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Michele Bowling
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Retired librarian, reader, writer, art lover, music lover, mother to 2 kids, 2 dogs, and 2 cats
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George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Under Nazi rule, clergy who refused to support the regime were surveilled, arrested, assaulted, and in some cases, executed. The Nazis publicly aligned themselves with Christian values while targeting religious figures who defended the vulnerable or spoke against state violence.
October 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.
September 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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We don’t celebrate his death, but we won’t hide the truth about his life.
September 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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If this became a weekly series, it would run longer than The Simpsons.
September 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Word.
September 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Federal agents detained a man who was in a car with his wife and two children on Monday night in D.C.

The man said he didn't know why he had been pulled over.
September 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗨𝗦 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁。 🐔
#KeepItOnSocialMedia

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles 👧🗃️👧

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August 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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“Save Democracy. Throw a Sandwich.”
August 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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DC Union Station tonight. Unreal.
August 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring.

And then that guy was "silenced" forever.

And now we will just not talk about anything else until they...

#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
August 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.
Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
www.npr.org
August 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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July 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Los Angeles residents were outraged after dozens of federal agents marched through MacArthur Park, in one of the city’s most immigrant-heavy neighborhoods. Homeland Security officials said it was an immigration enforcement operation, though it was unclear if anyone had been arrested. trib.al/JYW5IsU
July 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Oh, the irony:

"Folge der #Klimakrise: 'Explosionsartige Zunahme' von Fleischallergien auslösenden Zecken in den USA".

Come on: ein bisschen lustig ist das schon. Weil Tierindustrie, Fleisch, Klimakatastrophe, etc. You know?
‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis
Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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WTF is up with this regime?! Less than three weeks after Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was brought back from a wrongful deportation to El Salvador to face bogus charges in the U.S., the Trump administration now plans to deport him again, this time to a completely different country.
June 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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“Is there any sign of life?”
“Have we heard a heartbeat?”
“Does she feel any kicking?”
“We don’t have the equipment to do that.”

That’s the full 911 audio from a nurse inside an ICE detention center near Denver, calling for help as a four-months-pregnant woman bled and cried out in pain.
June 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Breastfeeding mom, wife of veteran detained by ICE.
Devastated Marine Corps Veteran Slams ‘Ploy’ Used in His Wife’s ICE Arrest
Adrian Clouatre, a service-disabled, five-year veteran, doesn’t know what to tell his children after his wife, who was still breastfeeding their three-month-old, was detained.
www.thedailybeast.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Democrats endorsing Andrew Cuomo despite his sexual harassment of women are despicable!

Democrats must be better than the GOP!
deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats endorsing Andrew Cuomo despite his sexual harassment of women are despicable!
Democrats must be better than the GOP!
deanobeidallah.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. The Committee to Protect Journalists warns his case represents an "erosion" of freedom of speech.
Salvadoran journalist's arrest in Georgia sets 'alarming precedent'
Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. The Committee to Protect Journalists warns his case represents an "erosion" of freedom of speech.
n.pr
June 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Health groups are mobilizing behind the scenes to preserve access for vaccines as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. works to upend the nation’s decades-old vaccine system, according to public health experts.
The plan to vaccinate all Americans, despite RFK Jr.
The extraordinary effort to create a parallel system of recommending and perhaps even providing vaccines faces major challenges.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The world must see this. The world must act. A father and mother sit in shock beside the ruins of their home — their child is still under the rubble. This is happening right now in Ukraine.

How many more families have to be torn apart like this before the world says: Enough? Please, do something.
June 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Alaska's historic heat advisory is a serious warning for a state where most people don’t have the coping mechanisms taken for granted elsewhere—shaded porches, central air, even knowing the signs of heatstroke.
From ice to inferno: Alaska issues historic heat advisory
The state is warming more than twice as fast as the global average.
www.motherjones.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM