janoh.bsky.social
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Keep up the pressure on this White House. Don't let the military presence intimidate you.
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August 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Julia Child, who was born on this day, in 1912, was known as a titan of the culinary arts. But she was also highly politically engaged, speaking openly about her support for Planned Parenthood and her disgust with the Republican Party.
The Passionate, Progressive Politics of Julia Child
The public Julia Child—Julia Child the culinary titan—looms so large that she often eclipses the person who existed outside the kitchen. A new collection of interviews captures another side of her.
www.newyorker.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
July 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Heavy rain in southern New Mexico caused flash flooding and led to water rescues, less than a month after severe flooding in the area killed three people and damaged dozens of homes.
Storms in New Mexico Cause Flash Flooding and Water Rescues
The heavy rain came after severe flooding in the area killed three people and damaged dozens of homes on July 8.
trib.al
July 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Rep. James Comer subpoenas Ghislaine Maxwell to testify next month.
Rep. James Comer subpoenas Ghislaine Maxwell to testify next month
The interview with Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein associate and convicted child sex trafficker, will be at a Tallahassee federal prison.
www.politico.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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BREAKING: A judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from criminal custody in Tennessee — though the victory may be short-lived.
Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from criminal custody
Though immigration enforcement officials signaled that he’s likely to be re-detained when he arrives in Maryland.
www.politico.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Kash Patel and Pam Bondi are real quiet when a Dem Gov’s mansion is burned and two MN lawmakers are targeted for assassination. It’s almost as if they only care about one side being targeted for violence….
June 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20.

(Via Christopher Hale)
June 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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I’ve long believed that the American media would be more clear-eyed about the rise and return of Donald Trump if it was happening overseas in a foreign country. Here’s my suggestion for how to cover Musk’s departure from DC: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/with-coup-...
With Coup in Shambles, Musk Signals Retreat — Leaving Wreckage In Wake
A fresh dispatch from the embattled capital of Washington, D.C., by William Boot
www.doomsdayscenario.co
May 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.

Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
May 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that the department will terminate the temporary protected status for Afghans in the United States on July 12, stating that conditions no longer meet statutory requirements.
DHS to end deportation protections for Afghanistan
The protections were offered by the Biden administration after the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and deteriorating conditions under the Taliban.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Avelo Airlines has agreed to run deportation flights for the Trump administration. Commercial carriers typically avoid such work to keep away from politics, but the company's CEO said the money from ICE flights is too good to pass up.
Avelo Airlines Faces Backlash for Aiding Trump’s Deportation Campaign
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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It's a fantastic book - download it - buy it - or just borrow it and read it. The Dust Bowl Triolgy are worth the effort.
May 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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"If the power to control the rain was given to somebody who sells umbrellas, do you think you would ever see the sun?

If the power to stop war is given to someone who sells weapons, do you think we would ever see peace?"

- Unknown origin
May 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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SCOOP: FEMA workers will stop knocking on doors to provide aid to survivors in disaster areas, per a memo obtained by WIRED. This comes as the agency is shifting responsibility for recovery efforts to local authorities.

Oh, and it's hurricane preparedness week, btw.
FEMA Is Ending Door-to-Door Canvassing in Disaster Areas
As it shifts responsibility for recovery efforts to local authorities, FEMA workers will stop knocking on doors to provide aid to survivors in disaster areas, per a memo obtained by WIRED.
www.wired.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.

His argument fails even on its own terms.
May 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Pam Bondi said on Fox that the FBI’s arrest of a county judge is “sending a very strong message.” Yes, Pam, and that message is, this country is being ruled by fascist traitors.
April 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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After Trump terminated the student visa records of nearly 1,900 international students at more than 280 colleges and universities—summoning more than 100 lawsuits—it will now restore those that were terminated “solely based on” minor legal infractions.
Trump Pulls 180 on Foreign Students After Staggering Legal Losses
ICE had terminated records for thousands of international students, threatening their visa status.
newrepublic.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.
Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label
The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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#BreakingNews On 3/21/25 we received a near total termination of our federal contract for legal services under the Unaccompanied Children Program (UCP). No child should ever face a heartless immigration system w/o a lawyer by their side. #SaveUCP
Read:
www.immdef.org/blog/ucpcont...
March 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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We're living through not a "constitutional crisis" but a "constitutional crash" — the sudden, ER-style flatlining of the healthy biorhythms of our 249-year-old constitutional order. Our national system is dead on the table—can it be shocked back to life? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...
America's "Constitutional Crash"
This isn't "just" a crisis.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM