Twirling towards Freedom
@twirlingtofreedom.bsky.social
Sometimes I rage against the machine.
Sometimes I anxiety bake.
But always I'm twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
Grew up in Texas, lived in NYC, live in Colorado, survive in the USofA
Sometimes I anxiety bake.
But always I'm twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
Grew up in Texas, lived in NYC, live in Colorado, survive in the USofA
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Collective, racist punishment.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Collective, racist punishment.
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Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
Without knowing any details, it is horrific, saddening and wholly unsurprising that Trump & Co jump to attack the US immigration system and Afghans who supported our troops. I'm very concerned for our refugee neighbors.
(I appreciate the Guardian's use of "In a deeply partisan statement...")
(I appreciate the Guardian's use of "In a deeply partisan statement...")
Washington DC shooting: Trump calls shooting of national guard members ‘an act of terror’, vows new scrutiny of immigrants – as it happened
This live blog is now closed.
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Without knowing any details, it is horrific, saddening and wholly unsurprising that Trump & Co jump to attack the US immigration system and Afghans who supported our troops. I'm very concerned for our refugee neighbors.
(I appreciate the Guardian's use of "In a deeply partisan statement...")
(I appreciate the Guardian's use of "In a deeply partisan statement...")
Our country is whack; you deserve a treat.
From the Magnolia Bakery Handbook, bake up the recipe for Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
#anxietybaking
Surprisingly, not overpowered by the eponymous ingredients. Tastes like scrumptious, chocolatey brownies.
From the Magnolia Bakery Handbook, bake up the recipe for Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
#anxietybaking
Surprisingly, not overpowered by the eponymous ingredients. Tastes like scrumptious, chocolatey brownies.
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Our country is whack; you deserve a treat.
From the Magnolia Bakery Handbook, bake up the recipe for Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
#anxietybaking
Surprisingly, not overpowered by the eponymous ingredients. Tastes like scrumptious, chocolatey brownies.
From the Magnolia Bakery Handbook, bake up the recipe for Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
#anxietybaking
Surprisingly, not overpowered by the eponymous ingredients. Tastes like scrumptious, chocolatey brownies.
Tell me you're a thug without scrolling it out in tacky stick-on gold lettering. Trump is a thug; a petty, vindictive, snowflake-y thug.
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Tell me you're a thug without scrolling it out in tacky stick-on gold lettering. Trump is a thug; a petty, vindictive, snowflake-y thug.
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About 40% of SNAP recipients are children. Around half of ALL children in the country are covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars.
Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars.
Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
About 40% of SNAP recipients are children. Around half of ALL children in the country are covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars.
Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
And the so-called “party of family values” gutted both programs by billions of dollars.
Doesn’t sound very pro-family to me.
While Trump's remodeling, he should paint the White House black in commemoration of all of the deaths he's caused.
"Cuts by the US and other countries could result in 10 million additional HIV infections, including 1 MILLION CHILDREN + 3 MILLION ADDITIONAL DEATHS over the next 5 years."
"Cuts by the US and other countries could result in 10 million additional HIV infections, including 1 MILLION CHILDREN + 3 MILLION ADDITIONAL DEATHS over the next 5 years."
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
While Trump's remodeling, he should paint the White House black in commemoration of all of the deaths he's caused.
"Cuts by the US and other countries could result in 10 million additional HIV infections, including 1 MILLION CHILDREN + 3 MILLION ADDITIONAL DEATHS over the next 5 years."
"Cuts by the US and other countries could result in 10 million additional HIV infections, including 1 MILLION CHILDREN + 3 MILLION ADDITIONAL DEATHS over the next 5 years."
Should you need it...
Leslie Jones Stops Your Annoying Relatives from Ruining Thanksgiving | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Should you need it...
Why deter international visitors to our parks? Perhaps just to lower NPS income and justify future resource removal?
Also, dreading getting a new annual pass w his friggin’ mug on it. Will have to find a Mr Yuck sticker to cover it up.
Also, dreading getting a new annual pass w his friggin’ mug on it. Will have to find a Mr Yuck sticker to cover it up.
US triples national park fee for non-residents, amid ‘new’ fee for Americans
Interior department, which has defunded conservation organizations, claims fee hike is for conservation
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Why deter international visitors to our parks? Perhaps just to lower NPS income and justify future resource removal?
Also, dreading getting a new annual pass w his friggin’ mug on it. Will have to find a Mr Yuck sticker to cover it up.
Also, dreading getting a new annual pass w his friggin’ mug on it. Will have to find a Mr Yuck sticker to cover it up.
A ProPublica and FRONTLINE "review found 24+ cases in which officers deployed 'less lethal' weapons in ways that appear to flout the government’s own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin and deploying chemical agents at moving vehicles or near children."
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A ProPublica and FRONTLINE "review found 24+ cases in which officers deployed 'less lethal' weapons in ways that appear to flout the government’s own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin and deploying chemical agents at moving vehicles or near children."
May karma be swift on anyone who has sold their soul by working as an ICE thug.
Where ICE Takes People—And Where They Send Them Next
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
May karma be swift on anyone who has sold their soul by working as an ICE thug.
People are already being violently abducted, despite 70% not having criminal convictions and/or lawfully attending court hearings regarding their status. Now they're going to hunt them down as if they're terrorists? This is vile, inhumane and xenophobic.
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
People are already being violently abducted, despite 70% not having criminal convictions and/or lawfully attending court hearings regarding their status. Now they're going to hunt them down as if they're terrorists? This is vile, inhumane and xenophobic.
This effin' guy.
At an NRA convention, Patel had his gf protected by "two agents, members of a specialized unit trained to storm barricaded buildings and rescue hostages." They left early, and "Patel ripped into the team’s commander, saying (she) had been left without taxpayer-funded defenders."
At an NRA convention, Patel had his gf protected by "two agents, members of a specialized unit trained to storm barricaded buildings and rescue hostages." They left early, and "Patel ripped into the team’s commander, saying (she) had been left without taxpayer-funded defenders."
Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This effin' guy.
At an NRA convention, Patel had his gf protected by "two agents, members of a specialized unit trained to storm barricaded buildings and rescue hostages." They left early, and "Patel ripped into the team’s commander, saying (she) had been left without taxpayer-funded defenders."
At an NRA convention, Patel had his gf protected by "two agents, members of a specialized unit trained to storm barricaded buildings and rescue hostages." They left early, and "Patel ripped into the team’s commander, saying (she) had been left without taxpayer-funded defenders."
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
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1/Because Judge Currie says the govt can’t keep appointing acting US Attys after an initial 120 day appt, it’s now up to the local district judges to name an acting us atty. They’re likely to name someone who will stand for the rule of law & not reindict bad cases. But…
And now, the case against Letitia James is dismissed too, same rationale but minus the statute of limitations complication.
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
1/Because Judge Currie says the govt can’t keep appointing acting US Attys after an initial 120 day appt, it’s now up to the local district judges to name an acting us atty. They’re likely to name someone who will stand for the rule of law & not reindict bad cases. But…
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1/Judge Cameron Currie dismisses the Comey prosecution because Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed US Atty.
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
1/Judge Cameron Currie dismisses the Comey prosecution because Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed US Atty.
Thanksgiving palette cleanse 🦃
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I feel like we need this
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November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
Oath is to country, not a person.
The House needs a civics workday.
The House needs a civics workday.
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Oath is to country, not a person.
The House needs a civics workday.
The House needs a civics workday.
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Local woman wakes up, restarts the world, makes oatmeal.
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Local woman wakes up, restarts the world, makes oatmeal.
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Texas A&M University appeals panel has unanimously ruled that the school was “not justified” when it fired a lecturer who had been accused of teaching a course that recognized more than two genders. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Texas A&M Was Wrong to Fire Professor Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Texas A&M University appeals panel has unanimously ruled that the school was “not justified” when it fired a lecturer who had been accused of teaching a course that recognized more than two genders. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
"The Border Patrol has defined its own criteria for which drivers’ behavior should be deemed suspicious or tied to drug or human trafficking... The agency’s network of cameras now extends along the southern border in TX, AZ & CA and US-Canada border."
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
"The Border Patrol has defined its own criteria for which drivers’ behavior should be deemed suspicious or tied to drug or human trafficking... The agency’s network of cameras now extends along the southern border in TX, AZ & CA and US-Canada border."
"Along w the dismantling of USAID, the US halted family planning programs because it did not consider them lifesaving, despite vast evidence showing such services reduce maternal & newborn deaths. As a result, a shipment of contraceptives for girls&women in low-income countries ended up stranded."
A stock of U.S.-bought birth control, meant for sub-Saharan Africa, goes bad in Belgium
Millions of dollars worth of contraceptives have been stored in Belgium since the U.S. froze foreign aid. A local official says some products were stored improperly and are largely unusable.
www.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"Along w the dismantling of USAID, the US halted family planning programs because it did not consider them lifesaving, despite vast evidence showing such services reduce maternal & newborn deaths. As a result, a shipment of contraceptives for girls&women in low-income countries ended up stranded."