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@graciesukie.bsky.social
Following the Lord by loving my family, my people, my city.
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As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that the Trump administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in Project 2025.
Tracking how much of Project 2025 the Trump administration achieved this year
As the year ends, The 19th takes a look at how the conservative policy wishlist for President Donald Trump’s second term affected women and LGBTQ+ Americans.
www.pbs.org
December 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that the Trump administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in Project 2025.
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“YES: Residents of Takoma Park, Maryland, noticed ICE cars lurking every day in a parking lot. So they showed up early to occupy the space, with coffee, music, conversation, knitting... not leaving ICE a single parking space. ICE stopped coming.” I. S. Democratic Socialists
December 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
“YES: Residents of Takoma Park, Maryland, noticed ICE cars lurking every day in a parking lot. So they showed up early to occupy the space, with coffee, music, conversation, knitting... not leaving ICE a single parking space. ICE stopped coming.” I. S. Democratic Socialists
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Stop the abuse of the *one thousand survivors* now. Epstein stole their youth.
Allow their future to have some peace.
🚨This DOJ/admin is further abusing these survivors.
Allow their future to have some peace.
🚨This DOJ/admin is further abusing these survivors.
December 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Stop the abuse of the *one thousand survivors* now. Epstein stole their youth.
Allow their future to have some peace.
🚨This DOJ/admin is further abusing these survivors.
Allow their future to have some peace.
🚨This DOJ/admin is further abusing these survivors.
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Trump's HHS has banned nearly 200 words for Head Start programs—like “‘disability,’ ‘women,’ ‘Tribal,’” and more—forcing programs to choose between complying with the law or bending to Trump's unlawful DEI ban to keep funding.
This is outrageous. I'm demanding answers.
This is outrageous. I'm demanding answers.
Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests
New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests.
www.npr.org
December 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Trump's HHS has banned nearly 200 words for Head Start programs—like “‘disability,’ ‘women,’ ‘Tribal,’” and more—forcing programs to choose between complying with the law or bending to Trump's unlawful DEI ban to keep funding.
This is outrageous. I'm demanding answers.
This is outrageous. I'm demanding answers.
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Between defending the honor of Mexico’s working-class bread culture to ranking the best tacos in L.A., these were L.A. TACO's most-read food features of the year.
The full list: lataco.com/best-food-st...
The full list: lataco.com/best-food-st...
December 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Between defending the honor of Mexico’s working-class bread culture to ranking the best tacos in L.A., these were L.A. TACO's most-read food features of the year.
The full list: lataco.com/best-food-st...
The full list: lataco.com/best-food-st...
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@radleybalko.bsky.social: "Most alarmingly, the administration no longer feels obligated to even pretend that it’s observing norms and constitutional restrictions. 'They just don’t care when judges or the public says they’re violating the law,' one longtime immigration judge, now retired, told me."
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
@radleybalko.bsky.social: "Most alarmingly, the administration no longer feels obligated to even pretend that it’s observing norms and constitutional restrictions. 'They just don’t care when judges or the public says they’re violating the law,' one longtime immigration judge, now retired, told me."
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Day laborers say they feel targeted over anti-loitering speakers installed in the parking lot of Home Depot in Cypress Park.
Aisha Wallace-Palomares captured the sentiment shared by day laborers and community organizers over these speakers at a recent press conference.
Aisha Wallace-Palomares captured the sentiment shared by day laborers and community organizers over these speakers at a recent press conference.
December 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Day laborers say they feel targeted over anti-loitering speakers installed in the parking lot of Home Depot in Cypress Park.
Aisha Wallace-Palomares captured the sentiment shared by day laborers and community organizers over these speakers at a recent press conference.
Aisha Wallace-Palomares captured the sentiment shared by day laborers and community organizers over these speakers at a recent press conference.
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🚨Death in ICE custody, MI
🔑 points:
~ He mentions the conditions of the “facility” and notes the outrage we would see from animal rights groups if these were conditions under which animals were living/dying ✅
~ How did they lose his body? Really
~ No legitimate regulatory authority is involved 1/2
🔑 points:
~ He mentions the conditions of the “facility” and notes the outrage we would see from animal rights groups if these were conditions under which animals were living/dying ✅
~ How did they lose his body? Really
~ No legitimate regulatory authority is involved 1/2
December 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
🚨Death in ICE custody, MI
🔑 points:
~ He mentions the conditions of the “facility” and notes the outrage we would see from animal rights groups if these were conditions under which animals were living/dying ✅
~ How did they lose his body? Really
~ No legitimate regulatory authority is involved 1/2
🔑 points:
~ He mentions the conditions of the “facility” and notes the outrage we would see from animal rights groups if these were conditions under which animals were living/dying ✅
~ How did they lose his body? Really
~ No legitimate regulatory authority is involved 1/2
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📢 Tell Congress: Visit ICE Detention Centers NOW
open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo...
open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo...
📢 Tell Congress: Visit ICE Detention Centers NOW
This is the moment for Congress to act. Delay only benefits secrecy. Silence enables harm.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
📢 Tell Congress: Visit ICE Detention Centers NOW
open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo...
open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo...
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Khanna: You’ve got the DOJ releasing the names of survivors—which they are not allowed to do by law—but not releasing the FBI interview files with those same survivors. Those FBI interviews contain the names of other men: Wall Street tycoons and politicians…
December 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Khanna: You’ve got the DOJ releasing the names of survivors—which they are not allowed to do by law—but not releasing the FBI interview files with those same survivors. Those FBI interviews contain the names of other men: Wall Street tycoons and politicians…
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Justine Paul spent years in jail awaiting trial even as the evidence against him fell apart.
Afterward, he lived on the streets and nearly overdosed 10 times. “They took seven and a half years of his life, and I think it broke him,” his lawyer said.
By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, @adn.com
Afterward, he lived on the streets and nearly overdosed 10 times. “They took seven and a half years of his life, and I think it broke him,” his lawyer said.
By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, @adn.com
Bad Evidence Got Him Indicted for Murder. He Waited 7 Years to Walk Free.
Justine Paul was accused of killing his girlfriend, Eunice Whitman. In Alaska’s slow-motion criminal justice system, he was kept behind bars even as the evidence against him fell apart.
www.propublica.org
December 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Justine Paul spent years in jail awaiting trial even as the evidence against him fell apart.
Afterward, he lived on the streets and nearly overdosed 10 times. “They took seven and a half years of his life, and I think it broke him,” his lawyer said.
By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, @adn.com
Afterward, he lived on the streets and nearly overdosed 10 times. “They took seven and a half years of his life, and I think it broke him,” his lawyer said.
By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, @adn.com
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Amid Southern US Raids, Who’s Making Money Off Border Patrol and ICE Contracts?
Contracts for companies based in North Carolina and Louisiana total more than $341 million for fiscal years 2025-2026. | TruthOut
www.facingsouth.org/2025/12/whos...
Contracts for companies based in North Carolina and Louisiana total more than $341 million for fiscal years 2025-2026. | TruthOut
www.facingsouth.org/2025/12/whos...
Who's making big money off Border Patrol and ICE contracts?
In the wake of high-profile immigration operations in Louisiana and North Carolina, a Facing South/Institute analysis looks at more than 50 businesses in both states receiving money from U.S. Border P...
www.facingsouth.org
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Amid Southern US Raids, Who’s Making Money Off Border Patrol and ICE Contracts?
Contracts for companies based in North Carolina and Louisiana total more than $341 million for fiscal years 2025-2026. | TruthOut
www.facingsouth.org/2025/12/whos...
Contracts for companies based in North Carolina and Louisiana total more than $341 million for fiscal years 2025-2026. | TruthOut
www.facingsouth.org/2025/12/whos...
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Daily Izzy: Over 130 People Have Been Kidnapped in the Last 10 Days before Christmas Eve
December 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Daily Izzy: Over 130 People Have Been Kidnapped in the Last 10 Days before Christmas Eve
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"A Miami Herald reporter witnessed the agents forcefully removing Dayana — who is 4-feet, 11-inches tall and weighs 85 pounds — from her white Toyota Corolla. The footage shows Dayana yelling at the reporter to help her and that she was a United States citizen"
only a bit above the paywall but you get the horrible gist www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Body cam footage shows feds threatening U.S. citizen detained in Key Largo
The woman, dressed in medical scrubs, was on her way to work when she was forcibly removed from her car and cuffed before being let go.
www.miamiherald.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"A Miami Herald reporter witnessed the agents forcefully removing Dayana — who is 4-feet, 11-inches tall and weighs 85 pounds — from her white Toyota Corolla. The footage shows Dayana yelling at the reporter to help her and that she was a United States citizen"
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you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen
"A Miami Herald reporter witnessed the agents forcefully removing Dayana — who is 4-feet, 11-inches tall and weighs 85 pounds — from her white Toyota Corolla. The footage shows Dayana yelling at the reporter to help her and that she was a United States citizen"
only a bit above the paywall but you get the horrible gist www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
December 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen
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Jeanette Vizguerra’s release today shows what happens when courts enforce Constitutional protections and justice prevails against the Trump administration’s cruel immigration agenda.
www.denverpost.com/2025/12/22/j...
www.denverpost.com/2025/12/22/j...
ICE releases immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra from detention
Nine months after she first entered an Aurora detention center, Jeanette Vizguerra walked out of the facility and “into the loving arms of her family” Monday afternoon, her supporters s…
www.denverpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Jeanette Vizguerra’s release today shows what happens when courts enforce Constitutional protections and justice prevails against the Trump administration’s cruel immigration agenda.
www.denverpost.com/2025/12/22/j...
www.denverpost.com/2025/12/22/j...
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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At least 30 people have died in ICE custody in less than a year under the current administration. With the massive increase in detainments, conditions inside ICE detention facilities will only get worse, leading to even more deaths.
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
At least 30 people have died in ICE custody in less than a year under the current administration. With the massive increase in detainments, conditions inside ICE detention facilities will only get worse, leading to even more deaths.
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Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020. n.pr/3MKbmJH
Rick Steves steps in to save Seattle-area hygiene center serving homeless residents
Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020.
n.pr
December 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020. n.pr/3MKbmJH
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Windmill workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott! This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms! #BoycottWindmillmushrooms
December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Windmill workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott! This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms! #BoycottWindmillmushrooms
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CBS didn't air the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but @propublica.org talked earlier this year to those who Trump had sent to the maximum-security prison in El Salvador:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IN...
Venezuelans deported to CECOT and their families speak about their ordeal
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
CBS didn't air the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but @propublica.org talked earlier this year to those who Trump had sent to the maximum-security prison in El Salvador:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IN...
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WOW. They're not going to air their special on CECOT. I'd like to know who made this decision, and whether the federal government had a hand in it.
December 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
WOW. They're not going to air their special on CECOT. I'd like to know who made this decision, and whether the federal government had a hand in it.
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Earlier this year the people at 60 Minutes urged me to overcome fear and speak on camera about what it's like being a lawyer being targeted by Trump. When I did, they lavished me with praise -- noting I was the only person willing to do it.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
December 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Earlier this year the people at 60 Minutes urged me to overcome fear and speak on camera about what it's like being a lawyer being targeted by Trump. When I did, they lavished me with praise -- noting I was the only person willing to do it.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
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🚨 December 17: Daniel Bliss, Evanston, Il Mayor and congressional candidate, confronts Bovino for terrorizing neighborhoods and abducting people as a political spectacle for right wing media. Bovino refuses to provide a warrant for arrests. *This* did not make MSM, but WE see it. 1/2
December 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🚨 December 17: Daniel Bliss, Evanston, Il Mayor and congressional candidate, confronts Bovino for terrorizing neighborhoods and abducting people as a political spectacle for right wing media. Bovino refuses to provide a warrant for arrests. *This* did not make MSM, but WE see it. 1/2