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March 26, 2022

Shout out to help Donate Please!!!

If we’re not up on TV soon, we’ll lose.

I’m facing off against millionaire Republican opponents and their billionaire backers who will spend whatever it takes to buy Ohio’s open Senate seat.

We can’t let that happen.

We need your help to get our message out to Ohio voters before Republicans launch attack ads to misrepresent me and this campaign.

Please, make a $5 grassroots donation or whatever you can to help get our message out, give workers a voice in the Senate, and fight back against Republicans’ attacks.

Tim Ryan
https://www.facebook.com/timryanoh/videos/421098795547333/

March 26, 2022

Micro plastics found in human blood

Exclusive: The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs.

Thu 24 Mar 2022 07.00 EDT

Microplastic pollution has been detected in human blood for the first time, with scientists finding the tiny particles in almost 80% of the people tested.
The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs. The impact on health is as yet unknown. But researchers are concerned as microplastics cause damage to human cells in the laboratory and air pollution particles are already known to enter the body and cause millions of early deaths a year.

Huge amounts of plastic waste are dumped in the environment and microplastics now contaminate the entire planet, from the summit of Mount Everest to the deepest oceans. People were already known to consume the tiny particles via food and water as well as breathing them in, and they have been found in the faeces of babies and adults.
The scientists analysed blood samples from 22 anonymous donors, all healthy adults and found plastic particles in 17. Half the samples contained PET plastic, which is commonly used in drinks bottles, while a third contained polystyrene, used for packaging food and other products. A quarter of the blood samples contained polyethylene, from which plastic carrier bags are made.
“Our study is the first indication that we have polymer particles in our blood – ​it’s a breakthrough result,” said Prof Dick Vethaak, an ecotoxicologist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. “But we have to extend the research and increase the sample sizes, the number of polymers assessed, etc.” Further studies by a number of groups are already under way, he said.

TheGuardian.com

March 25, 2022

A complete stranger sent me this

Struck up a conversation and I said I liked her flag
And she said she sews and would send me a Ukrainian
Flag. Sometimes it’s the little things…. But this war has made many of us see how much we have in common.
She FaceTimed me today and we got to meet!
What a kind lady!






March 25, 2022

Does anyone else feel like

there is absolutely no good news? All this corruption and just everyday hoping somethings got to happen soon.

March 24, 2022

Treason

From the Bride! 29text messages! This should be front page news!!!
It’s time for a revolution!
Ginny Thomas and her husband both involved InnJanuary 6 insurrection!

Ginni Thomas Didn’t Just Praise MAGA Supporters on January 6. She Actually Attended the “Stop the Steal” Rally

The conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledged for the first time that she was at the rally. But she got cold, she said, and left before Trump incited an insurrection.

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BY CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES
Virginia Thomas moderates a pannel at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland on February 23, 2017.
Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, acknowledged for the first time on Monday that she attended the “Stop the Steal” protest on January 6, 2021, the rally hosted by Donald Trump shortly before his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. The former president used the event to falsely claim that the 2020 election was illegitimate and encouraged the hundreds in attendance to “fight like hell” and march to the Capitol building, where lawmakers preparing to certify Joe Biden’s victory were subsequently interrupted by a violent, antidemocratic mob.

Ginni, a prominent conservative activist whose activities have attracted renewed attention of late in light of the cases her husband is presiding over, had previously shown public support for the rally. She wrote “LOVE MAGA people!!!!” in a January 6 Facebook post—one she later edited to note it was “written before violence” broke out, according to Slate. But her actual attendance was not publicly known until she acknowledged it in a new interview with the Washington Free Beacon. “I was disappointed and frustrated that there was violence that happened following a peaceful gathering of Trump supporters on the Ellipse on Jan. 6,” she told the conservative outlet. Thomas then described “electoral integrity” as one of the “important” issues that must be debated “rationally in the political square. I fear we are losing that ability.”
www. Vanity Fair

March 22, 2022

The biggest old Flip flopper ever

manipulator is grilling Ketanji Brown Jackson.
I really don’t think I can sit through watching Lindsey Graham.
He disgusts me. What a pig!

March 21, 2022

Who's watching the Republican debate

You know it’s all Biden’s fault for gas!

March 21, 2022

Republican Debate tonight

5 Nasty GOP hoping for a Senate seat in Ohio. Ones worst than the next!!!I’m betting Mandel and Gibbons
will need a time out.
All a pack of Liars!

March 19, 2022

Today is my 18th Anniversary on D.U.

Very few days did I ever miss reading. When I first joined we were fighting what I thought was the worst “evil” ever….
Bush/Cheney
Then came trump and all that changed.

Anyway I’m still here and reading. Still in disbelief that so many people care nothing about their own country.

Thanks for all the years and friends I’ve made!
D.U. Is more than just news and facts. It’s a collection of
people with compassion and empathy and heroic people much like the Ukrainians!! People working everyday to fight the evil!

I’m proud to say I’ve seen this group ban together on so many things. Fighting the good fight!

We are more than just a group… a collective mass of people that project some goodness still alive in America today.

A shout out to my friend JohnnyRingo who brought me to this group 18 years ago. Glad he’s still in my life as well.




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