LynnP
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LynnP
@ritter2.bsky.social
I love Cities, Buildings, Books, Dogs, Politics, Music. Not always in that order. So, so many thoughts on so many things.
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Support independent media.
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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If you are involved with this report, or have any information about the process involved in today's decision, please reach out. I am on Signal: crg.32
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Action Alert! Tomorrow.

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December 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Maybe the most frightening thing I read this week. “Children who were just entering the early years of public school when Trump first ran based on a racist rant in 2015 are now graduating from high school thinking that this is normal.” www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
There is something deeply wrong with Donald Trump
Let me take off my psychotherapist hat and simply speak as a parent, an adult, a businessman, a citizen, and a human being.There is something deeply and fundamentally wrong with Donald Trump.Wednesday...
www.alternet.org
December 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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FYI Petfinder has recently changed policies for searches on out of town pets, which is drastically shifting the abilities of small rescues in Texas to move dogs out of Texas to adopters in other parts of the country. If you've adopted from a small rescue, please amplify their rescue work.
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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House Democrats have introduced War Powers Resolutions to block further military assaults on Venezuela. We’re expecting a House vote this week, so call your representative ASAP and demand that they vote YES to check the regime’s lawless violence: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
December 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.

The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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“There is no obvious legitimate reason for ICE to be compiling what appears to be a covert roster of immigration lawyers.”
December 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Lake Street Church removes the figure of Mary wearing a gas mask, which was smashed by vandals, from the display. In its place, church staff put up a sign stating that Mary is being detained by immigration agents.
After vandals wreck anti-ICE Nativity scene, Evanston church gets creative
chicago.suntimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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"Amid concerns that he has failed to address a worsening affordability crisis....Donald Trump revealed on Sunday that his domestic policy chief’s main priority is building a triumphal arch for Washington DC." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump says building DC triumphal arch is domestic policy chief’s ‘primary thing’
Trump praises Vince Haley, his ex-speechwriter tasked with creating Arc de Triomphe knockoff amid affordability crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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It’s the right thing to do! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Stand with Ukraine over Russia
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence.

In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Film ICE activity. If you feel ICE agents were doing anything inappropriate, send the video to AG Letitia James using this link:

ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
December 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is hosting more than 120 community-led events across NYC this weekend to ensure their neighbors have whistles and know their rights, all to protect from escalating ICE abductions.

This. Is. The. Way.

If you're in New York, you can find events near you at HandsOffNYC.com.
December 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This is insane! How many Americans realize the level of surveillance ICE is conducting on us all?
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 9:57 PM
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“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.”

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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"The complaints against Bove may get traction or they may go nowhere. But that’s not the point. Federal judges shouldn’t engage in arguably improper behavior and then shrug it off by claiming they did it in their personal capacity." open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Judicial Ethics
Yesterday, Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Emil Bove attended an event where Donald Trump spoke.
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Today, Rep. Don Beyer, Sen. Peter Welch and I are introducing a bill to expand ranked choice voting to all elections for Congress. RCV assures that winners have majority support, no candidate acts as a “spoiler,” and the voting process favors positive coalition-building.
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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In what fucking country do we currently live?

One in which cruelty is the central mission? What in the actual hell is ICE doing?
December 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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A few years before the latest Homeland Security campaign of cruelty in Chicago, an immigration officer was a serial rapist in the city, authorities say.
US Border Patrol Officer in Chicago Operated as ‘Serial Rapist,’ Federal Prosecutors Allege
Federal prosecutors allege that Luis Uribe is a “serial rapist” who used his position in law enforcement to sexually assault and rob at least four women at gunpoint throughout 2022.
news.wttw.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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this is part of NSPM-7 btw
🚨Pam Bondi just ordered the FBI to compile a list of American "extremists" and to establish a bounty fund to reward tipsters, per DOJ memo leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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ICE detained an asylum seeker with no deportation order who had just had a C-section, has Type 1 diabetes, and whose newborn was in the NICU, without giving her any medical care, a breast pump, anything. What is the point of this
“Guzmán’s daughter was still in the NICU, unable to eat or breathe independently. The doctors had planned a meeting to review the baby’s prognosis and care plans… As Guzmán went to buckle her seatbelt, she looked out the window and noticed they were surrounded.”
Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.
Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.
19thnews.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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HANDS OFF NYC!
Trump Tower, 725 5th Ave, New York, NY
Sunday, December 14
1:00 – 2:00pm

Our message to Trump is clear:
NO TROOPS - NO ICE IN NYC!

We will have banners, signs and a hell of a lotta NOISE - because no city should be occupied by federal troops.
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM