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@wiscopdx

Wisconsin born and raised, PNW explorer, avid reader, curious about all things health & science. Live with my partner + 77 yo MIL + a doodle adjacent dog.

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World War 2 & Vietnam War lasted a combined 27 years, or just shy of 10,000 days. In that time, a total of 132 journalists were killed.

Israel has sieged Gaza for just under 700 days & killed 242+ journalists.

This violates Art 79 of Add’l Protocol (I) of Geneva Conventions.

These Are War Crimes.

13.08.2025 04:33 πŸ‘ 661 πŸ” 217 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

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13.08.2025 05:50 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money? Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say

MORE!

Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to allow a chronically homeless person to live on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?

Answer: Yes, we are paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…
www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...

12.08.2025 21:59 πŸ‘ 362 πŸ” 107 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
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12.08.2025 10:54 πŸ‘ 7801 πŸ” 2503 πŸ’¬ 124 πŸ“Œ 90

This video is just incredible, a bunch of guys whose favorite movie is Boondock Saints in eBay tacticool gear doing their personal imaginary version of charging out of the LSTs onto Omaha beach but they’re in a Penske truck in a Home Depot parking lot and they’re the Nazis.

06.08.2025 22:12 πŸ‘ 757 πŸ” 195 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 8

It's honestly heartbreaking... She has the same look in her eyes that Hillary Clinton had after 2016... The painful realization that yes, they really do hate us that much.

01.08.2025 04:12 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is moving.

Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through.

What could have been…

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How John Durham and Chuck Grassley Covered Up Getting Ass-Handed by Russia - emptywheel John Durham (with Chuck Grassley's help) tried to obscure that on the same day as the Russian spy report that drove his entire investigation, Russian spooks discussed seeding conspiracies about "dark ...

I've long believed 2016 Russian operation in US was most successful intelligence operation in recent history.

With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...

01.08.2025 10:53 πŸ‘ 6195 πŸ” 2274 πŸ’¬ 288 πŸ“Œ 83

Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy should do a movie on the destruction that her brother Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has wrought on vaccines, science, and public health infrastructure in the U.S.

She could lead with the clip of Caroline Kennedy accurately calling RFK Jr. a predator.

28.07.2025 15:59 πŸ‘ 425 πŸ” 112 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1
This photo, provided by an American contractor on condition of anonymity shows Palestinians crammed behind gates and fencing before entering a food distribution site operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May 2025. Photo credit to AP.

This photo, provided by an American contractor on condition of anonymity shows Palestinians crammed behind gates and fencing before entering a food distribution site operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May 2025. Photo credit to AP.

β€œThere is no moral difference between telling people they can have a shower so you can gas them in gas chambers and telling people they can have food so you can shoot them at aid sites. A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and the world is silent.”

- Mohamad Safa, PVA rep. to the UN.

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28.07.2025 03:29 πŸ‘ 3182 πŸ” 1343 πŸ’¬ 217 πŸ“Œ 100

Empathy and compassion are antisemitism now. Got it.

21.07.2025 21:03 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
President should not be telling the Washington Redskins to change their name-our country has far bigger problems! FOCUS on them, not nonsense
9:09 AM Oct 8, 2013

(Michael A. McCoy/For The Washington Post)

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump President should not be telling the Washington Redskins to change their name-our country has far bigger problems! FOCUS on them, not nonsense 9:09 AM Oct 8, 2013 (Michael A. McCoy/For The Washington Post)

There's always a tweet

21.07.2025 20:58 πŸ‘ 111 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

β€œMore than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.”

and yet people are still demanding US politicians enthusiastically support this regime. fuck that.

20.07.2025 01:09 πŸ‘ 1219 πŸ” 310 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 6

Does ferritin typically improve when people enter menopause (stop menstruating)?

And for people who are athletes or very active, can that actually cause low ferritin?

18.07.2025 14:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The water and massive energy requirements for AI + data centers are undoing any progress we were making on the green energy front.

17.07.2025 14:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump supporters are the same people.

16.07.2025 14:29 πŸ‘ 2562 πŸ” 490 πŸ’¬ 100 πŸ“Œ 35

My teeth hurt just looking at it! 🀣

16.07.2025 23:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I cannot wrap my mind around how a person or a people can engender so much hate that they commit the endless brutal acts. But it’s happened again and again throughout history. It’s happening in Palestine, Congo, Myanmar… Humans are capable of unspeakable evils.

15.07.2025 01:27 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Alligator Alcatraz = internment camp.

This broke me…

β€œ32 individuals inside a cage. It was 81Β° where we were standing…inside it was probably even hotter. How do I know? Because there was individuals sweating with their shirt off, while they chanted libertad, libertad, libertad.” - State Sen Jones

15.07.2025 01:55 πŸ‘ 8917 πŸ” 3690 πŸ’¬ 388 πŸ“Œ 186
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a smurf wearing a chef hat picks cherries from a tree ALT: a smurf wearing a chef hat picks cherries from a tree

My raspberries are tapering off so my harvest looks like

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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

Trump and Noem fired the people who answer the emergency phone line.

It’s not really incompetence because they know what they are doing. They are intentionally breaking government - even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis.

12.07.2025 01:00 πŸ‘ 1486 πŸ” 511 πŸ’¬ 85 πŸ“Œ 20

Wow, she’s a gorgeous shiny black panther!

11.07.2025 15:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Q: β€œWhat keeps you up at night?”

JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: β€œThe state of our democracy.” πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ˜•

11.07.2025 04:05 πŸ‘ 13462 πŸ” 4012 πŸ’¬ 313 πŸ“Œ 238
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ICE handcuffs 71-year-old grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at San Diego immigration court An ICE agent accused the woman of pushing her. After she spent hours in custody, she denied that to NBC Diego on Wednesday.

These people are out of control.

www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...

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We want ICE out of our Hospitals.

09.07.2025 21:22 πŸ‘ 20855 πŸ” 6285 πŸ’¬ 544 πŸ“Œ 319
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The American Police State Is Here ICE is about to eclipse the FBI as America's most important law enforcement agency. That's bad. Super-duper bad.

The median FBI agent today is a lawyer who joined up to prevent another 9/11.

The median ICE agent tomorrow will be a dude with a high school diploma who watched guys in masks and full tactical snatching and beating day laborers and wants in on the action.

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

08.07.2025 20:13 πŸ‘ 1898 πŸ” 574 πŸ’¬ 63 πŸ“Œ 26
ICE agents in full combat gear on the streets of Los Angeles. On top of a military vehicle is an agent with a full-ass machine gun on a tripod.

ICE agents in full combat gear on the streets of Los Angeles. On top of a military vehicle is an agent with a full-ass machine gun on a tripod.

Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane.

This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.

07.07.2025 18:35 πŸ‘ 6260 πŸ” 2305 πŸ’¬ 339 πŸ“Œ 333

Today, a DOJ lawyer confirmed that the U.S. plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia if he’s released from pre-trial criminal detention.

The lawyer said the government won’t wait until Abrego faces trial.

Less than two weeks ago, a White House deputy press secretary decried that as β€œfake news.”

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