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Paula R.
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Mother of three. Live in the beautiful NW.
Happy to be here.
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horsechops.bsky.social
Action. Not thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
The richest man on the planet has a pinned tweet that's just straight up white nationalism. I can't say I miss Twitter!
Elon pinned tweet: Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end
December 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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swin24.bsky.social
bingo. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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cwebbonline.com
There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat.

The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.

Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
December 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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maddenifico.bsky.social
Fox News will continue to gaslight their low IQ audience, but we all know what's happening to Trump. The rapid decline is unmistakable. 😳👇
December 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
Some of the protesters brought items to keep the two men warm -- heating pads, jacket, food -- but the agents told them they couldn’t get the items to the upper floor.
December 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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jswatz.bsky.social
Former EPA climate advisor Jeremy Symons, now a senior advisor for Environmental Protection Network of former EPA officials, said: “Ignoring fossil fuel pollution as the driving force behind the climate changes we have seen in our lifetime is like pretending cigarettes don’t cause lung cancer.”
EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming's causes. Scientists call it misleading
The Environmental Protection Agency has removed references to fossil fuels from its online page about climate change causes.
apnews.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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alisonkilling.bsky.social
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.

He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.

www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
horsechops.bsky.social
Indeed.
December 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
New pic: Bannon & Epstein

🔴 Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...

🔴 Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein @peterjukes.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
December 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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walterolson.bsky.social
Zachary B. Wolf at CNN asked my Cato colleague David Bier to respond to some comments by White House aide Stephen Miller denouncing immigrants and liberal immigration law generally. This is David's response. /1
Screenshot from CNN reading "I put Miller’s comments to David Bier, a critic of the Trump administration’s immigration policy at the libertarian-leaning CATO institute. Bier disagreed, to put it mildly." Screenshot from CNN reading: "“His views are baseless smears based on bias, not serious analysis,” he told me by email, adding a point-by-point deconstruction of what Miller said. BIER: Immigrants to the United States today are assimilating faster than prior generations. They are more likely to know English, more likely to have graduated college, are more economically productive, and more beneficial to government budgets than in the early 20th century. They have more experience with democracy than past waves of immigration, and they are more patriotic and more supportive of US institutions than the US-born. By the time they naturalize they have adopted almost the same political views, except for immigration policy. They are less likely to commit crimes and be incarcerated than those in the early 20th century. Immigrants today cost less to the health care system than the US-born. They are less likely to commit and be incarcerated for crimes than the US-born. Immigrants increase the returns to education for the US-born, leading more US-born to graduate. They make the US-born more productive, increasing their wages and living standards."
December 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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johnbisognano.com
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.

I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
horsechops.bsky.social
So gross.
December 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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atrupar.com
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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atrupar.com
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
The Heritage Foundation is an authoritarian Christian Nationalist organization.

Treat their people accordingly.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d
In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d
The US government is now a mafia organization.
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
horsechops.bsky.social
Golden.
December 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
December 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
horsechops.bsky.social
Everything is fine.
December 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
U.S. prosecutors in Chicago are dropping another case tied to Operation Midway Blitz, "without prejudice."

It's USA v. Nathan Griffin. Below is the motion, followed by excerpts from the complaint.

The feds don't say why they're dropping it, but they had until today to secure an indictment.
MOTION TO DISMISS COMPLAINT The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, by its attorney, ANDREW S. BOUTROS, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, hereby moves the Court, pursuant to Rule 48(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, to dismiss the complaint in this case against NATHAN GRIFFIN without prejudice. Dated: December 3, 2025 Respectfully submitted, ANDREW S. BOUTROS. United States Attorney 4. According to information provided by USBP Agent 1, who has been employed by USBP for approximately 5 years, and my review of USBP Agent 1’s body worn camera video: a. On or about October 24, 2025, USBP Agent 1 was: (i) in a USBP tactical uniform which included markings on the front of his tactical vest that identified him as “POLICE” with an American flag; and (ii) in the front passenger seat of an unmarked vehicle in the area of North Broadway and West Belmont Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. b. USBP Agent 1 and other USBP agents were in the area looking for a body worn camera they believed might have been dropped in that area during a prior immigration related arrest. c. After the vehicle in which USBP Agent 1 was riding stopped on the right side of the road, USBP Agent 1 opened the front passenger door and began to exit the vehicle. After placing his right leg outside of the vehicle, USBP Agent 1 felt pain and pressure on his leg, and saw an individual, later identified as GRIFFIN, outside of his door, forcibly trying to close the door. d. USBP Agent 1 was able push the door open, exit the vehicle, and, with the assistance of USBP Agent 2, was able to take GRIFFIN into custody. While doing so, GRIFFIN initially refused to let go of the USBP vehicle’s door handle and a nearby scaffolding and passively resisted being taken into custody. e. I observed on body worn camera video that as GRIFFIN was taken into custody, he stated to USBP agents: “I didn’t assault anybody. . . Shutting a door isn’t a fucking crime.” f. As a result of GRIFFIN closing the door on USBP Agent 1’s leg, USBP Agent 1 received a small gouge and scrapes on his right leg. The image below is of the injury to USBP Agent 1’s leg. 5. Following his arrest, GRIFFIN identified himself as NATHAN GRIFFIN. 6. For the forgoing reasons, I respectfully submit that there is probable cause to believe that defendant NATHAN GRIFFIN forcibly assaulted, impeded, and interfered with an officer of the United States, as designated in Title 18, United States Code, Section 1114, more specifically, USBP Agent 1, while the agent was engaged in the performance of his official duties, and in doing so, engaged in an act involving physical contact with USBP Agent 1, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1). FURTHER AFFIANT SAYETH NOT.
December 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
JUST IN: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Snell just confirmed, at the prodding of U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, that this motion for dismissal followed a "no bill" from a grand jury.

That means the grand jury refused to indict.
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 11d
U.S. prosecutors in Chicago are dropping another case tied to Operation Midway Blitz, "without prejudice."

It's USA v. Nathan Griffin. Below is the motion, followed by excerpts from the complaint.

The feds don't say why they're dropping it, but they had until today to secure an indictment.
MOTION TO DISMISS COMPLAINT The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, by its attorney, ANDREW S. BOUTROS, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, hereby moves the Court, pursuant to Rule 48(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, to dismiss the complaint in this case against NATHAN GRIFFIN without prejudice. Dated: December 3, 2025 Respectfully submitted, ANDREW S. BOUTROS. United States Attorney 4. According to information provided by USBP Agent 1, who has been employed by USBP for approximately 5 years, and my review of USBP Agent 1’s body worn camera video: a. On or about October 24, 2025, USBP Agent 1 was: (i) in a USBP tactical uniform which included markings on the front of his tactical vest that identified him as “POLICE” with an American flag; and (ii) in the front passenger seat of an unmarked vehicle in the area of North Broadway and West Belmont Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. b. USBP Agent 1 and other USBP agents were in the area looking for a body worn camera they believed might have been dropped in that area during a prior immigration related arrest. c. After the vehicle in which USBP Agent 1 was riding stopped on the right side of the road, USBP Agent 1 opened the front passenger door and began to exit the vehicle. After placing his right leg outside of the vehicle, USBP Agent 1 felt pain and pressure on his leg, and saw an individual, later identified as GRIFFIN, outside of his door, forcibly trying to close the door. d. USBP Agent 1 was able push the door open, exit the vehicle, and, with the assistance of USBP Agent 2, was able to take GRIFFIN into custody. While doing so, GRIFFIN initially refused to let go of the USBP vehicle’s door handle and a nearby scaffolding and passively resisted being taken into custody. e. I observed on body worn camera video that as GRIFFIN was taken into custody, he stated to USBP agents: “I didn’t assault anybody. . . Shutting a door isn’t a fucking crime.” f. As a result of GRIFFIN closing the door on USBP Agent 1’s leg, USBP Agent 1 received a small gouge and scrapes on his right leg. The image below is of the injury to USBP Agent 1’s leg. 5. Following his arrest, GRIFFIN identified himself as NATHAN GRIFFIN. 6. For the forgoing reasons, I respectfully submit that there is probable cause to believe that defendant NATHAN GRIFFIN forcibly assaulted, impeded, and interfered with an officer of the United States, as designated in Title 18, United States Code, Section 1114, more specifically, USBP Agent 1, while the agent was engaged in the performance of his official duties, and in doing so, engaged in an act involving physical contact with USBP Agent 1, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1). FURTHER AFFIANT SAYETH NOT.
December 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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rincewind.run
by far the most encouraging thing about the second Trump term has been the extent to which ordinary people, tasked with the execution of the very system of justice this administration wishes to corrupt, have said absolutely the fuck not

our institutions are failing but our people are not
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 4d
JUST IN: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Snell just confirmed, at the prodding of U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, that this motion for dismissal followed a "no bill" from a grand jury.

That means the grand jury refused to indict.
jonseidel.bsky.social Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 11d
U.S. prosecutors in Chicago are dropping another case tied to Operation Midway Blitz, "without prejudice."

It's USA v. Nathan Griffin. Below is the motion, followed by excerpts from the complaint.

The feds don't say why they're dropping it, but they had until today to secure an indictment.
December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Once again, the ads in the print edition of @theonion.com are worth the price alone
CBS NEWS News the White House can trust
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM