Virginia D. Hinkle
@vhinkle.bsky.social
Retired history teacher, grandmother, 1960’s marcher, daughter of an Irish revolutionary. Refugee from Twitter and Post.
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Stop Zeldin from destroying environmental protections
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Clean Air, Water, & Land are priceless. Block EPA rule-rollbacks, oust Zeldin
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November 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Stop Zeldin from destroying environmental protections
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There’s no point in impeachment unless Rs are willing to vote for it.
The senators who “try” the “case” aren’t obligated to respond to the evidence like a court jury is. That’s why they acquitted him for bribery and for insurrection.
The evidence in both was overwhelming
The senators who “try” the “case” aren’t obligated to respond to the evidence like a court jury is. That’s why they acquitted him for bribery and for insurrection.
The evidence in both was overwhelming
November 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
There’s no point in impeachment unless Rs are willing to vote for it.
The senators who “try” the “case” aren’t obligated to respond to the evidence like a court jury is. That’s why they acquitted him for bribery and for insurrection.
The evidence in both was overwhelming
The senators who “try” the “case” aren’t obligated to respond to the evidence like a court jury is. That’s why they acquitted him for bribery and for insurrection.
The evidence in both was overwhelming
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Retired federal and state judges say President Trump’s attacks on the judiciary strain its integrity. They cite partisanship, antagonistic rhetoric from public officials and ambiguous decisions handed down by the Supreme Court.
Retired judges warn that the rule of law is unraveling
In interviews, former state and federal judges describe the consequences when the rule of law begins to falter, warning that democracy’s guardrails may already be weakened.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Retired federal and state judges say President Trump’s attacks on the judiciary strain its integrity. They cite partisanship, antagonistic rhetoric from public officials and ambiguous decisions handed down by the Supreme Court.
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Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
November 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
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In Germany, middle market businesses are pressing for removal of he firewall surrounding the Nazi party (AfD) in order to appease Trump and Vance. They would see an alliance between the Christian Democrats and the Nazis in state governments across the country. www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/w...
Deutsche Wirtschaft und AfD - Sorgen um Demokratie
Der Verband der Familienunternehmer hat die Brandmauer zur AfD eingerissen. Nicht nur Mittelständler, auch große Konzerne stehen jetzt unter Druck, sich zu positionieren. Doch viele weichen auf Floske...
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
In Germany, middle market businesses are pressing for removal of he firewall surrounding the Nazi party (AfD) in order to appease Trump and Vance. They would see an alliance between the Christian Democrats and the Nazis in state governments across the country. www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/w...
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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Northwestern faculty voted 595-4 to reject the Trump extortion racket. Northwestern students oppose it by a similar 99 to 1 ration. So who supports it? Jonathan Greenblatt and his ADL, which connived to remove Northwestern's president when he opposed the shakedown.
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Northwestern faculty voted 595-4 to reject the Trump extortion racket. Northwestern students oppose it by a similar 99 to 1 ration. So who supports it? Jonathan Greenblatt and his ADL, which connived to remove Northwestern's president when he opposed the shakedown.
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How Trump’s DOJ wiped out a pioneering anti-violence nonprofit
How Trump’s DOJ wiped out a pioneering anti-violence nonprofit
“We’re just the tip of the iceberg.”
www.motherjones.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
How Trump’s DOJ wiped out a pioneering anti-violence nonprofit
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Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 this just came up on my phone on this date in 2017 so this little prick doesn’t have a security clearance never did
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 this just came up on my phone on this date in 2017 so this little prick doesn’t have a security clearance never did
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Sarah Beckstrom’s longtime boyfriend told CNN that she felt her deployment to the nation’s capital was “pointless.”
Slain National Guard Victim Was Frustrated by D.C. Deployment
Sarah Beckstrom’s longtime boyfriend told CNN that she felt her deployment to the nation’s capital was “pointless.”
trib.al
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Sarah Beckstrom’s longtime boyfriend told CNN that she felt her deployment to the nation’s capital was “pointless.”
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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You mean Mike Johnson, the one who cared more about winning a political game than feeding kids, the one who refused to swear in a representative to defend pedophiles?
“They’re not sending their best”
“They’re not sending their best”
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
You mean Mike Johnson, the one who cared more about winning a political game than feeding kids, the one who refused to swear in a representative to defend pedophiles?
“They’re not sending their best”
“They’re not sending their best”
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During the government shutdown, Republicans refused to negotiate with Democrats over the enhanced ACA subsidies. Though the subsidies expire at the end of 2025, Republicans insisted that the issue could wait until after the shutdown. Now the GOP’s health care homework is due, and they’re panicking.
Opinion | Republicans' health care homework is due -- and they're panicking
"In the crunch moment, the administration and its supporters are scrambling," Paul Waldman writes.
www.ms.now
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
During the government shutdown, Republicans refused to negotiate with Democrats over the enhanced ACA subsidies. Though the subsidies expire at the end of 2025, Republicans insisted that the issue could wait until after the shutdown. Now the GOP’s health care homework is due, and they’re panicking.
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Our taxpayer dollars LITERALLY PROTECTING PEDOPHILES!
November 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Our taxpayer dollars LITERALLY PROTECTING PEDOPHILES!
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Mark Kelly for Secretary of Defense!
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Mark Kelly for Secretary of Defense!
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Trump's ICE Goons are replicating Hitler's GESTAPO.
When Trump succeeds in silencing all his critics, the United States of America will be a perfect replica of Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union!
Hegseth, Trump and others are so fond of Putin, they are committing stone cold war crimes like him.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Trump's ICE Goons are replicating Hitler's GESTAPO.
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Trump just used a tragedy to justify the most sweeping civil-liberties power grab we’ve seen in modern times. And almost no one is talking about it.
I break down the psychology behind the move..and why it should concern every democracy-loving American. (There is NO paywall) www.jackhopkinsnow.com
I break down the psychology behind the move..and why it should concern every democracy-loving American. (There is NO paywall) www.jackhopkinsnow.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Trump just used a tragedy to justify the most sweeping civil-liberties power grab we’ve seen in modern times. And almost no one is talking about it.
I break down the psychology behind the move..and why it should concern every democracy-loving American. (There is NO paywall) www.jackhopkinsnow.com
I break down the psychology behind the move..and why it should concern every democracy-loving American. (There is NO paywall) www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Anyone who had the ability to deny an order or hold him accountable for anything.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Anyone who had the ability to deny an order or hold him accountable for anything.
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In 1991, I talked my boss in the Senate out of invoke the War Powers act in defense of Bush 41, and then in 2011, I argued for ditching it - in defend of Obama.
I don't know how to ungate this. Sorry. Even I can't get in, but I've been on this for years.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/repeal-the-w...
I don't know how to ungate this. Sorry. Even I can't get in, but I've been on this for years.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/repeal-the-w...
Repeal the War Powers Resolution
The debate over whether President Barack Obama violated the 1973 War Powers Resolution by committing U.S. forces to Operation Odyssey Dawn, including the drama of outraged legislators condemning yet a...
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
In 1991, I talked my boss in the Senate out of invoke the War Powers act in defense of Bush 41, and then in 2011, I argued for ditching it - in defend of Obama.
I don't know how to ungate this. Sorry. Even I can't get in, but I've been on this for years.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/repeal-the-w...
I don't know how to ungate this. Sorry. Even I can't get in, but I've been on this for years.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/repeal-the-w...
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🚨🚨911 DEBT CRISIS!🚨🚨
In a decade or less our government WILL fundamentally change!
In a decade or less our government WILL fundamentally change!
November 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🚨🚨911 DEBT CRISIS!🚨🚨
In a decade or less our government WILL fundamentally change!
In a decade or less our government WILL fundamentally change!
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Buckle down people. Lame Duck Donnie is determined to cause a complete economic collapse.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Buckle down people. Lame Duck Donnie is determined to cause a complete economic collapse.