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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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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 16h

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

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Sharon Lee @smitty11.bsky.social · 13h

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

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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 · 19h

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 · 1d

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 · 18h

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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 · 16h

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 · 21h

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 · 23h

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 · 1d

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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#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 · 1d

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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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 22h

Apparently, they don’t hand out a Nobel Peace Prize to those who negotiated a ceasefire they had sabotaged a year ago just to get elected.

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Breezy Artworks @grrrin.bsky.social · 1d

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We’re the Frogs (Portland, Oregon Peaceful Protest Anthem for the "War Ravaged" city)

YouTube video by Delanae - Original Music. Storytelling. Cultural

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Sharon Lee @smitty11.bsky.social · 1d

[Written by Paul Klusman] Trump is warning us about the Far-Left "threat." Meanwhile his Jan 6 idiots were "Peaceful." The projection and gaslighting is astounding.

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Sharon Lee @smitty11.bsky.social · 1d

Their so-called 'ideas' mean letting people die without medicine or medical care. They've come up with nothing since Trump's first term and they've had more than enough time. They'll do anything to continue to give the wealthiest (and their $ donors) more tax breaks at the expense of the bottom 90%.

Sharon Lee @smitty11.bsky.social · 1d

This is history replaying Nazi Germany. No court seems to be able to stop it, and SCOTUS majority apparently supports it.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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CapeCodCritter @capecodcritter.bsky.social · 2d

WTF? Guy who knew boys on Ohio State’s wrestling team, on which he had a job, were being raped by the team doctor in the showers, and Jordon said nothing, is talking about God? Go back to doing nothing, Jim, you’re good at that. www.huffpost.com/entry/jim-jo...

Jim Jordan Claims ICE Agents Are ‘Doing The Lord’s Work’

The GOP rep called the “pushback” ICE has been getting “interesting.”

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