're at war with a country that has a history of terrorist attacks across much of the world.

We're going to have a terrorist attack.
THIS TIME, we cannot allow a PATRIOT act 2.0.

11.03.2026 00:33 👍 1649 🔁 431 💬 142 📌 23

Since Trump’s election:

🔵 Democrats have flipped 28 state legislative seats

🔴 Republicans have flipped 0

11.03.2026 02:57 👍 5213 🔁 1272 💬 150 📌 78
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Apparently, Kegseth hasn’t destroyed their ability to drop truth bombs.

11.03.2026 02:28 👍 11561 🔁 2735 💬 308 📌 122