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phacelia - daily action is the antidote to despair
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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. - Jane Goodall

Feelings aren’t what determine the future. Our actions are. - Jessica Craven
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pokinpotentialppl.bsky.social
Holy fuck.
TAKING TESTOSTERONE DECREASES SPERM PRODUCTION.

They worry about sperm counts declining - then cause the very same problem.
Typical.
Dumbasses.
December 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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j1j2.bsky.social
Lansing, Michigan
Wednesday, December 17
Know Before You Sign
MI Ballot Initiatives Explained
December 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
A new investigation revealed that school districts and local governments are reportedly overpaying for supplies because of Amazon contracts that bind them to dynamic pricing.

Rather than allow for competitive bidding, the deals “covertly raise prices and inflate costs for governments.”
December 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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j1j2.bsky.social
Two Harbors Minnesota
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December 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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j1j2.bsky.social
Orland Park, Illinois
South Suburban Relentless
Saturday, December 20
December 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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This is where we are.
December 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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#DaveGranlund
December 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Highland Indiana
Saturday thru January 31
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December 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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theintellectualist.bsky.social
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
In case it wasn’t already clear - cbs is fox now under Bari Weiss
December 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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sortoll.bsky.social
Purges at the highest levels.

youtube.com/shorts/_loX6...
What’s going on with Trump’s military purge?
YouTube video by Sen. Elissa Slotkin
youtube.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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naomikritzer.bsky.social
Also, it sounds like people have figured out which hotel the ICE agents are staying at and are giving them a lovely overnight musical performance with drums and vuvuzelas and so on.

www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...
At 7 p.m. Thursday, more than 100 people gathered outside the Homewood Suites by Hilton in Edina to protest the hotel reportedly hosting ICE agents. They came with drums, loudspeakers, megaphones and car horns and a goal to make as much noise as possible.
December 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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naomikritzer.bsky.social
Good work, Minnesota residents!
Throughout the day, NBC News witnessed multiple protestors going up to unmarked ICE vehicles and blowing whistles at the agents. Three hours later, after a burst of activity over the agency’s radio transmissions, another team, including agents from Florida and Texas, gathered around a residence, hoping to make an arrest and trying to determine whether their target was home. A crowd began to gather. “Let’s get out of there,” an ICE official said over the radio with a curse and a sigh. The operation was a constant, unrelenting sequence of trial and error, using previously gathered intelligence about targets to make arrests. Ideally, officers said, a person is taken into custody without incident. Many attempts don’t pan out, the day’s events showed and agents said, either because the suspect isn’t home or because other obstacles get in the way, such as persistent protestors or property managers who restrict ICE personnel’s movements within any given area.
December 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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naomikritzer.bsky.social
Marcos Charles is the acting "executive associate director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations" and both claims it's untrue that ICE is just grabbing random people, AND tells a story about arresting a guy from Honduras after breaking down a door to find a guy who wasn't there.
The initial target had fled the home, but ICE said another undocumented immigrant from Honduras who had been staying at the home was taken into custody. During the operation, protestors gathered nearby. One of them rammed two ICE vehicles with his car, Charles said, and was arrested. "The biggest misconception is that we're out there just randomly arresting people, which we're not," Charles said.
December 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Garcia: "Some of the other photos that we did not put out today are incredibly disturbing"
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Baldwin: Without that extension, people are seeing shocking increases in their premiums. I spoke with a small business owner in Milwaukee named Nancy. Nancy is a cancer survivor. She cannot afford to be without health care because she has special medical needs. But her premiums are tripling…
December 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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j1j2.bsky.social
Wauwatosa Wisconsin
Tomorrow December 13
Signs of Solidarity
December 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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opdeatheaters.bsky.social
Chomsky being controlled opposition tracks well with what philosopher Heather Marsh previously revealed from her correspondence with him: "Noam Chomsky introduces the concepts of ‘normal torture’ and ‘serious torture’ and is happy that the levels at Guantanamo have reached 'normal'." #OpDeathEaters
Dear Mr. Chomsky, I have just had your article here pointed out to me. http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/noam-chomsky-america-moral-degenerate?paging-off I am an admirer of your work and see your tireless advocacy for human rights, so as a long time Guantanamo activist I would like to point out two errors which I am certain were unintentional and respectfully request a correction. In your article you state "Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo." and point to inspection and the presence of defense attorneys as deterrents. I am sorry to tell you that torture, and murder, are still very much a part of Guantanamo Bay. The inspections are still severely restricted and insufficient to bring human rights and the attorneys are insufficient to bring justice. Did you miss, to name one instance, the details and cover up of the death of Adnan Latif? 167 humans still remain in Guantanamo Bay and it has been a largely frustrating and futile ten years of advocacy to try to get them returned. I'm sure you can appreciate how harmful to our efforts it would be for someone of your stature and with your audience to announce (very incorrectly)" that's not a torture chamber any more." The second error is perhaps even more important. Many methods of torture being used in all of these prisons are the result of years, even decades, of study and are chosen both for their effectiveness and their lack of recognition as torture. We have fought for many years to get the effects of methods such as sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, stress positions, etc understood and have them recognized as torture. This is still very much an uphill battle. The last thing we need is for someone with as prominent a voice as yours to introduce a concept such as "serious torture" There is no such thing as "serious torture" any more than there is "legitimate rape". The implication that what is still going on in Guantanamo is 'un-serious torture' c… I did follow the Latif case, and the reports of his torture, but my impression is that they declined a few years ago. On the rest, US prisons carry out torture constantly, and some of them, like the supermax prisons, carry out severe torture routinely. Perhaps I should have commented more fully in the interview, as I often have before, but in the comments you cite the reference was explicitly to "the more extreme forms of torture." They were doubtless carried out at Gitmo in the past, but I suspect that by now Gitmo is no more of a torture chamber than is often routine in the scandalous US incarceration system. In earlier years it was a great deal worse, really extreme forms of torture, far beyond the norm in prisons. Could and perhaps should have been said more fully. Noam Chomsky Thanks for your comments. I understand and appreciate your points, but am not entirely convinced. Reality is that Gitmo has never been much different from US supermax's, which engage in torture as routine practice though not waterboarding and the more extreme forms of torture that take place in Bagram and Gitmo earlier. I've also written about this elsewhere, pointing out that the US never ratified the UN torture convention, but did so only after rewriting it to exclude the kinds of torture recommended by the CIA (in fact borrowed from the KGB), what's called "mental torture" in the torture literature, the kind that you mention here. It seems to me worthwhile, and in fact empowering - especially in brief references that do not go into the matter - to point out that the protests about Gitmo led to a modification of the forms of torture to the kind that's normal in prisons, and more generally to distinguish between waterboarding, electrodes to the genitals, and other such torture procedures, and the "mental torture" that is permitted under US law, and is more harmful to the individual (which is why it's permitted). To distinguish, for example, between Manning's torture (common in US priso…
December 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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normative.bsky.social
When I first heard people say this, I thought it was reading too much into something that wasn't that statistically unlikely, but it is starting to seem a little fishy. There are 15 judges, and Trump keeps pulling his most loyal Renfields.
nationalsecuritylaw.org National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 23h
One day a math whiz will need to tell us all what the probability of Rao and Walker being on ALL THE PANELS in a purportedly random process is. @andrewtorrez.bsky.social @lizdye.bsky.social
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING: Judges Rao and Walker — both Trump appointees — issue an "administrative stay" blocking Judge Boasberg's contempt proceedings set to begin on Monday.

The administrative stay is issued over the objection of Judge Childs, a Biden appointee.
December 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM