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He cannot trust the US… especially when it’s 2 greedy real estate Putin puppets doing the negotiating.
He cannot trust the US… especially when it’s 2 greedy real estate Putin puppets doing the negotiating.
Zelenskyy offers to drop NATO bid for security guarantees but rejects US push to cede territory
BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday voiced readiness to drop his country’s bid to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees, but rejected the U.S. push for cedi...
www.winnipegfreepress.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
He cannot trust the US… especially when it’s 2 greedy real estate Putin puppets doing the negotiating.
He cannot trust the US… especially when it’s 2 greedy real estate Putin puppets doing the negotiating.
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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"Eviction filings in January 2025 reached the highest levels since January 2020, and data collected so far in 2025 shows an increase in eviction filing totals compared to our previous years,” Hoff told the commission.
Evictions filings are on the rise in Virginia
Between July 2024 and June 2025, there were 139,450 reported eviction filings in the state. The number of eviction filings is nearing pre-pandemic levels.
www.pilotonline.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"Eviction filings in January 2025 reached the highest levels since January 2020, and data collected so far in 2025 shows an increase in eviction filing totals compared to our previous years,” Hoff told the commission.
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Massive Layoffs at the Dept of #Education Erode Its #CivilRights Division
Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve #discrimination complaints.
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve #discrimination complaints.
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division
Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.
www.propublica.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Massive Layoffs at the Dept of #Education Erode Its #CivilRights Division
Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve #discrimination complaints.
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve #discrimination complaints.
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
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Let me help you out. Yes, you are.
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Let me help you out. Yes, you are.
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Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer Reiner chose love in the midst of hatred and fear. It falls to us to carry on their art, their advocacy, their kindness.
"Those who choose, even on a small scale, to love in the midst of hatred and fear are the people who offer true hope to our world." ~ Henri Nouwen
"Those who choose, even on a small scale, to love in the midst of hatred and fear are the people who offer true hope to our world." ~ Henri Nouwen
December 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer Reiner chose love in the midst of hatred and fear. It falls to us to carry on their art, their advocacy, their kindness.
"Those who choose, even on a small scale, to love in the midst of hatred and fear are the people who offer true hope to our world." ~ Henri Nouwen
"Those who choose, even on a small scale, to love in the midst of hatred and fear are the people who offer true hope to our world." ~ Henri Nouwen
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Sleepy Joe Biden acting professional, respectful, kind, and PRESIDENTIAL again! 👇
December 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Sleepy Joe Biden acting professional, respectful, kind, and PRESIDENTIAL again! 👇
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www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
The rise of antisemitism in Australia has risen tremendously ...and everywhere
My heart breaks
Today the second day of Hanukkah 🙏
Hatred of all people must stop
This is my firm belief ⬇️🕎⬇️
Please take a moment to read and share
The rise of antisemitism in Australia has risen tremendously ...and everywhere
My heart breaks
Today the second day of Hanukkah 🙏
Hatred of all people must stop
This is my firm belief ⬇️🕎⬇️
Please take a moment to read and share
December 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
The rise of antisemitism in Australia has risen tremendously ...and everywhere
My heart breaks
Today the second day of Hanukkah 🙏
Hatred of all people must stop
This is my firm belief ⬇️🕎⬇️
Please take a moment to read and share
The rise of antisemitism in Australia has risen tremendously ...and everywhere
My heart breaks
Today the second day of Hanukkah 🙏
Hatred of all people must stop
This is my firm belief ⬇️🕎⬇️
Please take a moment to read and share
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DJT is repugnant and unfit for office. He has consistently degraded female reporters and women in general with no pushback.
His misogyny is on full display and not one Republican condemns him.
Republicans are a bunch of cowards and their silence is deafening.
And YES, “This is sick shit!”
His misogyny is on full display and not one Republican condemns him.
Republicans are a bunch of cowards and their silence is deafening.
And YES, “This is sick shit!”
December 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
DJT is repugnant and unfit for office. He has consistently degraded female reporters and women in general with no pushback.
His misogyny is on full display and not one Republican condemns him.
Republicans are a bunch of cowards and their silence is deafening.
And YES, “This is sick shit!”
