patw
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Army brat, Army wife. "All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all." Also, "He who made kittens, put snakes in the grass." Still, we must get back to the garden.
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In today’s depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.
December 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
In today’s depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.
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A scorched boat washed ashore on a remote beach in Colombia. Then mangled bodies. And then empty packets, a few with marijuana traces. We matched the physical and digital evidence to a U.S. airstrike — and found a fishing community terrified to go to sea. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
Grim Evidence of Trump’s Airstrikes Washes Ashore on a Colombian Peninsula
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December 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A scorched boat washed ashore on a remote beach in Colombia. Then mangled bodies. And then empty packets, a few with marijuana traces. We matched the physical and digital evidence to a U.S. airstrike — and found a fishing community terrified to go to sea. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...
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Earl Lamont Smith was convicted of stealing thousands of government computers and selling them for profit. He pleaded guilty and waived his right to a trial. Trump pardoned him on May 28, 2025.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration says it's freezing child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes in recent years.
December 31, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Earl Lamont Smith was convicted of stealing thousands of government computers and selling them for profit. He pleaded guilty and waived his right to a trial. Trump pardoned him on May 28, 2025.
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😔📉 ❝DEI❞ rollback reaches the dead: a U.S. WWII cemetery in Margraten quietly removes visitor-centre panels on Black troops, leaving their story untold among 8,000+ graves. 🕊️🖤
![A U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands has quietly removed the only visitor-centre displays about Black American soldiers, prompting charges of historical erasure and political interference in remembrance.
❝The removal of the displays is disrespectful to the Black American soldiers who served and to the legacies their families cherish.❞
Janice Wiggins, widow of Jefferson Wiggins (a Black WWII soldier quoted in one of the display panels) — ❝U.S. WWII cemetery in the Netherlands removes displays about Black troops❞ — The Washington Post — Thu. 13-Nov-2025
❝Not only reading about, but actually experiencing, how history and those who shaped it can be so easily and casually erased … It was very personal.❞
Janice Wiggins — ibid
❝Now there is no textual information provided about Black troops at the cemetery.❞
Rees Ribbens (a senior researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam) — ibid
❝Given the emphasis the current administration puts on DEI, it doesn’t make it that difficult to start wondering if the disappearance of Black history [at the cemetery] has to do with the current winds blowing in D.C.❞
Rees Ribbens — ibid](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wnhlwfb44kfyi4gb6yc2tvbz/bafkreibjxxnnv27dzyjcxc3oal3lzcyp23c4btl6jm5hvilb64tjhzsiou@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
😔📉 ❝DEI❞ rollback reaches the dead: a U.S. WWII cemetery in Margraten quietly removes visitor-centre panels on Black troops, leaving their story untold among 8,000+ graves. 🕊️🖤
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@cnn. @kaitlancollins.bsky.social. Take over Greenland? As a flippant betting issue?
December 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
@cnn. @kaitlancollins.bsky.social. Take over Greenland? As a flippant betting issue?
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Find him in his natural environment.
December 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Find him in his natural environment.
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I will have more to say about our strike on Venezuela as soon as I can figure out *if it really happened or if Trump is conflating it with something*, which is a hell of thing to say about a statement from the president about military action.
Well, rumor has it Trump seemed to have just bombed a port in Venezuela. This can give you some military stuff to think about to take your mind off this conversation.
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I will have more to say about our strike on Venezuela as soon as I can figure out *if it really happened or if Trump is conflating it with something*, which is a hell of thing to say about a statement from the president about military action.
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Every single time Trump has a meeting with Zelensky, Putin calls Trump the day before and Trump’s position in the Zelensky meeting then mirrors the Russian position. The talking points are the same, with all the same lies. It’s a simple playbook for Putin and it works every time.
December 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Every single time Trump has a meeting with Zelensky, Putin calls Trump the day before and Trump’s position in the Zelensky meeting then mirrors the Russian position. The talking points are the same, with all the same lies. It’s a simple playbook for Putin and it works every time.
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Basically the theme of Miller's entire Tweet, which he doesn't realize, is that fascism destroys one's technological base.
December 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Basically the theme of Miller's entire Tweet, which he doesn't realize, is that fascism destroys one's technological base.
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And of course he is ignorant to the fact Germany was previously the center of the scientific community. A position they lost when they decided that was an inherent quality of being German. Best in the world is a position you can only maintain by welcoming the best from everywhere else.
December 29, 2025 at 4:17 AM
And of course he is ignorant to the fact Germany was previously the center of the scientific community. A position they lost when they decided that was an inherent quality of being German. Best in the world is a position you can only maintain by welcoming the best from everywhere else.
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I attended hearings and kept in touch with family. Richard needed morphine at time he was released from hospital into federal detention. Feds wouldn’t even give him ibuprofen for the gunshot wound ICE caused.
Despite judge later ordering treatment, they kept failing to do so adequately. Horrific.
Despite judge later ordering treatment, they kept failing to do so adequately. Horrific.
December 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I attended hearings and kept in touch with family. Richard needed morphine at time he was released from hospital into federal detention. Feds wouldn’t even give him ibuprofen for the gunshot wound ICE caused.
Despite judge later ordering treatment, they kept failing to do so adequately. Horrific.
Despite judge later ordering treatment, they kept failing to do so adequately. Horrific.
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December 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
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It is not just what is happening at New College: discussion of the broader Florida environment of limiting freedom to teach and learn...is just not discussed. No mention of the Stop WOKE Act or other educational gag orders. No mention that the online right now veto which faculty leaders are selected
December 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It is not just what is happening at New College: discussion of the broader Florida environment of limiting freedom to teach and learn...is just not discussed. No mention of the Stop WOKE Act or other educational gag orders. No mention that the online right now veto which faculty leaders are selected
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cats are either liquid, OR bobbin case
December 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM
cats are either liquid, OR bobbin case
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December 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.
December 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.
Ah, geez, @nytimes.com
We are at a major inflection point in our existence as a democracy, and THIS is how you describe the Trump presidency? Our current situation is exactly as Froomkin describes it, and worse. Your light-side reporting is a significant error, and actually does great harm.
We are at a major inflection point in our existence as a democracy, and THIS is how you describe the Trump presidency? Our current situation is exactly as Froomkin describes it, and worse. Your light-side reporting is a significant error, and actually does great harm.
NYT doesn’t get it. He’s terrorizing nonwhite people, seizing imperial power, perverting the government, and spewing hateful lies. This is pro-Trump gaslighting.
December 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Ah, geez, @nytimes.com
We are at a major inflection point in our existence as a democracy, and THIS is how you describe the Trump presidency? Our current situation is exactly as Froomkin describes it, and worse. Your light-side reporting is a significant error, and actually does great harm.
We are at a major inflection point in our existence as a democracy, and THIS is how you describe the Trump presidency? Our current situation is exactly as Froomkin describes it, and worse. Your light-side reporting is a significant error, and actually does great harm.
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I just deleted a funny clip I forwarded because I couldn’t be sure it wasn’t AI. That’s where we are now.
December 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I just deleted a funny clip I forwarded because I couldn’t be sure it wasn’t AI. That’s where we are now.
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"Jabo is not known for terrorist activity and that local Christians coexist peacefully with the Muslim majority"
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...
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Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and c...
edition.cnn.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"Jabo is not known for terrorist activity and that local Christians coexist peacefully with the Muslim majority"
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...
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A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.
Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and c...
www.cnn.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And those who can remember the past are doomed to watch people repeat it anyway.
Oh, and some remember it and want to repeat it. ffs.
Oh, and some remember it and want to repeat it. ffs.
December 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And those who can remember the past are doomed to watch people repeat it anyway.
Oh, and some remember it and want to repeat it. ffs.
Oh, and some remember it and want to repeat it. ffs.
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This is very bad.
Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds • Stateline
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent confidential draft agreements on voter data sharing to more than a dozen states, part of the Trump administration’s effort to obtain unredacted voter rolls, wit...
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December 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This is very bad.
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🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
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This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
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Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.
This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
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This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.
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