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Sharon Lee

@smitty11.bsky.social

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•Biochemist (ret) 🧪 •Animal rescue 🐾 •Blue in Indiana 🔵 •Democracy & individual rights 💙🌻🏳️‍🌈+ •Religion-free & Childfree •Sarcastic - yes 🚫Dictatorship of oligarchs, incompetents & crooks 🚫Healthcare dictated by politicians & insurance 🚫DMs

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Sharon Lee @smitty11.bsky.social · 56m

[By] mamabethcrowley, [who wrote]:

I bow in humility to whomever selected this photo for Trump's vanity cover on Time Magazine. In one image, his top three tells are revealed: his real age-related alopecic hairline sans emotional support combover; his lewd, NOT masculine (ahem) neck; and that place on his ear where he definitely did not get shot. The pen is mightier than the sword but the lens is mightier than the pen! Never before has a more passive aggressive act of passive aggression been so exquisitely passively aggressed.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Sharon Lee @smitty11.bsky.social · 1h

The regime is already favoring white people. They (ICE) are already profiling people by their skin color. Now they want an actual policy to discriminate by skin color. The Project 2025 advancement push continues.

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Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

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Sharon Lee @smitty11.bsky.social · 1h

#Resist #NoKings

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America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

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Calvin D. Wills, Jr. @calvin-wills-jr.bsky.social · 3h

#JDVance tries to #downplay #leak of disgusting #Young #Republican #chats - @MSNBC

Once again #racism & #doublestandards rear their ugly heads. ⁦‪Certainly #JDVance‬⁩ would go after ⁦‪@jonesjay‬⁩’s #texts cuz they were about #white #politicians!

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JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats — MSNBC

For the vice president to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about his judgment.

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Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Homan deserves the same due process as those fishermen in Venezuela.

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Sharon Lee @smitty11.bsky.social · 9h

Excerpts: If Trump has accomplished all the wonderful things you claim, why is he so despised?

And as a reminder again, this is what it looks like when the military is set against American citizens. (This will look tame compared to the carnage I expect will come.)

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Tom Speck

In response to someone who raves about how wonderful trump is and how many wonderful things he has accomplished, I wrote: Let me ask you a question: If Trump has accomplished all the wonderful...

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Holy Crap!. This is amazing! Newsom certainly has a great social media game.

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Sharon Lee @smitty11.bsky.social · 23h

Sez the man who never cooked up anything in his entire life other than grifting schemes.

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Sharon Lee @smitty11.bsky.social · 1d

More Venezuelan fisherman murdered by Trump today. ICE-style tactics go global when 'suspects' are murdered without substantiation.

In a social media post, Trump said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Sen. SCHIFF: Senator Durbin asked a very appropriate oversight question, and Pam Bondi’s response was to attack his character and insult him. Senator Whitehouse did the same with a perfectly legitimate oversight question, and Pam Bondi attacked him personally. Others, too.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 2d

The photographer deserves a medal.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

"Support the troops, y'all!"

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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Informed Citizens @johnrwilder.bsky.social · 1d

What is there left to say at this point? MAGA is the American neo-Nazi movement. The left understands that. Looks like the right fully understands it too and all their talk of "stop calling us Nazis" was just a pathetic joke.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1d

This is a very important piece if you want to understand how Trump and RFK are undermining what has made our public health institutions strong.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

Reshma Ramachandran “said the sequence of events is the antithesis of how the FDA is supposed to function.

“What we’re seeing here is, ‘We believe this and we’re going to find the evidence to support that’ …That’s just inherently wrong in terms of how a scientific agency like the FDA operates.”

Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work

Current and former FDA staff said the level of involvement of political officials in nitty-gritty regulatory matters is unprecedented.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2d

that last line

Under Dr. Mermin’s leadership, new H.I.V. infections in the nation dropped by 36 percent, and resurgent sexually transmitted infections showed the first signs of a plateau nationwide.

He also directed health departments to spend the bulk of their money on prevention. It was “a very precise and scientific and logical approach” to make the biggest impact for the least money, said Greg Millett, who worked as a deputy for the Office of National AIDS Policy in the Obama White House.

Now, however, Dr. Mermin is spending his days at home with his chickens and his misbehaving cat. The fate of the H.I.V. division hangs in the balance, and he worries that lawmakers may not realize its importance. “What if no one cares?” he said.

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Sharon Lee @smitty11.bsky.social · 1d

#Resist #GoodTrouble #EpsteinFiles
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Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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