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Laura Ward
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Sock knitter and cat wrangler. Stillaguamish River Valley.
WSU Cougs, Mariners, Kraken, and Seahawks.
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Back to healthcare.

The ACA covers millions of people who don’t have employer-based health insurance or are insured by other government programs.

There is, has never been & never will be a GOP plan.

Extend the subsidies NOW or go to Medicare for All.
December 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Will someone release the video so we can shut down these disgusting excuses?
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?

TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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🚨 TODAY is the last day of open enrollment for Medicare. Please immediately check your Part D plan on Medicare.gov Premiums are skyrocketing in 2026 due to Trump Administration REPEALING Biden Administration subsidies. TODAY is your LAST day to change your plan for a more affordable one until 2027.🚨
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December 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something

Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem

Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem

The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
If we want to actually be a representative democracy, then the platform needs to be institutional reform. All the Popularism and all the policies follow from that, not the other way around.
- DC/PR/USVI statehood
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
December 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Based on the facts recounted by the Senator, the two do sound “shipwrecked” for LOAC purposes.

But they were never lawful targets in the first place even if LOAC applied.

And LOAC doesn’t apply because there is no armed conflict.

Term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict is murder.
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?

TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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When Tim Walz said MAGA is weird, he was/is right. They're really fucking weird. They can't meme for shit.
December 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Ann Lowe was the Black genius behind Jackie Kennedy’s iconic wedding gown.

Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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BARTIROMO: Have you considered switching parties?

CUELLAR: Look, I'm a Democrat

BARTIROMO: Okay, but Trump is out with a new Truth Social saying saying, "next time, no more Mr Nice Guy"

CUELLAR: I was at church this morning praying for the president
December 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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What they’ve described here is murder. Full stop. We don’t deny aid, and we don’t execute people who are trying to surrender.

It should make EVERYONE nauseous.

But yes, this story is falling apart.
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Youre worth waiting for! So which Cabinet member gets kicked to the cub first?
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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😂
December 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Tomorrow, the worst person on Earth is presenting the Kennedy Center Honors to George Strait, KISS, Michael Crawford, Gloria Gaynor, and Sylvester Stallone. Maybe some of these people deserve the award, but accepting it from a soulless, racist, sociopath should be beneath anyone's dignity.
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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For the first time, the Kennedy Center Awards were presented in the tiny Oval Office instead of the Kennedy Center For Performing Arts. Donald used his now-vulgar Oval Office for the ceremony to avoid the embarrassment of TV audiences seeing an almost empty theater.
December 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Bradley did not attend NWC, as far as I know
Again: is "How to Spin Damned Near Anything" a required course or an elective at the NWC?
December 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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I mean....if being a child rapist destroys a presidency, then maybe, JUST maybe the guy shouldn't be president. Also, FUCK Ben Shapiro. Fucking whiny ass pansy bitch.
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Every paper in America should have a 6 inch headline:
Sitting Member of Congress, Adelita Grivalja, Attacked by Trump's ICE with Chemical Weapons.

The Congresswoman was hit by gas pellet munitions when coming upon an ICE abduction at a restaurant she frequents in her community.
#ICELawlessness
December 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.

Just unspeakable assholery.
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Perhaps Donald Trump should sign an executive order declaring June 14 (his birthday) to be National Racial Animus Day.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.

They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Talk about a participation trophy...
Yo, I can't stop laughing at this
He "medaled" himself🤣🤣🤣
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Now that Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi have broken off their illicit relationship, here's my prediction for a future headline:

Bari Weiss names Olivia Nuzzi anchor of CBS Evening News
December 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM