Lise M. Dyckman
@lisedyckman.bsky.social
Librarian (teaching health information literacy / critical thinking); country dance caller & choreographer; gardens & politics & social history, oh my...
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Find your local California Rapid Response hotline | CCIJ
Find your local California Rapid Response Network and hotline to report immigration enforcement activity and keep our communities safe!
www.ccijustice.org
California peeps, here’s where to find local community ICE-defense organizations, including finding local phone numbers to report sightings of ICE presence / activity:
www.ccijustice.org/carrn
www.ccijustice.org/carrn
This is Islam.
Now consider the likely answer if they had asked Christian Nationalists.
Now consider the likely answer if they had asked Christian Nationalists.
The woman on TikTok calling the mosques and asking if they’d help her with formula and 100% of them asking nothing but what kind do you want and where are you is the Muslim I am, the Muslim I know. And it really makes the hate that much more unmooring.
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This is Islam.
Now consider the likely answer if they had asked Christian Nationalists.
Now consider the likely answer if they had asked Christian Nationalists.
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Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
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WRT that question of what, exactly, is a living wage, Mamdani’s proposed minimum wage of $30 / hr. by 2030 still only brings that up to 76% of estimated living wage.
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www.epi.org/blog/a-30-by...
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www.epi.org/blog/a-30-by...
A ‘$30 by 2030’ minimum wage in New York City is a bold proposal: The first step is giving the city the freedom to set its own wage floor
Last spring, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani proposed a “$30 by 2030” minimum wage for New York City workers.{{1}} Ambitious strategies to raise wages and lower costs are needed given t...
www.epi.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
WRT that question of what, exactly, is a living wage, Mamdani’s proposed minimum wage of $30 / hr. by 2030 still only brings that up to 76% of estimated living wage.
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www.epi.org/blog/a-30-by...
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www.epi.org/blog/a-30-by...
Need to keep this in mind. Even folks without narcissistic personality disorder or anger management issues pre-dementia can become rage monsters as their mental state declines.
Add in that those around him are undoubtedly going behind his back, claiming to act in his name — mad kings indeed.
Add in that those around him are undoubtedly going behind his back, claiming to act in his name — mad kings indeed.
One aspect of Dementia Don that I don’t see much discussed is the anger aspect. Patients either seem to turn inward or lash out. My husband’s grandfather was a powerful businessman…in the early stages the disease angered him as he saw his power wane and continued to worsen as time went by
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Need to keep this in mind. Even folks without narcissistic personality disorder or anger management issues pre-dementia can become rage monsters as their mental state declines.
Add in that those around him are undoubtedly going behind his back, claiming to act in his name — mad kings indeed.
Add in that those around him are undoubtedly going behind his back, claiming to act in his name — mad kings indeed.
“As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify.”
And equally intense crimes will be perpetrated by faux-agents (who can tell the difference?).
And equally intense crimes will be perpetrated by faux-agents (who can tell the difference?).
They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify.”
And equally intense crimes will be perpetrated by faux-agents (who can tell the difference?).
And equally intense crimes will be perpetrated by faux-agents (who can tell the difference?).
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Know your abusers These are the 8 Senate Democrats who voted to end the shutdown.
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine)
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.)
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.)
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.)
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (R-N.H.)
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.)
Tim Kaine (D-Va.)
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine)
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.)
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.)
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.)
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (R-N.H.)
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.)
Tim Kaine (D-Va.)
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Know your abusers These are the 8 Senate Democrats who voted to end the shutdown.
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine)
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.)
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.)
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.)
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (R-N.H.)
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.)
Tim Kaine (D-Va.)
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine)
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.)
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.)
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.)
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (R-N.H.)
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.)
Tim Kaine (D-Va.)
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
Archetypal ICE - turn a Girl Scouts’ food drive into fascist performance.
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Archetypal ICE - turn a Girl Scouts’ food drive into fascist performance.
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Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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So it turns out that airports in the US are deeply dependent on money from the federal govt and they basically can't exist without it. Socialism, man. It's where you least expect it, but you should expect it because private businesses don't fund shit. Taxpayers do.
November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
So it turns out that airports in the US are deeply dependent on money from the federal govt and they basically can't exist without it. Socialism, man. It's where you least expect it, but you should expect it because private businesses don't fund shit. Taxpayers do.
Alert on infant botulism danger:
“Stop using ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula immediately. Retailers should pull it from shelves, including Amazon, Kroger, Walmart, Whole Foods, Target, and Sam’s Club.”
Also frozen foods alert expands (details in replies).
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
“Stop using ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula immediately. Retailers should pull it from shelves, including Amazon, Kroger, Walmart, Whole Foods, Target, and Sam’s Club.”
Also frozen foods alert expands (details in replies).
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Infant formula botulism cluster, black box warning for HRT, flu is waking up, new blood pressure guidelines, and more
This is your weekly Dose.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Alert on infant botulism danger:
“Stop using ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula immediately. Retailers should pull it from shelves, including Amazon, Kroger, Walmart, Whole Foods, Target, and Sam’s Club.”
Also frozen foods alert expands (details in replies).
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
“Stop using ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula immediately. Retailers should pull it from shelves, including Amazon, Kroger, Walmart, Whole Foods, Target, and Sam’s Club.”
Also frozen foods alert expands (details in replies).
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
This.
Dont make our pain be the price of Dem. “Leadership” staying in power. Because you won’t, not for long.
Dont make our pain be the price of Dem. “Leadership” staying in power. Because you won’t, not for long.
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This.
Dont make our pain be the price of Dem. “Leadership” staying in power. Because you won’t, not for long.
Dont make our pain be the price of Dem. “Leadership” staying in power. Because you won’t, not for long.
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If they give up on those ACA subsidies, they aren't ever going to get them back
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
If they give up on those ACA subsidies, they aren't ever going to get them back
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DEMS HOLD THE LINE
Call your senators. (202) 224-3121
Call your senators. (202) 224-3121
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
DEMS HOLD THE LINE
Call your senators. (202) 224-3121
Call your senators. (202) 224-3121
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If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
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A sign of hope for amity in this world: as it gets colder (by NorCal wimpy standards), all 3 cats join us on the bed.
(While it’s the comfiest big surface in the house, it also gets the least heat.)
(While it’s the comfiest big surface in the house, it also gets the least heat.)
November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A sign of hope for amity in this world: as it gets colder (by NorCal wimpy standards), all 3 cats join us on the bed.
(While it’s the comfiest big surface in the house, it also gets the least heat.)
(While it’s the comfiest big surface in the house, it also gets the least heat.)
At stake:
What’s an evidence-based living wage? MIT calculated the border between needing & not needing outside support (like SNAP) to survive.
Most current wages are *lower* than that minimum, some places MUCH LOWER. Despite hard-won minimum wage increases.
www.dollarsandsense.org/wage-stagnat...
What’s an evidence-based living wage? MIT calculated the border between needing & not needing outside support (like SNAP) to survive.
Most current wages are *lower* than that minimum, some places MUCH LOWER. Despite hard-won minimum wage increases.
www.dollarsandsense.org/wage-stagnat...
Wage Stagnation vs. Living Wages for U.S. Workers Today
Far from earning living wages, most U.S. workers have experienced wage stagnation since the 1970s--a trend largely obscured by political rhetoric and misinformation.
www.dollarsandsense.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
At stake:
What’s an evidence-based living wage? MIT calculated the border between needing & not needing outside support (like SNAP) to survive.
Most current wages are *lower* than that minimum, some places MUCH LOWER. Despite hard-won minimum wage increases.
www.dollarsandsense.org/wage-stagnat...
What’s an evidence-based living wage? MIT calculated the border between needing & not needing outside support (like SNAP) to survive.
Most current wages are *lower* than that minimum, some places MUCH LOWER. Despite hard-won minimum wage increases.
www.dollarsandsense.org/wage-stagnat...
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Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
So states can’t distribute SNAP funds they already have on hand? Every state administration should give the finger to feds, & ignore.
Breaking news: The Trump administration over the weekend ordered states to stop distributing full food assistance benefits for November to the 42 million low-income Americans risking food insecurity.
Trump administration orders states to pause paying full SNAP benefits
A memo issued by the Agriculture Dept. warns states that if they fail to comply with the new orders, they will face consequences.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
So states can’t distribute SNAP funds they already have on hand? Every state administration should give the finger to feds, & ignore.
It’s going to take a lot of pro bono work for us to collectively survive this. Kudos to the lawyers stepping up.
If you're arrested in Illinois for the means by which you acquire food for your family because of the government shutdown or loss of SNAP benefits, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
November 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It’s going to take a lot of pro bono work for us to collectively survive this. Kudos to the lawyers stepping up.
in today’s pinnacle of male arrogance & privilege, we have:
“The dual class action suits allege that the functions—which followed thousands of sexual harassment and assault lawsuits against Uber and Lyft over the years— have limited the economic opportunities for men and discriminated against them because of their gender.”
Male Drivers Sue Uber and Lyft Over Women-Only Ride-Hailing
The lawsuits allege that male drivers receive fewer rides because of the feature, violating sex discrimination laws.
time.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
in today’s pinnacle of male arrogance & privilege, we have:
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November 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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A leading federal judge quits in protest of Trump's corruption-- & to fight it
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Leaving the Federal Bench
A judge explains his reasons for resigning.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A leading federal judge quits in protest of Trump's corruption-- & to fight it
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...