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NoDak Snowflake
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Feminist, optimist, social worker, educator, sci-fi-fan, opinions mine. #Resistance since 2016. #BlueCrew 🇺🇦 💙
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
As the Trump administration clumsily moves toward an unnecessary and irresponsible and narcissistic war with Venezuela, I want to take a brief moment to offer this sentiment to those who voted for him over VP Harris because they believed it would keep us out of unnecessary wars:

FUCK. YOU.
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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dradka.bsky.social
"Over the past 100 years, russia has attacked more than 19 countries, some of them even three or four times.
None of these countries has ever attacked russia."

-Kaja Kallas (Prime Minister of Estonia)

Great woman😉
November 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
There has been no breathless roadblock coverage of this shooting on cable channels or in major newspapers, afaik. 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 2:09 PM
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meidastouch.com
Wow: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon seems to think that companies involved with Trump's ballroom project could be criminally prosecuted. thehill.com/business/559...
November 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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indivisiblelb.bsky.social
Please consider canceling your subscription to Spotify
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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portlandken.bsky.social
How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.

Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.

Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders
A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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tylerboschert.bsky.social
I am extremely fucking angry

I decided to let Henry Bienen know why and I hope you will, too
An email from me to interim Northwestern University president Henry Bienen, with the subject line "Why did you do this? How could you think it was acceptable?": "Dear Interim President Bienen: I have never been so ashamed to be a Northwestern alumnus. I find it difficult to express the disgust and fury with which I read the message to NU alumni your office sent out this evening. Against the nearly unanimous wishes of its own faculty, Northwestern University has disgraced itself. It has joined the list of actors that have capitulated to an authoritarian administration hell-bent on forcing every aspect of civil society to either accede to its whims or be destroyed. That administration does not have the power to achieve that goal, unless and until powerful private entities--like elite universities--choose to give it that power." "Your office's message tries to emphasize what the federal government has "agreed" to do in the way of ending its institutional harassment of NU. It was while reading this part of the message that I had to stifle bitter laughter. I would not have taken you or the university's trustees for fools or rubes, which is why I literally cannot, and do not, believe that you actually think an administration led by Donald Trump, which during its ten months in power has not dealt in good faith with anyone, anywhere, will hold up its end of the bargain. Whatever assurances the federal government has given you are not so much ephemeral as imaginary. They can be, and will be, capriciously rescinded the next time Northwestern, or any of its students or faculty, expresses an opinion that does not fit within the insane reactionary worldview of the fascist freaks who run this country's government--and then those freaks will try to extort still more concessions from you. But even if the federal government does, or refrains from doing, all it has promised--which it will not, and has no intention of--it will still be unconscionable for you to have agreed to its deal. You have signaled that Northwestern can be successfully bullied. You have emboldened some of the worst people on Earth to go after other, less powerful institutions that cannot defend themselves in the way Northwestern might have. You have explicitly made Northwestern's campus and culture less safe and less welcoming for, among many others, trans women. And you have done severe and probably permanent damage to the trust, pride, and indeed love that I and many other alumni feel for the place that means so much to all of us." "Perhaps the cruelest irony is that this was all so unnecessary. The administration is deeply unpopular. It is floundering and failing. The people at its head know it is doomed, headed for electoral annihilation and a place in history as one of America's great villains (and if they do not know that, they are in denial). Against this backdrop, Northwestern could have been an inspiring beacon of resistance, refusing to bend to this band of thuggish criminals and traitors, motivating others to do the same. I do not have so little confidence in my alma mater's resilience as to believe that it could not have withstood the administration's assault against it. That resistance could have been your legacy. Instead, you and the trustees have betrayed many of Northwestern's core values--or, at least, what I thought Northwestern's core values were. You have chosen the path of cowards and quislings." "I refuse to support an institution that will marginalize and abandon its trans students, its Palestinian students (or even those that simply express pro-Palestinian sympathies), and its own faculty. I refuse to allow any of my money to go to what is in every relevant respect a protection racket. I will encourage other alumni to withhold their money and support as well. And while it breaks my heart, I will not--because I cannot, in good conscience--encourage bright young people to attend Northwestern, which was one of the greatest joys and honors of my life. Shame on you. With profound regret, Tyler J. Boschert McCormick class of 2011"
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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bocksam.bsky.social
Words have consequences… It may only be one who is voicing his disgust but it is one who has been in office and re-elected repeatedly since 2016.
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social

Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Holiday carolers are protesting Home Depot’s association with ICE

🎶 We don't want no more deportations 🎶
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.

🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
WSJ Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions. Another Trump donor, Stephen P. Lynch, paid $600,000 this year to a lobbyist close to Trump Jr. who is helping him seek a Treasury Department license to buy the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from a Russian state-owned company. One sign that he may be serious is that some of his most-trusted friends, sanctioned billionaires from his St. Petersburg hometown-Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk and the Rotenberg brothers, Boris and Arkady-have sent representatives to quietly meet American companies to explore rare-earth mining and energy deals, according to people familiar with the meetings and European security officials. That includes reviving the giant Nord Stream pipeline, sabotaged by Ukrainian tactical divers, and under European Union sanctions. Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil met with Russia's biggest state energy company, Rosneft, to discuss returning to the massive Sakhalin gas project if Moscow and Washington gave the green light.
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Five-byline alert: 🚨

“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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econklin44.bsky.social
Raskin is brilliant. The House 427 to 1 to release the Epstein files. Now he proposes putting these members on record as opposing a pardon for Maxwell. No "go along/get along" on this issue for anybody.
#ProudBlue
katiephang.bsky.social Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 2d
Although Trump has the broad power to grant a pardon or commutation to Maxwell, Raskin’s resolution would “put House members on record opposing a pardon for Maxwell, adding pressure to the White House if the chamber votes overwhelming in favor”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A top House Democrat pushes to oppose Ghislaine Maxwell pardon
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) introduced a symbolic measure to put House members on the record opposing a pardon for Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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muellershewrote.com
More cracks in the dam
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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3dkan3.bsky.social
wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Here is a FREE article me for all to read. Hegseth ordered that two survivors of the first missile strike on a boat be KILLED by a second strike!!!!
This is a MUST read, imo.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
wapo.st
November 29, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
"If you look at job growth between January and September ... for the past 15 years, it's only been worse once, and that was during the pandemic ... It is the worst first nine months for the labor market in 15 years."
November 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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seanselvig.bsky.social
Now THIS is the kind of behavior that typically warrants prosecution to the fullest extent of the law, up to and including capital punishment...for a demonstrably capital offense. Some time in the near future, a judge will deliver an excoriating sentencing statement to the following effect...(1/2)
Hegseth Ordered Second Strike to Kill Caribbean Boat Survivors: Report
The United States changed its protocols after Secretary Hegseth told officials to "kill everybody" onboard an a Caribbean vessel in September.
www.military.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
🤷🏼
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
This is so tragic and unnecessary. My prayers go out to her family and loved ones.
ryanjreilly.com Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.

She didn't want to deploy to D.C.

"She hated it. She cried about it."

But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.

May she rest in peace.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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nancylevinestearns.bsky.social
🧵 Lowe's CEO, one of 8 Black Fortune 500 CEOs, stands firm on DEI.

"Championing Diversity Through Action: Ellison’s approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is rooted in practical change rather than public statements"

Home Depot, meanwhile, allows ICE agents to raid its parking lots.
Lowe's Diversity + Inclusion
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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muellershewrote.com
To be clear, the FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime over a FIVE DAY PERIOD last March. And yes, part of it was to find and redact Trump's name. I spoke to sources who reviewed the files for the FBI and DOJ and wrote about it here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Why can’t we have nice things, too?
Screenshot of a tweet from The Spectator Index on X.com that reads: “JUST IN: Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has started serving his 27-year prison sentence.” Below is a portrait of Jair Bolsonaro standing in front of a blurred background with a Brazilian flag.
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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maysurvivethis.bsky.social
Birds of a feather and all…
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d
Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.

“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM