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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, we still need to protect mifepristone

But at least there was an advancement this week in menopause care.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 19h

The Spy service without a brake

The CIA’s deputy director now signs his own permission slips, and history shows where that leads.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 19h

Dispatch from Chicago: This is not a 'war zone'

A week after the outrage of a military-style raid on a Chicago apartment building, the city is bracing for a National Guard deployment ordered by President Trump.

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 22h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud: “The president has plenary authority.” Then froze as CNN cut the feed and later erased the clip.

That wasn’t a glitch. It was a confession - the blueprint for absolute power, hidden in plain sight.

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 20h

Mike Johnson isn’t protecting victims - he’s protecting predators. His refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva keeps the Epstein files sealed and the powerful safe. This isn’t procedure. It’s concealment. Power guarding its own rot.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 19h

RELEASE THE VIDEO

Federal agents shot a woman five times in a South Side Chicago neighborhood and they’re still hiding the goddamn video.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 19h

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 21h

Does CNN Sanitize Fascist Rhetoric?

Historians say Miller’s ‘plenary authority’ language echoes the legal framework Hitler used.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 22h

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We’re All Socialists — But Only Trump Acts Like a Communist

As Americans lose faith in capitalism, Trump’s economic nationalism looks less like free enterprise and more like state control…

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 22h

Trump Takes Judges for Fools

Rejecting unwarranted deference means preserving judicial review

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 23h

Trump Takes Judges for Fools

Rejecting unwarranted deference means preserving judicial review

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 23h

"Gaza Calms As Domestic Storm Erupts"

Trump may be celebrated as the peacemaker abroad for brokering Gaza’s fragile ceasefire, but his military invasion of Chicago exposes the chilling authoritarian impulses threatening America.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 23h

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Bailing out Bessent’s Buddies’ Bets on Argentina

Trump bails out hedge funds’ failed bets on Milei while his foreign aid cuts will kill millions of children

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The Long Shadow of Separation

conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 23h

Written by James B. Greenberg a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Founding Editor of the Journal of Political Ecology, and past president of the Political Ecology Society.
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How immigration raids turn neighborhoods into stages of fear, bureaucracies into weapons, and compassion into defiance.