Brooke (she/her)
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mom, sister, daughter, friend, shit stirrer.
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Now that Karoline Leavitt just confirmed that Frank Bradley gave the order for the second strike that killed two people clinging to boat wreckage (per @atrupar.com) this seems doubly relevant:
News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me.
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges
Will Republicans give us a real investigation into Trump’s bombings, now that we just learned horrific new details about them? Or are they seriously going to fall on their swords for Pete Hegseth?
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Now that Karoline Leavitt just confirmed that Frank Bradley gave the order for the second strike that killed two people clinging to boat wreckage (per @atrupar.com) this seems doubly relevant:
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Democrats must fight for more than just the status quo pre-Trump. That status quo is what got us Trump in the first place. We need to stand for more than just extending the Obamacare subsidies — we must embrace universal healthcare. Otherwise, we’ll just be having this same fight in four years.
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Democrats must fight for more than just the status quo pre-Trump. That status quo is what got us Trump in the first place. We need to stand for more than just extending the Obamacare subsidies — we must embrace universal healthcare. Otherwise, we’ll just be having this same fight in four years.
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College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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New FDA-approved device offers at-home cervical cancer screening -- Innovator Q&A by @stephmachado.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...
An at-home cervical cancer screening, sans stirrups, is now available in Rhode Island - The Boston Globe
Teal Health’s device, which was authorized by the FDA earlier this year, is now in 23 states and D.C.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
New FDA-approved device offers at-home cervical cancer screening -- Innovator Q&A by @stephmachado.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/m...
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Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Northwestern University offered bland reassurance to trans students and faculty after signing a deal with the Trump administration that sacrificed them for restored funding.
More here from the peerless @valorievandieman.bsky.social:
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
More here from the peerless @valorievandieman.bsky.social:
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Northwestern Folds to Pressure, Betraying Trans Students — Assigned
Leading Off: Northwestern University reached an agreement with the Department of Education on Friday to restore federal funding which would remove virtually all protections for transgender students an...
www.assignedmedia.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Northwestern University offered bland reassurance to trans students and faculty after signing a deal with the Trump administration that sacrificed them for restored funding.
More here from the peerless @valorievandieman.bsky.social:
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
More here from the peerless @valorievandieman.bsky.social:
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
![Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh •9h “BREAKING: Gov. Tim Walz says Somalians are ESSENTIAL to the Minnesota community - despite STEALING millions or even billions in taxpayer dollars.
‘They bring diversity and ENERGY to a place like Minnesota!’ Pathetic. Somalians LEECH - DEPORT THEM.”
Response from Gregory Bovino’s official account: “Waltz is of the same class as newsome, stein, pritzker - gubners [governors] who choose illegal aliens over their own citizens. Amazing incompetence”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreihst32abq4yk2kvsi3sg5bjedowsscsf5lfojdskehwivjizr2tme@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
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As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
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It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
Really starting to panic about not being able to afford health insurance for my family next year.
November 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Really starting to panic about not being able to afford health insurance for my family next year.
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Photo of the Year: "Mona Lisa vs. ICE"
This woman was injured during the ICE raids in NYC yesterday.
The visual juxtaposition of her calm face bloodied amongst the dark chaos around her.
Photo: Michael Nigro
This woman was injured during the ICE raids in NYC yesterday.
The visual juxtaposition of her calm face bloodied amongst the dark chaos around her.
Photo: Michael Nigro
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Photo of the Year: "Mona Lisa vs. ICE"
This woman was injured during the ICE raids in NYC yesterday.
The visual juxtaposition of her calm face bloodied amongst the dark chaos around her.
Photo: Michael Nigro
This woman was injured during the ICE raids in NYC yesterday.
The visual juxtaposition of her calm face bloodied amongst the dark chaos around her.
Photo: Michael Nigro
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Please share. My wife has been diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic cancer and she faces radiation and chemotherapy. She has a gofundme page at gofundme.com/f/help-debbi... or please buy one of my dark thrillers or murder mysteries at tinyurl.com/24nucxb9 Thank you so much!
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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They preach “life” and “Christian values,” then turn their backs on actual people.
This administration has made cruelty the norm, from children to trans folks to immigrants.
We deserve better than this.
This administration has made cruelty the norm, from children to trans folks to immigrants.
We deserve better than this.
November 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
They preach “life” and “Christian values,” then turn their backs on actual people.
This administration has made cruelty the norm, from children to trans folks to immigrants.
We deserve better than this.
This administration has made cruelty the norm, from children to trans folks to immigrants.
We deserve better than this.
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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
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Regular people continue to be far more courageous in their resistance than most political leaders.
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Regular people continue to be far more courageous in their resistance than most political leaders.
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Fuel for my long held view that executives provide very little value and should be compensated around the middle of their org pay scale
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Fuel for my long held view that executives provide very little value and should be compensated around the middle of their org pay scale
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Riley Gaines' campaign against trans people has done incalculable damage to trans rights the world over.
TWIBS brought to you by @alyssaur.bsky.social
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TWIBS: Riley Gaines Saga Explained by Mother Jones — Assigned
A new profile on the prolific anti-trans activist by Mother Jones sheds light on Gaines’ obsession.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Riley Gaines' campaign against trans people has done incalculable damage to trans rights the world over.
TWIBS brought to you by @alyssaur.bsky.social
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The @medillschool.bsky.social was silent as 200+ journalists were murdered in Gaza, was silent as their own students were threatened w beating by police, then suspended me and denied me tenure for standing w the students. It is not a journalism school, it is a school for teaching cowardice & fascism
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The @medillschool.bsky.social was silent as 200+ journalists were murdered in Gaza, was silent as their own students were threatened w beating by police, then suspended me and denied me tenure for standing w the students. It is not a journalism school, it is a school for teaching cowardice & fascism
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.
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ICE surround judge's car threatening to smash windows—then arrest his high school intern.
Agents handcuff teenager to detain him—until judge loudly demands they check ID to confirm they had wrong person.
Court security noticed masked men sneaking pictures of the boy —so the judge tried to help.
Agents handcuff teenager to detain him—until judge loudly demands they check ID to confirm they had wrong person.
Court security noticed masked men sneaking pictures of the boy —so the judge tried to help.
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison.
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months
Israeli soldiers had taken Mohammed Ibrahim from his home in a night raid when he was only 15 years old
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison.
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
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What are abstract ideas like “being happy” and “having fulfillment” compared to real world achievements like “working full time for a company and still needing food stamps”
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
What are abstract ideas like “being happy” and “having fulfillment” compared to real world achievements like “working full time for a company and still needing food stamps”
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Too on the nose for comfort:
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles was detained by ICE. She says ICE called her tribal ID “fake.”
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles was detained by ICE. She says ICE called her tribal ID “fake.”
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Too on the nose for comfort:
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles was detained by ICE. She says ICE called her tribal ID “fake.”
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles was detained by ICE. She says ICE called her tribal ID “fake.”
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...