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@jenbush.bsky.social
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Usually, when I need an appointment at the VA, I can get one within 2 weeks. Today, I called for an appointment and the next available is in May, 2026. Firing 35K people will do that. The Trump administration hates veterans.
December 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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With subsidies that help consumers pay their health insurance premiums set to expire, health care shoppers face staggering prices. Lawmakers are running out of time to agree on a solution. n.pr/4pB8Off
ACA shoppers face sticker shock as Congress dithers on health care
With subsidies that help consumers pay their health insurance premiums set to expire, health care shoppers face staggering prices. Lawmakers are running out of time to agree on a solution.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.

New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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His name was Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina. @mayaonstage.bsky.social & @michaelfanone.bsky.social discuss his life & how easy it can happen to us if we ignore it happening to others.

Subscribe to watch the full episode
www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-deadli...
December 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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SANDY HOOK SURVIVOR: “I carry this trauma with me every single day… we deserve to live in a nation where you value children more than guns.” 🇺🇸

(H/T @marchforourlives.bsky.social )
December 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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‘Now the government is focusing not on protecting everyday Americans, but on protecting those in the “Epstein class.”’
December 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Are you in Mesa County, Colorado? Your public library board is about to be overtaken with extremists.

Get to the board meeting TOMORROW to speak up and out about what's going to come if these two get appointed.

annelandmanblog.com/2025/12/maga...
MAGA book burners target Mesa County Public Library system and a call to action! – AnneLandmanBlog
annelandmanblog.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Last week 20 Republicans and all 211 Democrats in the House voted to nullify President Trump’s Executive Order 14251 that exempts certain federal workers from collective bargaining in certain key national security areas.

www.congress.gov/votes/house/...
www.congress.gov
December 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Report on ICE agents entering NYC shelters (without warrants, as almost goes without saying, not that warrants would make it okay) in open violation of NYC policy. gothamist.com/news/ice-ent...
ICE enters NYC shelters armed and without judicial warrants, reports show
Here's how 'incident reports' detail interactions between federal immigration enforcement officers and staff at city shelters for immigrants.
gothamist.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Trump is hellbent on crushing federal unions, but they’re still kicking
Trump is hellbent on crushing federal unions, but they’re still kicking
“People think that since we don't have the right to strike, we're like a paper tiger.”
www.motherjones.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Trump is also extorting the International Criminal Court, and has Microsoft and the international banking system helping him.

Judges, prosecutors and staff of the International Criminal Court have had their bank account access shut off and their email and even Alexa and ebook access switched off.
December 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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i mean...

uh...

well...

lordy.

this defies summation. incredible story.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
One of the many dangers in sanctioned kidnappings is unsanctioned kidnappings.
NEW JERSEY — bonkers… the husband of an ICE agent uses her marked car to pretend to be Homeland Security and respond to a call HE MADE HIMSELF… with a gun and sirens and everything.
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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“.. Wealthy taxpayers in high-tax states .. are the biggest winners, while most taxpayers will see only a modest boost.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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“The only reason that he’s able to continue to harass me is because New Yorkers are paying for it,” Boylan said in an interview with THE CITY. “It never ends.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/15/t...
Taxpayers Forked Out Another $1.3 Million for Cuomo’s Sexual Harassment Defense
As his failed mayoral campaign played out, the former governor’s lawyers ran up the bill contesting the claims of a former state trooper on his security detail.
www.thecity.nyc
December 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Montana Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke says their plan is to “REDUCE OVERALL CARE” 🤔

At least he’s honest!

#MedicareForAllNOW
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Operation Metro Surge is state-sanctioned racial profiling used as a tool of political intimidation.

But Somali Minnesotans aren’t intimidated, we’re brave and resilient, and our neighbors have our back.

We don’t cower to bullies.
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Readers reply: why are we not better people?
Readers reply: why are we not better people?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions takes a quizzical look at human nature. Why hasn’t it advanced along with other forms of progress? Or has it?
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Nazis!
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.
Nice little TV network you got there
How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.
www.motherjones.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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🔥 @briantylercohen.bsky.social to scottie nell Hughes: “Blaming people making minimum wage for rising costs is CRAZY… Trump’s trade war is raising costs, and these tax cuts overwhelmingly benefit the rich — Blaming people at the bottom is why people are voting Republicans out of office.”
December 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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What's striking about Trump's lies, and those of his apologists, is that they're not even plausible. They don't try to be plausible. As others have noted, that's kind of the point. True authoritarian control and power is telling a blatant and obvious lie, and showing you can get away with it.
Q: Can you explain what's going on with the bandages on Trump's hand?

LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
December 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM