Girl from Downers Grove
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Retired special education teacher, married 42 years and counting to love of my life. Common Variable Immune Deficiency, severe asthma and allergies. MI by way of IL and AZ. Lifelong Dem. RESIST!
Retired special education teacher, married 42 years and counting to love of my life. Common Variable Immune Deficiency, severe asthma and allergies. MI by way of IL and AZ. Lifelong Dem. RESIST!
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Pinned tweet from old Twitter acct: Trump infected people long before he got COVID. He infected them with viciousness, with hatred, gave them the disease of callousness and cruelty, thinking you can laugh when someone mocks a disabled person, jeer along when someone insults his political opponent.
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patience, comrade...
karma may not be swift, but she is infallible.
karma may not be swift, but she is infallible.
December 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
patience, comrade...
karma may not be swift, but she is infallible.
karma may not be swift, but she is infallible.
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Bovino is going to be in prison someday. Karma will alert us.
December 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Bovino is going to be in prison someday. Karma will alert us.
Didn't catch this yesterday-Trump didn't know how to do a coin toss or coin flip at the start of the Army Navy game? Ref showed the coin, ID'ed heads and tails, and put the coin in Trump's hand with tails up, as it was the side he explained last. Trump launched it forward, no flip, landed tails. 1/
December 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Didn't catch this yesterday-Trump didn't know how to do a coin toss or coin flip at the start of the Army Navy game? Ref showed the coin, ID'ed heads and tails, and put the coin in Trump's hand with tails up, as it was the side he explained last. Trump launched it forward, no flip, landed tails. 1/
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We also allow our kids to get infected with COVID over and over and over again. The adults surrendered to a virus that causes brain damage, immune system damage, and 202 other health issue for years after infection. It's time to admit that we don't give a shit about our children or their futures.
December 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
We also allow our kids to get infected with COVID over and over and over again. The adults surrendered to a virus that causes brain damage, immune system damage, and 202 other health issue for years after infection. It's time to admit that we don't give a shit about our children or their futures.
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"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."
What Are We Doing to Our Children?
We taught kids to read, write, and dream; then trained them to hide, barricade, and bleed quietly while adults chose guns, cowardice, and silence over their future.
www.meidasplus.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"Every lockdown drill is a confession of failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment. Every child taught to hide is proof that the adults in charge have surrendered."
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As it turns out, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun *isn’t* a good guy with a gun—it can be a good guy *without* a gun. Just another NRA lie.
December 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
As it turns out, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun *isn’t* a good guy with a gun—it can be a good guy *without* a gun. Just another NRA lie.
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More from the Sky Chapel, which came into being in 1952 when Myrtle Walgreen, widow of the eponymous drug store's founder, handed over enough cash to enclose this area & create the highest worship space in existence as a memorial to her husband. One of the 16 stained glass windows alludes to this.
December 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
More from the Sky Chapel, which came into being in 1952 when Myrtle Walgreen, widow of the eponymous drug store's founder, handed over enough cash to enclose this area & create the highest worship space in existence as a memorial to her husband. One of the 16 stained glass windows alludes to this.
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Musk: “I’ll get us to Mars once I can stop my Cyberslops from getting stuck in the snow.”
December 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Musk: “I’ll get us to Mars once I can stop my Cyberslops from getting stuck in the snow.”
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Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!
Bless The Muslim Man Who Disarmed a Terrorist Shooter in Australia
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
www.thegodpodcast.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!
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More than 126 cases have been declared in the latest outbreak and 303 people have been quarantined.
Hundreds Quarantined In South Carolina Measles Outbreak—What To Know About Current Cases And Its Spread
More than 126 cases have been declared in the latest outbreak and 303 people have been quarantined.
www.forbes.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
More than 126 cases have been declared in the latest outbreak and 303 people have been quarantined.
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The Soulless Train
December 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The Soulless Train
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Did some painting I’m actually happy with for the first time in a while, most of it holiday cards, but one little doodle of an oasis just for me
Fun fact, this painting is done in just two colors, mixed in various amounts!
Fun fact, this painting is done in just two colors, mixed in various amounts!
December 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Did some painting I’m actually happy with for the first time in a while, most of it holiday cards, but one little doodle of an oasis just for me
Fun fact, this painting is done in just two colors, mixed in various amounts!
Fun fact, this painting is done in just two colors, mixed in various amounts!
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1st Movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto as performed by cellist Jacqueline Du Pre with Daniel Barenboim conducting the London Philharmonic in 1967. 🎶🎧🗃️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgd...
ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO, JACQUELINE DU PRE
YouTube video by Allan Marshall
www.youtube.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
1st Movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto as performed by cellist Jacqueline Du Pre with Daniel Barenboim conducting the London Philharmonic in 1967. 🎶🎧🗃️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgd...
More on my "why are people yelling at agents?" musings. My husband, who is out in the world and not quarantined like me, wasn't surprised at all when I told him about the message I got waiting on hold for Apple, don't yell at our agents (the gist of the message). He said that our power company has1/
December 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
More on my "why are people yelling at agents?" musings. My husband, who is out in the world and not quarantined like me, wasn't surprised at all when I told him about the message I got waiting on hold for Apple, don't yell at our agents (the gist of the message). He said that our power company has1/
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The endgame of authoritarian regimes is to no longer need popular approval. So don't be too sanguine about Trump's plummeting popularity.
Trump’s Wager and the Authoritarian Shift
Is Trump getting weaker, or is the authoritarian danger increasing? Yes.
www.thebulwark.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The endgame of authoritarian regimes is to no longer need popular approval. So don't be too sanguine about Trump's plummeting popularity.
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The welfare queen slur goes back to the mid 1970’s. Reagan used it in his 1976 presidential campaign. Nearly 50 years later, the GOP is still using it to push a divisive narrative.
December 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The welfare queen slur goes back to the mid 1970’s. Reagan used it in his 1976 presidential campaign. Nearly 50 years later, the GOP is still using it to push a divisive narrative.
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Let’s be honest. “Welfare Queen” was always racist trope.
December 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Let’s be honest. “Welfare Queen” was always racist trope.
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November 29, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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Sen. Jack Reed: "This is really outrageous. Mark Kelly is a veteran, he's fought in combat, he's an astronaut. And even was simply repeated what the law is. If a US senator can't do that, then this country is in profound difficulty."
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Sen. Jack Reed: "This is really outrageous. Mark Kelly is a veteran, he's fought in combat, he's an astronaut. And even was simply repeated what the law is. If a US senator can't do that, then this country is in profound difficulty."
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Taking A Break From
Winter Photos For
August Rainbows?
Yes there will be
another August GW🤞
Jensen Lake
Lebanon Hills RP
Minnesota
Winter Photos For
August Rainbows?
Yes there will be
another August GW🤞
Jensen Lake
Lebanon Hills RP
Minnesota
December 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Taking A Break From
Winter Photos For
August Rainbows?
Yes there will be
another August GW🤞
Jensen Lake
Lebanon Hills RP
Minnesota
Winter Photos For
August Rainbows?
Yes there will be
another August GW🤞
Jensen Lake
Lebanon Hills RP
Minnesota
Lord have mercy, I just had to reset both my iPhone and MacBookPro. I had to talk to a very nice agent at Apple, and before he came on the line, a message played that asked callers not to yell at the agent. WTF??? What is happening? Is it Trump? Is it general frustration? I'm stunned. When I was 1/
December 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Lord have mercy, I just had to reset both my iPhone and MacBookPro. I had to talk to a very nice agent at Apple, and before he came on the line, a message played that asked callers not to yell at the agent. WTF??? What is happening? Is it Trump? Is it general frustration? I'm stunned. When I was 1/