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On 23 July, 2006, my oldest son, Ryan, deployed to SW Asia, called me. His vehicle was in a convoy on its way to Mosul, where I’d been in 2004.
Despite being just weeks from coming home, the kid volunteered for the mission because, he said, he wanted to see some of what I’d seen in northern Iraq. Then, he had to go and said “I love you, dad.” Those were the last words my oldest son ever said to me. A little more than a week later, Ryan was KIA.
#Coping
#Grief
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"Harris Leads In New Survey After Biden Drops Out."

NEW Reuters/Ipsos poll:

TWO-WAY
Kamala Harris 44%
Donald Trump 42%

THREE-WAY
Kamala Harris 42%
Donald Trump 38%
RFK Jr. 8%

Democrats are in array.

Republicans are regrouping.

#Harris2024💙#ImWithHer #VoteBlueDownBallot

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-vs-harris-2024-polls-harris-leads-in-new-survey-after-biden-drops-out/ar-BB1qv7uq?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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Scroll past and do nothing

Literally nothing else!!!

We all know life is hard, and plenty of other bad things exist. Allow people to enjoy their moments not suffocated by fear and anxiety. Hope is important, stop shaming them for it.

Hey folks, I’m on a new instance using GotoSocial and having issues migrating from my other instance.

Would you mind sharing this post so I can federate and regain connections? Thanks!

#AskFedi #Federation #GotoSocial

Whatever your political goals are, who's more likely to be able to be swayed in your direction, Trump or Harris? What are the odds?

For anything I care about, the odds of me doing anything to change Trump's mind is zero. For Harris, it's a small, but non-zero value. Mystery third option is unknown, but unlikely to be meaningfully greater than with Harris.

So I've got either:
1) 50% chance of having no influence
2) 50% chance of having a marginal influence
3) ?????

Ok I’ll ask. What’s up with brat summer?

Does gen z love sausages that much?

So many mainstream media folks seem disappointed today.

They thought Democrats would be in chaos, with a brokered convention.

Instead, we have instantly UNITED around Kamala Harris.

THAT is your story. Run it.

Maybe report the news rather than trying to manipulate it.

My art

"HATE hurts"

@ScottSoCal @therobburgessshow And our new word for them is "Didn't hire."

I'm realizing a communication accommodation can be the ability to edit your posts

Verbiage flies out of my mouth or from my fingers half-formed a lot of the time and I will edit stuff several times after to adequately convey my thought

In real life this just results in folks dismissing what I'm saying or endlessly debating or correcting me because I can't go back and edit what I verbally told them, because I was either missing critical details or misconveyed a point

(Case in point, I've edited this post 3 times so far)

#ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD

I am voting for Harris. I will do everything I'm able to do to get her elected.

Please don't shove "prosecutor is good, actually" down our throats. For my part, I'll hold off on the "cop" rhetoric.

She's accomplished and progressive on lots of stuff. Let's focus on that.

This Atlantic piece actually highlights how Biden dropping out when he did is perfect timing. By doing so almost immediately after the RNC, in the middle of a long weekend (a move designed to screw over the pundit class), he murdered the GOP’s momentum overnight and left them stuck with a VP candidate who won’t do anything outside of Trump’s base. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-campaign-biden-dropping-out/679183/

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

at this rate the dems don't have to do anything.

just let the right have a racist misogynistic meltdown and take the win.

@DrSuzanne I'm not putting my beliefs aside one bit. Not even a little. Trump is worse on literally issue that matters to me. It's not hard.

My art of Trump

My latest for @thenation Addiction and substance use shaped JD Vance's life, but he learned little and cared less about the issue and has devoted himself to a narrative of blame, while lifting himself up on the backs of the people of Appalachia. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jd-vance-opioid-crisis-vice-president/

If anyone still wants "#birds not #politics" from me, let's be clear: the birds depend on the politics & your vote. Federal & state laws protect species, habitat, clean air & water & fund the managing agencies.
Trump's Project 2025, of course, wants to tear all this down - close all environmental & regulatory agencies, slaughter wildlife, terminate & sell off National Parks.
So if you want to still be birding in another four years, follow the #SierraClub's endorsement:
https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2024/07/leading-environmental-and-climate-organizations-endorse-vice-president

I did some searching but couldn't find the original source of this graphic but it's just too good not to share. My apologies for swiping this without credit.

#Kamala

Kamala Harris will not save democracy. We will, if we vote, help other people vote, and help our friends and neighbors understand what's at stake.

It's on all of us.

Democracy is about participation. Voting is only one element of that.

But the calculus right now is simple: If the extremists win, they intend to lead a fascist America. Don't lose sight of that.

🚨 Trump-Lover Elon Musk Is Already Causing Kamala Harris Problems 🚨 People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign on X (formerly Twitter). Is this a coincidence or something more? 🤔 #KamalaHarris #ElonMusk #Campaign2024 #Politics Read more: 🔗 https://newrepublic.com/post/184097/trump-elon-musk-causing-kamala-harris-problems