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Dana Sargent (Raymond)

@newsongs

environmental nonprofit director. advocate with journalist tendencies; anti-Trump is not “liberal” media; it’s American media, ie fact-based watchdogging necessary to save our country. mom, music, outside stuff.

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@nytimes.com listening to Friday’s episode of The Daily and wishing there was some acknowledgement of how different he treated the female journalist compared to the men. He cut her off every time she opened her mouth and his tone of disgust with feigning respect for her was audible.

11.01.2026 20:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hard to keep up with all the deaths this administration is causing and will cause. Here’s some news that would have been front page material before we landed in the upside down.

05.01.2026 02:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can’t wait for the thorough 60 Minutes investigation into our invasion and occupation of Venezuela to be shut down and aired to us from Mexico

03.01.2026 17:21 👍 600 🔁 133 💬 1 📌 0

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country…

Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.

And America shrugged and moved on.

10.09.2025 20:53 👍 24701 🔁 7086 💬 869 📌 352

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.

Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.

We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

10.09.2025 21:58 👍 38966 🔁 6076 💬 2394 📌 459
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🔥 “There’s something wrong in this country… everything has gone up but wages… how many yachts and houses does one person need? — They want us to stay poor, stay hidden, and die silently.” 🇺🇸 #FightTheOligarchy

H/T @violadavis.bsky.social

04.05.2025 02:40 👍 21814 🔁 7337 💬 760 📌 690
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

04.05.2025 06:21 👍 18517 🔁 6301 💬 247 📌 277

This is america.

02.05.2025 12:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Big Ag is dirty af and most people eat all that s—t up.

02.05.2025 12:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago.

It also received $22M in federal aid.

While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.

01.05.2025 19:15 👍 26403 🔁 9281 💬 856 📌 471

If only…

02.05.2025 12:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meanwhile, in Canada…

02.05.2025 02:03 👍 34384 🔁 7115 💬 915 📌 677
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The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

01.05.2025 20:57 👍 19424 🔁 6976 💬 551 📌 603
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What could have been 🥹😭😩

01.05.2025 22:39 👍 8384 🔁 1114 💬 364 📌 133
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The Fuhrer wants a Nuremberg style parade on his birthday.

01.05.2025 23:46 👍 10600 🔁 3024 💬 2429 📌 625

Socialism is what they called public power. 

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

01.05.2025 21:31 👍 25355 🔁 7892 💬 427 📌 257
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RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims Kennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself.

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’

One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

02.05.2025 03:11 👍 33252 🔁 9968 💬 1482 📌 663

Some more dictatorship sh-t

29.04.2025 11:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mhm. And here we remain. Talking about it. If only the people with the power to stop this now would get some backbones and some ethics!! (#GOP)

29.04.2025 11:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'M SCREAAAAAAAAAAAAAMING

28.04.2025 19:59 👍 105 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0

I love my echo chamber where everyone values the humanity of other people and enjoys the arts.

28.04.2025 17:22 👍 14496 🔁 3103 💬 130 📌 64
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We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

- Prof. Brian Cox

28.04.2025 15:08 👍 6321 🔁 1356 💬 193 📌 116
100 Days of Chaos
100 Days of Chaos YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

100 days that have felt like 100 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgkJ...

29.04.2025 10:00 👍 4860 🔁 1498 💬 201 📌 118
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Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

28.04.2025 16:20 👍 27561 🔁 6637 💬 414 📌 277
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Is this “election fraud” also?

28.04.2025 20:33 👍 9143 🔁 2233 💬 324 📌 95

To call Francis “the peoples pope“ implies that the Catholic Church knows that previous popes weren’t that into people

28.04.2025 22:46 👍 10839 🔁 872 💬 446 📌 80
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28.04.2025 12:36 👍 20771 🔁 4960 💬 341 📌 216

Beautiful people showing up.

29.04.2025 11:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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28.04.2025 20:21 👍 3432 🔁 231 💬 70 📌 28

You’re just unnecessarily rude is all. Have a good one.

25.04.2025 12:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0