Karen Starr
@ravenbadger.bsky.social
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Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet
Scammers have duped consumers out of more than $1 billion by exploiting Walmart’s lax security. The company has resisted taking responsibility while breaking promises to regulators and skimping on tra...
www.propublica.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
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Louisiana National Guard deploys in New Orleans
www.upi.com
Louisiana National Guard deploys in New Orleans - UPI.com
twp.ai
December 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Louisiana National Guard deploys in New Orleans
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Worth noting that Nigeria makes a point in its statement to debunk Trump’s comments that this violence is specifically directed at Christians, acknowledging that it impacts everyone.
December 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Worth noting that Nigeria makes a point in its statement to debunk Trump’s comments that this violence is specifically directed at Christians, acknowledging that it impacts everyone.
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Former FDA Dr. @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social on childhood vaccine schedule overhaul: Dr. Gottlieb reminds us that a move to the Danish schedule means more children hospitalized and dead, and counters other anti-vaccine claims. youtu.be/e8CJr1IgGPw?... via @cnbc.com
Former FDA Dr. Scott Gottlieb on childhood vaccine schedule overhaul
YouTube video by CNBC Television
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December 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Former FDA Dr. @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social on childhood vaccine schedule overhaul: Dr. Gottlieb reminds us that a move to the Danish schedule means more children hospitalized and dead, and counters other anti-vaccine claims. youtu.be/e8CJr1IgGPw?... via @cnbc.com
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Reposted by Karen Starr
Environmental reviews collapsed when permits started auto-renewing. Cattle graze uncontrolled on public lands. Originally published by @propublica.org and @highcountrynews.org
The Diminishing Oversight of Livestock Grazing on Public Lands
Federal law requires agencies to review the environmental impacts of grazing, but the system is riddled with loopholes.
f.mtr.cool
December 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Environmental reviews collapsed when permits started auto-renewing. Cattle graze uncontrolled on public lands. Originally published by @propublica.org and @highcountrynews.org
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LAPD Arrests Everyone Who Lost Home In Fire https://theonion.com/lapd-arrests-everyone-who-lost-home-in-fire/
December 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
LAPD Arrests Everyone Who Lost Home In Fire https://theonion.com/lapd-arrests-everyone-who-lost-home-in-fire/
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Julie has been covering this longer than most. The DOJ is not following the law. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
December 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Julie has been covering this longer than most. The DOJ is not following the law. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
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Nothing like asking career AUSAs who have been under assault for the last year, watched their colleagues get fired for no reason, and their offices taken over by incompetent boobs to volunteer their time to perpetuate a cover up of their boss's involvement w/a sex predator 🙃
December 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Nothing like asking career AUSAs who have been under assault for the last year, watched their colleagues get fired for no reason, and their offices taken over by incompetent boobs to volunteer their time to perpetuate a cover up of their boss's involvement w/a sex predator 🙃
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10 companies stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
interc.pt
December 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
10 companies stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
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Immigration arrests and deportations have shot up in New England, with the participation of federal, regional and local institutions.
Map: How mass deportation happens in New England
Immigration arrests and deportations have shot up in New England, with the participation of federal, regional and local institutions.
www.wbur.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Immigration arrests and deportations have shot up in New England, with the participation of federal, regional and local institutions.
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"The acquisition, announced Monday, is intended to give Alphabet’s Google access to more electricity for its data centers as aging US grids struggle to meet power demand that’s booming for the first time in decades thanks in part to artificial intelligence."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Alphabet to Buy Data Center Partner Intersect for $4.75 Billion
Alphabet Inc. has agreed to buy clean energy developer Intersect Power LLC for $4.75 billion in cash, plus existing debt, marking one of the largest deals by the tech giant to dramatically expand its ...
www.bloomberg.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"The acquisition, announced Monday, is intended to give Alphabet’s Google access to more electricity for its data centers as aging US grids struggle to meet power demand that’s booming for the first time in decades thanks in part to artificial intelligence."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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i'm trying not to constantly post about it but all the shit about epstein is boiling my head cos it's not actually news. the media has completely failed in their role to make it clear the news here is the authorities were fully aware of both epstein and his network.
December 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
i'm trying not to constantly post about it but all the shit about epstein is boiling my head cos it's not actually news. the media has completely failed in their role to make it clear the news here is the authorities were fully aware of both epstein and his network.
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Garcia: They are, on one hand, putting names of survivors in these documents that are not redacted. And in these same documents, they're taking extra time and being extra careful to redact the names of the coconspirators
December 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Garcia: They are, on one hand, putting names of survivors in these documents that are not redacted. And in these same documents, they're taking extra time and being extra careful to redact the names of the coconspirators
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Reposted by Karen Starr
Today in Leeds we recreated Christ under the rubble in solidarity with the Lutheran Church in Bethlehem. Also raising awareness of the number of children killed and maimed and the plight of the hunger strikers. Lots of people stopping to talk & lots donations for MAP & to support families from Gaza
December 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Today in Leeds we recreated Christ under the rubble in solidarity with the Lutheran Church in Bethlehem. Also raising awareness of the number of children killed and maimed and the plight of the hunger strikers. Lots of people stopping to talk & lots donations for MAP & to support families from Gaza
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Reposted by Karen Starr
Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.
December 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Even BILL CLINTON is saying he doesn’t care if the full release of the files implicates Bill Clinton. Amazing.
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Even BILL CLINTON is saying he doesn’t care if the full release of the files implicates Bill Clinton. Amazing.
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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Illinois AFL-CIO, Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans, and Illinois Federation of Teachers, my law firm has moved to intervene as defendants in the DOJ's lawsuit seeking Illinois' complete statewide voter registration database. www.democracydocket.com/cases/illino...
🚨 United States of America v. Matthews
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Illinois AFL-CIO, Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans, and Illinois Federation of Teachers, my law firm has moved to intervene as defendants in the DOJ's lawsuit seeking Illinois' complete statewide voter registration database. www.democracydocket.com/cases/illino...
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Some Afghans told to attend government check-ins on Christmas, New Year's Day - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/afghans-us-told-attend-government-check-ins-during-christmas-new-years
Some Afghans told to attend government check-ins on Christmas, New Year's Day
The move may be designed to arrest them while judges and lawyers are on holiday, advocate says
www.middleeasteye.net
December 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Some Afghans told to attend government check-ins on Christmas, New Year's Day - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/afghans-us-told-attend-government-check-ins-during-christmas-new-years
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The Trump administration has already started planning a new Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale, the first of six nearly annual sales mandates for the inlet through 2032 under the sweeping budget bill dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
via @alaskabeacon.com
via @alaskabeacon.com
Disputed oil lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet upheld in new Trump administration decision
The Trump administration on Friday affirmed a controversial federal Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale held at the end of 2022, asserting that impacts to endangered beluga whales and other resources…
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Trump administration has already started planning a new Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale, the first of six nearly annual sales mandates for the inlet through 2032 under the sweeping budget bill dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
via @alaskabeacon.com
via @alaskabeacon.com
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Homeless people and their advocates gathered for a vigil in Sacramento — and passed around gear to survive frigid winter nights.
Mourners remember nearly 200 who died homeless in Sacramento County this year
Homeless people and their advocates gathered for a vigil in Sacramento — and passed around gear to survive frigid winter nights.
bit.ly
December 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Homeless people and their advocates gathered for a vigil in Sacramento — and passed around gear to survive frigid winter nights.