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Leslie
@lesmj.bsky.social
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Retired, rural Eastern Washington. Lived in Alaska, Arizona and Oregon. "It's the racism, stupid" . 🌊🌊 DM=block. BE AN ISADORE GREENBAUM
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💕 back at you from the east side
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Mall cops in tactical gear and masks arresting gardeners and dishwashers. What are the Feds doing wasting time on this?

Give me 50 FBI & ATF agents and a dozen extra US Attorneys to pursue gun crime and felon in possession of firearms cases in Chicago. THAT would actually make a difference.
NEW — Videos obtained by The TRiiBE show federal agents detaining a Laugh Factory worker on Chicago’s North Side this morning.

He and another person were detained around 9:20 a.m., according to rapid response teams.

Story TK shortly on thetriibe.com.
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This is a really niche problem but my local farmers market does matching on snap or wic. You spend a dollar that way, you get two dollars of food. With snap not going through in november, that's even more that people aren't getting. In NOVEMBER. It's enraging.
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Many can't afford rent, groceries, or a vacation. But this economy is working exactly like it's supposed to for the richest 1%, who are richer than they've ever been.
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Phang: One man has single-handedly disenfranchised 813,000 voters in the state of Arizona, all because he wants to kiss the ass of convicted felon Donald Trump.
And capable of sympathy.💔
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This is the thread I was reading last night: bsky.app/profile/mari...
A not insignificant number of people knew the demolition was coming, including people at the White House Historical Association, and did nothing to stop it.
I see that @whitehousehistory.bsky.social put out a statement yesterday stating that they were able to complete a “comprehensive digital scanning project” to document the East Wing, and that the historic artifacts have been preserved and stored.
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This is what we have turned into👇👇

Fox News congratulated George Santos on getting out of prison after his commutation. He was convicted of ruining the lives of disabled veterans by stealing their charity money. That's what they're celebrating. 🤦‍♂️Every veteran should hear this as too..the world
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This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.

They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
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Why are there stories analyzing Reagans tariff speech? The STORY is "Manbaby President Threw a Hissy Fit Because of an Ad Quoting Ronald Reagan"
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Kayleigh McEnany: "Y'all need to follow Jesus!"

Response: "You first, bearer of false witness."
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ICE is confirmed to be using tear gas in Lakeview
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Could they just leave this guy alone? The Trump administration has informed a federal judge in Maryland that it plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia as soon as October 31.
Trump Administration Moves to Deport Abrego Garcia to Liberia by End of October
The government said Liberia had agreed to the deportation.
www.notus.org
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The carceral state is generally brutal and evil in the way it treats the human beings it cages, but it’s fine to point out when there are bursts of unusually concentrated or vigorous evil and use it to get people to care.
Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
www.nbcnews.com
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It’s never ok for law enforcement to treat ppl as they’ve been treating immigrants & citizens. Nothing to do w/ their status or the law. The law is just the floor ICE has sunk below. It is an ethics Q why outsized groups of masked men intimidate ppl & violate property/privacy/bodies/constitution.
I feel you! We have six Chihuahua mix dogs that bark at everything. I hate when they charge out into the yard at night because I don't know if they heard a cat, a deer, a coyote or a chupacabra. 😱😉
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This is about to get bad.

D.C. Republicans are on paid vacation while millions in their own districts are about to lose SNAP benefits.

They’ll find out soon enough—families with hungry kids don’t stay silent. #FeedTheShutdown