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Loretta Shumate
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A childless cat lady (but happily married) who is trying to make sense of life in the USA. Please no marketing or phishing DMs. Bots will be blocked. Proud Anti-Fascist
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All these vids should be sent to ACLU for lawsuits. They are violating the civil rights of everyone in these neighbors as well as any lingering effects of teargas. The jack-booted thugs are ##^}!!!!
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Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
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I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.
Share far and wide please.
This is located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, close to Fullerton and Sheffield. It's a densely populated area near DePaul University. I'm pleased to see the community standing up against these despicable individuals.
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Its happening now. Maybe not enough to create stories for our corrupt media but soon...very soon.
Hello Democrats……..?…..
I will be very disappointed if this doesn't happen.
Complicit corrupt media
it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
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If That’s a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it. No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation.

Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
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Coming next month: The 50th anniversary edition of The Wind's Twelve Quarters!

This design nods back to the original hardcover jacket, which was by Patricia Voehl. The new cover is designed by Jamie Lynn Kerner.

Harper Perennial publishes this edition on November 18th.
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They say books won’t change the world.

Tell that to every colonizer who burned them.

To every enslaved person who was punished for reading.

Literacy is resistance.

Literacy is liberation.

The library is a battlefield.
It’s where Bezos got his rocket design idea.
That’s mighty white of him.
Reddit has his last name is Griffin, fyi everyone. #NathanGriffin #NathanPlybon He’s been abducted either way.
His name is Nathan Plybon.
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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Masked #ICE agents kidnapping and disappearing US citizen Nathan Plybon in Chicago. No charges have been brought against him and his family has not heard from him since he was forcefully loaded into the back of an unmarked car. #AbolishICE
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They came masked, unmarked, armed by the state… snatched Nathan Plybon off Chicago streets. No charges. No call. No trace. This ain’t law enforcement… it’s a disappearance.

#AbolishICE #EndStateViolence #4R
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Just a reminder…every day is #NoKings day.😊

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