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SunsetDreams2

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September 23, 2024

CBS: A Lesson In Activism from 5th Graders

This story brought me to tears. All the kids involved in righting this wrong for this elderly African American couple are amazing!

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August 26, 2024

Max Kennedy Op Ed: Ignore My Brother Bobby

I think often about my father and how he might have viewed the politics of our time. I’m not sure what he would have thought about TikTok or AI, but this much I know for sure: He would have despised Donald Trump.

Trump was exactly the kind of arrogant, entitled bully my father used to prosecute. Robert F. Kennedy’s life was dedicated to promoting the safety, security and happiness of the American people. That is why he would have so admired another former prosecutor, Kamala Harris. Her career, like his, has been all about decency, dignity, equality, democracy and justice for all


Let me go through the record.

My father was an anti-racist who joined the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in common cause, and forged a powerful bond with African Americans everywhere he went in 1968.

Donald Trump is a lifelong racist whose entire career has been shaped by his dislike of people with a different skin color.


More here
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-08-25/robert-kennedy-donald-trump-kamala-harris

Max Kennedy joins his sister Kerry in defending their father’s legacy and slamming Jr’s endorsement of Trump. These Maggats claiming the mantle of JFK and RFK saying they would have supported Trump is disgusting. If anything RFK as Attorney General of the United States would have prosecuted that conman.

August 15, 2024

CAUGHT ON TAPE Project 2025 Co-Author Russell Vaught

I applaud all these Journalist who posed as potential donors to Project 2025 to gain access with hidden cameras.

https://x.com/thetnholler/status/1824099472634184121?s=46&t=r69v9oGIjrvYcKnXsnatpQ

August 9, 2024

Powerful Ad: Democrats Defend Democracy from Eleven Films

https://x.com/nickknudsenus/status/1821730964982395132?s=46&t=r69v9oGIjrvYcKnXsnatpQ

YouTube link:


Let’s do this!
We must preserve our Democracy!
Harris/Walz 2024
August 8, 2024

Fight the Walz "Stolen Valor" Right Wing BS with facts!

Congressman Walz has a personal history with the Red Bulls, having retired in 2005 as command sergeant major for the 1-125th Battalion of the 1st Brigade Combat Team: "I served alongside these Soldiers for many years and I could not be more proud of them. They endured their extended deployment with patience and determination and their distinguished service record in Iraq speaks for itself. Today, every Minnesotan should be proud to call the Red Bulls our neighbors and friends."

https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article/573070/guard-unit-recognized-for-record-deployment/

Waltz served in numerous leadership positions during his National Guard career, records show. He achieved the rank of command sergeant major, briefly serving as the top enlisted soldier for the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery Regiment before his retirement. He ultimately retired at the rank of master sergeant because he did not complete sergeant major training requirements before his service ended, according to the Minnesota National Guard.

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-08-06/democrat-walz-vice-president-harris-14761755.html#
Source - Stars and Stripes

Walz enlisted in the Army National Guard in Nebraska in 1981 and retired honorably in 2005 as the top enlisted soldier for 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery Regiment, in the Minnesota National Guard, according to a copy of his records provided by the Minnesota Guard. He reached the rank of command sergeant major and served in that role, but he officially retired as a master sergeant for benefits purposes because he didn't finish a required training course, according to the records and a statement from the Minnesota Guard.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/08/06/tim-walz-who-spent-decades-enlisted-soldier-brings-years-of-work-vets-issues-dem-ticket.html#:~:text=Walz%20enlisted%20in%20the,from%20the%20Minnesota%20Guard.

While Walz retired two months before his unit received alert orders to deploy to Iraq, the attacks on Walz’s military record are part of the race from both parties to define the relatively unknown governor after he was tapped Tuesday as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate. Walz’s 24-year military service is one of several facets of his background that appeal to voters that the Harris campaign is trying to reach with his selection – and that Republicans are trying to blunt by painting him as an out-of-touch liberal.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/07/politics/tim-walz-military-record-vance-attack?cid=ios_app

Right-wing media are reviving old smears pushed by political rivals of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz about his retirement from the military, accusing him of “stolen valor” and misleading their audience about the reality of his 24-year service record with the National Guard. Specifically, right-wing media are claiming that Walz resigned and “abandoned” his National Guard unit and resigned after the unit received deployment orders to go to Iraq when in reality, Walz resigned two months before the unit received orders, and Walz likely submitted his retirement papers even earlier.

https://www.mediamatters.org/tim-walz/right-wing-media-push-old-debunked-smear-walzs-military-record-despite-his-24-years


* Start your retired pay application process early! You can submit your application up to nine months prior to your expected retirement date. You should submit your application at least 90 days before your expected retirement date (your 60th birthday or your reduced age retirement date).

https://www.dfas.mil/RetiredMilitary/plan/Gray-Area-Retirees/Army-Gray-Area-Retirees/

Don’t let them do the same thing they did to Kerry. This is BS! All they have are lies and smears!

August 6, 2024

I So LOVE this video of Governor Walz and his Daughter Hope!!!

https://x.com/jjabbott/status/1820808291083026854?s=46&t=r69v9oGIjrvYcKnXsnatpQ


Wait for it 🥰
It shows them on one of those bungee rides at the fair.

Harris/Walz 2024!!!
What an awesome pick!
August 5, 2024

Why 'We're not going back' is such a powerful statement

This is the first presidential election since the fall of Roe, since women in this country lost the constitutional right to privacy. That right, which we fought so hard to enshrine in the Constitution in 1973, is gone. This means that my daughter has fewer rights than my mother did.

This creates an unusual moment in American history. Namely, many people of color have lived through these kinds of rights reversals before — think of the fall of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow laws in the South or the internment of Japanese people during World War II or the historical treatment of Native Americans. White women, on the other hand, have largely been protected by the system. In 2016, 46% of white women in America who voted voted for Trump. And their protection ended in 2022 when the conservative majority Supreme Court, enabled by Trump, overturned Roe. Those women, at least the ones who live in red states, now have fewer rights than they did in 2016. They went back.



Harris achieved things that simply weren’t available to her mother. Her life and career have all been about going forward. On the other hand, Trump’s “Make America great again, again” campaign is all about going backward. And that’s what we should be focusing on this election.


When Roe was overturned, we American women went back to a time when we didn’t have bodily autonomy, when we couldn’t get lifesaving treatment for ectopic pregnancies. Backward is the very core of this Republican Party right now: backward-facing, uninterested or unwilling to move on from a candidate who is very much stuck in the past. Trump wants America to go back to 2016 when it mistakenly made him president. Harris has given us the perfect response to that agenda.


More here:
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kamala-harris-delivers-only-response-need-trumps-regressive-messaging-rcna165102

We Are Not Going Back!




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