Carol Carpenter
@carpcarol.bsky.social
Spinster childless cat lady
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Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
December 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Reposted by Carol Carpenter
Two Cornwall dairy farms supplying Cathedral City have been exposed in new undercover footage showing workers punching, kicking, slapping and jabbing cows, dragging newborn calves away by their legs, and even forcing rods into rectums to make exhausted individuals stand.
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Two Cornwall dairy farms supplying Cathedral City have been exposed in new undercover footage showing workers punching, kicking, slapping and jabbing cows, dragging newborn calves away by their legs, and even forcing rods into rectums to make exhausted individuals stand.
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Tell me why, as one of the only women at the dump this morning, a guy asks me a question about where to dump cardboard and then argues with me when I point to the giant “cardboard” sign.
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Tell me why, as one of the only women at the dump this morning, a guy asks me a question about where to dump cardboard and then argues with me when I point to the giant “cardboard” sign.
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I don't recall where I found this, but I'd say this looks about right.
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I don't recall where I found this, but I'd say this looks about right.
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I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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AP: “A U.S. Senate investigation report released by @ossoff.senate.gov has uncovered dozens of credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers nationwide…” apnews.com/article/immi...
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
AP: “A U.S. Senate investigation report released by @ossoff.senate.gov has uncovered dozens of credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers nationwide…” apnews.com/article/immi...
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How to get food and where to donate in New Orleans as SNAP recipients face uncertainty
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
How to get food and where to donate in New Orleans as SNAP recipients face uncertainty
Mutual aid, nonprofits and other groups are ramping up efforts to get food to families in need as SNAP benefits face threats in Louisiana. Here's how to volunteer, and how to get help
www.nola.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
How to get food and where to donate in New Orleans as SNAP recipients face uncertainty
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
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CNN is reporting that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social referred to a voter he was meeting as “my man” at a campaign event today, even though the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution has made it illegal to own human beings since 1865 and remains the law in states including New York
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
CNN is reporting that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social referred to a voter he was meeting as “my man” at a campaign event today, even though the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution has made it illegal to own human beings since 1865 and remains the law in states including New York
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It would help to have a National Day of Action re: SNAP - perhaps on November 1. It would take rapid response but houses of worship could take the lead in mobilizing their members. Educate everyone about the cuts, encourage local donations, pressure Congress, etc...
October 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It would help to have a National Day of Action re: SNAP - perhaps on November 1. It would take rapid response but houses of worship could take the lead in mobilizing their members. Educate everyone about the cuts, encourage local donations, pressure Congress, etc...
Reposted by Carol Carpenter
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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You're high off the No Kings demonstration but don't know what to do next? Decolonize your mind. Practice active anti-racism. Talk to your friends about how you can commit concrete acts that dismantle white supremacy. Think about how you interact with Black people. Unpack your internal biases.
October 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
You're high off the No Kings demonstration but don't know what to do next? Decolonize your mind. Practice active anti-racism. Talk to your friends about how you can commit concrete acts that dismantle white supremacy. Think about how you interact with Black people. Unpack your internal biases.
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Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
www.propublica.org
October 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
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An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
apnews.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
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WAKE THE FUCK UP RIGHT NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! this design was based on a small linocut print. i like the rough chunky look of it so i blew it up for the tshirt design. i'm printing some light color shirts w/black ink at home diy style but folks really wanted the black w/green so link in profile.
September 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
WAKE THE FUCK UP RIGHT NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! this design was based on a small linocut print. i like the rough chunky look of it so i blew it up for the tshirt design. i'm printing some light color shirts w/black ink at home diy style but folks really wanted the black w/green so link in profile.
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Here's the advance notice of the Federal Register notice of the proposed rule dropping greenhouse gas reporting for major industries:
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17923.p...
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17923.p...
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
September 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Here's the advance notice of the Federal Register notice of the proposed rule dropping greenhouse gas reporting for major industries:
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17923.p...
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-17923.p...
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i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
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"One thing I noticed early on is the deep, deep inequity and the disparities in the way people live in (New Orleans), but also the ways in which people die in the city, and then how we’re experiencing this city and this country in between the birthing and the dying.
veritenews.org/2025/08/29/h...
veritenews.org/2025/08/29/h...
Trymaine Lee talks about his new Hurricane Katrina doc
Trymaine Lee was a young reporter covering crime when Hurricane Katrina hit.
veritenews.org
September 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"One thing I noticed early on is the deep, deep inequity and the disparities in the way people live in (New Orleans), but also the ways in which people die in the city, and then how we’re experiencing this city and this country in between the birthing and the dying.
veritenews.org/2025/08/29/h...
veritenews.org/2025/08/29/h...
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Will everyone quit and roll over? The law firms, media companies, universities, government employees. Will you all cling to what you have and hope you can just ride it out, Republic be damned? Shame on all of you who don’t stand up, just remember we will never forget.
August 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Will everyone quit and roll over? The law firms, media companies, universities, government employees. Will you all cling to what you have and hope you can just ride it out, Republic be damned? Shame on all of you who don’t stand up, just remember we will never forget.
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New York is about to make all prison phone calls free. This move will make it easier for the state’s over 30,000 prisoners to stay connected to loved ones, saving them over $13 million a year. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...
Prisoners’ Phone Calls Will Soon Be Free in New York State
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:46 AM
New York is about to make all prison phone calls free. This move will make it easier for the state’s over 30,000 prisoners to stay connected to loved ones, saving them over $13 million a year. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...
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POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.
July 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.