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Melissa

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Just trying to find a quiet place to think, regroup, and organize, from my blue dot in Red Hell. #BlueCrew #hashimotos Ally: 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ BLM 🏴‍☠️ Married to USMC Combat Vet Cats are better than people! NO MAGA - NO Crypto - NO DMs I BLOCK JERKS

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Melissa @hendersm12.bsky.social · 4d

Or, perhaps, he is using ICE as a front to give weapons to Russia. Putin would love some guided missile warheads about now.

Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 4d

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4h

A recent federal policy change allowing immigration enforcement at domestic violence shelters has also created more barriers for undocumented survivors, who advocates say already deal with abusers threatening to report them to ICE or take their children out of the country as a means of control.

LA's ICE raids are impacting domestic violence shelters

These programs "should be safe sanctuaries—and we can't even guarantee that anymore."

www.motherjones.com

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 6h

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No president - Republican or Democrat fully stopped SNAP benefits. Not Obama. Not Bush. Not even during shutdowns. Only Trump's threatening to literally take food off families' tables as a political stunt. stunt. That's not leadership. That's cruelty.

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Melissa @hendersm12.bsky.social · 6h

To save $, we switched the cats treats from the temptations treats, to the temptations dry cat food to be used as treats. It's about the same size morsels & has some treat like pieces mixed in. It is SO MUCH cheaper than their "treats". The cats seem to like them just as much.

Melissa @hendersm12.bsky.social · 7h

But we have to keep the raccoons out, and they seem to have no problem coming in ALL the cat doors, even when we are still up. (Which is why we got the feeder to begin with.) Working on a solution for are one feral to be able to come into the mudroom during cold nights, & still keep raccoons out.

Melissa @hendersm12.bsky.social · 7h

We have made the decision to no longer keep the outside feeder full. It was great for strays & it kept the raccoons out of everyone's carport/house. We also took down 2 of the window cat doors, leaving 1 cat door that we now close at night. The cats now must stay in at night.
They are not happy! 1/

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 8h

This is such a sad sign of the times. This library has been a symbol of our friendship with the USA for over a century.

Now the doors are closed to Canada.

Evan @evanyqr.bsky.social · 8h

"The library is a well known location for illicit activity like reading about evolution, sex, and trans people."
-Trump Admin

Source: CTV News
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Trump ends Canada access at shared border library

In a picturesque town on the U.S.-Canada border, workers under dark clouds were building a new entrance for Canadians into a library to replace one that had long symbolized bilateral closeness.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 11h

At what point when you’re paying troops with your own private money do they not just become mercenaries

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 8h

Trump’s govt shutdown is another reminder
•We dont have an energy shortage
•Or insulin shortage
•Or housing shortage
•Or teacher shortage
•Or labor shortage
•Or food shortage

We have billionaire excess who buy politicians to deny human rights. We dont suffer from scarcity—but from billionaire greed

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10h

We now have anonymous billionaires paying the wages of American troops.

Does anyone see the problem?

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 10h

Why would ANY president do this to his people? Trump slashed $500 million from The Emergency Food Assistance, canceling 4,300+ deliveries—nearly 94 million pounds of food Food banks are now overwhelmed donations down hunger rising All while millions go without.
northdakotamonitor.com/2025/10/20/t...

Trump canceled 94 million pounds of food aid. Here’s what never arrived. • North Dakota Monitor

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

northdakotamonitor.com

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 12d

Mainstream media not covering this news. #alaska #hurricane

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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 10d

Until this week, no typhoon or post-tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds has hit Alaska since 1965. And that was only the second time in recorded history.

The Pacific Basin is having a much more active than usual year.

Yet the media is mum on this and climate change.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 4d

Why am I just now learning a hurricane (technically a typhoon) hit Alaska? I saw a story of some flooding but not that it was a dang hurricane that caused it

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10h

National Hurricane Center is currently forecasting Melissa to make landfall as a high-end Cat 4 hurricane, just shy of Cat 5 strength, which would make it most intense hurricane ever recorded to hit Jamaica

+ 15–20 inches of rain possible in Haiti, with catastrophic flooding already being reported

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 21h

This is the equivalent of an oligarchy.

Make less than $1M a year?

Sorry, dude. You’re expendable.

Come back when you’ve got $100M & then we’ll let you sit in the lobby & drink the day-old coffee.

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 22h

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 22h

DO NOT TALK TO COPS.

Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 1d

“I exercise my right to remain silent. I would like to speak with an attorney.”

Then STFU.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently Trump is now sending the FBI to the homes of innocent protestors, in part to find out who is behind the "criminal conspiracy" arranging these protests.

The real reason is obviously the chilling effect on free speech for those attending.

www.rawstory.com/fbi-protest/

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Angry Byrd @tylerbigbyrd.bsky.social · 22h

Fucking Democrats...

You have TOO MANY stupid lobbyists and bootlickers.

Do something about it FFS

Represent the people, and GET RID OF THE HACKS.

Lead or step down.

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Wil Screamton @wilwheaton.net · 1d

I just remembered that I narrated Ur Fascism for my Radio Free Burrito podcast, about five years ago.

Seems relevant, and worth resurfacing today.

soundcloud.com/wil-wheaton-...?

Radio Free Burrito Presents: Ur-Fascism by Umberto Ecco

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Melissa @hendersm12.bsky.social · 1d

Hubby zoomed in and saw the asshole peed his pants

picture from Oakland ICE protest showing ICE agent shooting a gas cannister directly at the face/head of a minister less than 3 fee from him. Also appears that the agent peed his pants as a water mark is on his tan pants in just the right location on his pants and trailing down his leg.

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 1d

Pro Tip: Canada is not your enemy but the greasy, drug addicted money-laundering bald mfker who made his own daughter give him lap dances and just spent the week tearing down something that didn’t belong to him is, also he knows nothing about economics. Tariffs will wreck USA.

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GingerSpice💙 @thedesertginger.bsky.social · 1d

For visual info on the Venezuelan boats and the absolute ridiculous likelihood they were on their way to the US

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AEYmcK/

So apparently the speedboats were gonna travel 3500 miles round-trip from Venezuela to the US. #venezuela #usa #cartel

TikTok video by Chad Scott

www.tiktok.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.

They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

International Criminal Court judges on Thursday rejected a challenge to jurisdiction in the case of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is accused of involvement in dozens of killings as part of his so-called war on drugs when in office. https://to.pbs.org/3L48KFD

International Criminal Court judges reject jurisdiction challenge in Duterte case

Defense lawyers for the 80-year old Duterte argued that the ICC didn't have the authority to continue with the proceedings.

www.pbs.org

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Public comments needed before Nov. 1:

OSHA has proposed a rule to eliminate required reporting of employee covid infection, hospitalization & death in healthcare settings. This is a bad idea, both w/ regard to protecting HCWs & b/c reporting provides

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Occupational Exposure to COVID-19 in Healthcare Settings

OSHA is proposing to remove OSHA's COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard and its associated recordkeeping and reporting provisions from the Code of Federal Regulations.

www.federalregister.gov

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Melissa @hendersm12.bsky.social · 1d

like an idiot I just poured 2 cups of water into my instant pot WITHOUT the pot in it.