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I love God, kindness, humor, sports, and respect! Anchor ⚓️ Down VU 😃⚽️🥉🏈🏀🎭🏓🎾
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Two kids, two buzzer beaters in two days, one elated dad on hand to see both in person.

Vanderbilt's Mikayla Blakes and Stanford' Jaylen Blakes — sister and brother — both played hero for their teams this weekend.

Read: www.nytimes.com/athletic/608...
January 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The GOP is conducting an actual witch hunt for minorities, to play to a jeering mob of open Twitter Nazis. Any Democrat gonna say anything? Any journalist? Anyone?
January 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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My next read --downloaded the audio read by the author. Hardcover was sold out!
January 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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January 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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The past several days have proven without a shadow of a doubt that Project 2025 is real and underway.

And those who warned America about it were right.
January 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Their faith lets them worship power while they’re offended by mercy. It’s not Christianity they’re practicing.
January 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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January 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Big congratulations to Republicans on their first big victory of the Trump era: empowering President Musk to strip funding for childhood cancer research out of the budget.
December 20, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Arkansas is also #40 in economy, #47 in healthcare and #49 in crime but go off.
December 22, 2024 at 4:38 AM
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Remember when Republicans told us that Trump was the “pro-peace” candidate?
Trump just suggested that he may declare war on Denmark to take Greenland.

“It might be that you'll have to do something.”
January 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Republicans are now preparing a “menu” of services to cut to pay for Trump’s planned tax giveaways for billionaires.

Their plan includes cutting Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and infrastructure funding.
Medicaid, ACA, climate measures on GOP chopping block
The menu of potential spending offsets has been circulated by House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington.
www.politico.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Flashback to 2020:

CA official: "If we ignore the science and put our head in the sand... we're not going to succeed together protecting Californians."

Trump: "It'll start getting cooler. You just watch."

"I wish science agreed with you."

Trump: "I don’t think science knows, actually."
January 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Scientists are warning that the world has entered a dangerous new era of chaotic floods, storms and fires made worse by human-caused climate change. The wildfires in Los Angeles are just the latest examples of this extreme weather.
The California Wildfires Are the Latest Disaster Supercharged by Climate Change
Extreme weather events — deadly heat waves, floods, fires and hurricanes — are the consequences of a warming planet, scientists say.
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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2025 is off to a strong start for Texas!  Since the CHIPS and Science Act passed, Texas has secured $6 BILLION! From big industries to small businesses, schools, and workforce development, Texas is leading the charge in semiconductors. America’s tech future is Made in Texas!
January 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The CEO of Watch Duty used his skills as a software engineer to build the app to amplify fire safety information as a public service: “Techies are obsessed with going to Mars and inventing an AGI robot to do art. But I’m obsessed with time and life.” sfstandard.com/2025/01/09/w...
A Bay Area fire tracking app is saving lives — and correcting Elon Musk
Watch Duty has overtaken ChatGPT to become the top free app in Apple’s App Store.
sfstandard.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Redcross.com to help those in need in the California fires.
American Red Cross
Every 8 minutes the American Red Cross responds to an emergency. Support the Red Cross. Join us today by making a donation.
Redcross.com
January 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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In the second row Trump glowered as another president was praised. "Jimmy Carter’s funeral may have been one of the last times that the former and future President will ever be forced to confront an American reality so different from his own" says @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
King Donald and the Presidents at the National Cathedral
A report from Jimmy Carter’s—and Joe Biden’s—long goodbye.
www.newyorker.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Praying for Cali!!!
January 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Congrats to cotton bowl winner "THE OHIO STATE BUckeyes"!
January 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
January 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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January 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Thankful for a social media alternative to musk and Zac.
January 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM