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Truly terrifying as well as possible. There must be much money involved…sloshing around to all these participants.

The shallow hucksterism of Rs is nauseating. They have found their mascot, and will gleefully overturn democracy in this country in service to power over.

There’s a pending collapse of this country unless voters support integrity and veracity.

Meanwhile, on the Olympic Peninsula, we make gardens for our local food bank, working to create sustainable food systems as climate collapse advances.

And the Mt Everett glacier has lost old ice, melting in overtime since the 1990s.

So much meaningful work to be done.

So much ridiculous propaganda soaking the limited grey matter of millions of idjt cultists.

And, by the way, pandemic? Not over.

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Definitely not over when my nephew tells me the whole family (all fully vaxxed/boosted) caught it from the youngest son (9) going to school - and that there is a kid in the school (fully vaxxed) who has now had Omicron TWICE. There's more going on with Omicron's evolution than is being said, I fear.

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Yes, there are already variants on Omicron. And there will be more. As a former professor, I’m warning folks that this is not the time to get lax

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My tiny "bubble" of friends has been invaded - brought on by an infant grandson of one of our little group. I now know scores of people who have had it and we are wondering exactly what you noted above - just how many times can one get it and what ARE those long term effects? A friend with long haul break through still doesn't have full taste back going on four months. And no taste means no appetite, and no appetite means no interest in food, and not eating means loss of weight.

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Those gardens are a lifeline. Thank you, Kim, and for pointing to Climate Catastrophe -- the country has bowed low to the fossil fuel kingpins -- hasn't it?

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These gardens ARE a lifeline. I’m privileged to participate in the nurturing of seedlings and the transplanting of them. I’m determined to have winter greens for our food bank. It’s a cause. And it’s happiness

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Sickening. We no longer have a window. Oh Fern, I grieve.

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kim, please try not to grieve. I work hard to stay calm. That's the strongest state of mind, but I let my anger go on this safe spot. The country was long into the transfer of wealth and corruption pre-Trump. We have to be the 2nd Greatest Generation. To you, Olympic Peninsula's gardens and all the gardens feeding people around the world. Peace, dear friend.

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Gratitude to you, Dear Fern. You are my shero. I hope to grow up and be like you!

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Heroes both of you, Fern and Kim!

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What a trio. Just seeing our names together, brought an early morning smile. Cheers, sisters!

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And TC!

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'This is actual, flat-out Stalinism....Folks, we are waaaaayyyy beyond Hitler and the Nazis now.'

Those two lines echoed LOUDLY because MY MIND has been shouting 'THIS IS ACTUAL, FLAT-OUT STALINISM....FOLKS, WE ARE WAAAAAYYYY BEYOND HITLER and the NAZIS NOW.' at me for months. TC wrote about the 'Republican Party'. What Republican Party; it is the TRUMP Party! How extraordinarily powerful is he? What's Mike Flynn's role in the future? How much of our country is being destroyed? For how long have we been witnessing the evil criminal calling with shots without stopping him? How long has he been fleecing this country? How many dead in the US from COVID -- many of them dead as a result of Trump's reign -- 898, 000. In this we are number 1, exceptionalism, par excellence. How have Democracy and the American People been protected from the country's fall? Is there a Department of Justice or is it simply just another one of those American myths?

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Last night on MSNBC there was speculation that Flynn would stand a better chance of running for prez and winning than Pence. Just imagine that. My skin is crawling.

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We await action from garland. Is it waiting for Godot?

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You are funny, and I'm not answering your question.

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YOU are wondrous!

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While Biden sings the praises of MITCH MCCONNELL 🤮, and Madison Cawthorn sues to prevent the Jan 6 committee from obtaining his personal information and the Jan 6 committee has so much (criminal) information they can’t process it … I despair. Who is going to prosecute these traitors? Will we be able to seat a jury who could hear the evidence? Remember, 1/3 of the country has sworn their lives and futures to this disgusting dismantling of our Republic. WTH is happening? It’s unbelievable. Je suis desolate.

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Je suit desolate indeed. May the forces of good prevail

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Set your defensive perimeter and plan your escape routes now. It's going to get much uglier. Know who you can count on locally and band together.

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The traitor Trump has a limited shelf life. He's physically and mentally deteriorating at a rapid rate. The real problem is all his cultists will still be infected with the brain fungus he has been spreading long after his body is rotting in the ground or burned into ashes. He already got away with poisoning millions and he was just part of a long line of poisoners.

It's not Omicron that will kill our species. It's our species that will end our species.

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I live in Kern County the area that Kevin McCarthy is suppose to represent in the house of representing. My local paper just ran a piece from him about 7 paragraphs long all about now that President Biden had been in office for 1 year what a failure it is. He listed all of the things Biden and the Democrats had done wrong. He did not once state any thing he has done to help his people in Kern County or the rest of America. What a waste of representative. He is so useless except to kiss TFG!

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It is difficult to know what to say. My head was spinning yesterday. And now Jim Jordan has been revealed to have spoken for 10 minutes with the Big Liar on January 6. There are so many involved in this entire situation it just totally boggles the mind and breaks the heart. But mostly it angers me. And I hope it angers every thinking American. The gop as a party has finally declared itself for a dictatorship, committed to one person (whoever that may turn out to be) rather than a democracy. Too many people are being seduced by the Wizard. I hope there will be a total unveiling of the former "president" and all his henchmen/women before it is too late. The thought of the gop retaking the house is just the worst kind of nightmare for the nation and the world. And frankly, if the instigators of January 6 and their congressional / state supporters are not called out and prohibited from ever seeking elective office again, we'll stay in this state of crisis for a very long time. Actually the crisis is going to continue for a long time, I predict, just because too many people have lost hope of ever having a place in this nation. I'm reading Fiona Hill's book and her analysis, to my mind, is correct - the economic dislocations that began in earnest under Reagan (and also happened in most other parts of the world) have led us to this moment of incredible anger, distrust, and willingness to burn whatever there is to the ground. Capital wielded by a few at the top has become the enemy of good sense and shared opportunity for the 99+% worldwide. The autocrats and dictators are happily getting rich while everyone else is getting "the business" and losing more and more ground every day.

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ronna ROMNEY mcdaniel. I so have paid scant attention to her (and corresponding “same as” women for trump such as Stefanik) that I did not know THAT family detail. And Trump insisted on name drop!

Now that just moved Mitt NoName right off any short list that he might step up and do right.

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Powerful, Terrifying and True. Shared This. Thank you TC.

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