Mustelid Maven
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Wildlife ecology & public relations | sustainability | ☮️ ❤️⚖️ 🌼 🌎 | Parkinson's sucks | anti-fascist | She/her | Views mine.
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Words escape me. It’s a shit show. Take care of yourself.
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Do Republicans think our farmers are the radical left?
 
Over a quarter of farmers are covered through the ACA exchanges.
 
The biggest health care premium increases are ALL in red states.
Someone in the audience needs to yell out IT WAS REAGAN
Lisa McClain: "Democrats' plan forces taxpayers to cover the majority of emergency medical costs for all non-citizens. Another $28 billion tab for who? You guessed it, the American people."
There are two times when a dogs compressed lifespan is most evident. When they go from puppy to dog in a matter of months, and when they go from older to elderly in a matter of weeks. 💕🐶
Photo of a hound dog mix sleeping on a plush dog bed in a living room with a treat next to her nose. She is brown with a white chest and socks. There is a white line from her nose across the top of her head between her ears. Inside that line in the top of her head is a perfect brown 8. This is Bebe the Brave.
I do think they’re taking advantage of the news cycle to distract from Epstein, but I’d pause at saying they created the distractions solely for that purpose. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.
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This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
He’ll have that information to you in two weeks. It’s a helluva plan. The best plan ever.
Q: Is the president willing to share more on what he'd like to negotiate on on the ACA in the future?

LEAVITT: Look, the president is definitely committed to fixing and improving our healthcare system
I want a kinetic hybrid hatchback big enough to fit a wheelchair and two dogs that costs less than $50K.
This is the car we all want that Big Auto refuses to make
A Richard Scarry illustration of a Worm wearing a hat driving a red apple with wheels
Similarly, is April 25th still the perfect date? 😕
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What if a governor called up a “militia”in their state? Got Libertarian Larry & the ppl in his crew & said to them, “Hey, this is the federal overreach you’ve been talking about. Ready to take orders from me for real?”

Setting aside the violent escalation part, I think it would break ppls brains.
Large scale, not-local, industrial meat? Agreed. Small-scale, local, &/or wild are still viable IMO. The livestock species also matters, don’t you think? Sheep & cows have different needs & impacts. Matching livestock to their environment would help, & that’d definitely be a cultural shift in US
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Charlie kirk gets killed by a white man, HBCUs get bomb threats.

White man shoots up a white church, people talk negatively about the Black Panthers.

People get mad about alleged latin american drug cartels, a predominately Black apartment complex gets raided at 2 am

I'm seeing a trend
The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.
Now now wait… I visited a few of those sites and they had big banners* saying it is the “radical left” who are at fault. It couldn’t possibly be the GOP or Administration! 🫠

(*so wildly and completely inappropriate to have these blame banners on govt sites)
Screenshot of USDA website homepage showing a large banner that says, “Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown, the government website will not be updated during the funding lapse. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.” Screenshot of US Dept Housing and Urban Development website homepage showing a large banner that says, “The Radical Left in Congress shut down the government. HUD will use available resources to help Americans in need.”
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We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup.

It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.
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ICE is going to apartment buildings without a warrant, breaking down the door of literally every unit, zip tying & detaining everyone inside, & arresting people for things that have nothing to do with immigration.

This is a 5 alarm fire. This is what a secret police force does.
“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
They told us the first time around that their goal was to dismantle the federal government. How they can do that while claiming to be patriots is beyond me. Be that as it may, they told us they wanted to dismantle the government…
Lots of women I know went into wildlife conservation because of Jane Goodall. Maybe not specifically because of her work with primates or behavior, but because she showed us we could.
According to the WSJ, “E-Verify, the government program companies use to verify that their employees are authorized to work in the U.S., will be paused, according to an administration official.”

Seems contradictory to the Administration’s goal of keeping our economy going.