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Humans can do better than this; Organize! Democracy and Equality for all. Let's cherish one another and the world. Happily married. Retired.🇺🇦 Disabled
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Now, enough of them dare ask themselves, "Am I as brave as MTG??"
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Remind me: Did Brett Kavanaugh include having your wedding band cut in pieces among the minor inconveniences of being arrested by ICE as a US citizen?
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Remind me: Did Brett Kavanaugh include having your wedding band cut in pieces among the minor inconveniences of being arrested by ICE as a US citizen?
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Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
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You’ll notice the media is doing their best to ignore the orange felon’s pattern of verbally attacking and berating female reporters because to address it would be to bring up his lifelong pattern of adultery, abuse, rape, incestuous cravings and the Access Hollywood Tape.
December 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
You’ll notice the media is doing their best to ignore the orange felon’s pattern of verbally attacking and berating female reporters because to address it would be to bring up his lifelong pattern of adultery, abuse, rape, incestuous cravings and the Access Hollywood Tape.
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December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
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“There is growing concern ... that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them,” the Trump official said.
“That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen."
“That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen."
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
By @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
By @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social
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Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“There is growing concern ... that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them,” the Trump official said.
“That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen."
“That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen."
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KUOW - A 101-year-old runs the largest nutcracker museum in the U.S. Here's a look inside share.google/ERQ4a7ILPv4H...
A 101-year-old runs the largest nutcracker museum in the U.S. Here's a look inside
Arlene Wagner has been collecting nutcrackers for nearly 50 years. Now, she's got one of the largest collections in the world, housed at the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum in Washington.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
KUOW - A 101-year-old runs the largest nutcracker museum in the U.S. Here's a look inside share.google/ERQ4a7ILPv4H...
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Imagine if Bluesky got the name and ran with it.
Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo arstechnica.com/information-...
Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo
“Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands.
arstechnica.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Imagine if Bluesky got the name and ran with it.
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NEW: The DOJ launches a civil rights investigation into Colorado’s statewide prison system just days after Trump renewed public calls to “free” Tina Peters, the election denier serving a state sentence for her role in a voting system data breach.
DOJ Opens Probe of Colorado Prisons After Trump Ramps Up Push to Free Election Denier Tina Peters
Read more here.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEW: The DOJ launches a civil rights investigation into Colorado’s statewide prison system just days after Trump renewed public calls to “free” Tina Peters, the election denier serving a state sentence for her role in a voting system data breach.
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Houses are expensive because billionaires gobble up homes and fix the rent or turn them into Airbnbs. The billionaires want you to think immigrants are buying up all the property.
Secretary Scott Turner: "We need to continue to deport illegals that are taking houses from the American people"
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Houses are expensive because billionaires gobble up homes and fix the rent or turn them into Airbnbs. The billionaires want you to think immigrants are buying up all the property.
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Commentary: Trump’s insults, authoritarian rhetoric, grievance-postings and slipping approval ratings suggest he is growing disconnected from voters and increasingly a political liability to his own party.
Trump has lost his political superpower
More broadly, Trump’s debasement has implications for his party, a group of politicians who gave their loyalty and power to him, but now find themselves with little to run on.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Commentary: Trump’s insults, authoritarian rhetoric, grievance-postings and slipping approval ratings suggest he is growing disconnected from voters and increasingly a political liability to his own party.
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Donald Trump just ended a rule that required airlines to compensate you for delayed or canceled flights.
Why?
Maybe because the airlines donated big bucks to Trump. Or maybe because the Secretary of Transportation used to be an airline lobbyist.
Either way, you lose.
Why?
Maybe because the airlines donated big bucks to Trump. Or maybe because the Secretary of Transportation used to be an airline lobbyist.
Either way, you lose.
Trump just ended a rule that required airlines to compensate you for delayed or canceled flights.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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December 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Donald Trump just ended a rule that required airlines to compensate you for delayed or canceled flights.
Why?
Maybe because the airlines donated big bucks to Trump. Or maybe because the Secretary of Transportation used to be an airline lobbyist.
Either way, you lose.
Why?
Maybe because the airlines donated big bucks to Trump. Or maybe because the Secretary of Transportation used to be an airline lobbyist.
Either way, you lose.
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The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
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Tell Congress: Stand with Ukraine over Russia!
Tell Congress: Stand with Ukraine over Russia
Contact Congress today!
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December 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Tell Congress: Stand with Ukraine over Russia!
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It’s law.
Active members of the Armed Forces should not obey unlawful or illegal orders.
This country deserves a President and federal law enforcement that uphold the law, not use the threat of prosecution to chill speech.
Active members of the Armed Forces should not obey unlawful or illegal orders.
This country deserves a President and federal law enforcement that uphold the law, not use the threat of prosecution to chill speech.
December 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It’s law.
Active members of the Armed Forces should not obey unlawful or illegal orders.
This country deserves a President and federal law enforcement that uphold the law, not use the threat of prosecution to chill speech.
Active members of the Armed Forces should not obey unlawful or illegal orders.
This country deserves a President and federal law enforcement that uphold the law, not use the threat of prosecution to chill speech.
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Trump’s tariff relief money to farmers is duct tape on a broken pipe
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Opinion | Trump’s tariff relief money to farmers is duct tape on a broken pipe
The $12 billion aid package announced at the White House is far less than farmers have had to pay in increased prices this year thanks to Trump’s tariffs.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Trump’s tariff relief money to farmers is duct tape on a broken pipe
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Hard f-ing pass on this propaganda shit on CBS. Why why why platform this woman??
In case it wasn’t already clear - cbs is fox now under Bari Weiss
December 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hard f-ing pass on this propaganda shit on CBS. Why why why platform this woman??
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🤔 Haven’t bought any dolls and not a single pencil and AFFORDABILITY still alludes me.
December 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🤔 Haven’t bought any dolls and not a single pencil and AFFORDABILITY still alludes me.
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JOHN DEERE: "Our US market has been the one under the most pressure . . . based on what’s happened with trade flows, what’s happened with tariffs .." We'll build "half as many tractors this year as we did two years ago."
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Donald Trump’s tariffs intensify strain on US farmers, Deere warns
Farming equipment giant is scaling back production at flagship tractor plant in Iowa
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
JOHN DEERE: "Our US market has been the one under the most pressure . . . based on what’s happened with trade flows, what’s happened with tariffs .." We'll build "half as many tractors this year as we did two years ago."
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Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
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1/ Some of the latest memes on r/NAFO www.reddit.com/r/NAFO
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM