sylk
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The man who ran on a platform of "America First" and promised no involvement in foreign wars is now launching wars of choice in Nigeria, Venezuela, Syria, and Lebanon.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The man who ran on a platform of "America First" and promised no involvement in foreign wars is now launching wars of choice in Nigeria, Venezuela, Syria, and Lebanon.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.
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The tech bros will do everything in their power to prevent any regulation of AI, because regulation is a pin and AI is a bubble. And they are going to make America eat that loss somehow. Even as they sit on billions.
There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The tech bros will do everything in their power to prevent any regulation of AI, because regulation is a pin and AI is a bubble. And they are going to make America eat that loss somehow. Even as they sit on billions.
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50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person.
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
December 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person.
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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Here is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Here is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues in full:
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Most people have no idea how much we all depend on having officially sanctioned national/international time & measurement standards so that critical infrastructure works properly. The DOGE rampage of 2025 that took an ax to so many things in the USA is going to have long-term after-effects.
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Most people have no idea how much we all depend on having officially sanctioned national/international time & measurement standards so that critical infrastructure works properly. The DOGE rampage of 2025 that took an ax to so many things in the USA is going to have long-term after-effects.
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i guess we should just all share the PBS FRONTLINE & PROPUBLICA documentary on CECOT
youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc
youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
i guess we should just all share the PBS FRONTLINE & PROPUBLICA documentary on CECOT
youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc
youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc
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Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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Linda Wilder (Canadian, b.1955)
"Winter's Gift," 2017
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Winter's Gift," 2017
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Linda Wilder (Canadian, b.1955)
"Winter's Gift," 2017
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Winter's Gift," 2017
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 36 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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William Hays (American, b.1956)
"Nightfall Snowfall," n.d.
8-color linocut print
9 x 12 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Nightfall Snowfall," n.d.
8-color linocut print
9 x 12 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 21, 2025 at 6:11 AM
William Hays (American, b.1956)
"Nightfall Snowfall," n.d.
8-color linocut print
9 x 12 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Nightfall Snowfall," n.d.
8-color linocut print
9 x 12 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Amid soaring starvation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, one young mother of two said she had considered taking her own life to save her children, “because I heard the U.N. takes care of the kids when the parents are gone.”
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Amid soaring starvation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, one young mother of two said she had considered taking her own life to save her children, “because I heard the U.N. takes care of the kids when the parents are gone.”
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Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
New research finds trans teens have high satisfaction with gender care
The survey published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that trans teens taking puberty blockers or hormones had very low rates of regret.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
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Note that a portion of the regret rate (about half) is not related to the gender-affirming care itself, but wishes it had been sooner, or faster, or because there were unrelated complications.
Like all health-care decisions, this one should be between a patient and their doctor.
Like all health-care decisions, this one should be between a patient and their doctor.
December 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Note that a portion of the regret rate (about half) is not related to the gender-affirming care itself, but wishes it had been sooner, or faster, or because there were unrelated complications.
Like all health-care decisions, this one should be between a patient and their doctor.
Like all health-care decisions, this one should be between a patient and their doctor.
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I feel awful for our expert civil servants who faithfully served our country only to be fired by unqualified, uncaring, irresponsible men who couldn't even make it one year doing government work.
Looking at you Elon and Bongino.
Looking at you Elon and Bongino.
December 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I feel awful for our expert civil servants who faithfully served our country only to be fired by unqualified, uncaring, irresponsible men who couldn't even make it one year doing government work.
Looking at you Elon and Bongino.
Looking at you Elon and Bongino.
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President Trump is delivering on his promise of retribution against Colorado for the state's mail-in ballots and refusal to release his ally Tina Peters from prison.
The Trump team says it plans to close America's foremost weather lab: NCAR. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports.
The Trump team says it plans to close America's foremost weather lab: NCAR. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports.
December 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
President Trump is delivering on his promise of retribution against Colorado for the state's mail-in ballots and refusal to release his ally Tina Peters from prison.
The Trump team says it plans to close America's foremost weather lab: NCAR. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports.
The Trump team says it plans to close America's foremost weather lab: NCAR. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports.
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it's not hard to just love your kid.
entire world being dictated by people who simply do not love their kids as they are and want to invent ways for that to be morally justified, a way to hurt them or let them die for not being what they imagined... but ethically.
entire world being dictated by people who simply do not love their kids as they are and want to invent ways for that to be morally justified, a way to hurt them or let them die for not being what they imagined... but ethically.
December 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it's not hard to just love your kid.
entire world being dictated by people who simply do not love their kids as they are and want to invent ways for that to be morally justified, a way to hurt them or let them die for not being what they imagined... but ethically.
entire world being dictated by people who simply do not love their kids as they are and want to invent ways for that to be morally justified, a way to hurt them or let them die for not being what they imagined... but ethically.
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Happy 80th Birthday to the amazing, Ernie Hudson 🎂🎉🥳
Yes, he's 80 years old today! Google it!
Yes, he's 80 years old today! Google it!
December 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Happy 80th Birthday to the amazing, Ernie Hudson 🎂🎉🥳
Yes, he's 80 years old today! Google it!
Yes, he's 80 years old today! Google it!
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Trump and Republicans in Congress seem to love socialism for the rich -- corporate welfare, subsidies, and tax breaks galore. Yet they demand harsh capitalism for the rest of America.
December 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Trump and Republicans in Congress seem to love socialism for the rich -- corporate welfare, subsidies, and tax breaks galore. Yet they demand harsh capitalism for the rest of America.
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APOLAKI WEPT
(Apolaki, the sun god of the Tagalog and Pangasinan people of the northern philippines, was said to have wept at the great suffering of his people during colonial rule)
(Apolaki, the sun god of the Tagalog and Pangasinan people of the northern philippines, was said to have wept at the great suffering of his people during colonial rule)
September 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
APOLAKI WEPT
(Apolaki, the sun god of the Tagalog and Pangasinan people of the northern philippines, was said to have wept at the great suffering of his people during colonial rule)
(Apolaki, the sun god of the Tagalog and Pangasinan people of the northern philippines, was said to have wept at the great suffering of his people during colonial rule)
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Happy first day of transgender awareness week. I am an indigenous isneg-hiligaynon trans man. And I like drawing trans guys. All I want is for you guys to look at my art.
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Happy first day of transgender awareness week. I am an indigenous isneg-hiligaynon trans man. And I like drawing trans guys. All I want is for you guys to look at my art.
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Trump's escalation in Latin America will likely serve as a pretext to further suppress dissent at home.
We must resist his efforts to launch more international wars and stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets.
We must resist his efforts to launch more international wars and stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets.
December 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Trump's escalation in Latin America will likely serve as a pretext to further suppress dissent at home.
We must resist his efforts to launch more international wars and stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets.
We must resist his efforts to launch more international wars and stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets.
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Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
December 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
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Drone Attacks Killed Over 100 Civilians in Sudan This Month
Drone Attacks Killed Over 100 Civilians in Sudan This Month
In news from Sudan, the UAE-backed paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has been attempting to cover up its mass killings of civilians in the city of El Fasher by burning and burying bodies. That’s accor...
www.democracynow.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Drone Attacks Killed Over 100 Civilians in Sudan This Month
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As we get more reports of ICE thugs detaining Americans, it should be noted that Timothy Snyder made it crystal clear from the onset of ICE raids that NO ONE would be safe.
People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.
Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.
People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.
Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.
October 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
As we get more reports of ICE thugs detaining Americans, it should be noted that Timothy Snyder made it crystal clear from the onset of ICE raids that NO ONE would be safe.
People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.
Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.
People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.
Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.