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💙 Awake & aware. Former public school educator, still a teacher. Pro-science, pro-facts, pro-humor-that-uplifts, pro-just-let-them-exist, pro-people-over-money. C(A-Z)O of too many things…
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· May 3
“Every accusation is a confession of previous acts or intent”
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The Trump administration will require millions of low-income people to reapply for food stamps as part of an effort to crack down on “fraud,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said.
WTF 🤬
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
WTF 🤬
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump administration will require SNAP participants to reapply for benefits
The move is part of USDA chief Brooke Rollins’ effort to overhaul the nation’s largest anti-hunger program and get rid of “fraud.”
www.politico.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The Trump administration will require millions of low-income people to reapply for food stamps as part of an effort to crack down on “fraud,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said.
WTF 🤬
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
WTF 🤬
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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This came up in FB Memories today, and,
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This came up in FB Memories today, and,
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THAT SAID, if Nuzzi's press drives you batshit crazy, consider donating what you can afford to another independent media outlet you haven't supported before.
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
THAT SAID, if Nuzzi's press drives you batshit crazy, consider donating what you can afford to another independent media outlet you haven't supported before.
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Realize I didn't link the decision. Oops! Here it is. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...
And yes, the respondent is currently 18, and entered the US two years ago as a 16-year-old. SIJS is an odd status in that you can get it even up to the age of 21.
And yes, the respondent is currently 18, and entered the US two years ago as a 16-year-old. SIJS is an odd status in that you can get it even up to the age of 21.
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Realize I didn't link the decision. Oops! Here it is. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...
And yes, the respondent is currently 18, and entered the US two years ago as a 16-year-old. SIJS is an odd status in that you can get it even up to the age of 21.
And yes, the respondent is currently 18, and entered the US two years ago as a 16-year-old. SIJS is an odd status in that you can get it even up to the age of 21.
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Yep, the 10,000 limit on U Visas is so patently absurd. There are people who will have their application for a U Visa approved this year who won't get their visa until the 2040s.
it's so perverse to have visa number limits on humanitarian protections like these
"oh sorry, you're already in the US but you can't get protection because of the arbitrary magical number a senate intern dreamt up as being applicable one day and suggested"
U visas, Ts, SIJS, it's so evil
"oh sorry, you're already in the US but you can't get protection because of the arbitrary magical number a senate intern dreamt up as being applicable one day and suggested"
U visas, Ts, SIJS, it's so evil
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Yep, the 10,000 limit on U Visas is so patently absurd. There are people who will have their application for a U Visa approved this year who won't get their visa until the 2040s.
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Expanding on the above post; not that backlog. Immigration judges don't grant SIJS. It requires a state/local family court judge finding that a child was abused, abandoned, or neglected. Then the person applies to USCIS. If approved, they wait for a visa to become available — which can take years.
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Expanding on the above post; not that backlog. Immigration judges don't grant SIJS. It requires a state/local family court judge finding that a child was abused, abandoned, or neglected. Then the person applies to USCIS. If approved, they wait for a visa to become available — which can take years.
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This backlog is less about streamlining and more about how Congress set visa numbers in 1990, and has made effectively ZERO changes to this system in the last 35 years.
In 2000, when Congress created SIJS, they linked it to the visa system; so you can win SIJS and still wait 5 years for a visa.
In 2000, when Congress created SIJS, they linked it to the visa system; so you can win SIJS and still wait 5 years for a visa.
And no one talks about ways to make things move along more smoothly or how to streamline immigration procedures so backlogs aren’t so crazy and people can do things easier, more efficiently and legally. They just skip that part and think they can deport people for the foreseeable future.
November 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This backlog is less about streamlining and more about how Congress set visa numbers in 1990, and has made effectively ZERO changes to this system in the last 35 years.
In 2000, when Congress created SIJS, they linked it to the visa system; so you can win SIJS and still wait 5 years for a visa.
In 2000, when Congress created SIJS, they linked it to the visa system; so you can win SIJS and still wait 5 years for a visa.
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Yes, that is as Kafkaesque as it seems; the BIA is saying that a child adjudicated to be abused, abandoned, and neglected, who has already been approved for a status that will permit the child to get a green card, should nonetheless be deported instead — because of backlogs outside of their control.
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Yes, that is as Kafkaesque as it seems; the BIA is saying that a child adjudicated to be abused, abandoned, and neglected, who has already been approved for a status that will permit the child to get a green card, should nonetheless be deported instead — because of backlogs outside of their control.
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Gary Malphrus strikes again: the Board of Immigration Appeals rules that immigration judges should generally NOT grant administrative closure to children who are eligible for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, simply because the backlogs are lengthy and it might take 4-5 years to get the visa.
November 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Gary Malphrus strikes again: the Board of Immigration Appeals rules that immigration judges should generally NOT grant administrative closure to children who are eligible for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, simply because the backlogs are lengthy and it might take 4-5 years to get the visa.
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Or, in another unit, 1,333 cancer research labs funded for 5 years.
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Or, in another unit, 1,333 cancer research labs funded for 5 years.
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Please enjoy these ducks changing their minds
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Please enjoy these ducks changing their minds
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📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.
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Hugely important. I was just discussing the false electors schemes with my students, and they commented on the public's almost total lack of knowledge of these plots.
But they were clear instances of electoral fraud and of trying to disenfranchise one's fellow citizens.
They were an intimate part/
But they were clear instances of electoral fraud and of trying to disenfranchise one's fellow citizens.
They were an intimate part/
A unanimous Nevada Supreme Court reinstated criminal charges against six people allegedly involved President Trump’s 2020 fake electors scheme. The case had previously been dismissed on grounds that it had been filed in the wrong county.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Nevada Supreme Court Revives Fake Electors Case
Not Dead Yet A unanimous Nevada Supreme Court reinstated criminal charges against...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Hugely important. I was just discussing the false electors schemes with my students, and they commented on the public's almost total lack of knowledge of these plots.
But they were clear instances of electoral fraud and of trying to disenfranchise one's fellow citizens.
They were an intimate part/
But they were clear instances of electoral fraud and of trying to disenfranchise one's fellow citizens.
They were an intimate part/
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Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson says that, “There is an American renaissance waiting for us if we stop funding higher ed and abolish public schools” … 1/ x.com/william_blak...
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson says that, “There is an American renaissance waiting for us if we stop funding higher ed and abolish public schools” … 1/ x.com/william_blak...
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This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
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One of these years, the public and recorded evidence of Republicans’ complete and constant hypocrisy is going to work!
November 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
One of these years, the public and recorded evidence of Republicans’ complete and constant hypocrisy is going to work!
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'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
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The unnecessary, written by the incapable, about the unremarkable.
November 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The unnecessary, written by the incapable, about the unremarkable.
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the story the NYT has written, of course, is instead part of the proof that this effort succeeded spectacularly. a woman grotesquely violated every standard of journalistic ethics and was handsomely rewarded in spite of--or because of-- it
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
the story the NYT has written, of course, is instead part of the proof that this effort succeeded spectacularly. a woman grotesquely violated every standard of journalistic ethics and was handsomely rewarded in spite of--or because of-- it
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the story is about how the American elite is rotten to its very marrow, to the extent that half of it was plotting and scheming about how to use Trump to advance their own venal interests before he even won
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
the story is about how the American elite is rotten to its very marrow, to the extent that half of it was plotting and scheming about how to use Trump to advance their own venal interests before he even won
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There’s this one postdoc open to “political science or allied disciplines“, implying the existence of “enemy disciplines“.
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
There’s this one postdoc open to “political science or allied disciplines“, implying the existence of “enemy disciplines“.
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This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
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Can't recommend enough @jamieloftus.bsky.social ' s "Lolita Podcast" which thoroughly illustrates the vast gulf between what Nabokov wrote and how it has been broadly absorbed into popular culture
November 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Can't recommend enough @jamieloftus.bsky.social ' s "Lolita Podcast" which thoroughly illustrates the vast gulf between what Nabokov wrote and how it has been broadly absorbed into popular culture