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Kindness always 🧘♀️ yet schadenfraude 😉 40yrs of Severe CFS/ME & Fibro. I never give up.
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For all of us dealing with bots/trolls on social media I highly suggest copying & saving these links so they can be easily used whenever needed. A fully independent review of #Project2025 . . Add your own links below, please & RT.
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@SussexHenryVIII @DustinSJenkins Thank you. Finally someone states the fact that the RF don't do anything of note, except spend hundreds of millions of taxpayers £££. I'm quite sure town mayors would be more than capable of cutting ribbons to open a new shopping mall, school. The #BRF is outdated and obsolete.
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@clairecmc @HC_Richardson All sane US citizens, phone your cable provider and tell them you will not renew if they keep Faux Fox news on your subscription. Fox doesn't make its $ from ads, it makes it from YOUR cable subscription, whether you want/watch Fox or not. Get on the phone and speak up, please!.
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@DBd6120 @sandibachom @GodcallsBS @FDNY @NYCMayor @NYCMayorsOffice @FDNY Ladder 58, Powers is name on his jacket. Do you also agree that women have no rights and should endure forced pregnancy, possible death? That women's bodies belong to men. Powers does. Genuine question as your employee was not JOKING! .I'll wait for your answer.
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@Amy_Siskind For anyone wanting a trusted source for news. Read a free daily letter by @HC_Richardson . She's an eminent historian who puts current news in historical perspective. She's how I stay informed about all US news. She misses nothing. Please read. or on FB.
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@MichaelWarbur17 I laugh out loud every single time I watch this. Harrison Ford's reaction is priceless. I love the folks/family in the background as well. Can't quite work out how Blaine did this one. Also, I have serious kitchen envy. 😊.
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@ar_mu @Channel4 Drop the Dead Donkey - Bastard of the Week poster was ALWAYS Robert Maxwell. I loved that show so much! Just remembered they'd film right up to the Friday deadline, as the news moved so fast. Constant callbacks, could you say these new lines, pls? Would happily watch repeats.
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@ProudTwinkie I'm so sorry, you don't deserve any of this. School years are difficult enough without the state openly encouraging homophobic aggression. Those 15 guys are losers, they will always be losers. That doesn't help much, I know. Sending love and support from Scotland.
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A must read, every day. "The convention has heard from three Democratic presidents and a range of other speakers, including a number of Republicans who have turned against Trump and are backing Harris and Walz.".Letter From An American by.@HC_Richardson .
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Please take 2 mins and listen to Jack. We all need to be prepared emotionally for what's coming. The racism, hatred, sexism, misogyny, fearmongering, etc. will only increase as we near the election and we need to know how to cope with it.
I've been writing about what would happen as we started to get closer to election day. for at least the past year. More and more people are messaging me to tell me they see it happening. However, it's why I was writing about it for months on end. that matters most. Here's why.
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@thejackhopkins @maddow @HC_Richardson Last night, this Zoom by her had 443 thousand views on FB. YT has 43 thousand so far. @RedWineAndBlue @IAmPoliticsGirl Professor @HC_Richardson and guests were all outstanding re #Project2025 dangers. Here are links: YT FB:
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@BootstrapCook The mum was embarrassed but my mum hugged her and said, you're both working, feeding yourself and your kids comes 1st. The washing was discreetly handed over the neighbours back fence at midnight - the George's of this broken country will never 'get it'. Yes, my mum is my hero.
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@realjohnnyclay @GOPJesusUSA @SLove2lindy @realDonaldTrump Fake photo. This pic has been proven to be photoshopped. Want a source, loathesome MAGAT? @realjohnnyclay Here's Snopes:
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"He was swimming with sharks now and sometimes he felt like the chum. He knew they smelled blood in the water.".From @caslernoel on #Substack. Yikes! Who needs Stephen King when we have this horror story unfolding before us?.
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Did you read all of this week's daily Letters from an American from @HC_Richardson?.If you missed reading/listening to any of them then here's the list:.
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Your Sunday read. From historian @HC_Richardson at the #DemocraticNationalConvention."The Democrats worked to make it clear that their vision is not just the Democratic Party’s vision but an American one." .Read free at Substack:
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@AuthorKimberley There are Cawthorn sex tapes? Oh dear GOD! No one post a link, I just. can't. My eyes are still burning from the lingerie *party*.
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@SussexHenryVIII @greekmom0215 Slimming the monarchy has been a great decision for Republicans like me. I can't lie. The #BRF is an obsolete institution run by a dysfunctional family worth billions. They take taxpayers money to pay for upkeep of their castles and cutting of ribbons. No more of this farce.
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@MSNBC I thought I couldn't love Rep. Katie Porter any more than I already do. Excellent book choice. 😉.
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@duty2warn @Twitter Money talks. More importantly, money influences the conversation, that's power. He wants that. Twitter made a very bad decision by allowing him to have input. I don't believe he'll be a silent partner for long. Gonna be like the red wedding. .
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@B52Malmet Agreed. Yet another heartbreaking day where I post the link to a school shooting in Scotland that forever changed our laws. ONE mass shooting in a Scottish school and most guns were banned. Why doesn't the US react like other countries parents? #Uvalde.
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@thejackhopkins I love this. I also like the thread of adult children deprogramming their elderly parents by simply blocking the Fox News Channel on their TV. After a few months of watching MSNBC, etc they became themselves once more. To me, that's vital, adult children got their parents back.1/.
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@HC_Richardson Look in the dictionary for 'empowerment' and this gentleman's name will be there. What a wonderful life story. Respect to him, I wish him every success. He's a star!.
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@SMurray1000 @MarcusReports I'm in Scotland, you're not a joke to us, it's just the 🍊 and his cultists that we laugh at. For all decent US citizens, we empathise. After all, we have BoJo the clown not running the UK. #Borisisnexttogo .💙💙💙💙.
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@cbouzy In Scotland, I'm loving this! Have to admit tears of pride when Speaker Pelosi stood up. Yes, until vote is over I'm still calling her Madam Speaker. 🥰.
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@elinlowri Absolutely tragic. All people who need electric beds, hoists, elec armchairs/wheelchairs, scooters. last two need their batteries charged. How on earth are people like me who need these items supposed to afford to keep them operating when the elec bills are horrifically high?.
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@BootstrapCook Oh, well said, Jack! Tell it like it is. Statistics help but it's the real stories like a fam of 4 who lived three doors down from us. Their w machine broke. No £ left over to fix it. Our w machine was 15 yrs old and my mum did all of her washing for 3 months till they had £. 1/.
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@thejackhopkins Jack, you absolutely nailed the Biden vs Trump for the undecideds there. #VoteBiden.
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@HC_Richardson That was something unexpected. My family, close and extended sat here absolutely loving it. This is the one and only debate. He got ten minutes more talking time than Harris and used it only to dig his own grave.
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@TheTNHoller Just watched. This is absolutely dystopian. Project2025 playbook (approx 900 pages) is scary enough but for Vought to not even want the 2nd phase of P25 to be written down/emailed in case of FOIA requests or anyone leaking the transitional stage policies is a huge red flag.
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@7Veritas4 Lord, that orange man is crazy. Now, the whole world saw just how he crumpled and couldn't answer even one policy question. Harris answered every policy question, despite having ten minutes less time to speak. No one can be in any doubt about her turning the page.
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@HC_Richardson Bwahahaha. She is. I never thought I could ever see him being taken out like this. Harris is excellent and in the zone.
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@DrGJackBrown @FoxNews Absolutely, @DrGJackBrown Have you seen this video, posted by Fred Wellman. I'd love your analysis on that shoulder shrug at 23-24 seconds. Trump is now blaming the families that were at Arlington. smh.
Be very clear what he just said. He blamed the families. He blamed the Gold Star families for his own campaign putting out videos and pushing the Arlington employee. He blamed Gold Star families for giving him COVID too. He absolutely hates our service.
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@readingrenee @TomJChicago I remember the Weinstein trial. He was shopping in Chanel in the morning, by afternoon bent double using a walker to *struggle* into court. Cosby, too. All the rich do this. Laughable excuses.
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@DrGJackBrown How about Scottish? Yet another heartbreaking day where I post the link to a school shooting in Scotland that forever changed our laws. ONE mass shooting in a Scottish school and most guns were banned. Why doesn't the US react like this?.
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@djhenshall Fantastic episode tonight. Final scene, when * turned around! He wasn't expecting to see Jimmy standing watching him, absolutely steamin'. Brilliant. So many stand out moments in tonight's #Shetland.
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@BlueStormComin1 💙 I'm still under 1k. Would love some more followers. I go through my 'followers' list every day and RT from them. We each need to band together to amplify one another's #voteblue #VoteBlueAsifYourLivesDependonit voices.
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@CaptnBruz @kevismson Bruz! That's a fantastic therapist you had. What a tremendous moment that must have been. 🥰🏳️🌈🌈.
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@Joy_Benson @Amy_Siskind I'm watching, reading, listening from Scotland and I'm terrified. Also, I'm terrified of the good people who see it happening and are *hoping* the US will change for the better, but not getting in good trouble to ensure it does. Old saying: US sneezes, UK catches cold.
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@jeffpearlman This thread and letter are an insightful read. Sadly, this is the first I'm reading of all this. How a person does one thing is how they do everything. I do wonder if there is even one thing where tfg hasn't been an abject failure. .
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@KunstJonas I'd just like to have a GP who's interested in scheduling an appt with me instead of responding to ayearly phone call (for a UTI) with complete hostility. Being ignored by that GP for the past 7 years has not helped. P.S. No, I can't change GP's, as I live in a v small village.
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@Dan_Wyke My mother advised me from the beginning not to overdo things but it was and still remains so hard not to do things. Had I listened, I might be out in the sun cutting the grass instead of feeling fatigued just from tapping on Twitter. I hate that we were gaslit, then and now. 😔.
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@DanielJMath1 My mother is my full time carer, she's trying to hire someone to cut the small lawn at mine. Been quoted £600-1,400, they say it'll take 5 hours. She's always done the garden - it takes 45 mins tops. We're both struggling w exhaustion and can get no one to help us. Ayrshire.🤬.
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@IrishEcocritic Absolutely. After a viral infection I became ill at 7yrs old. I never recovered. Diagnosed w ME at 14yrs of age, Severe ME by 18yrs old. Bedbound for 30yrs. We had no information about ME then, so my life was lost. I'm so grateful to you for speaking up. Please keep doing so.💙.
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@Dan_Wyke 18 yrs old, my GP kept telling me to push through. I had gotten dressed, walked to car, been driven to surgery, sat and waited for 30mins and could, by then, just manage to sit upright as she told me, for 20th time to keep pushing through. 1/2.
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@FieldsLeaf Absolutely, I decided they gaslight and lie as they choose. None of us know the truth, so why bother? I've already had both a mute and blockathon of all RR, Royals and derangers. No more wasting time on them. The monarchy will fall one day soon. I'm here for healing and politics.
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My twitter account is teeny but @Ianblackford_MP is an absolute class act and speaks for me. #IanBlackfordSpeaksForMe 🏴.
I might just be a wee, nobody but together, our voices can be heard. Send your gratitude to @Ianblackford_MP, to let him know we’re right behind him. Get it trending: #IanBlackfordSpeaksForMe 🏴🌺💪🏻.
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@halalltakeaway The New Yorker can never be accused of shoddy journalism. It bravely broke Ronan Farrow's #MeToo article when no paper would. I read the article less out of interest for Lucy Letby, more to discover in great detail just how our NHS has been destroyed by 14 years of scant funding.
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@HC_Richardson Absolutely agree, he could teach a course in abusive language just with this one tweet. Abusers will try everything/anything to keep what control they have over one victim, their family or a nation. I guarantee it. (shudders).
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@DivinelyMeghan I'm new to following royal news, I never knew that was a racist code word. I've read people who obviously loathe M say it in reply to pro M accounts/news. I wondered what it meant. Godalmighty! Will it never end? Shame on them! I'm a pasty-white Scot and pro H&M. Racists = 🤮💩.
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Breaking:.🚨Here's another one of the reasons Sunak called the electiom early. The first report from the UK Covid Inquiry is going to list in black and white a string of "appalling failures" by the UK Government. The report is out Thursday.
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@Amy_Siskind It's not about gender. It's vital to elect decent, honourable people. Thatcher, May & Truss were/are hideous people. I live in Scotland, where the exceptional Nicola Sturgeon is First Minister @ScotGovFM . She's a far, far better illustration of a woman leader.
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@Silas33 Brilliant! I remember when up against a consultant who tried interrogation techniques on me, I put on my lawyer's voice and educated him about the abuse M.E. people suffered. He put up a fight for 45 minutes. I said, I've survived 20 yrs, you caved in less than an hour. 😉 Heh.
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I've Severe ME & have been unnerved for a few months by glimpses of deterioration. Re: Whitney's stomach fullness, etc. We share so many symptoms. From now, I'll be cutting down, even more, on everything. I do so little, bathroom, listen to music. 1/.
Today, for severe MECFS awareness day, I am posting Whitney’s peer reviewed article about his experience with this horrible illness. #mecfs #SevereME #SevereMEAwarenessDay .
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@ktbenner It might have been better if he had stayed. I loathe everything he stands for but am very concerned at who will be installed by 🍊 to do whatever heineous acts even Barr wouldn't do. Noon, Jan 20th cannot come fast enough.
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@thejackhopkins @maddow Okay, you've quit watching #MSM - where to find your daily news? Do you read the daily letter by Professor @HC_Richardson ? She's an excellent source for news, she misses nothing. She can be read on FB or at substack, free. I start each day by reading her letter. 1/2.
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@ThatEricAlper kd lang's Constant Craving or her interpretation of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Both inspire and resonate with me. Mary Chapin Carpenter Stones in the Road. Judy Garland - The Man That Got Away.
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but from rn I'm cutting out everything that I know is causing me PEM and crashing. Things like talking more than a few mins, reading, being awake too long. Maybe, I can avoid VSME. I'm terrified of going there. Thank you for sharing @JanetDafoe . My best wishes to your Whitney.
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@ememess Dunblane, Scotland. After one horrific school shooting we made sure it would never happen again. It never has. Gun control laws work!. As always, when watching news of a school shooting in the US, I sob. I can't imagine the terror you all feel for your children. Heartbreaking.
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@KatarinaBrandt 18yrs ago, we all had friends/fam who'd never heard of M.E. I put 12 tsps before them, stating: 4-shower, 3-eating small meals, 2-coping w being in bed all day in pain, etc. The shock of such limitations gave people insight & empathy to the lives of #spoonies .I love it, still.🥄.
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@hoggsy @PaulFI9 @rickygervais @JKCorden I miss Bill Hicks. Chain smoking his way through his show, he was magnificent.
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@ArtCandee @Leanne_am_I Rting, with thanks. His voice makes me crazy. Thanks for taking one for the team, again @ArtCandee Now go wash your ears out. with some great music. Can we get #TrumpIsWeirdAndCreepy trending after this dumpster fire of rally?
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@moremangos7029 @B52Malmet Dunblane, Scotland, 1996. We had one school shooting and immediately guns were banned. I truly believe Americans are brainwashed into believing guns are a natural part of living. They're not.
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@donwinslow @govkristinoem @CLewandowski_ Bloody hell! .Excuse me, I'm in the UK. In the US I believe the correct term would be "Ewwwwwwww." 🤢.
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@BootstrapCook I missed all of this but read your posts, then took screenshots of all comments from the T article. Also took a 40 minute video of every single comment and reply. Just in case they mysteriously disappear. 😉 Will send once up and about, tomorrow, eh, today. .
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@KellyScaletta Please rest as much as you can. Never overdo it. I mean it - never. You do not want to end up like me, with #CFSME Catching Covid was what put me in bed 24hrs per day instead of 23hrs. I was once an eloquent speaker and writer. No more. My brain is mush. LC is dangerous. 1/.
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@shawnmpatterson @MayoIsSpicyy If not doing so already, perhaps follow @donwinslow - he's retiring from writing to devote his time to improving Dem's messaging. He's accepting no money, funding everything himself and will follow you back. #WinslowDigitalArmy.
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@LillyGrillzit @ThePubliusUSA A new updated version of the Fairness Doctrine (that Reagan did away with) would make all the difference. Every news outlet should show both sides of each news item, not just the one they/their audience prefer. It's the kind of news that democracies have.
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@djhenshall I would love to be rid of the Royals. I try to avoid reading about them, they are now, imo, Z list celebs. Kate's penchant for buying so many clothes in two colours - £6,000+ on same coat - 1 green, 1 red) when food banks are running on empty is unconscionable. #UKRepublic.
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@BBCWomansHour @sajidjavid @TimesONeill Diagnosed 1988 but ill for several yrs before. Housebound & now bedbound w Severe ME since 1989. I am doubtful there will be treatment or huge changes soon. Cruelty against me community, I'm in 🏴, is now, I believe institutional. I would have been a lawyer. Thank you, Sean. 💔.
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@daithaigilbert Absolutely shameful behaviour from MAGA's but then we cannot expect anything else from them. Intimidation, violence are their only responses. I hope the judge and family are kept safe and guarded if need be.
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@JulieDuchess @BootstrapCook Last year, when my mum was paying my council tax (in the local council bldg) she was leaving and spotted a table in the corner full of discreet white bags. We're so proud of 🏴 that no girl has to miss school/woman miss work, because here period prods are free. As they should be.
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@HC_Richardson Oopsie, poopsie! 😂 Seriously, tho, your poor phone! 😭 . Loving the *punny*comments here. 💙 🤣.Watching from 🏴 on the BBC, very grateful to them for airing Jan 6th tonight.
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@playing4time @SussexHenryVIII @playing4time Is that why KCIII got pelted with eggs almost every time he stepped outside? Due to his popularity? 😂.He's never been popular. The only member of landed gentry that would marry him was a naive 19yr old. As you said, you don't really know anything about the BRF.
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@JoyAnnReid @JohnCornyn Whoah, for me it's the disappointment on his face at the end. He thought he had the goods to deny her appointment. White supremacy still thriving in Republicans. Kristen Clarke is a portrait of intelligence, grace and poise.
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@drclairetaylor @OldYesButWise @Rannonj @adoptedtaff My carer (mother) and I caught Covid early Feb 20. She wears properly fitting N95 even in garden. She's at supermarket, nowhere else. I'm bedbound. Both LC. We're on 4th C infection or yet another viral resurgance. It's a nightmare of fatigue/pain. Can we stop this, at all? Help.
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@AlandMe1725 @Acyn Same. I'm not even American! 🏴 How I wish Westminster politics had Joe Biden as PM. Rupert Murdoch chose Liz Truss. She's slightly right of Hitler, imo. Hey, in most people's opinions. Value President Biden, his accomplishments of the past two years have been tremendous.
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@djhenshall What an ending! Thank you to all who helped create this tremendous season of #Shetland. Gripping, twisty and utterly compelling viewing. I loved watching this but, but now we have to wait till next year fer mair. *sob . Thanks, Dougie, you were brilliant, that glass slide. 😎.
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@garbutt1_janis @Springborn21 @The_Pesky_Red Same here, never seen this before. I laughed so hard I snorted. 🐷.
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@BootstrapCook @ClaireCopperman Really glad the google MD was kind, that's just lovely. 💯🌼Try and rest up when you can. I know, I know, I always say the same thing - 'rest' but your health is vitally important. That said, you getting more connections is really going to help so many people. Well done, Jack!🌼.
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@breadangel @B52Malmet Considering all the disrespect and cruelty I've received from Dr's, not once has a RN ever been anything but kind to me. Highly experienced yet overlooked, overworked & underpaid but they are always professional and their dedication is second to none. #RNsRock.
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@djhenshall Thank you to everyone involved in the production of #Shetland - it'll be so sad to say goodbye to our favourite characters. I've loved this show from the very beginning. Hurry up noo wi the editing! We've got a show tae watch! 😉 . Huge thanks, again to all production crew!.
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@deathtospinach @medusas_heid Spectacular! I had been wondering where Greg had gone. 🤭 .He's so furry, ewww, just eww. You need hazard pay for looking at those pics Becky. This is the lol I needed this morning. My thanks. 😂.
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Whoah. #TrumpIsWeird Advertising for attendees for his #WilkesBarre rally and stating he'll pay them, all on #Craigslist This is giving low energy campaign vibes and dwindling support. Bigly. P.S. If you're willing to go to this sham, get your money up front. 😉 #TrumpIsDone.
Donald Trump placed Craigslist ads to churn turnout at his Wilkes-Barre rally today. This is 100% REAL — ads are still active.
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@AertbyLisa @BBCWomansHour @sajidjavid @TimesONeill I feel the same, I was a teenager when dx, 35 yrs ago. I've tried everything. Never did I think #ME would be so relentless and crushing. The strain on my family carer is devastating to see. We age, our parents age. Grief is overwhelming at times, plus terror of relapsing more.
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@barnyshergold @donwinslow @Jeff_Daniels @THORNETTAD @ossoff @ReverendWarnock Yep, I'm in Scotland, crying at this video #hope. Thanks for putting my thoughts and feelings into words, Barny. Cheers! .Don Winslow, I've read all of your books. Didn't know I could love you more. Your videos = 👏.Hoping, wishing, praying Georgia 🍑 turns 💙💙. #votegeorgia.
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@thescottbarber @SlowToWrite @SlowToWrite Explain to me how a 4 month old baby is a sinner? .Just that part. Explain how a 4 month old can sin? .Oh, that's right - THEY CAN'T! .Take a very, very long look at yourself and your beliefs before you inflict them more of them onto your infant.
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@HoggerJeff @Fiddies2 Thanks, that made me chuckle. 👏👏 Good idea! Everyone, not dealing with Covid, should have their own wee party. I'll be celebrating in Scotland and watching the Inauguration with happy tears.
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@annemariepoet @BootstrapCook I know that feeling well. Walking through wet cement sums it up so well. Sending you a big hug, if that helps at all. I focus on v.v small tasks like filling up the kettle and making a cuppa but that's not advice, just what helps me. Hoping you feel a bit brighter, lovely.
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@dmisstify1 @BootstrapCook Same here with mine. I justify it as she's a rescue who had a hard 5 months before I rescued her, then she rescued me. Woke up one morning to find her head on the pillow next to mine. She was happy, I was changing the linen quicksmart.😂. Dogs are incredible, love wrapped in fur.
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@Nelson_Fraga @bykowicz @TheAmandaGorman I'm in Scotland. Applause from across the world for this extraordinary young woman, born to stand at a dais as poet, leader, whatever she chooses. Her words exquisite, her delivery composed beyond her years. In our house, we listened and then we cheered and cheered and cheered.
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