His misogyny is on full display and not one Republican condemns him.
Republicans are a bunch of cowards and their silence is deafening.
And YES, “This is sick shit!”
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It is infuriating that we have to live under the dark cloud of gun violence just so a few people can exercise their gun fetish unhindered. The vast majority of Americans support gun control measures. It's time to make that happen.
December 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It is infuriating that we have to live under the dark cloud of gun violence just so a few people can exercise their gun fetish unhindered. The vast majority of Americans support gun control measures. It's time to make that happen.
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When you're magagop always lead w cruelty, corruption, & chaos.
Families like this are just one we push back. And another reason to vote for people w solutions: Democrats
Gifted article:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
#Voices4Victory
#USDemocracy
Families like this are just one we push back. And another reason to vote for people w solutions: Democrats
Gifted article:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
#Voices4Victory
#USDemocracy
Born Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
When you're magagop always lead w cruelty, corruption, & chaos.
Families like this are just one we push back. And another reason to vote for people w solutions: Democrats
Gifted article:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
#Voices4Victory
#USDemocracy
Families like this are just one we push back. And another reason to vote for people w solutions: Democrats
Gifted article:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
#Voices4Victory
#USDemocracy
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“Our government is filled with dedicated civil servants who proudly took an oath to serve our country and constitution. We did not deserve to be treated as an enemy. Certainly not by the President of the United States.”
A former federal worker offers a look into the DOGE nightmare.
A former federal worker offers a look into the DOGE nightmare.
When Public Servants Became Public Enemies
An eyewitness account of the destruction of the civil service
contrarian.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“Our government is filled with dedicated civil servants who proudly took an oath to serve our country and constitution. We did not deserve to be treated as an enemy. Certainly not by the President of the United States.”
A former federal worker offers a look into the DOGE nightmare.
A former federal worker offers a look into the DOGE nightmare.
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I’m the only candidate who’s stood firm since day one. I’ve called out AIPAC, foreign lobby influence, the military industrial complex, and U.S.-funded atrocities in Gaza. I support an arms embargo, war crimes investigations, and refuse all AIPAC money.
December 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I’m the only candidate who’s stood firm since day one. I’ve called out AIPAC, foreign lobby influence, the military industrial complex, and U.S.-funded atrocities in Gaza. I support an arms embargo, war crimes investigations, and refuse all AIPAC money.
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“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing. Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing that his own family benefited from: that ability to create a life for themselves, to prosper, to build community, to have successful businesses—to live a rewarding life.”
bit.ly/4pFOgT9
bit.ly/4pFOgT9
December 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing. Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing that his own family benefited from: that ability to create a life for themselves, to prosper, to build community, to have successful businesses—to live a rewarding life.”
bit.ly/4pFOgT9
bit.ly/4pFOgT9
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🚨🚨 Russia is trying to "bully, fearmonger & manipulate" the UK & its allies with attacks under the threshold of all-out war, says head of MI6.
"This is not a temporary state or a gradual evolution. Our world is being actively remade with profound implications for national & international security."
"This is not a temporary state or a gradual evolution. Our world is being actively remade with profound implications for national & international security."
December 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🚨🚨 Russia is trying to "bully, fearmonger & manipulate" the UK & its allies with attacks under the threshold of all-out war, says head of MI6.
"This is not a temporary state or a gradual evolution. Our world is being actively remade with profound implications for national & international security."
"This is not a temporary state or a gradual evolution. Our world is being actively remade with profound implications for national & international security."
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JB Pritzker: “We’re a nation mostly of immigrants — that is who we are fundamentally at our core. We ought to always be that, it’s what’s made our country great — Immigrants are the most entrepreneurial. Immigrants are the most grateful & patriotic”
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
JB Pritzker: “We’re a nation mostly of immigrants — that is who we are fundamentally at our core. We ought to always be that, it’s what’s made our country great — Immigrants are the most entrepreneurial. Immigrants are the most grateful & patriotic”
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Kavanaugh was wrong and opened the door to this sort of thing, as opposed to slam it shut, as he should have.
But what is happening is far worse than anything his concurrence contemplated authorizing.
But what is happening is far worse than anything his concurrence contemplated authorizing.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Kavanaugh was wrong and opened the door to this sort of thing, as opposed to slam it shut, as he should have.
But what is happening is far worse than anything his concurrence contemplated authorizing.
But what is happening is far worse than anything his concurrence contemplated authorizing.
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This is a more subtle example of how #EllisonsCBS + their emissary Bari Weiss will degrade CBS News.
-normalize anti-science (mifepristone safety is well-established)
-normalize Makary who is a threat to Americans health
Brennan spread disinformation.
h/t to @atrupar.com for capturing this exchange
-normalize anti-science (mifepristone safety is well-established)
-normalize Makary who is a threat to Americans health
Brennan spread disinformation.
h/t to @atrupar.com for capturing this exchange
really weird -- Margaret Brennen presses Bill Cassidy on why the White House isn't doing more to crack down on mifepristone and what he's doing to encourage them to do it
December 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This is a more subtle example of how #EllisonsCBS + their emissary Bari Weiss will degrade CBS News.
-normalize anti-science (mifepristone safety is well-established)
-normalize Makary who is a threat to Americans health
Brennan spread disinformation.
h/t to @atrupar.com for capturing this exchange
-normalize anti-science (mifepristone safety is well-established)
-normalize Makary who is a threat to Americans health
Brennan spread disinformation.
h/t to @atrupar.com for capturing this exchange
Will you join me by taking action on this campaign?
Please sign the campaign: Kristi Noem must go!
Please sign the campaign: Kristi Noem must go!
Kristi Noem must go!
Kristi Noem was an unqualified choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security, and her time in office has confirmed it. As DHS Secretary, Noem has lied to Congress, denied well-documented deportat...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Will you join me by taking action on this campaign?
Please sign the campaign: Kristi Noem must go!
Please sign the campaign: Kristi Noem must go!
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I see war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu lying on global TV. He says that the person who stopped a Bondi Beach shooter, Ahmed al Ahmed, was a Jewish man. The hero is in fact, a 43-year-old muslim fruit shop owner from Sydney - and this has been multiple source confirmed.
December 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I see war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu lying on global TV. He says that the person who stopped a Bondi Beach shooter, Ahmed al Ahmed, was a Jewish man. The hero is in fact, a 43-year-old muslim fruit shop owner from Sydney - and this has been multiple source confirmed.
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🚨The courage, the honor, the truth and candor missing from the U.S. government in this moment has one unadulterated Congressperson who is standing up to the lies: Senator Mark Kelly. Spread this message, this truth, this courage.
December 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
🚨The courage, the honor, the truth and candor missing from the U.S. government in this moment has one unadulterated Congressperson who is standing up to the lies: Senator Mark Kelly. Spread this message, this truth, this courage.
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#Hanukkah2025
In Sydney, families gathered to celebrate the start of Hanukkah. They were met with gunfire. At least 12 dead & 29 wounded.
We light for those who cannot.
May our flames refuse to go out. 🕎 @rabbisandra.bsky.social
🔗 shorturl.at/V0DDG
#DemsUnited
In Sydney, families gathered to celebrate the start of Hanukkah. They were met with gunfire. At least 12 dead & 29 wounded.
We light for those who cannot.
May our flames refuse to go out. 🕎 @rabbisandra.bsky.social
🔗 shorturl.at/V0DDG
#DemsUnited
Rabbi Sandra Lawson (@rabbisandra)
Hanukkah begins tonight as we remember the world needs more light.
In Sydney, families gathered on a beach to celebrate the start of Hanukkah. They were met with gunfire. At least twelve are dead, tw...
shorturl.at
December 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#Hanukkah2025
In Sydney, families gathered to celebrate the start of Hanukkah. They were met with gunfire. At least 12 dead & 29 wounded.
We light for those who cannot.
May our flames refuse to go out. 🕎 @rabbisandra.bsky.social
🔗 shorturl.at/V0DDG
#DemsUnited
In Sydney, families gathered to celebrate the start of Hanukkah. They were met with gunfire. At least 12 dead & 29 wounded.
We light for those who cannot.
May our flames refuse to go out. 🕎 @rabbisandra.bsky.social
🔗 shorturl.at/V0DDG
#DemsUnited