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Koko Reed
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Victims Advocate. Writer. Mother. Staunch defender of democracy, human and civil rights. Blue dot in a red state.

Survivor of extreme domestic violence and coercive control. Permanently disabled from sustained trauma by IPV. Anon to protect my peace.
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This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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“I’d have no problem releasing the video”

“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”

5 days apart 😬

(From @therecount.com )
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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If only there had been signs that a group of below average men who espouse misogynist views and are led by an adjudicated rapist would treat their female colleagues poorly.
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the professionalism and dignity of the United States military.

They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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TODAY IS THE DAY!

GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM

WE GOT THIS!!!!!!

December 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Amazing to see this far South here on the Arkansas River. #aurora
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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After Tuesday’s elections, Republicans are even more desperate to prevent free and fair elections in 2026. In this video, I lay out the eight things we should all expect next and what we can do to fight back. youtu.be/7rSwJPz2MRo?...
8 Ways Republicans Will Subvert The 2026 Election
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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We need to remove the cancer in the Oval Office to restore funding to children’s cancer research.
October 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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🚨 AFGE Dues paying members 🚨

Please see the letter below to our national union leadership about how important it is for Congress to hold the line and not push them simply to end the shut down.

We have this one chance. Please sign.
AFGE dues paying members‼️

Our national leadership has been pushing us to contact Congress to end the shutdown without any pushback.

If you think it's important to hold the line for healthcare and, oh I don't know, fighting to keep the administration from trampling the Constitution please sign.
Tell AFGE leadership to hold the line: we need a budget for the people
Tell AFGE leadership that passing a budget that protects the rights and interests of working people is more important than ending the shutdown at any cost! Please only sign if you are a dues-paying m...
actionnetwork.org
October 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
October 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information.

(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public
We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not...
www.propublica.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby
Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.
www.nbcchicago.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
October 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Vought is not interested in “normal” democratic politics: He seeks to “traumatize” civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, and sees Trump as an agent of God’s will. He is convinced to be fighting a noble war to defend his “real America” of white Christian patriarchal rule.
October 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
www.propublica.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.
October 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM