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@readabookpeople.bsky.social
Reading, thinking human being.
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Trump may try to erase history, but he will not succeed unless we let him.
April 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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"We invite anyone to the BEAT Center in Toms River or to the JBJ Soul Kitchen Pop-Up to see what we are doing to end homelessness and hunger in our community.” -Jon Bon Jovi
Republican mayor says Jon Bon Jovi’s soup kitchen is attracting homeless people
The rocker and his wife said they have no plans to shutter the pop-up cafe
www.independent.co.uk
April 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
He needs to read more menus and more books.
April 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Go to your local library. Check out a book about Harriet Tubman. Read it and be inspired.
Trump's National Park Service Brings Its Revisionist History to the Underground Railroad
The National Park Service edited a page on its website that describes the Underground Railroad to reduce the emphasis on Harriet Tubman.
www.rollingstone.com
April 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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I've been to Dilley, the "family residential center" I think he's referring to.

It's a jail. They're surrounded by barbed wire fences and armed guards. It's a jail.
Tom Homan spoke to local news about the children in his own town abducted by ICE: “First of all, the family is not in a jail. They’re in a family residential center, it’s an open air campus.”

Oh, ok.
Border czar Tom Homan speaks out about ICE sweep near Sackets
President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, is speaking with 7News about an immigration case in his own backyard.
www.wwnytv.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”
April 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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In another repugnant strike against women & low income people, Trump cut tens of millions to Planned Parenthood.

His reason? They’re violating diversity, equality, & inclusion EO prohibitions & supporting open borders🤬

Always hurting the American people.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Trump admin cuts tens of millions from Planned Parenthood
The Title X funds were earmarked for birth control and other non-abortion services.
www.politico.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Here's how it works:

1. DOGE fires everybody at USIP.
2. A DOGE guy from GSA gets installed USIP's acting president.
3. That guy agrees to transfer USIP's $500 million headquarters back to GSA—for free.

www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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🚨They kidnapped Her.

ICE agents in masks grabbed Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts PhD student, stole her phone, and threw her in an unmarked car.

No charges. Just speech they didn’t like. This is what fascism looks like in America.
March 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Read and remember Mike Johnson's words.
thehill.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM