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G.J. LaBonty
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Happily married for 30+ yrs
Dad to 3 great adults
Dad to 3 Cavs 🐶
Spent summers down the shore
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Good morning #BreakfastCrew Resisters!

Happy Tuesday! 🌅

Relax by the waterfall or cozy up to the fireplace at this mountain retreat for today’s Virtual Meet & Greet!🏡🪾🌳

The bar’s open & breakfast served till 11am ET.

Meet some new friends.👫👭👬 Everyone welcome!

Comment ✍️ & say Hi!👋
#BlueCrew🦋
December 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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The world lies hushed in silver light,
The bustle fades to calm tonight,
By fire’s glow our voices blend,
With song and cheer among our friends.

#FiresideFriends (1/3)
youtu.be/bAgr-er_V8o?...
December 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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I just found this video taken in September of five masked ICE agents breaking into the women’s bathroom in NY and arresting a woman without a warrant. They kicked the door in and yelled at her to pull up her pants as she cowered in a stall.

No men in women’s bathrooms?

#Pinks #ProudBlue #FuckICE
December 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Even if you were unaware with how central Hans Von Spakovsky has been to right wing conspiracies about nonexistent “voter fraud,” you would still be right to think it’s a bad sign that someone named Hans Von Spakovsky thinks Heritage has gone too far to the right
This is a pretty shocking mass exodus. Heritage's legal department is basically a ghost ship at this point. And I have to imagine they'll really have to dredge the absolute bottom of the barrel to restaff it at this point. reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Breaking: Cully Stimson and Hans von Spakovsky Resign From Heritage
The Meese Center is basically empty now.
reason.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Watching Republicans right now feels less like a movement and more like a food fight—arguing over clout, conspiracies, and how Christian America should be.

JD Vance touted Trump’s big coalition, but the numbers matter: Donald Trump is sitting around 29% with Gen Z and 32% with Latino voters.
December 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Did you know that many are being denied medical attention & medicine in immigration detention? Does your family know?

Did you know people are dying in detention at record numbers?

Do your MAGA neighbors know?

Did you know that there's #ICELawlessness & people are denied rights & even tortured?
December 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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A hearty Fuck You to
Bari Weiss
Larry & David Ellison
CBS News
Paramount
Bravo to the heroes of journalism & democracy
Thx Allison @muellershewrote.com
www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
#WarCrimes
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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She's a hero.
“CBS News “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is walking the walk… With her cherished journalistic institution threatened, and her career on the line, Alfonsi is sounding the alarm that “60 Minutes” is sliding further into an increasingly irretrievable and dark place.”
-Dan Rather👇
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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The banned 60 Minutes episode about the CECOT torture prison used by the Trump admin is now exploding across the internet. Be sure to watch so you can see the excellent reporting done by Sharyn Alfonsi & her team at 60 Minutes:
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.

There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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A holiday toon from Christopher Shields, only at Fight the Fire.

A links and Fight the Fire subscriptions at Substack are free.
Please check out our archives for more great cartoons and columns covering Trump's reign of error and terror.
You're a mean one, Mr. Trump
Cartoon by Shields
fightthefire.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I'm sure Bari Weiss will react to the 60 minutes episode being circulated very reasonably and maturely.
December 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Literal sitcom character logic.
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Maybe we should stop calling it media. It really isn't that anymore. Just mouthpiece for the regime.
December 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Windmill workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott! This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms! #BoycottWindmillmushrooms
December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Deer do like apples, certain parts of the year more than others, from their behaviour round the near by apple tree.
The deer near me disappear during the fall, but have now just come back. So happy
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The deer are back, after they went missing for 3 months.
December 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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I'm an old white guy in a small town. No matter what I say or do, it's unlikely that the Orange Fascist's gestapo will show up at my door.

I wish they would, though. I would love to look some bottom-feeding masked coward in the eye and tell him to go fuck himself.
June 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Walking into 2026
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Good Morning for #MountainMonday

I found this photo from 2005 in my archives taken at Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve. I was waiting in 22F degree weather for sunrise & my camera batteries kept failing~I had to rotate warm ones out of my pocket!

#EastCoastKin #Photography #MonoLake #OMSystem
December 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Thanks to JD Vance, I do not have to apologize for being white today. It is a tremendous relief.
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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😆🦌🍎

Blacktail Deer contemplating an apple
📸KKPJ Photography
December 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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On this day, December 21, 1968:

The first photo taken of the whole Earth in one frame by a human from Apollo 8.

It was the first circumnavigation of the Moon by a crewed spacecraft, and the furthest humans had ever travelled away from the Earth.
📸NASA
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM