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SusanM
@samcaligal.bsky.social
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Family historian, travel enthusiast, ret. public health nurse, reader, writer, & researcher, author of two books on early French-Canadian history. California - USA Website: www.tracingsbysam.com
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SusanM @samcaligal.bsky.social · Nov 12
Genealogy Tip Use local history to paint a more complete picture of your ancestor’s life. If you have #FrenchCanadian ancestry, these two books will be useful.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h
This Is Fascism
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Rob Benson 🇬🇧 🇺🇦🦋 @robnellie.bsky.social · 20h
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Nissim @nissimss.bsky.social · 18h
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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lianelsie.bsky.social @lianelsie.bsky.social · 1d
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cozybooksonly.bsky.social @cozybooksonly.bsky.social · 14h
GOP politicians and right wing pundits are not dumb. These ppl have activated people’s fears, grievances, and anger with pitch perfect messaging, while our side haven’t found one message that resonates, despite entire dem base against this regime. Stop underestimating ppl as dumb when they’ve
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SusanM @samcaligal.bsky.social · 16h
Chicago is … my kind of town!
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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d
Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d
Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c
Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.” Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 23h
For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d
ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.
ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.
A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
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Nurse RoRo @nurseroro.bsky.social · 1d
Dear WH Press Corp
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Start demanding answers. Portland isn’t on fire. Chicago isn’t at war. Seattle isn’t thanking him.
ANTIFA isn’t assaulting ICE agents
Hold him accountable for the lies.
Refuse to ask anything else until he answers these.
Demand the proof
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d
New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”
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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 1d
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” —Maya Angelou
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d
The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
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Mike Davis • Feed After Midnight @mjdavis1988.bsky.social · 1d
Some of these stories are difficult to read, but it’s important that as many people as possible know what is happening. We are 100% living in a police state. SHARE widely.

mdavis19881.substack.com/p/reddit-thr...
Reddit Thread Details Horrific ICE Encounters
These stories are happening all over the country. We CAN'T look away and we must share them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in.

Why the delay?

Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d
FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d
The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d
Marge Greene yesterday, Loomer today.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 1d
WUT?!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
Trump and Hegseth give Qatar an airbase in Idaho and Qatari pilots will be flying jets over American airspace. Their lavish gifts and personal business deals with Trump worth billions really paid off for them.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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New York Genealogy Links @nygenealogylinks.bsky.social · 2d
I recently added 10 more links to the New York #Genealogy Links website in the categories of military burials and vital records.

The website has 1,420 links to free New York genealogy websites.

To see all the updates to the website, check out my Updates page at: www.newyorkgenlinks.com/updates/
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SusanM @samcaligal.bsky.social · 2d
The history of a place adds significantly to stories of our ancestors. Community defined their lives in so many ways. My German Bohemian ancestry —

www.tracingsbysam.com/germboh.html

#FamilyHistory #OnePlaceStudies
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