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Kathy Gerard

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Widow of a Vietnam Veteran, Proud Mom, Uma to the best grandkids. Retired MSW. Love gardening, taking pictures, my cats & learning to live life single.🚫Dm’s 🚫porn 🚫scams! Previously #wtpblue & #DemVoice1 on twitter. St Lawrence River, Northern NY dweller.

  1. 🚨 As of 2023, of those US companies that import goods, more than 97% of them were small businesses. For these companies, tariff uncertainty isn’t just frustrating – it’s paralyzing. theconversation.com/for-americas...

    Without predictable trade policy and stronger support systems, small firms remain vulnerable to shocks they can’t afford to absorb.

    For America’s 35M small businesses, tariff uncertainty hits especially hard

    Without predictable trade policy and stronger support systems, small firms remain vulnerable to shocks they can’t afford to absorb.

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  2. Both districts drawn by Republicans. 1 to ensure 5 or 6 uncompetitive seats in Texas. 1 to stretch credulity into the shape of a duck to make Gym Jordan electable.

    Both are why we desperately need to take the maps out of politicians hands & give them to NONPARTISAN commissions everywhere.

    Brian Tyler Cohen 
This is a district drawn by Republicans to pack Democratic voters into one gerrymandered district. You're literally making the opposite point that you think you're making.

@RealJessica05 • 20h
This is a real Democrat "district" in Texas.
This is what a stolen house seat actually looks like.
With a map showing CD 35 reaching along the interstate connecting Austin to San AntonioMap of Gym Jordan’s duck shaped district
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  3. ā€œJust like a scene from a REALITY SHOW!ā€

    That’s because this Presidency is Trump’s reality show. If it’s, ā€œSurvivorā€, lots of us won’t make it.

    But, if it’s ā€œThe Biggest Loserā€, we win cause everyone knows who that is. #Pinks #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1

    Federal immigration agents are under fire after pulling off a controversial operation that looked more like a scene from a reality show than a law enforcement mission. On Wednesday, Border […]
The post Penske Speaks Out After Border Patrol Agents Jump Out of Rental Truck in Immigration Raid at LA Home Depot [Video] appeared first on Baller Alert.

    Penske Speaks Out After Border Patrol Agents Jump Out of Rental Truck in Immigration Raid at LA Home Depot [Video]

    Federal immigration agents are under fire after pulling off a controversial operation that looked more like a scene from a reality show than a law enforcement mission. On Wednesday, Border […] The post Penske Speaks Out After Border Patrol Agents Jump Out of Rental Truck in Immigration Raid at LA Home Depot [Video] appeared first on Baller Alert.

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  4. The Apple oligarch came to pledge his fealty to the dear leader, bearing the gift of gold to what end? Power and money.

    History is repeating itself right before our eyes and what are we doing to stop it?

    #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

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  5. 🚨 ā€œI feel like we’re at this cusp in human development where you’ve got the three existential threats: climate and our overall degradation of the natural world, nuclear weapons, and super-intelligence. They’re all sort of manifesting and peaking at the same time.ā€ www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

    Humans face three existential threats, from super-intelligence, nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, says blockbuster director as he announces new Hiroshima project

    James Cameron warns of ā€˜Terminator-style apocalypse’ if AI weaponised

    Humans face three existential threats, from super-intelligence, nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, says blockbuster director as he announces new Hiroshima project

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  6. More waste, fraud, & abuse. So they can steal more services, & deny votes, drumpf demands a new Census on his terms. Courts said it's Unconstitutional in Drumpf1.0. But I'm sure we have another $14b to placate the authoritarians. And Medicaid & Snap folks can suck it. #Voices4Victory #usDemocracy

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