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“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV

The American people do not want endless war.

🇱🇺Luxembourg has enshrined abortion rights in its constitution, the second country, after France, to do so.

Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...

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We CANNOT stay silent, as Marineland Canada threatens to euthanize these beautiful animals!

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS in NY-11 (Staten Island and South Brooklyn)” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

June 26 — noon eastern Protect judges and the rule of law Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy (!) speakupforjustice.law

"The only job in politics I ever wanted that I didn't get." Bill Clinton, on The Daily Show, referring to the position of "First Gentleman"

@maddow.msnbc.com oh Rachel, what would we do, in the midst of this INSANITY, without your words of reason & hope? TY for continuing to help us to stand strong, as our country spirals? Watching your show, helps me believe, all is NOT lost!!

@maddow.msnbc.com YOU dear Rachel, are THE ONLY TRUE voice in the wilderness 👏🤟👏

Madman Across the Water 👏👏Elton👏👏

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“And the reality is that the sternest warnings about Trump’s second term came not from Never Trumpers, but from the men and women who worked directly for Trump in his first term.” @jvl.bsky.social

Whoa-was Carl Sagan a genius prognosticator or what????

This is why, certain broadcasters, who I've long watched & admired, bent the knee. Sooo...disappointed. No longer can watch. Where is the integrity to back up ALL that's been said, leading up to the election😞😠

#BlueskyDogPark

Congressional Democrats are planning on boycotting Trump’s Inauguration.

Normalize using the word “oligarchy” 🇺🇸

College freshman today were 6 years old in the 2012 election. A student of mine (age 20) told me after class that he appreciates when I explain how US politics and media were different before, because the Trump era is all he’s seen. This is what young Americans think politics is. It’s normal now.

Pretty damn spot-on, don’t you think?

Texas and Florida are ground zero for project 2025

History repeats. In late February 1921, 2 weeks before taking office as POTUS, Warren Harding writes a letter to the richest man in America, William Randolph Hearst, thanking him for helping him win the presidency with favorable coverage in major newspapers he owned & begging for his advice.

The day after January 6th, Donald Trump said he was "outraged" by the "heinous attack" on the Capitol, adding: "And to those who broke the law, you will pay." Needless to say, Trump didn’t mean a word of it. Four years on, it's hard to escape the feeling that January 6th succeeded.

A-MAZ-ING entertainer. As a young girl, I played his records (anyone remember vinyl records lol),over & over again. His autobiography is fascinating. Highly recommend if you love his music. He went thru sooo...much, from the time he was a young child🎶

"There are NONE so BLIND as those who will NOT SEE"

Perfectly said!! #i'mwiththebanned

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We MUST Read banned books. Here are the top 10 classics, most banned in America. PLEASE read them: 1)To Kill A Mockingbird 2) Of Mice and Men 3) The Bluest Eyes 4) The Catcher In The Rye 5) Brave New World 6) Brave New World 7) The Color Purple 8) A Farewell To Arms 9) Lord of the Flys 10) Ulysses

It is sickening how something soo...meaningful can be usurped & twisted but we WILL call it out when we see it! UH NO Elon...just NO🤫

"Remember, fireman are rarely necessary, the public stopped reading of their own accord." Farenheit 451 "I never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith- it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe" Stranger In A Strange Land

When ever I think of what book I would become (as in Farenheit 451-where firefighters burned books & NO ONE was permitted to possess one)I KNOW I would become Stranger In A Strange Land! Shall I recite myself for you?