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Wife, mom, grandmother, nature lover, wine lover, democracy lover. Retired insurance executive. (I know, I know…doing my penance now!) Rando DMs = blocks

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The SAVE Act is a major attack on voting rights. It is not a genuine voter ID reform, but rather an attempt to suppress turnout in future elections.

09.03.2026 13:38 👍 3653 🔁 996 💬 139 📌 40
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"Jews don't belong in American society."

Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.

But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.

09.03.2026 15:55 👍 4250 🔁 1295 💬 197 📌 77
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Kolanovic, ten days ago:

09.03.2026 01:53 👍 1052 🔁 202 💬 21 📌 8

Tomorrow’s looking like it could be black Monday. Ugh.

09.03.2026 01:32 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A wise administration wouldn’t start another war in the Middle East.

A competent administration wouldn’t bomb an elementary school full of children on day 1 of the war they started.

They are neither.

08.03.2026 20:37 👍 6028 🔁 1200 💬 133 📌 27

The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February.

A record number of Americans are withdrawing from their 401ks to cover expenses.

Americans owe $18.5 trillion in debt — an historic high.

Meanwhile, the wealth of America's 935 billionaires soared by $1.5 trillion in 2025.

“Golden Age” for whom?

08.03.2026 20:01 👍 3827 🔁 1330 💬 147 📌 65
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When Matt’s right he’s right

08.03.2026 18:02 👍 3186 🔁 854 💬 174 📌 51
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#WomensHistoryMonth
#InternationalWomensDay

In case you didn't know
OH....BTW....
YOU came from a woman !!

08.03.2026 18:06 👍 471 🔁 236 💬 22 📌 14

I totally believe this.

08.03.2026 20:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spring forward... Fall back... whatever.

Can we just pick ONE & stick with it once & for ALL?!!! ⏰

08.03.2026 18:36 👍 15204 🔁 1909 💬 1309 📌 204
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Pete Buttigieg just put Georgia-14 on the map. When a former Cabinet Secretary says Shawn Harris has what it takes to flip a red district-you listen! Lower drug prices. A real farm bill. Medicare protected. Georgia, on Tuesday, March 10th show up for someone who cares about you!

08.03.2026 18:54 👍 339 🔁 162 💬 10 📌 5

Indeed. 🤦🏼‍♀️

08.03.2026 17:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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BREAKING: Fox News So Embarrassed by Trump's Dignified Transfer that they had to lie about it and show old footage.

Fox News is a scam

08.03.2026 14:17 👍 1112 🔁 393 💬 46 📌 24

This is my fear.

08.03.2026 17:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They're still lying on the website:

www.foxnews.com/video/639055...

08.03.2026 14:42 👍 1785 🔁 475 💬 61 📌 23

BREAKING: At least 394, including 83 children, killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon, Health Ministry says

Trump dogwalked into an escalating global war by Netanyahu and Christian nationalists.

What could go wrong?

08.03.2026 15:14 👍 1057 🔁 375 💬 35 📌 15
The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand.
CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. 
RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette.

CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there

RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: 
LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters.
CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. 
RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. 
LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. 
CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits.
RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

07.03.2026 04:16 👍 920 🔁 557 💬 20 📌 42

Even if you are 100% convinced that Democracy is already dead and our votes won't count...
PLEASE VOTE ANYWAY!
I'm begging everyone. There is a critical mass of voter turnout that will be too big to fix.
Please vote, no matter how bleak it seems.

08.03.2026 01:07 👍 8772 🔁 2714 💬 366 📌 141

Trump multiple times just today has said the country is at war. War can only be declared by Congress, and Iran posed no imminent threat. What Trump is doing there is a textbook illegal war and impeachable offense — if we still had a Congress.

07.03.2026 22:03 👍 11738 🔁 3007 💬 359 📌 104

Where’s Kristi???

07.03.2026 19:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump now has three options:
1) Retreat from Iran and lose the middle east forever, Israel destroyed
2) Put boots on the ground and lose thousands and thousands of U.S. troops
3) Bomb Iran with nukes and risk global destruction
Nice going you stupid MAGAts

07.03.2026 17:41 👍 1834 🔁 485 💬 133 📌 33

It’s monstrous that fascist senate republican Tim Sheehy has gotten away with violently breaking the arm of a US Marine dressed in full military uniform which was captured on video and the scumbag later bragged about doing it on social media. MAGA is a violent terrorist cult.

07.03.2026 17:45 👍 1261 🔁 425 💬 55 📌 21

Soon after threatening to murder Iranian civilians at will, drunkard rapist fox host Pete Hegseth insulted a room full of Latin American leaders by saying, “I only speak American.”

Again, we went from a highly decorated 4-star General to this racist murderous idiotic piece of shit.

07.03.2026 17:55 👍 1606 🔁 478 💬 93 📌 13
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07.03.2026 17:59 👍 170 🔁 82 💬 5 📌 0

Indeed. Dude has to have surgery for that injury!

07.03.2026 19:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:

Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down

Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace

Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs

Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

07.03.2026 19:01 👍 21016 🔁 6976 💬 560 📌 253

True dat.

07.03.2026 01:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So let me get this straight ...

1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil

06.03.2026 22:10 👍 4726 🔁 1799 💬 207 📌 127
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We can throw another $500,000,000,000 at the Pentagon this year and spend $1,000,000,000/day on a wholly useless war, but we can't afford to hire doctors and nurses to take care of our veterans? The United States is such an irresponsible, messed up country right now.

06.03.2026 22:33 👍 10054 🔁 3956 💬 456 📌 191

In the last 14 months of Biden's term, 1,740,000 total jobs were created. In the first 14 months of Trump's current term, 150,000 jobs were created. That's a ratio of 11.6 to 1 ...

The idea that "Republicans do better on the economy" is and has always been BS.

06.03.2026 23:33 👍 1005 🔁 426 💬 31 📌 17