Citizen A Speaks
@citizenaspeaks.bsky.social
Lifelong disabled liberal progressive old lady. Believes in Democracy; #bluedot in a #redstate 😕
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The EU triggers emergency powers (under Art 122) to permanently immobilize Russian assets to help rebuild what Russia destroyed.
This is European sovereignty in action.
This is European sovereignty in action.
EU agrees to indefinitely immobilise €210 billion of Russian assets
The EU has decided to keep the assets of the Russian Central Bank immobilised for the foreseeable future. The ban, which is based on a provision for economic emergencies, pushes back against external ...
www.euronews.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The EU triggers emergency powers (under Art 122) to permanently immobilize Russian assets to help rebuild what Russia destroyed.
This is European sovereignty in action.
This is European sovereignty in action.
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you should take some cheer in the fact that the homeland security ghouls keep trying to make memes to “trigger” pop singers as it’s revealing that they know what they’re doing is extremely unpopular and it’s getting to them
December 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
you should take some cheer in the fact that the homeland security ghouls keep trying to make memes to “trigger” pop singers as it’s revealing that they know what they’re doing is extremely unpopular and it’s getting to them
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This presidential “pardon,” as it’s for a state crime, is the equivalent of digital toilet paper, only flimsier and serving a less useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This presidential “pardon,” as it’s for a state crime, is the equivalent of digital toilet paper, only flimsier and serving a less useful purpose.
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Abolish ice is now the conservative position
Everyone in ice has to go to prison and the department must be destroyed
Everyone in ice has to go to prison and the department must be destroyed
December 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Abolish ice is now the conservative position
Everyone in ice has to go to prison and the department must be destroyed
Everyone in ice has to go to prison and the department must be destroyed
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This is absolutely amazing. #Science 🧪
The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing
“There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov
The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing
“There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov
This scientist found a new trick of the immune system by digging through cellular rubbish
Yifat Merbl is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.
www.nature.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This is absolutely amazing. #Science 🧪
The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing
“There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov
The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing
“There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov
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Women are steering the systems that will define the next decade. As the 2025 Forbes Power Women list demonstrates, their influence across technology, finance and politics is both deep and global, yet the highest tiers of power remain selectively guarded.
The World’s Most Powerful Women 2025: Where Do Women Hold Real Power?
Women are steering the systems that will define the next decade. As the 2025 Forbes Power Women list demonstrates, their influence across technology, finance and politics is both deep and global, yet ...
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Women are steering the systems that will define the next decade. As the 2025 Forbes Power Women list demonstrates, their influence across technology, finance and politics is both deep and global, yet the highest tiers of power remain selectively guarded.
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It’ll always be insane and despicable that the orange convicted felon was given full power of the US govt instead of being sent to prison forever where he belongs and is now using that power to try throwing his perceived enemies in prison for fake crimes.
December 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
It’ll always be insane and despicable that the orange convicted felon was given full power of the US govt instead of being sent to prison forever where he belongs and is now using that power to try throwing his perceived enemies in prison for fake crimes.
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
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Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney's office says
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday, according to his attorney’s office.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Democratic leadership didn’t want to stick their necks out for him. The GOP didn’t want him even referred to as a “Maryland man.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, his congressional representative fought for him. And we should never forget any of this. apnews.com/article/abre...
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shame every politician publicly and loudly.
film them in public.
don't matter what side they're on. they serve YOU and they aren't.
they are quite literally killing us. least we can do is make them have to deal with our corpses.
film them in public.
don't matter what side they're on. they serve YOU and they aren't.
they are quite literally killing us. least we can do is make them have to deal with our corpses.
December 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
shame every politician publicly and loudly.
film them in public.
don't matter what side they're on. they serve YOU and they aren't.
they are quite literally killing us. least we can do is make them have to deal with our corpses.
film them in public.
don't matter what side they're on. they serve YOU and they aren't.
they are quite literally killing us. least we can do is make them have to deal with our corpses.
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We spent weeks on the potential harm a wrapped sandwich does to a bulletproof vest. Meanwhile, folks are getting shot in the face for exercising their 1st Amendment rights.
news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...
news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...
Jurors in Sandwich Thrower Case Found Charges ‘Bunch of Baloney’
Two of the 12 jurors who found the accused DC sandwich thrower not guilty of assaulting a federal officer discuss why the case didn’t hold up.
news.bloomberglaw.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We spent weeks on the potential harm a wrapped sandwich does to a bulletproof vest. Meanwhile, folks are getting shot in the face for exercising their 1st Amendment rights.
news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...
news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...
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The US voted with Russia, China and N. Korea against most of the civilized world. This is where we are at.
December 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The US voted with Russia, China and N. Korea against most of the civilized world. This is where we are at.
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HERITAGE FOUNDATION: "Nice state ya got there. Pity if anything happened to it."
INDIANA: "Oh, *do* fuck off."
INDIANA: "Oh, *do* fuck off."
December 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
HERITAGE FOUNDATION: "Nice state ya got there. Pity if anything happened to it."
INDIANA: "Oh, *do* fuck off."
INDIANA: "Oh, *do* fuck off."
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
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I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.”
And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
December 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.”
And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
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For all the setbacks for the world’s women in 2025, the leaders and vanguards on the 2025 Forbes Power Women list stood as examples of resilience in turbulent times.
Forbes World’s Most Powerful Women of 2025
Here are the most powerful and influential women in the world. These remarkable leaders are shaping industries, economies, and communities--across commerce, education, and artificial intelligence.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
For all the setbacks for the world’s women in 2025, the leaders and vanguards on the 2025 Forbes Power Women list stood as examples of resilience in turbulent times.
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While we are waiting for the Epstein Files, let's have a look at those tax returns (complete, unredacted) and that actual MRI report.
December 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
While we are waiting for the Epstein Files, let's have a look at those tax returns (complete, unredacted) and that actual MRI report.
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Jobs/inflation reports - hidden
ICE identification - hidden
Actual reporters booted from Pentagon - easier to hide crimes
Epstein files - still hidden
Hmmm... For the "most transparent administration ever", they sure hide a lot of things.
ICE identification - hidden
Actual reporters booted from Pentagon - easier to hide crimes
Epstein files - still hidden
Hmmm... For the "most transparent administration ever", they sure hide a lot of things.
December 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Jobs/inflation reports - hidden
ICE identification - hidden
Actual reporters booted from Pentagon - easier to hide crimes
Epstein files - still hidden
Hmmm... For the "most transparent administration ever", they sure hide a lot of things.
ICE identification - hidden
Actual reporters booted from Pentagon - easier to hide crimes
Epstein files - still hidden
Hmmm... For the "most transparent administration ever", they sure hide a lot of things.
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"Every economic metric is so SUPER good that we are keeping the jobs, GDP, and inflation numbers from you! You're welcome!" #ProfessionalLiars
Leavitt lies: "Every economic metric does in fact show that the economy is improving"
December 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"Every economic metric is so SUPER good that we are keeping the jobs, GDP, and inflation numbers from you! You're welcome!" #ProfessionalLiars
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NATO chief Rutte: "Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured." 😳
December 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
NATO chief Rutte: "Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured." 😳
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OTD in 1994 the First Chechen War began. After incompetent initial assault that failed, Russian army turned to barbarism & crimes against humanity. It stopped when we signed a peace deal we would later violate.
None of this should sound familiar to you
None of this should sound familiar to you
December 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
OTD in 1994 the First Chechen War began. After incompetent initial assault that failed, Russian army turned to barbarism & crimes against humanity. It stopped when we signed a peace deal we would later violate.
None of this should sound familiar to you
None of this should sound familiar to you
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork