Taylor

Democrat, Retired, NO DM's, Married; Fighting for Democracy and against policies that aid and abet the criminals in politics. #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy

[Taylor @NiceLady105]

...Just a reminder. https://t.co/dr0EnLh6mL

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@LinosVersion 1. Yes

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@John_Beckham14 Who gave trump permission to allow Qatar to build a base in the States? Are we for sale?

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@SpencerHakimian @sommerstar The guy pinning the young lady down should face serious prison time.

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@Matt_Pinner @DonLynnMcCorkl1 A. YES

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@JonBowzerBauman Yes. I think SCOTUS finally realizes the errors in their decisions. I hope I am right anyway.

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@TheJFreakinC Is this our America? This has to end now. #TrumpMustGo

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

You don't beat Donald Trump by protesting in front of a building.

You beat Donald Trump on election day next year.

And to do that you have to support, donate and campaign for Democratic candidates for the House + Senate that can actually WIN and take back the Senate and House.

[Taylor @NiceLady105]

@covie_93 $$$$

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@Damaan4u33 A. NO

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@JoJoFromJerz Yes.

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@ultras_antifaa No real man would lay hands on child. This is a crime.

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@ZOrtiz99 Fortunately I have been to all except Honolulu.

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@AZ_Brittney NO NO NO NO NO.

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@ReallyAmerican1 #ImpeachTrumpNOW

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@CalltoActivism To the powers that be -- DO NOT ALLOW THIS.

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@ML3democrats A.

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@SpencerHakimian

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Just so you know. This government shutdown is Republican made. They are in control of every aspect of the government.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: RFK Jr. gets HUMILIATING news as six former U.S. Surgeons General join forces for a scathing and unprecedented warning that exposes his actions as "endangering the health of the nation."

And it gets so much worse for the disgraced MAGA Health Secretary...

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored," reads the opinion piece published in The Washington Post.

It was authored by the Trump-appointed Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello, and David Satcher and in it they accuse Kennedy of having “rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans.”

The Surgeon General is the leading spokesperson for public health in the American federal government and serves as he operational head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

The six Surgeons General accused Kennedy of ignoring health experts, destroying crucial health panels, and fueling toxic anti-science misinformation that has "eroded public trust" in HHS agencies including the CDC, FDA, and NIH. In the case of the CDC vaccine advisory panel, Kennedy fired the 17 members and stuffed their seats with people "who often lacked basic qualifications."

“Instead of combating the rapid spread of health misinformation with facts and clarity, Kennedy is amplifying it,” the former Surgeons General wrote.

They went on to slam RFK's efforts to push vaccine conspiracy theories about autism, his debunked claims about the HPV vaccine, and the fact that morale at the HHS has become "badly damaged" under his stewardship with scientists feeling "silenced and sidelined."

"Repairing this damage requires a leader who respects scientific integrity and transparency, listens to experts and can restore trust to the federal health apparatus. Instead, Kennedy has become a driving force behind this crisis," they wrote.

The Surgeons General also pointed to Kennedy's utterly failed leadership amidst the "worst measles outbreak in more than 30 years" which resulted in "three preventable deaths and the first measles-related child death in the U.S. in over two decades."

"America’s public health systems are essential to the well-being of the nation," they continued. "We are clear-eyed about the fact that these systems need to be improved, including paying more attention to areas such as disease prevention, mental health and chronic illness. But reform must be grounded in truth, transparency and scientific evidence. Without this foundation, we risk not only halting progress but reversing it — costing lives in the process."

"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans. The nation deserves a health and human services secretary who is committed to scientific integrity and can restore morale and trust in our public health agencies. Having served at senior levels in government, we know that politics are complicated. But this is bigger than politics. It’s about putting the health of Americans first," the Surgeons General concluded.

This is what courage looks like. These Surgeons General aren't concerned about playing politics, nor are they fretting about retaliation from this infamously vindictive White House. Their sole concern is the health and safety of the American people. We owe them our sincere thanks for speaking out.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank them for speaking out!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV enrages MAGA world by releasing his first major document urging every Catholic in the world to help migrants who all have "Christ himself" inside them — a powerful rebuke of Donald Trump's hateful policies.

This just went off like a bombshell for 1.4 billion Catholics...

The historic document entitled “I Have Loved You” states that caring for the poor also means "fighting against the structural causes of poverty," an unthinkable idea to American Evangelicals who fetishize wealth and billionaire tax cuts.

"No Christian can regard the poor simply as a societal problem," wrote Leo, adding that they are “part of our ‘family’" and they are "one of us." At a time when conservatives are gutting social programs and slashing Medicaid funding, this message is particularly potent.

But it's the section on migrants that has Republicans really up in arms...

"The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking. She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community," Leo wrote.

Recently, the pope urged U.S. Bishops to speak out "strongly" to support migrants against Trump's escalating immigration crackdowns.

In the new document, he writes that the "experience of migration" is woven into the history of the Church, pointing to Abraham setting out "without knowing where he is going," Moses leading his people out of slavery into the desert, and Mary and Joseph fleeing with an infant Jesus into Egypt.

Quoting his predecessor Pope Francis, Leo wrote that Christians must use four verbs for migrants: "welcome, protect, promote and integrate." Francis began the 104-page document but died before it was finished so Leo took up the task of finishing it, explaining: "I am happy to make this document my own — adding some reflections.”

"The Church, like a mother, accompanies those  who are walking," wrote Leo. "Where the world sees threats, she sees children; where walls are built, she builds  bridges. She knows that her proclamation of the Gospel is credible only when it is translated into  gestures of closeness and welcome. And she knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself  who knocks at the door of the community."

The bit about walls is a clear reference to Trump's infamous border wall and a clear rejection of the animating xenophobia at the rotten core of the MAGA movement. Real Christians should welcome and care for migrants. MAGA Christians want them pepper-sprayed, zip-tied, and terrorized by ICE agents.

The document also tackles the growing corrosive power of billionaires like Elon Must who are using their money to place themselves above the law. It criticizes an economic system in which "earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few."

"A new tyranny is being born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules," wrote Leo.

"There is no shortage of theories attempting to justify the present state of affairs or to explain that economic thinking requires us to wait for invisible market forces to resolve everything," the pope wrote.

"The poor are promised only a few 'drops' that trickle down, until the next global crisis brings things back to where they were," he added.

"Either we regain our moral and spiritual dignity or we fall into a cesspool," the pope wrote in one particularly striking passage.

This document is a battle cry for Christian love and perfectly articulates the true message of Jesus Christ. The fact that Republicans are already raging against it exposes the truth behind their Christian facade. They want the self-righteousness granted to them by their religion without embracing the sacrifice and compassion that it truly demands.

Please retweet and ❤️ to thank Pope Leo for taking such a moral stance!