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If the vast vast majority of Americans want reasonable gun controls and they can't get passed by the Congress then our democracy is broken. Or to be more accurate, it has been corrupted. The consciences and reason of our DC leaders have been purchased...for a pittance. Stop the $$ to stop the guns.
December 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
If the vast vast majority of Americans want reasonable gun controls and they can't get passed by the Congress then our democracy is broken. Or to be more accurate, it has been corrupted. The consciences and reason of our DC leaders have been purchased...for a pittance. Stop the $$ to stop the guns.
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Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
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every time I go to the library I wonder why I’m not there more
December 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
every time I go to the library I wonder why I’m not there more
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Saved up a whole pay check just going to the library
December 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Saved up a whole pay check just going to the library
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the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
Amtrak reports Mardi Gras service among most successful ever https://mynbc15.com/news/local/amtrak-provides-boost-to-mobile-businesses
Amtrak's Mardi Gras service boosts Mobile tourism with higher than expected ridership
Amtrak says the new Mardi Gras service that connects Mobile to New Orleans is one of the most successful services ever launched and it's on track to double the
mynbc15.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
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Dems need to contest every elected office at every level of government nationwide.
December 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Dems need to contest every elected office at every level of government nationwide.
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A Democratic Party not having an explicit platform of reforming the Judicial Branch after today is not a party I want to vote for.
The strongly worded letters have to stop someday.
The strongly worded letters have to stop someday.
December 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A Democratic Party not having an explicit platform of reforming the Judicial Branch after today is not a party I want to vote for.
The strongly worded letters have to stop someday.
The strongly worded letters have to stop someday.
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I appreciate the reporting AND I want everyone to stop using criminal records as a stand in for whether people should or should not be harassed and deported.
Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record, newly released federal data shows. @joemahr.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social report
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record.
Newly released federal data shows that immigration agents booked in roughly 1,900 immigrants in the first half of Operation Midway Blitz – two-thirds of whom had no known criminal convictions or pe…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I appreciate the reporting AND I want everyone to stop using criminal records as a stand in for whether people should or should not be harassed and deported.
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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Give me candidates running on liquidating ICE and CBP
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Give me candidates running on liquidating ICE and CBP
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This woman is probably a nurse who takes care of the retirees on Key Largo.
She looks Latina, like millions of other USA citizens in Florida.
If you don't look white or if you have any sort of foreign accent (possibly if you're a naturalized citizen) then you're not safe in the USA.
She looks Latina, like millions of other USA citizens in Florida.
If you don't look white or if you have any sort of foreign accent (possibly if you're a naturalized citizen) then you're not safe in the USA.
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
This woman is probably a nurse who takes care of the retirees on Key Largo.
She looks Latina, like millions of other USA citizens in Florida.
If you don't look white or if you have any sort of foreign accent (possibly if you're a naturalized citizen) then you're not safe in the USA.
She looks Latina, like millions of other USA citizens in Florida.
If you don't look white or if you have any sort of foreign accent (possibly if you're a naturalized citizen) then you're not safe in the USA.
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People need to remember the US had internment camps in the past for citizens who were 1/16th Japanese. First will be "illegals" - then naturalized citizens, LGBTQ+, anyone "not white enough" - and those insufficiently loyal. If anyone thinks "He won't come after me" they are mistaken.
November 14, 2024 at 12:26 PM
People need to remember the US had internment camps in the past for citizens who were 1/16th Japanese. First will be "illegals" - then naturalized citizens, LGBTQ+, anyone "not white enough" - and those insufficiently loyal. If anyone thinks "He won't come after me" they are mistaken.
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He's complicit. I'm not buying his being clueless for a single minute. It just "sounded reasonable" on paper. Detained for days and shipped to another facility is not a "quick discussion and let you go" at all.
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM
He's complicit. I'm not buying his being clueless for a single minute. It just "sounded reasonable" on paper. Detained for days and shipped to another facility is not a "quick discussion and let you go" at all.
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But that doesn't seem to matter, because there have been cases of U.S citizens GIVING ICE their ids/cards and having them say "I don't care" and kidnapping them anyway.
There are no repercussions for their illegal behavior, so they will keep at it until that changes.
There are no repercussions for their illegal behavior, so they will keep at it until that changes.
December 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
But that doesn't seem to matter, because there have been cases of U.S citizens GIVING ICE their ids/cards and having them say "I don't care" and kidnapping them anyway.
There are no repercussions for their illegal behavior, so they will keep at it until that changes.
There are no repercussions for their illegal behavior, so they will keep at it until that changes.
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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"It gives the government tools to pick and choose who they want to punish." Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova explains how government targeting of marginalized people builds the tools to persecute anyone the government decides is a problem.
December 2, 2025 at 6:14 AM
"It gives the government tools to pick and choose who they want to punish." Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova explains how government targeting of marginalized people builds the tools to persecute anyone the government decides is a problem.
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It's kind of mind-blowing how these tech dorks think they're so smart and have the utmost confidence in their genius, while actual smart people are constantly doubting themselves and critiquing their own arguments.
December 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It's kind of mind-blowing how these tech dorks think they're so smart and have the utmost confidence in their genius, while actual smart people are constantly doubting themselves and critiquing their own arguments.
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The man started his 2016 campaign by tweeting Stormfront, even if you know nothing of his family history, that should have been a dealbreaker. But white America has been conditioned to just let their racist uncle say crap at the table and they did it at the ballot box too
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The man started his 2016 campaign by tweeting Stormfront, even if you know nothing of his family history, that should have been a dealbreaker. But white America has been conditioned to just let their racist uncle say crap at the table and they did it at the ballot box too
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Somehow this is the worst part.
Yet again I'd like to thank the publishing industry, Hollywood, and Yale Law School for ensuring this bigot's rise to prominence.
Yet again I'd like to thank the publishing industry, Hollywood, and Yale Law School for ensuring this bigot's rise to prominence.
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Somehow this is the worst part.
Yet again I'd like to thank the publishing industry, Hollywood, and Yale Law School for ensuring this bigot's rise to prominence.
Yet again I'd like to thank the publishing industry, Hollywood, and Yale Law School for ensuring this bigot's rise to prominence.
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It’s time for folks at DoD and in the IC to start lawyering up.
If you’re an officer or official who was forced into pushing through potentially illegal orders, get a lawyer.
If you’re a soldier, seaman or airman who was forced to execute them, get a lawyer.
If you’re an officer or official who was forced into pushing through potentially illegal orders, get a lawyer.
If you’re a soldier, seaman or airman who was forced to execute them, get a lawyer.
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It’s time for folks at DoD and in the IC to start lawyering up.
If you’re an officer or official who was forced into pushing through potentially illegal orders, get a lawyer.
If you’re a soldier, seaman or airman who was forced to execute them, get a lawyer.
If you’re an officer or official who was forced into pushing through potentially illegal orders, get a lawyer.
If you’re a soldier, seaman or airman who was forced to execute them, get a lawyer.
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Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
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They think they look tough. They look like losers. Imagine wearing tactical gear and a facemask in the city famous for people walking the streets all but naked and drunk
Commander Greg Bovino led a group of Border Patrol agents on walk around the French Quarter in New Orleans this afternoon.
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
They think they look tough. They look like losers. Imagine wearing tactical gear and a facemask in the city famous for people walking the streets all but naked and drunk