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CJ
@carriejacobson.bsky.social
Retired middle school history teacher. Slightly psychotic after spending 27 years with 12 year olds. Now I have to deal with a regime headed by one.

FYI - I don't respond to DMs unless I know you personally.
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“It confirms what we already knew — this was not about public safety, it’s about stoking chaos and fear and terrorizing communities,” said state Sen. Royce Duplessis.
Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown
Records reviewed by the AP show that few of those arrested have criminal histories beyond traffic violations.
www.nola.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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These teams declining bowls are really bitches for not letting their seniors actually know their last games. I can’t imagine kids on ND that won’t play in NFL being like ok so just done then?
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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US bankruptcies are surging past 2020 pandemic levels.

717 large US companies have gone bankrupt this year, the highest rate in 15 years.

Are you ready for what's next?
December 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Exactly this.
"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Incarcerated members of the LGBTQ community already face heightened risks for physical and sexual violence, and this directive to disregard the law will only put them further at risk.

Human rights don't end at the prison walls.
DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards
A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed to protect trans and other LGBTQ community members from sexual violence.
www.npr.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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You have to be fucking kidding me with this shit!

“Americans don’t realize how good they have it.” ~ Scott Bessent on affordability
December 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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ICE is now learning how to torture people with physical impairments, by denying medical attention.

The human rights violations are piling up, for AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL to record of American atrocities, carried out by ICE.

vt.tiktok.com/ZSPedXqjQ/
December 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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"The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
Does this answer the question about why one of Elon’s 1st acts was to kill USAID (condemning 100s of 1000s of people to death?)
December 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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The laws of war generally prohibit killing people who are no longer “in the fight." trib.al/gECVCfm

“The evidence that I’ve seen absolutely demands a further and continued investigation,” Rep. Adam Smith said. “It strains credibility to say that they were still in the fight.”
Hegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details
The ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee tells TNR after watching the video: “This is a big, big problem.”
trib.al
December 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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reading this my main thought is that the leavitt family appears to be a bunch of degenerates and this woman was unlucky to enter their orbit
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller & his white supremacist rhetoric — it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany—"
December 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Today at 5:07 AM

"FAKE NEWS" is Nazi rhetoric, which he knows.
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Whoever put this sign on London tabloid rag sheets gets a 🖖 from me.

F**k the billionaires.
December 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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🔥🔥
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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If only American journalists had the same amount of integrity, or ANY integrity.
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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From t.me/Pravda_Geras...

🇨🇿🇨🇿Echoes of 1939: #Czech President Urges #Europe Not to Appease #Russia

“If we allow #Russia to emerge from this conflict as the victor, we will all lose,” #Pavel stated in an interview with #The_Sunday_Times.

Even #Putin's account of the start of the war reminded him
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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New video: "MAGA IS WRONG!!!"

click below to WATCH👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpUXqvJQFrM
MAGA IS WRONG!!!
Adam Mockler
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Perfect
December 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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How the GOP hurts itself, its voters, and the country, from @jilldlawrence.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3YbSm96
The Three Dumbest Republican Self-Owns on Health Care
How the party hurts itself, its voters, and the country.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The trees are lit. Edward James Olmos and Judy Chu did the honors. #altadena
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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I agree that this is an important guiding insight...and 90% of Americans don't know this.

What is the role of journalism if not to hammer this point home until people understand d it?
December 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Trump shd visit other countries & learn if hes gonna make these pronouncement.

There is no genocide of Whites in South Africa.

Fighting in eastern Congo continues w forces from Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi

Northern Nigeria is plagued by Boko Haram plus splinter gangs

Ive spent time in these areas
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM