Amy8cs
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As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.
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Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...
Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder
Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...
www.alternet.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...
I’m sorry.. there’s got to be someone left at the National Archives who can stop this. @cnn.com @ms.now @maddow.bsky.social @nicollewallace.bsky.social
Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...
Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder
Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...
www.alternet.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I’m sorry.. there’s got to be someone left at the National Archives who can stop this. @cnn.com @ms.now @maddow.bsky.social @nicollewallace.bsky.social
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well he ain't woke
December 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
well he ain't woke
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This'll be in 2028 ads
Trump on Tim Walz: "I think the man is a grossly incompetent man. I thought that from the day I watched JD destroy him in the debate. I was saying, 'Who's more incompetent, that man or my man?' I had a man and he had a man. They were both incompetent."
December 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This'll be in 2028 ads
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One of the four elements of malignant narcissism is sadism.
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
One of the four elements of malignant narcissism is sadism.
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A good reminder.
As Jared Kushner prepares to meet with Putin today on behalf of Trump, REMEMBER: After taking billions from the Saudis and other foreign governments, Kushner explicitly said he would not have a foreign policy role in this administration.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A good reminder.
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Reminder:
Timeline of U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
"Trump administration in Feb 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with Taliban..set a date of May 1, 2021 for withdrawal..President Biden delayed the withdrawal date..until Aug 2021"
www.factcheck.org/2021/08/time...
Timeline of U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
"Trump administration in Feb 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with Taliban..set a date of May 1, 2021 for withdrawal..President Biden delayed the withdrawal date..until Aug 2021"
www.factcheck.org/2021/08/time...
Timeline of U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan - FactCheck.org
We lay out many of the key diplomatic decisions, military actions, presidential pronouncements and expert assessments of the withdrawal agreement that ended the U.S. military's 20-year war in Afghanis...
www.factcheck.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Reminder:
Timeline of U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
"Trump administration in Feb 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with Taliban..set a date of May 1, 2021 for withdrawal..President Biden delayed the withdrawal date..until Aug 2021"
www.factcheck.org/2021/08/time...
Timeline of U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
"Trump administration in Feb 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with Taliban..set a date of May 1, 2021 for withdrawal..President Biden delayed the withdrawal date..until Aug 2021"
www.factcheck.org/2021/08/time...
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Americans struggling to feed their families & pay for their health care & their bills are having THEIR hard-earned tax dollars go towards ensuring Kristi Noem & Kash Patel have a good time in Las Vegas ...
But sure Republicans, keep telling Americans how it's all working out for them in the end.
But sure Republicans, keep telling Americans how it's all working out for them in the end.
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Americans struggling to feed their families & pay for their health care & their bills are having THEIR hard-earned tax dollars go towards ensuring Kristi Noem & Kash Patel have a good time in Las Vegas ...
But sure Republicans, keep telling Americans how it's all working out for them in the end.
But sure Republicans, keep telling Americans how it's all working out for them in the end.
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Between this and Sean Duffy and telling us to dress nicer on planes, I think we need fifty New York Times op-eds about the GOP's "scoldy elitism" problem.
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Between this and Sean Duffy and telling us to dress nicer on planes, I think we need fifty New York Times op-eds about the GOP's "scoldy elitism" problem.
A Battle with My Blood - The New Yorker
I hope @rfk-junior.bsky.social realizes how much harm he caused and should resign in disgrace immediately
I hope @rfk-junior.bsky.social realizes how much harm he caused and should resign in disgrace immediately
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A Battle with My Blood - The New Yorker
I hope @rfk-junior.bsky.social realizes how much harm he caused and should resign in disgrace immediately
I hope @rfk-junior.bsky.social realizes how much harm he caused and should resign in disgrace immediately
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Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing: says “things happen”
Here’s ‘those things:’
He was attacked, subdued, tied up, then murdered and sawed into little pieces. Right there, in the embassy they lured him to. apple.news/A6AWylCbYT9e...
Here’s ‘those things:’
He was attacked, subdued, tied up, then murdered and sawed into little pieces. Right there, in the embassy they lured him to. apple.news/A6AWylCbYT9e...
Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing — The Washington Post
The de facto Saudi ruler was branded a pariah in 2018 after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.
apple.news
November 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing: says “things happen”
Here’s ‘those things:’
He was attacked, subdued, tied up, then murdered and sawed into little pieces. Right there, in the embassy they lured him to. apple.news/A6AWylCbYT9e...
Here’s ‘those things:’
He was attacked, subdued, tied up, then murdered and sawed into little pieces. Right there, in the embassy they lured him to. apple.news/A6AWylCbYT9e...
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Powerful.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Powerful.
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It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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Schumer responded on the Senate floor today:“For this administration to go all the way to the Supreme Court just to get out of having to pay SNAP benefits for hungry kids is pathological levels of vindictiveness. This crisis is in the administration’s hands. It’s all them, not anyone else.” C-SPAN
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Schumer responded on the Senate floor today:“For this administration to go all the way to the Supreme Court just to get out of having to pay SNAP benefits for hungry kids is pathological levels of vindictiveness. This crisis is in the administration’s hands. It’s all them, not anyone else.” C-SPAN
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"A team of independent forensic analysts examined their testimony. The experts called it consistent and credible, saying most of the acts described met the United Nations’ definition of torture."
In our name, with our tax dollars.
Trump II is an indelible stain on our national honor.
In our name, with our tax dollars.
Trump II is an indelible stain on our national honor.
Don't look away. Under Trump the United States is a state that tortures and disappears www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"A team of independent forensic analysts examined their testimony. The experts called it consistent and credible, saying most of the acts described met the United Nations’ definition of torture."
In our name, with our tax dollars.
Trump II is an indelible stain on our national honor.
In our name, with our tax dollars.
Trump II is an indelible stain on our national honor.
@jaketapper.bsky.social ?? Not interesting to you???
I remember reading a bunch of corporate media stories about Biden after he got new shoes with better support. Which, by the way, he did after he fractured his foot. bsky.app/profile/atru...
photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
@jaketapper.bsky.social ?? Not interesting to you???
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Kristi Noem was gifted a new hat and bag worth hundreds of dollars each on a taxpayer funded trip to Ecuador
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Kristi Noem was gifted a new hat and bag worth hundreds of dollars each on a taxpayer funded trip to Ecuador
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Yeah, tons of stamina lol
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Yeah, tons of stamina lol
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.