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Merrie McGaw
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She/her. WinForms Engineering manager passionate about modernizing enterprise LOB apps. All about .NET of course. Mom, wife, celiac, cooking fan, adoptive momma, and lots of other things
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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d
BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.

Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
The first few days and weeks are the hardest. The quiet is overwhelming. Sending hugs.
I’m so sorry for your loss. We lost our Penny over the holidays. It was hard, and her 18 years didn’t seem enough. But the love your Nutmeg gave and received made every one of your years together something special.
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Jacob Soboroff is doing a great job investigating and debunking the claims that ICE is making about their arrests targeted worst of the worst

Congress can help reign in ICE- IF we get a Democratic majority. That will be more likely if California passes Proposition 50. #YesOnProp50
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Correct Response: "What an incredibly inappropriate thing to say, you creepy, crazy old man."
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ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
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🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2
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Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.
I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.
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We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.
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The Justice Department and Deputy AG Todd Blanche are in some hot water over their handling of the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. A federal judge found a "realistic likelihood" that Abrego is being subjected to a vindictive prosecution, citing comments by Blanche to Fox News. youtube.com/shorts/9iSJH...
DOJ in hot water over Kilmar Abrego Garcia case
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#ResistanceRoots

“When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.”
— John Lewis
THIS!! I will never support Newsom.
If you'll sacrifice anyone, you'll sacrifice *anyone*
Can't say he's wrong. And can't say how much I get a kick out of both sides of this show.
shameful
No more federal $ for local public broadcasting starting today.

“For the first time in over 50 years, local public broadcasting stations will not receive federal funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting," says Kate Riley, president and CEO of America’s Public Television Stations.
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the people who are destroying all public goods and trying to kill you would like you to blame someone else, perhaps some Other whose immigration status you can deduce at a glance by putting on your racism glasses, who you can have sent to a concentration camp on the basis of your suspicion
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
Dumbest positive realization - I'm not stuck with only brown mascara. All my life I have been fair and thought black looked terrible. Finally tried a quality black mascara and wow - I don't look like I've got spider legs for eyelashes. This opens up entire makeup worlds for me.🤩
Could not agree more. Rewarding a massacre is despicable.
Military service is about courage and sacrifice. That’s what my father, a Marine, and my mother, a Navy veteran, taught me.

But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2🧵)
You have got to be fucking kidding me. The man was murdered, and that was awful. But he was also a racist, sexist, "Christian" nationalist. Not someone I want on my currency.
Oh, perfect. Just what America needs: Monopoly money with Charlie Kirk’s face on it.

Republicans: kids can’t afford lunch, seniors can’t afford meds, families can’t afford housing.

Also Republicans: let’s slap Charlie Kirk on the currency.

Peak clown show.
I can't believe the nonsense coming out of Trump's mouth over autism. Can't pronounce acetaminophen. Has no earthly clue about any of this and is basically spouting gibberish.
Scary times. We can't let this go!
They are watching how we react…
Like raptors at the fence, testing for weakness.
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WHY they're BlOWING UP Boats
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.”

Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p
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So, this wasn’t about CK. It was about Trump getting his fee fees hurt; Kirk was just the convenient excuse.
⚠️This is the Jimmy Kimmel monologue that got his show pulled.

Not hate. Not celebration of death.

Just the truth: Republicans rushed to blame the left before any facts about the shooter or motive were known.

Keep sharing it. Spread the truth.