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Proud southern independent. Lover of 🐕 & democracy. BC survivor. Tool fan. No DM's. #prochoice

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Joined May 2009
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😳😳 I am afraid this man is absolutely right and there is a huge problem coming our way. 😱
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WATCH: "I really hope @VanHollenForMD jumps in." Sen. @AbdulElSayed tells NPR @SenSchumer is "a leader of the past, not the future", and with a health care "nuclear bomb" approaching and Trump's dumb war to end @SenateDems need new leadership or they'll squander this mandate. (cc: @HouseDemocrats @RepJeffries @USProgressives)
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Zero opposition from Congressional Republicans, of course, to Trump's socialist march down the road to serfdom. It's a communist party in the USA!
NEWS: Broad coalition of right-leaning and free market groups warn that "continued federal investment in private companies is deeply troubling and sets a dangerous precedent for the future." They oppose a provision in the NDAA that would allow the seizure of more equity stakes.
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This new Reuters report is stunning. A week before the U.S. captured Venezuela's leader, JD Vance reportedly met at a private Montana ski club with John Addison, an oil trader who had given $300,000 to help elect Vance to the Senate in 2022. Vance allegedly asked how fast Venezuela's oil could be sold if America took control of it. Both men deny the meeting. Flight records show their planes parked together that day. Two days after the Venezuela operation, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called Addison and offered his company, Vitol, the job of selling Venezuela's oil. There was no public bidding. Vitol and one rival have since made hundreds of millions of dollars. Addison and his wife also gave $7 million to help elect Trump, and he now chairs a board advising Secretary Wright. Congress has a duty to act. We should bring Secretary Wright, Vitol, and Addison in to testify under oath. We should demand the phone records, emails, and flight logs. We should find out whether anyone got a heads-up about a military operation. And we should require open, competitive bidding before any company profits from our foreign policy. If nothing was wrong, let’s see the records. reuters.com/business/energy/…
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JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term? Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…” Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term. Silence. Every single one of them refused to say it. Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face. Never stop connecting the dots.
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For anyone who hasn't heard about this yet: ICE showed up at the front door of Dr. Ann Lawani in Lodi, California, while she was still in her pajamas, shackled her at the wrists, waist, and ankles, and shipped her all the way to a detention center in Louisiana. She’s a frontline nurse who worked through the worst of COVID, directs the master's nursing program at the University of San Francisco (overseeing 230+ nursing students), and takes care of her 83-year-old dad. When her family and lawyer tried to find out where she was taken, ICE’s online locator came back with "0 results." It turns out ICE quietly changed its policy the day before her arrest to stop listing thousands of detainees in the public database, so her family had no idea where she was for days while she was bounced from Stockton to Bakersfield to El Paso to Louisiana. DHS put out a statement claiming she had a 2013 removal order, but they conveniently left out that on the *exact same day* in 2013, an immigration judge granted her Withholding of Removal blocking her deportation to Nigeria because she faced persecution there. She has zero criminal record, has checked in with ICE for 13 years, and has a valid federal work permit through 2029. Because they legally can't send her to Nigeria, Rep. Josh Harder says ICE has been trying to quietly deport her to an undisclosed third country behind her lawyer's back. Full write-up and breakdown of what happened here: eyesonice.net/p/covid-hero-d… Support independent coverage & frontline updates: ko-fi.com/eyesonice
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Warren, in a speech this morning at the Popular Mandate conference, urged Dems to go big next year and dare Trump to veto:
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On Veterans Day, of all days, Republicans cut $60 billion in benefits to American veterans.  House Republican leadership did not have the votes to pass H.R. 9237 through a recorded vote, so they resorted to an outrageous procedural maneuver, rushing the legislation through the House by voice vote without a recorded vote nor accountability. This disgraceful abuse of House procedure is a betrayal to the veterans and military families who’ve sacrificed for our country.  Republicans are always quick to say they support veterans but are even quicker to slash their benefits and completely abandon them.
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This gentleman has a point.
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Incoming Rep. Don Leonard says top House Democrats have threatened to “make [his] life a living hell” and cost him re-election if he continues attaching conditions to his support for Hakeem Jeffries for speaker. His conditions: 1) a vote on an amendment to end Citizens United and 2) “end U.S. support for the war in Iran and the country, Israel, that led us into it.” He says Jeffries is refusing to meet with him and the threats are like something “out of a movie.”
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RobinGardens retweeted
So that Universal Healthcare is lookin pretty good right now.
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Racism Is Alive and Well in Mississippi: They're Trying to Steal a Senate Seat From a Black Man This is naked voter suppression dressed up as "election integrity." Thousands of Mississippians are being screwed out of their votes right now because the state's Republican secretary of state deliberately used sloppy commercial credit data to purge the rolls — and the mess is landing hardest in a race where a Black Democrat is beating a Republican incumbent. Scott Colom is narrowly ahead of Cindy Hyde-Smith. That lead is under attack because large numbers of voters were forced onto provisional (affidavit) ballots after their names vanished from the poll books. Both campaigns admit thousands of people were hit. CNN has the receipts. Andrew Couch is one of the casualties. He'd voted at the same polling place in the last two elections without a problem. On Election Day he was told he was registered in a county he hadn’t lived in for six years. On Monday he was informed his ballot is dead. His reaction: "I'm very upset. If people lose faith in the process… it's going to hurt voter turnout in the future." That's the point. Secretary of State Michael Watson signed off on using Experian credit data to flag "moved" voters. The result: more than 230,000 people — roughly 1 in 9 registered voters statewide — were dumped into inactive status and left off the poll books before Election Day (Mississippi Today). In a state where over 9 percent of residents are unbanked, this data was always going to be garbage. Experian itself has run away from the whole thing, telling CNN its product "was not designed or intended to validate voter records" and that it stopped working with the state in early 2025. This isn’t some innocent clerical error. It's the same old Mississippi playbook: make it harder for certain people to vote when the outcome looks like it might go the wrong way. A Black man is on the verge of winning a Senate seat the state hasn't handed to a Democrat in decades, and suddenly the rolls are a disaster. This is Republican racism in action.
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🚨 Republican Rep. Thomas Massie may actually be offering Pete Hegseth a way out — before things get much worse. “Impeachment is actually kind of a polite thing. I’m not proposing Hegseth go to prison. I’m not proposing that he be exposed to civil liability.” Massie says Hegseth simply needs to leave office, warning that Democrats may not be so polite when they take control in January. Think about it: A Republican is offering Hegseth political consequences instead of demanding criminal punishment. Massie may not be trying to destroy Hegseth. He may be warning him that losing his job could be the least of his problems.
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CBS heavily edited Trump's interview on 60 Minutes. The black and white clips did not appear in Sunday night's broadcast. The network removed sections where Trump made false claims and fabrications. This is part of his explanation about the war in Ukraine.
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Pete Hegseth (the least-qualified SecDef ever) has fired or blocked the promotions of dozens of female and black military officers. It's not because they aren't qualified. They are. Now we know it's because Hegseth is putting politics ahead of your safety. He should resign.
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CHD trying to intimidate me into silence..again. Not sure where to begin with their new dog whistle but a few facts about the health disinformation from the pernicious wellness industry pushing their fake products for pure greed and profit: 1. 200,000 Americans needlessly perished bc they refused Covid vaccinations in 2021-22, many demanding ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine or other ineffective medications sold online with expensive telehealth visits. Documented in my book, Deadly Rise of Antiscience @JHUPress 2. Our West Texas measles epidemic in 2025: Two school aged children needlessly died bc their parents believed the disinformation, and 99 hospitalized with measles pneumonia and encephalitis, while Mr. Kennedy falsely claimed the MMR vaccine causes autism or is contaminated with aborted fetal remnants all debunked in my book, Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism and expanded in my book with @MichaelEMann #ScienceUnderSiege 3. Measles accelerated. In October 2025 it moved into South Carolina and then Pennsylvania with >5,000 cases and seven needless deaths among the unvaccinated. 4. This week PAHO will meet to determine if the U.S. has lost its elimination status. But from my perspective it doesn’t matter, measles is back. And next late winter early spring will be awful. 5. And measles is just the first domino to fall. I predict we’ll also start seeing congenital rubella birth defects by this time next year and whooping cough will be here in a big way. 6. As I always say: Don’t listen to antivaccine activists. They don’t care about you or your family. They have another agenda
“An American antivaccine movement is building and we need to take steps now to snuff it out.” -Peter Hotez (a real piece of… something)
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21 Democrats just voted "Yes" to advance the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (S. 5653). 21 Democrats are willing to - Weaken environmental review requirements - Make permitting of public lands for drilling and the development of data centers and energy grids permanent UNDER THE CORRUPT TRUMP ADMINISTRATION - and almost legally impossible to reverse. - Allow for no judicial pauses, meaning bulldozers keep going while cases are being fought in court. - Weakens the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, and fast tracks fossil fuel projects. This is how Corporate Dems repay the voters for handing them the majority.
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Leaked audio from inside ICE detention—woman begs to self deport. Not receiving medication for her severe anemia. Hemoglobin levels so low—doctor said it's life threatening. "I only ask that you deport me," she cries. "I've been waiting 4 months since signing papers—nothing." "I just want to get to Venezuela with my children and my family." "It seems unfair to me that people who want to leave are being held... and people who want to stay are being forced out." Her hemoglobin level of 4.1 g/dL is critically low and life threatening. Carrying a high risk of heart failure, organ damage, and death—without immediate medical intervention such as a transfusion. Every week her deportation officer gives her the runaround making up different excuses for her remaining locked up. And no lawyer will take her case because she's already signed self deportation papers so her case is officially closed. Enderin Briceño is detained at the private GEO Group prison Mochano Valley ICE Facility in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania. Her lawyer Lorena Vargas Hernández doesn’t have an active account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
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This exchange by @NicolleDWallace and @MilesTaylorUSA is absolutely amazing. Miles Taylor: "They don't treat Donald Trump like a baby. Donald Trump is a baby... It was absurd that we had to spend so much time literally coddling the man's atrophied brain to be able to explain to him things of national significance where life and death was on the line." Nicolle Wallace: "Can I just stop you for a second? I'm just going to stop you out of editorial purity. We should never let that happen just go by and not stop and say WTF."
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