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Bonnie Burns
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Recovering academic, recovering tech sector worker, breast cancer survivor. Queer cat mom. Military wife. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈
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If I had a bell I would be walking through the center town ringing, it yelling “shame!“
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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So let’s get this straight:

Jimmy Kimmel criticizes the far-right.

ABC says he’s back on air.

And Sinclair run by a guy who personally dropped $250K into Turning Point USA tells him he can only be broadcast if he donates to Turning Point USA himself.
UPDATE: Sinclair is NOT going to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel, even though ABC is resuming production.

Sinclair has demanded that Kimmel personally donate to Turning Point USA, a right-wing political organization.

David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair, donated 250K to Turning Point USA last year.
September 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Since Trump’s MAGA majority has controlled the Supreme Court, SCOTUS has overturned

42 years of precedent deferring to agencies

50 years backing a women’s reproductive rights

60 years of affirmative action

And-likely-a 90 year old case shielding the FTC

It’s the most radical Court in US history
#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
September 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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There's a very good reason why it's a very bad idea to let anyone own 38 stations on the same network.
Sinclair Won’t Air Jimmy Kimmel’s Return on Its 38 ABC Stations
The preemption means that 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' will remain unavailable for some of the U.S. despite its return after a nearly week-long suspension.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Maryland state police should be ARRESTING ICE agents who do this. Impound the vehicles. Force the Trump admin to litigate.

@raskin.house.gov lives here and should stand up and say this now. Along with @vanhollen.senate.gov and @alsobrooks.senate.gov.
NEW— ICE vehicles chased a landscaping truck through Takoma Park, MD, on Monday about a mile from DC, which ended with the truck crashing on someone’s lawn and narrowly missing another car, multiple residents confirm to me. Video shows ICE going into a backyard to find/arrest the men from the truck.
August 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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See the man circled here? That's E.J. Antoni, Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee, walking through a crowd of Capitol rioters.

#ICYMI, we've got an archive of 500+ Parler videos taken during Jan. 6. You can spot Antoni starting at around 1:41 here: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...
August 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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This would work, you know.
A Democratic Party with any spirit would stage a press conference every single day to present Donald Trump with one sarcastic award after another.

The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia
The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness
The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
Trump: Since 1978 the Kennedy Center honors have been amongst the most prestigious awards. I wanted one, never able to get one. I would have taken it. I waited and waited and waited and I said to hell with it, I'll become chairman. I will give myself an honor. Next year we'll honor trump, okay?
August 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Think about what the GOP is revealing with their attempt to suddenly change the Congressional maps: they know their agenda is so unpopular that they're going to lose unless something changes.

Of course, what they should be changing is their policies, not the maps.
July 31, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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July 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Cats are and always have been cyberpunks
July 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Imagine being a worse justice than those who enshrined racism and the theft of native lands.
New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time

"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."
The worst chief justice of all time
Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.
www.publicnotice.co
July 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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July 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Democracies do not use their military to try and intimidate their own citizens with “shows of presence”.

This is fascism.
Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government.

After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk.
July 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Horrific. And yes I know that’s not a sufficient comment.
July 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Trump’s pardons have cost crime victims $1.5 billion in restitution that they now will never see, mostly victims of fraud committed by his cronies. www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...
July 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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They.

Cannot.

Be.

Shamed.

That requires empathy. You’re never going to guilt them into doing the right thing.
July 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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July 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is what failed “norms” look like
Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.
July 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.

One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.

They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
July 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The Oscar-winning documentary THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK (1984) is on Criterion Channel and HBO Max if you'd like to remember a man some people would like you to forget.

#Pride #HarveyMilk #Streaming
June 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Thank you to all of our service members and veterans. We appreciate you, your families, and your sacrifices for our country. Wish we were spending millions on you instead of a parade.
June 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This isn’t rocket science.
-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and
with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence

These are the foundations of real freedom.
May 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life.

Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever.

Our problem isn't a lack of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
May 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"
May 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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🚨 Donald Trump’s second term is a crypto cash grab. $2B foreign-backed deals, memecoins for White House access, and gutting oversight. Corruption at digital scale. Congress must act.

Read our bombshell statement 👇
accountable.us/pay-to-play-...
Pay-to-Play in the Digital Age: Trump’s Crypto Empire and the Erosion of Presidential Ethics - Accountable US
Accountable.US exposes how President Trump’s crypto ventures blur the lines between public duty and personal profit—highlighting alarming conflicts of interest, foreign influence, and a marketplace fo...
accountable.us
May 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM