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Heather M
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Mama, writer, cinephile, news junkie, voracious reader, patron of the arts—just persisting through these precedented times.
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“There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
-Adama, Battlestar Galactica

#ice #deportation #wethepeople
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Congresswoman says she was shoved & pepper-sprayed after identifying herself during ICE operation. "‘When I presented myself as a member of Congress asking for more information, I was pushed aside and pepper sprayed.’" www.commondreams.org/news/adelita...
ICE Goons Pepper Spray Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva During Tucson Raid | Common Dreams
"If federal agents are brazen enough to fire pellets directly at a member of Congress, imagine how they behave when encountering defenseless members of our community," Grijalva said.
www.commondreams.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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If your first reaction to someone having their legs run over by an ICE vehicle is “was he here illegally” then you’ve completely lost your moral compass

The same goes for asking what the “whole story” is

There’s nothing a person could do to justify running them over with a car.
December 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Hometown!👏
More of this nationwide please!
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
December 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The whole play of Trumpism: convincing working class people to blame other working class people—so billionaires can keep robbing us all.
Donald Trump Jr-backed start-up scores $600mn US federal government deal
President’s son’s fund 1789 Capital poised to capitalise from father’s administration
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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This timing makes a lot more sense now, doesn’t it?

Adm. Alvin Holsey resigned in October as commander of U.S. Southern Command right after flagging concerns about those U.S. military strikes on “suspected” drug boats in the Caribbean.

He served for 37 years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My 11 year-old wrote a novella (55 pages) in November. I’m so proud of her!!
December 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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This World AIDS Day, we remember the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lost to HIV and AIDS, and those living with HIV today. We must remind ourselves and each other that the fight isn’t over until the epidemic is over for everyone.
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Imagine begging for the food that your community used to have sole ownership and knowledge of.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...
SNAP was restored, but many indigenous Americans still struggle with food insecurity
During the government shutdown, disruptions in food aid rippled across reservations. Both residents and tribal officials had to make tough choices, and are still feeling the financial impacts.
www.npr.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.

I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Hosting friends for brunch today—after Thanksgiving, it’s like hair of the dog, food version. Keep the bowels moving. (Mimosas, Blueberry lemon scones, egg sausage casserole, biscuits w/homemade WHITE gravy as God intended).
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Bowie holding Ziggy❤️ #caturday #bffs #catcuddles #blueRussian
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Look it's simple, we want less stress and we want to be able to afford things again and we want to feel like the rewards we were once promised for a lifetime of hard work still exist and also we want Wishbone back and those are the things we want
November 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I had my students read “The Husband Stitch.”
There’s no satisfaction as a bookseller greater than leading a lovely young person who asked for Ayn Rand toward Carmen Maria Machado instead.
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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A Chinese immigrant named
Chaofeng Ge died in ICE custody.

He was found hanging with his hands and feet tied behind him in the “hog tie” position.

Deaths within these camps continue to rise, with more people dying in the last nine months than in the entire previous four years.

Abolish ICE
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I haven’t ruled out the possibility that gravity is just a figment of my imagination either, but I still manage not to launch myself off skyscrapers.
Posted on CDC website of the richest nation on earth, people.

These are lies: vaccines do not cause autism and there are actual millions of data points demonstrating the lack of correlation.

The parents and children of every kid harmed by these lies should sue

www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
If you have to find a meaningful difference between assaulting a 9 year-old and assaulting a 14 year-old, you’re enabling pedophilia.

www.catholicleague.org/megyn-kelly-...
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN - Catholic League
Bill Donohue
www.catholicleague.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Well well well, a conspiracy to persecute using the DOJ and committing crimes to steal private info…

Every accusation is a confession
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The news right now feels like everything everywhere all at once, so I appreciated this overview:

www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...
Where each of Trump's National Guard deployments and related court battles stand
While courts have halted the use of troops in Portland and Chicago, operations are well underway in other cities. Most recently, the Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. has been extended through next...
www.npr.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I finally saw MOONLIGHT and it is definitely in my top five movies of all time. What a transcendent experience.
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Brandi Carlile: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
m.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM