Retired RN, grieving mom; likes hiking, skiing, yoga, birdwatching, single malt scotch. Pro-choice. She/her. BLM. Namaste. đ
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I do not want my government to actively help Putin kill Ukrainians.
Thatâs one of many reasons Iâm voting Democratic.
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For more than a year, President Trumpâs son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has acted as one of the nationâs top diplomats, without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing a single financial disclosure.
If youâre asking how thatâs legal, itâs not. We sued. ms.now/opinion/jared-kushnerâŚ
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Either this is true, which would be a terrible sign that the President is not in control of his own Pentagon, or it's false, in which case the President is lying about a crucial national security issue for some reason.
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What kind of dystopian shithole government authorizes the televised execution of a human being but blocks the broadcast of a James Talarico interview with Jimmy Kimmel?
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âIf you donât like public executions just donât watch itâ says the crowd trying to ban drag shows
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Funny how a man who supposedly "can't control his anger" can stay polite with his boss, patient with clients, and calm around his friends, then suddenly explode at his girlfriend?
That isn't losing control. It's choosing a target, which is why abuse is a choice.
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There's one big under-discussed element of North Carolina lawmakers suspending the state gas tax: the finances are wildly irresponsible.
Yesterday, Republican lawmakers in North Carolina's state legislature called a special session to *temporarily* suspend the state gas tax, which is 41 cents/gallon. Their suspension will only go through the end of November. (Very subtle, guys.)
Suspending North Carolina's gas tax for 45 days will cost the state about $360 million. The gas tax is normally how the State of North Carolina funds repair and maintenance of its roadways, so... we've still gotta do that. So according to Republican Senate Leader Phil Berger, they will tap the state's Inflationary Reserve Fund, which has $518 million in it, to replace the funds lost.
That's about 70% of the entire reserve fund.
But obviously, a 45-day suspension will do nothing permanent for gas prices. It'll just dip them a little - right at election season. That's what these lawmakers are dumping 70% of the Inflationary Reserve Fund for.
And the worst part? It likely won't even bring down prices as much as it sounds. Gas stations are free to charge whatever they like. They can just cut the per-gallon price 10 or 20 cents, so it looks nice, and pocket the rest as pure profit.
The reason everyone's gas prices are high is because Trump launched a war against Iran, in which 19 American service members have been killed (so far) and 861 wounded, according to the Pentagon. A one-time tax gimmick does nothing to address the real problem - it's just using NC taxpayer money for a political stunt most people can see right through.
Yeah, good luck with that.
More on this: newsobserver.com/news/politiâŚ
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HEY NORTH CAROLINA â WE HAVE 4(!) OTHER STATEWIDE RACES ~BESIDES THE U.S. SENATE RACE~ THAT NEED YOUR ATTENTION NOW AND WILL CONTROL THE FUTURE FATE OF CONGRESS AND HAVE ALREADY! DONâT FORGET ABOUT THE JUDGES. PLZ VOTE AND VOTE THE *FULL* BALLOT. âŹď¸âŹď¸âŹď¸
NCDP.org/judges
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For Africa, climate change is not about the future. It's about now. Our crops failing, our lakes shrinking, our people displaced â while boardrooms thousands of miles away count record profits. We don't have a climate problem. We have a justice problem. #ClimateJustice
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Every time your phone tells you where you are, it is using a mathematical model of the shape of the Earth.
A Black woman from rural Virginia spent decades building that model by hand, and almost nobody knew her name until she was in her eighties.
Gladys West. She grew up in a sharecropping family in Dinwiddie County and understood early that the alternatives were the tobacco fields or the factory. She finished top of her high school class, which came with a scholarship, and took it.
Her work was satellite geodesy: taking the raw data coming down from orbit and using it to compute, correction by correction, the true irregular shape of the Earth. Not a sphere. Not even a neat ellipsoid. A lumpy thing with gravitational highs and lows.
That model is the foundation the Global Positioning System sits on. You cannot locate a point on a surface until you know precisely what the surface is.
She did this for decades, largely unremarked, and retired in 1998.
She was recognised in 2018, when her sorority mentioned her biography at a function and someone realised what was in it.
The Air Force inducted her into its Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame. She earned a PhD in her seventies.
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Currently working on finishing up #painting #Montreal2026 Menâs Elite Road Race. Look for all of the #UCIWorlds #cycling #art #watercolors later at theartofcycling.blogspot.com #cyclisme #ciclismo #wielrennen
Hey, it canât hurtâŚ
Tradition says that for good fortune all October long, you should say "RABBIT RABBIT!" as your very first words of the new month. Or why not THREE rabbits? Welcoming the day with a dance of gratitude is also a good beginning. #rabbitrabbit #rabbitrabbitrabbit
Please vote.
Two years ago the reflecting pool was reflecting, the East Wing existed and was welcoming visitors to the Peopleâs House, and the Kennedy Center was financially stable and artistically thriving. Gasoline was semi-affordable and USAID was saving human lives all over the world.
Go vote. We donât have to live like this.
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Prosecuting intelligence, academia,minorities,history, and ,religion.
Hiding a worldwide pedophilia ring.
Wars for distraction ,unending.
Becoming a billionaire on side grifts.
Innocents imprisoned ,beaten and shot.
Ignoring the needs of the hungry,ill, and, homeless while rewarding billionaires.
America 2026.
Great sadness. â at Independence, KY