Margaret Stone
@margaretds.bsky.social
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“One image released Friday shows what appears to be a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face; the bowl has a sign saying, “Trump condom $4.50,” each condom bears an image of Trump’s face with the text, “I’m HUUUUGE!” Another showed Trump with 6 women”
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New photos released from Epstein’s estate showing Trump, Bannon, Bill Clinton and other high-profile people | CNN Politics
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate Friday showing the many powerful figures in the late sex trafficker’s orbit, including President Donald Tr...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“One image released Friday shows what appears to be a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face; the bowl has a sign saying, “Trump condom $4.50,” each condom bears an image of Trump’s face with the text, “I’m HUUUUGE!” Another showed Trump with 6 women”
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“In a stunning special election upset...Democrat Eric Gisler flipped a Georgia state House seat that President Donald Trump carried by 12 points, winning...a race that LGBTQ+ advocates are calling a decisive rebuke of far-right politics."
🔎 advocate.com/politics/eric-gisler-lgbtq-georgia-ally
🔎 advocate.com/politics/eric-gisler-lgbtq-georgia-ally
December 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“In a stunning special election upset...Democrat Eric Gisler flipped a Georgia state House seat that President Donald Trump carried by 12 points, winning...a race that LGBTQ+ advocates are calling a decisive rebuke of far-right politics."
🔎 advocate.com/politics/eric-gisler-lgbtq-georgia-ally
🔎 advocate.com/politics/eric-gisler-lgbtq-georgia-ally
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Rep. Magaziner: “You promised America that you would go after the worst of the worst…You don’t seem to know how to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys. Go after the terrorists, do not go after veterans, marines, children, and U.S. citizens.”
December 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Rep. Magaziner: “You promised America that you would go after the worst of the worst…You don’t seem to know how to tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys. Go after the terrorists, do not go after veterans, marines, children, and U.S. citizens.”
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Republicans control the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate.
Millions of Americans they represent will see health insurance premiums double or even triple in just days.
Congressional Republicans need to stand up for the people they represent.
Millions of Americans they represent will see health insurance premiums double or even triple in just days.
Congressional Republicans need to stand up for the people they represent.
December 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Republicans control the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate.
Millions of Americans they represent will see health insurance premiums double or even triple in just days.
Congressional Republicans need to stand up for the people they represent.
Millions of Americans they represent will see health insurance premiums double or even triple in just days.
Congressional Republicans need to stand up for the people they represent.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Reposted by Margaret Stone
Reposted by Margaret Stone
A federal judge last week blocked ICE from making indiscriminate arrests without a warrant in Colorado, in a case brought by @acluofcolorado.bsky.social.
The Trump administration can't arrest people because of our skin color, accent, or perceived nationality in order to fulfill arrest quotas.
The Trump administration can't arrest people because of our skin color, accent, or perceived nationality in order to fulfill arrest quotas.
ICE conduct in Colorado "unlawful”: Federal judge restricts how immigration officers can arrest people in the state
The ruling is a win in federal court for ACLU, Colorado law firms who sued ICE to stop “indiscriminate” arrests and detentions
coloradosun.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A federal judge last week blocked ICE from making indiscriminate arrests without a warrant in Colorado, in a case brought by @acluofcolorado.bsky.social.
The Trump administration can't arrest people because of our skin color, accent, or perceived nationality in order to fulfill arrest quotas.
The Trump administration can't arrest people because of our skin color, accent, or perceived nationality in order to fulfill arrest quotas.
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"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."
www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...
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Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center
A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.
www.fox32chicago.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."
www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...
www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...
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“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation”
Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog
Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog
More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation
By Daniel Ducassi, FloridaBulldog.org - More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts missing legally required public documentation.
www.floridabulldog.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation”
Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog
Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog
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An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”
October 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”
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Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
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Whether you like or dislike what’s said, free speech is at the heart of our democracy.
Protecting it should be one of our core missions as a nation.
If there were ever a moment for the so-called “free speech warriors” to speak out, now would be the time.
Protecting it should be one of our core missions as a nation.
If there were ever a moment for the so-called “free speech warriors” to speak out, now would be the time.
September 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Whether you like or dislike what’s said, free speech is at the heart of our democracy.
Protecting it should be one of our core missions as a nation.
If there were ever a moment for the so-called “free speech warriors” to speak out, now would be the time.
Protecting it should be one of our core missions as a nation.
If there were ever a moment for the so-called “free speech warriors” to speak out, now would be the time.
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Free speech scholars say ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely represents "jawboning," when government officials pressure private companies to suppress speech.
Legal experts say pulling Jimmy Kimmel from air may amount to illegal 'jawboning'
Free speech scholars say ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely represents "jawboning," when government officials pressure private companies to suppress speech.
n.pr
September 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Free speech scholars say ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely represents "jawboning," when government officials pressure private companies to suppress speech.
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Sen. Chris Murphy: "Trump's FCC forced a major network to pull a loud Trump critic, Jimmy Kimmel, off the air — essentially saying that any media actor that doesn't say what Trump wants them to say...is going to be silenced. That's censorship. That's not America."
September 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Sen. Chris Murphy: "Trump's FCC forced a major network to pull a loud Trump critic, Jimmy Kimmel, off the air — essentially saying that any media actor that doesn't say what Trump wants them to say...is going to be silenced. That's censorship. That's not America."
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ICE is using a "staging facility" in Louisiana to hold people for days and deporting them before they can call a lawyer to defend their rights.
“Louisiana is where people go to be disappeared,” said Nora Ahmed of the ACLU of Louisiana.
“Louisiana is where people go to be disappeared,” said Nora Ahmed of the ACLU of Louisiana.
Trump’s deportation hub: inside the ‘black hole’ where immigrants disappear
A Guardian investigation into the Alexandria facility reveals a pattern of alleged due process violations, previously unreported accounts of neglect and abuse, documented health emergencies and long stays
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
ICE is using a "staging facility" in Louisiana to hold people for days and deporting them before they can call a lawyer to defend their rights.
“Louisiana is where people go to be disappeared,” said Nora Ahmed of the ACLU of Louisiana.
“Louisiana is where people go to be disappeared,” said Nora Ahmed of the ACLU of Louisiana.
@nicollewallace.bsky.social the ONLY Patel comment that bears repeating:
September 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
@nicollewallace.bsky.social the ONLY Patel comment that bears repeating:
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There are weeks that feel longer than they are, and weeks when every single day is hard. This was a long, hard week. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-lo...
A Long, Hard Week
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
There are weeks that feel longer than they are, and weeks when every single day is hard. This was a long, hard week. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-lo...
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a rational person would look at a political party who tried to lie us into a civil war over a podcaster until they found out the shooter was one of them and run the other way.
a healthy media would look at the last 24 hours as a gut check to make sure they don't lie us into more tragedies.
a healthy media would look at the last 24 hours as a gut check to make sure they don't lie us into more tragedies.
September 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
a rational person would look at a political party who tried to lie us into a civil war over a podcaster until they found out the shooter was one of them and run the other way.
a healthy media would look at the last 24 hours as a gut check to make sure they don't lie us into more tragedies.
a healthy media would look at the last 24 hours as a gut check to make sure they don't lie us into more tragedies.