Judi Gunn 🍦

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Bird nerd. Servant to cat. Bookworm. Liberal. Christian. Grandma. Newly retired. Good cook, decent baker. Adjunct prof at Naval Academy: Advanced Cussing.

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Polls predicted a loss and the people said different. Important reminder.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

Post your cat in a box. In a box and attacking a wand toy.

See if you can find him he's very sneaky.

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Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.

"Let's redo the pantry!" I said. "Let's get the same kind of shelves that are in our walk-in closet! It'll be great!" I said. 🙄 Right up there with wallpapering as a test of marriage. So far I'm getting maybe a C+. Hubs is a better person than I. He's getting an A. ❤️

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I know a lot of people look forward to this particular concert every summer, so I'm real sorry to share that it isn't gonna happen this year. We wish it could, but the bottom line is that we're union, and we don't cross picket lines. Please support your Mpls parks workers!

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So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

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about once a week, i have to explain to someone on the phone that the police have no obligation to do anything for you and, even if their refusal literally leads to your murder, the courts have been clear that there's no case to pursue

A man has been using Facebook to terrorize his ex and their children. He brags about it: “I want her to worry about who’s waiting on the corner.” But police do nothing and nobody seems to take it seriously. Chilling story from Stacy St Clair and Joe Mahr www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/07/f...

How one man uses Facebook to frighten his children's mother and why police do nothingwww.chicagotribune.com An analysis of data from nearly two dozen Illinois police departments found police rarely arrest people for electronic harassment, even as complaints increase.

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Just reupping www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Not ‘Bluffing’: Inside the MAGA Efforts To Make a Second Term Even More Extremewww.rollingstone.com “Yes, we do really want to burn it all down,” says a Republican close to Trump.

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If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.

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The ever-astute Rebecca Solnit on how the pundit class has turned into a mob stampeding America toward a catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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When the Guardian has a better take than the New York Times. And CNN. And the Sunday talk shows. And …

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To all the abled folks that use the phrase “wheelchair bound” this is a beautiful example of why we in the disability community do not use those words. Accessibility devices are tools of freedom!!!

just took my new wheelchair for a spin around the block w/ my dog (something i could never even dream of doing before) & i am tearing up at how much joy it brought me. it's incredible how just by having access to the right mobility aids, i already feel so much less depressed.

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Whole news cycles devoted to indulging reporters' anxieties & misapprehensions, & they will never ever admit they were wrong

Despite the debate performance, Biden continues to gain ground in swing states as we get closer to the election, which is exactly what you’d expect to happen

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Even taking the current polling average as gospel Biden right now, today, is less than a standard polling error away from a repeat of the margin from 2020

It's amazing how confidently the media asserted that Biden's post debate polling was disastrous (including Stephanopoulos having an extended on air argument with Biden about it during yesterday's interview!) with basically zero evidence

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NEW: Biden has narrowed Trump’s lead in swing states despite a widely panned presidential debate performance, the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll finds

Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Losswww.bloomberg.com The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race.

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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness

As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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"Pssst." "Shhh!" "Whatcha doing?" "Waiting." "For what?" "A cheetah." "I hear those are beautiful." "They sure are, fast too, now hush." "Can I wait with you?" "Only if you're quiet."

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"Trump can say seven outrageous things on a Saturday, and by Monday people have forgotten about them. That’s the problem with Trump... he's a firehose of bullshit... as a result, he’s held to a completely different standard than Biden." -- Charlie Sykes

Charlie Sykes on the GOP's Trump cultwww.publicnotice.co "In the minds of MAGA world, he has never lost. There have been no defeats."

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High temperatures Friday in southern CA and adjacent locations, as well as the southern Mid-Atlantic where Palm Springs and Raleigh set all-time records of 124 and 106, respectively. Redding also tied all-time with 118 and Blythe tied July record with 123. #cawx #uswx #ncwx

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I want to bop all the doubters and leakers over the head with a copy of Project 2025. There's very little time to waste and they're just making things harder! If you had doubts about Biden's chances, you should've spoken up earlier. What everyone in the party should be doing NOW is 👇

Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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Let me try to put my cards on the table and lay out where I'm at re: Biden bowing out and the race in general. #1: I am bewildered by how many different factions are hostile to Biden and how bad the polls have been. In my view, he's a pretty good president (certainly better than I expected).

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I gotta say that people are having a lot of trouble distinguishing cognitive decline (Trump) from age-related changes in expression (Biden). Biden is elderly and talks like it. Trump literally does not have preserved reality-testing

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THEY DID IT!!

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Me, I’ve been dropping relevant Project 2025 rundowns in any story I can (there’s a lot). My analysis, reading across sections of the “Mandate” document, of Project 2025’s vision of straight white patriarchal power was pub’d in February: newrepublic.com/article/1788...

There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?

Conservatives Plan to Ban Abortion and Cut LGBT Rights Starting Next Januarynewrepublic.com Project 2025’s 180-Day Playbook is a remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist’s paradise.

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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct

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Library funding is almost always justified through patron numbers. The more people a library serves, the more funding it gets. So even if you don't regularly use a public library, get a library card. It costs you nothing and helps everyone in your community.

today is my NINETEEN YEAR anniversary working at my local library In honor of that, I ask you to get a card to your local public library today! If you ALREADY have a card to your local public library, check out their digital resources! Their summer programs! And yeah, they have books too.

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Look, I was there, he corrected himself quickly and fluidly. He does have a speech impediment: the issue at hand is his mental acuity, and if anything this showed me that he recognized a mistake and fixed it

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People are starting to pay attention to Project 2025 and the threat it poses to our society. That's good news for the election. If we fail this November, we won't get another chance to stop it.

What's Project 2025? Unpacking the Pro-Trump Plan to Overhaul US Governmentwww.snopes.com For several months, we received a flood of reader inquiries asking if Project 2025 was a real effort to “reshape America.” Here’s the answer.