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Jojo 🐻
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Neuro🌶️ Artist & Feminist, Dog Mom, Proud Auntie 📚🎨 💙
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Hey so, i would encourage my fellow performers to not do any shows at the Kennedy Center until it reverts to it’s original name
Thank you for your attention to this matter

(yes I’ve already performed there so it’s an easier decision for me)
December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice will fail to publicly release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by a Friday deadline, violating a new federal law explicitly mandating that the trove of documents be turned over for public scrutiny. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Chickens Out on Epstein Files Release in Violation of New Law
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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This could have been an email.
December 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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If this doesn't make clear to you why independent, pro-democracy media is crucially important, I don't know what will. Democracy Docket is urgently trying to scale up to step in where legacy media is failing. Sign-up now to support its efforts. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
December 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Senator Ruben Gallego has introduced Senate legislation to outlaw surveillance pricing.

Surveillance pricing is yet another way for corporations to pull one over on you.

Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain the dangers of this shady practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbtUYshYM8
The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.

I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --

private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."

www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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"Among the crowd was a 17-year-old high school student from Astoria who attended P.S. 166.

'Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped,' he said. 'I used to go to 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country'...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...
Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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“It confirms what we already knew — this was not about public safety, it’s about stoking chaos and fear and terrorizing communities,” said state Sen. Royce Duplessis.
Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown
Records reviewed by the AP show that few of those arrested have criminal histories beyond traffic violations.
www.nola.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need more of this.

www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Lanae Erickson is PRECISELY the kind of “insider” we all need to be IGNORING.

TN-7 was never ever a swing district, and no “centrist” Dem ever made any headway in that district.

Aftyn Behn was uniquely qualified but severely under-resourced until the VERY end.

But roll your eyes at people who
Despite Aftyn’s overperformance, Lanae Erickson of Third Way ⚠️ says the “far left” pushing candidates like Aftyn in “swing districts” (huh?) cost Dems “flippable seats”—🤡 deeply unserious, TN7 was Trump +22

Voice of Reason- Ex Cooper COS Lisa Quigley disagrees, saying Behn uniquely excited the base
December 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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This timing makes a lot more sense now, doesn’t it?

Adm. Alvin Holsey resigned in October as commander of U.S. Southern Command right after flagging concerns about those U.S. military strikes on “suspected” drug boats in the Caribbean.

He served for 37 years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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A few days ago ICE grabbed a British woman who was holding her 6 month old child.

Now they’ve deported a woman to Honduras who’s 8 month is left behind

She was at an appt for a work permit when they asked “is that your baby? Are you breastfeeding?”

She said “No” to breastfeeding and they took her
Young mother deported from Minnesota to Honduras without her infant
After being deported from Minnesota last week, a young mother says she's back in Honduras without her 8-month-old child.
www.cbsnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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That's what it's there for, baby - at least until the ACIP meets again on Dec.4.

Two very large meta-analyses (study subjects were teen girls & young women) found HPV vaccination "slashed cervical cancer incidence [&] reduced the risk of precancerous lesions...

www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...
HPV Vaccination Tied to Huge Reduction in Cervical Cancer Risk
Two large meta-analyses reassure on safety, efficacy
www.medpagetoday.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Trump fawning over Mamdani just proves once again that Trump has absolutely no core values except his own power. He has no politics except his own popularity. He believes in nothing except feeling validated.

He just wanted to hang out with the new cool kid. Didn’t matter what Mamdani stood for.
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred.

As ALWAYS, this is about $$.

We're about to become REALLY "great"...

shorturl.fm/xs7gY
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?

CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's actually no need to tolerate swastikas in our military ever. We don't need policy papers on this. We don't need long discussions and to "better understand" those who wear them. We can just ban all Nazi imagery and call it a day.
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Muslims are a “threat to our freedom” on Tuesday as he targeted the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the U.S. with a foreign terrorist organization label in an escalation of a movement of anti-Muslim hate in the state.
Abbott Says Muslims Are “Threat to Our Freedom” as He Targets Civil Rights Group With Terrorist Designation
Governors do not have the authority to designate groups as a foreign terrorist organization.
truthout.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley "Our Republican colleagues, I think they have proven that they are godless, they are gutless, and they are complicit in wholesale harm. "

True words spoken!
#Pinks
🎁

www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
'Godless and gutless': Republicans called out as fiery Dems go on the offensive
WASHINGTON — As the government shutdown neared its end on Wednesday, one prominent Democratic member of Congress had choice words for Republican leaders, whom she called "godless" and "gutless." Rep....
www.rawstory.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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🧵: The federal government shutdown has been painful for families across our community and our country. (1/9)
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM