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Retired Educational software guy. Trying to counter Trumpism and false information. Love Democracy. like bring joy to kids with bubble performances

Waltham, MA
Joined October 2008
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I’m really thinking about putting this picture on a wall in my home. When my grandchildren come over I can explain duty, honor, country !
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As a retired master sergeant, I love that this young man is more afraid of his sergeant than he is of the secretary of defense. He was following orders and doing exactly what he was trained to do. 🫡
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Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has conceded the Mississippi Senate race to Democrat Scott Colom. "While this is not the outcome we worked for or hoped for, I respect the decision of Mississippi voters. I want to congratulate Scott Colom and wish him well."
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Replying to @WhiteHouse
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Replying to @AP
Maybe they can't read
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It is absolutely disgraceful, disrespectful and unprofessional that the Secretary of Defense and/or whoever the Hell was with him couldn’t show 5 minutes of dignity and respect on Veteran’s Day at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier!!! This is just another glaring example of why this asshole should be removed! 😡🔥🔥🔥👎
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Breaking News: Scott Colom, a Democrat, defeated Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, Republican of Mississippi, in a close race, according to The Associated Press. His win makes him the first Black senator elected in the state since Reconstruction. nyti.ms/4zjyukG
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If you’ve ever been to the spot at Arlington where Hegseth got reprimanded, you know it’s one of the most solemn, heaviest, emotional places in America. Most would never dream of being loud or laughing while we are there. But Hegseth, on Vet’s Day of all days, is a classless ass.
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This is truly abhorrent. Pete Hegseth doesn't know how to conduct himself, even at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. His behavior is unbecoming of any visitor to the Tomb, let alone that which comes from a Secretary of Defense.
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BREAKING: In a political earthquake, CNN projects that Scott Colom has won election to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi! He is the first African-American to represent the state in the U.S. Senate in a jaw-dropping 145 years. His shocking defeat of Cindy Hyde-Smith is sweet revenge, as she pulled out all the stops in 2023 to make sure Scott Colom would never become a federal judge. So he took her job. Amazing. #BlueTsunami
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Deported veterans observing Veterans' Day in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
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She blocked him from being a federal judge and he takes her job. This universe don’t play.
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70 years ago, this man would be forced to drink from a separate drinking fountain in Mississippi. Now he’s going to help inspire little kids from the state’s black and brown communities to dream big because anything is possible. That’s so awesome. ☺️
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It is just win after win after win for Democrats. The country really went blue.
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One of the best political ads of the midterm cycle. “Pick Another Senator.” And it worked.
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This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect. "Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging, insurrectionist, running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again. And you're calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. 'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess. So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth." This was published by Annalise B Winterborne on TikTok. #DemsUnited
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Jim Crow 2.0 I’m hearing that while the statewide acceptance rate sits at 76%, less than 34% of ballots from Hinds Co were accepted in this batch…mind you, Hinds Co is 70.4% Black or African American.
Here are the affidavit ballot numbers announced from Hinds County, MS: Accepted: 817 Rejected: 1,609 Total: 2,426 What happens next: Hinds County will count the accepted affidavit ballots and the 67 mail in absentee ballots received
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It’s almost as if handing our economy to a shit for brains who bankrupted casinos wasn’t such a great idea after all.
Since May, tariff refunds have amounted to 113% of new tariff collections. That's a net loss of $15 billion for the Treasury.
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Pete Hegseth told America's generals that women might not measure up for some combat jobs. A Marine drill instructor, a Navy helicopter pilot and an Army officer with three Bronze Stars just gave him their answer. All three of them: dworkinsubstack.com/p/hegset…
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So impeaching hegseth during a conflict "sends a terrible message" but hegseth firing generals and the top military planner doesn't?????
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