Sandy
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Sandy
@smarski.bsky.social
Conservationist, photographer, writer, new grandma, mom, wife, Woman, Democrat, Feelin' the Bern ... forever
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January 25, 2026 at 1:11 PM
‘Disheartening’: US justice department slashes funding to programs combating child sex trafficking
A win for the pedophiles in our government
January 24, 2026 at 2:56 PM
US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’
January 24, 2026 at 2:54 PM
The first horrible year of Trump's presidency
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The first horrible year of Trump's presidency
What a long year it's been...
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January 20, 2026 at 5:11 PM
As Trump menaces Greenland, this much is clear: the free world needs a new plan – and inspired leadership | Gordon Brown
January 20, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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Always encouraging words from the Professor
Sunday thought: Our power, our courage, and our resolve
Friends,
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January 11, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Learn about fascism from a WWII U.S. pamphlet. It's spot on
January 9, 2026
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.
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January 10, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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And Trump told New York Times reporters David E. Sanger, Tyler Pager, Katie Rogers, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs that as commander-in-chief, he has only one limit on his power: “My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
Wow. Perfectly "normal"
January 8, 2026
On MS NOW today, columnist Philip Bump broke down when talking about the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis.
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January 9, 2026 at 1:26 PM
The Trump gold card
Pay to play
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December 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Trump launches $1m ‘gold card’ visa scheme amid immigration crackdown
With that much money, who in their right mind would want to even come here? WTF???
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Whiskey Pete goes caroling
Senator Tom Cotton joins in the merrymaking
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December 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"...the U.S. will back away from the global engagements that underpin the rules-based international order that the World War II Allies put in place after that war to prevent another world war."
December 5, 2025
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Evanston church's Nativity depicts baby Jesus zip-tied by ICE agents
December 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
They just play dirty
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"

Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison

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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
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November 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM