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Kingfisher on a Wire
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I write for myself, and then sometimes other people read what I wrote.

Consumed by science fiction, history, defending my daughter's inherited world, politics, and wishing I didn't care about politics.

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WaPo - ICE plans to speed up deportations by funneling new detainees to large-scale warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people each, located in Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Georgia and Missouri. Sixteen smaller warehouses would hold up to 1,500 people each. www.washingtonpost.com/busine...
December 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The Republican Party has turned the state against American citizens. This is unconscionable.
December 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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www.thestate.com/news/local/e...

Dentists will have more work if fluoride is removed from our water, or all of us will have rotten teeth. Call your members of the SC General Assembly and tell them NO! They return to work in January.
SC politicians advocate ban on cavity-fighting fluoride in public drinking water
Fluoride is credited with improving the dental health of children and adults for decades, but some South Carolina legislators are suspicious and want to ban it
www.thestate.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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legiscan.com/SC/bill/S074... Fluoride Ban

Call your dentist to get their opinion! Then call your state senator and ask them to vote NO.
South Carolina S0743 | 2025-2026 | 126th General Assembly
Summary (2025-12-10) Fluoride Ban [Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs]
legiscan.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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“I was just trying to go to work.”

NYT shows videos from Trump’s ICE goons causing an accident— then DETAINING the guy who stopped to get their insurance.

Lawless. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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From newly released Epstein files, a letter allegedly from Epstein to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar in prison around the time of Epstein's death:

“Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls.”
December 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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🚨 BREAKING News: Federal judge says U.S. must give due process to deported Venezuelans | NPR #legal

www.npr.org/2025/12/22/n...
Federal judge says U.S. must give due process to deported Venezuelans
Judge James Boasberg said the U.S. denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador after President Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
www.npr.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Honestly bari weiss did us all a favor. A lot of us already knew, but now everyone else knows too. #CBSNewsmax
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi sharply summarizes the appalling decision of Bari Weiss not to run her CECOT story: “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”
December 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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60 MINUTES CORRESPONDENT: “Our story was screened 5x and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” #CBSNewsMAX #BariWeiss

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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May as well hang it up as investigative journalists CBS.

You just torched the 60 Minutes legacy.
December 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Gigawatt data center proposal draws opposition from SC Lowcountry residents, politicians scdailygazette.com/2025/12/19/g...
Gigawatt data center proposal draws opposition from SC Lowcountry residents, politicians • SC Daily Gazette
If approved, an 860-acre data center campus proposed for South Carolina’s Lowcountry could mark the state's first gigawatt center.
scdailygazette.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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PITTSBURGH — Trump’s racist ice goons repeatedly punch a man in the face on camera

www.instagram.com/reel/DSb2rPX...
December 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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ICE goons caught changing plates in Chicago
December 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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RUTHERFORD COUNTY: “Her whole focus is regaining custody of her daughter.”

Woman gives birth in custody, ICE separates from her baby for 35 days even after all charges dropped - locked up in Louisiana while her newborn is in state custody in Tennessee.
December 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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“Who’s gonna stop you?”
December 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life

The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.

Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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10 years ago, I filed my first public records request about the detention center in this photo. Little has changed.

“At least 3,800 children under age 18, including 20 infants, have been booked since Trump took office.”

www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c... @themarshallproject.org
ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many For Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit
Former immigration staffers argue ICE is choosing to detain families for prolonged periods to speed deportations and compel them to leave.
www.themarshallproject.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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TRUMP: "Venezuela is completely surrounded"

THE MAP: 😬
December 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Continuing to be incredibly proud of my home state of Virginia!
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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"Virginia will now be properly represented by an actual patriot, who embodied the principle of liberty and justice for all and not a traitor, who took up arms against the United States to preserve the brutal institution of chattel slavery." -- @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social apnews.com/video/us-cap...
US Capitol unveils statue of teen civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns, taking Robert E. Lee's spot
The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of Co...
apnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM