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Displaced Southerner in a Blue state. Nature lover, horticulturist, educator, proud liberal ✡️
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‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Sunday Morning.
Today...Remembering and
sending love to all the families of Sandy Hook on this 13th anniversary
But then to wake to the horrible news of Bondi Beach and Brown University
Guns..Hate.. When Will it Ever Stop...Antisemitism ..
My heartfelt condolences to all these families 😪🙏
Today...Remembering and
sending love to all the families of Sandy Hook on this 13th anniversary
But then to wake to the horrible news of Bondi Beach and Brown University
Guns..Hate.. When Will it Ever Stop...Antisemitism ..
My heartfelt condolences to all these families 😪🙏
December 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sunday Morning.
Today...Remembering and
sending love to all the families of Sandy Hook on this 13th anniversary
But then to wake to the horrible news of Bondi Beach and Brown University
Guns..Hate.. When Will it Ever Stop...Antisemitism ..
My heartfelt condolences to all these families 😪🙏
Today...Remembering and
sending love to all the families of Sandy Hook on this 13th anniversary
But then to wake to the horrible news of Bondi Beach and Brown University
Guns..Hate.. When Will it Ever Stop...Antisemitism ..
My heartfelt condolences to all these families 😪🙏
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From the Heritage Foundation
“President Trump has made it clear…if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state.
Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame”
“President Trump has made it clear…if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state.
Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame”
December 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
From the Heritage Foundation
“President Trump has made it clear…if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state.
Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame”
“President Trump has made it clear…if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state.
Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame”
“This is ideological and financial war on Americans through technology and abuse of federal power. It is a conspiracy by the government and the oligarch class to enrich themselves and their cronies—to the tune of trillions of dollars.”
Jim Stewartson (@jimstewartson)
I took a deep dive into the Trump regime’s furious inflation of the AI bubble—including Pete Hegseth mandating AI as a “teammate” in every soldier’s daily “battle rhythm”—and Trump’s PayPal Mafia-auth...
substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“This is ideological and financial war on Americans through technology and abuse of federal power. It is a conspiracy by the government and the oligarch class to enrich themselves and their cronies—to the tune of trillions of dollars.”
U.S. Steps Up Campaign Against Maduro in Seizing Tanker Off Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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"Every disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is *choosing*—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism."
A year of hell for immigrants
In the first Trump administration, cruelty was the point. Now, it is the norm.
www.motherjones.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"Every disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is *choosing*—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism."
“It was a week. We have long since crossed the rubicon of constitutional & democratic crisis, & still last week seemed remarkable & uniquely chilling. We must not become numb to it.
The actions of both SCOTUS & [DT] seemed to take the swift unraveling of democracy on an even more aggressive spiral.”
The actions of both SCOTUS & [DT] seemed to take the swift unraveling of democracy on an even more aggressive spiral.”
Is It Too Late?
No. But We Must Better Understand the Nature of the Battle
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
“It was a week. We have long since crossed the rubicon of constitutional & democratic crisis, & still last week seemed remarkable & uniquely chilling. We must not become numb to it.
The actions of both SCOTUS & [DT] seemed to take the swift unraveling of democracy on an even more aggressive spiral.”
The actions of both SCOTUS & [DT] seemed to take the swift unraveling of democracy on an even more aggressive spiral.”
On 10/17, two survivors of an explosive boat strike were retrieved from the wreckage & brought aboard the USS Iwo Jima, one in apparent medical distress. Standard protocol calls for video & photo documentation of detainee onboarding. Instead, personnel were told to delete the footage.
MSN
www.msn.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
On 10/17, two survivors of an explosive boat strike were retrieved from the wreckage & brought aboard the USS Iwo Jima, one in apparent medical distress. Standard protocol calls for video & photo documentation of detainee onboarding. Instead, personnel were told to delete the footage.
A leaked memo by Bondi directs DOJ/FBI to compile a list of groups they label domestic terrorist orgs based on political views related to immigration, gender & US policy. Ken Klippenstein discusses how it expands on DT’s NSPM-7 directive, which ordered investigation & disruption of specific groups.
Journalist Reveals FBI Is Offering a “Bounty” for Reporting “Anti-Trump Thought”
A leaked DOJ memo directs the FBI to review records from the past five years, says Ken Klippenstein.
truthout.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A leaked memo by Bondi directs DOJ/FBI to compile a list of groups they label domestic terrorist orgs based on political views related to immigration, gender & US policy. Ken Klippenstein discusses how it expands on DT’s NSPM-7 directive, which ordered investigation & disruption of specific groups.
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Christine Le Jeune was testifying against an Open AI/Oracle data center campus coming to her city of Port Washington. The officers claimed this was disorderly conduct - but I just see a woman exercising her rights as an American. Officer’s dragged her out.
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Christine Le Jeune was testifying against an Open AI/Oracle data center campus coming to her city of Port Washington. The officers claimed this was disorderly conduct - but I just see a woman exercising her rights as an American. Officer’s dragged her out.
The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
"The two-day meeting of ACIP—the committee that once guided evidence-based U.S. vaccine policy before being upended under RFK Jr.—just wrapped. And… it was something else. Disgraceful. Unprepared. Dysfunctional. Incompetent. Terrifying. Embarrassing. Opaque.
Our children deserve better. Period."
Our children deserve better. Period."
ACIP key takeaways: What really happened and what it means for you
The two-day meeting of ACIP—the committee that once guided evidence-based U.S.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"The two-day meeting of ACIP—the committee that once guided evidence-based U.S. vaccine policy before being upended under RFK Jr.—just wrapped. And… it was something else. Disgraceful. Unprepared. Dysfunctional. Incompetent. Terrifying. Embarrassing. Opaque.
Our children deserve better. Period."
Our children deserve better. Period."
Understand the connection between DT's pardon of Hernández & his relationship w/Silicon Valley investors' (aka cultists') dream of operating Network States--billionaire-funded cities around the globe--in preparation for an alleged collapse of nation-states in the 21st century.
Trump Pardons Drug Trafficker Who Backed Network State City
Trump pardoned Honduras's ex-president, convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine. He championed Prospera, backed by Thiel and Andreessen.
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Understand the connection between DT's pardon of Hernández & his relationship w/Silicon Valley investors' (aka cultists') dream of operating Network States--billionaire-funded cities around the globe--in preparation for an alleged collapse of nation-states in the 21st century.
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Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
December 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
The Trump regime released its 2025 National Security Strategy—which appears to have been co-authored by the PayPal Mafia and Aleksandr Dugin.
It is a plan to break America away from the world, break the will of the people, and benefit Vladimir Putin.
It is a plan to break America away from the world, break the will of the people, and benefit Vladimir Putin.
National Insecurity Strategy: The PayPal-Putin Plan to Break America
How Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy serves the techno-fascist elite, our foreign adversaries—and great replacement theory.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The Trump regime released its 2025 National Security Strategy—which appears to have been co-authored by the PayPal Mafia and Aleksandr Dugin.
It is a plan to break America away from the world, break the will of the people, and benefit Vladimir Putin.
It is a plan to break America away from the world, break the will of the people, and benefit Vladimir Putin.
“Alejandro was murdered," says international human rights attorney Dan Kovalik, who filed the legal petition on behalf of the family. "This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial."
"Alejandro Was Murdered": Colombian Fisherman's Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
“Alejandro was murdered," says international human rights attorney Dan Kovalik, who filed the legal petition on behalf of the family. "This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial."
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without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
Vance began constructing a new right establishment in 2019, joining w/mega-donors to form a secretive org. to “win nat’l elections w/55% of the vote. One way to think of Rockbridge is as…a kind of political venture capital firm…to leverage our investors’ capital” to “pursue political alpha.”
Opinion | ‘The $64,000 Question Is What Happens When He Is Gone’
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Vance began constructing a new right establishment in 2019, joining w/mega-donors to form a secretive org. to “win nat’l elections w/55% of the vote. One way to think of Rockbridge is as…a kind of political venture capital firm…to leverage our investors’ capital” to “pursue political alpha.”
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#AKavanaughStop means if you’re not white in America, you can be assaulted & kidnapped at any time by anonymous, masked men with military fatigues & military grade weapons.
If you’re white, you’re assumed to belong in America.
#ThisIsWhiteNationalism
#RebrandedKKK
#SeeYouInNuremberg
If you’re white, you’re assumed to belong in America.
#ThisIsWhiteNationalism
#RebrandedKKK
#SeeYouInNuremberg
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
#AKavanaughStop means if you’re not white in America, you can be assaulted & kidnapped at any time by anonymous, masked men with military fatigues & military grade weapons.
If you’re white, you’re assumed to belong in America.
#ThisIsWhiteNationalism
#RebrandedKKK
#SeeYouInNuremberg
If you’re white, you’re assumed to belong in America.
#ThisIsWhiteNationalism
#RebrandedKKK
#SeeYouInNuremberg
George Will: “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”
Read the statements made at the Cabinet meeting. The govt’s turned into an interminable episode of South Park. We are being terrorized by the most pathetic people on the planet.
Read the statements made at the Cabinet meeting. The govt’s turned into an interminable episode of South Park. We are being terrorized by the most pathetic people on the planet.
Today in Politics, Bulletin 262. 12/2/25
… After posting a blizzard of deranged QAnon content, threats, and conspiracies on Truth Social past midnight last night, Trump was back at it again starting at 5:48 AM.
www.meidasplus.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
George Will: “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”
Read the statements made at the Cabinet meeting. The govt’s turned into an interminable episode of South Park. We are being terrorized by the most pathetic people on the planet.
Read the statements made at the Cabinet meeting. The govt’s turned into an interminable episode of South Park. We are being terrorized by the most pathetic people on the planet.
The news came as a shock to Hondurans & to US authorities, who’d built a major case & won a conviction against Hernández. They’d accused him of taking bribes during his campaign from the notorious former leader of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, El Chapo, & of running his country like a narco state.
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The news came as a shock to Hondurans & to US authorities, who’d built a major case & won a conviction against Hernández. They’d accused him of taking bribes during his campaign from the notorious former leader of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, El Chapo, & of running his country like a narco state.
“Providing care for immigrants is one of scripture’s clearest commands. It is one of the great tragedies of our time that millions of Christians are cheering and applauding the administration’s brutal crackdown on immigrants.”
New Life needs help.
‘I’ve Been Doing This Work for 25 Years and I’ve Never Seen Such Fear’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
‘I’ve Been Doing This Work for 25 Years and I’ve Never Seen Such Fear’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/o...
Opinion | ‘I’ve Been Doing This Work for 25 Years and I’ve Never Seen Such Fear’
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“Providing care for immigrants is one of scripture’s clearest commands. It is one of the great tragedies of our time that millions of Christians are cheering and applauding the administration’s brutal crackdown on immigrants.”