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Beverly Mann
@beverlymann19.bsky.social
Economic-progressive Dem posting on politics, law, pet-rescue efforts. Was prolific on Twitter/X. Native Upper Midwesterner living in north central FL. Anti-lawn movement fan. #Berner since '15. Have cats. Views my own, but you may borrow them.
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"The court's legal interpretation, as I understand it, could lead to potentially significant implications for future crises that we can not now foresee."

Ergo, we should interpret "regular forces" in the Posse Comitatus Act to mean anything we and Trump want it to mean.

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Trump Family Wealth 2025 Gains Breakdown:
Donald Trump: Gained $3 billion.
Eric Trump: Net worth jumped to $400-750 million
Donald Trump Jr.: Increased to $500 million from $50 million.
Barron Trump: Estimated at $150 million.
Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner: Ivanka at $100 million; Kushner ~$1 billion
December 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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We’ve built a “know your rights” app for our immigrant neighbors to lawfully protect them against ICE. We’re crowdfunding to get the app out there bcuz there’s strength in numbers. Here’s the link to our GoFundMe. Give what you can. And share the link. Thanks.👇 www.gofundme.com/f/PAXIS
Donate to PAXIS: An AI Lifeline for Immigrant Rights and Support, organized by Joe Walsh
PAXIS - WHEN ICE KNOCKS, WE ANSWER. Together with immigrant advocate… Joe Walsh needs your support for PAXIS: An AI Lifeline for Immigrant Rights and Support
www.gofundme.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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It is mandatory that you wish Flossie a happy thirtieth birthday

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Oldest Living Cat - Guinness World Records
YouTube video by Guinness World Records
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December 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Pelosi: “The President incited an insurrection. We begged him to send the National Guard, they never sent them. This President is trying to re-write history… it was an assault on the constitution of 🇺🇸.”
December 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way.

Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.”
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
THIS:
The Trump Admin has repeatedly demonstrated to allies around the globe that US security guarantees mean nothing as long as Trump is president. He won’t even agree to abide by the NATO charter, so how can he be trusted to honor any Ukraine deal.
December 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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The Trump Admin has repeatedly demonstrated to allies around the globe that US security guarantees mean nothing as long as Trump is president. He won’t even agree to abide by the NATO charter, so how can he be trusted to honor any Ukraine deal.
December 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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December 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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December 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Former South Park guy buys up website addresses to troll the renaming of the Kennedy center.
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December 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.
December 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Thank you to all the performers who are canceling their events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
December 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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reminder that caldwell’s most recent book argues that the civil rights act of 1964 was something akin to a constitutional abomination that produced a world of white subordination
This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books.

Why are these people such freaks?
December 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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December 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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My children and I are living together in one room in an emergency shelter. The situation is unbearable. We are raising funds for deposit, rent, and basic furniture so we can finally have a safe home. Every share or donation helps. 🤍

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December 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.
December 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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“Rather than dismantling the excesses of the woke era, the new Trump-friendly programs and policies simply repurposed them to serve a different ideological agenda. The result is a new orthodoxy even more stifling than the last.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
Opinion | Harvard’s New Campus Orthodoxy Is Even More Stifling Than the Old
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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“Rather than dismantling the excesses of the woke era, the new Trump-friendly programs and policies simply repurposed them to serve a different ideological agenda. The result is a new orthodoxy even more stifling than the last.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
Opinion | Harvard’s New Campus Orthodoxy Is Even More Stifling Than the Old
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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“Financially devastating but morally exhilarating.”

“Losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck.”

— Performers on canceling Kennedy Center gigs, showing far more integrity than wealthy executives at CBS and ABC news organizations.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Aw. I kinda like the name change, since it implies that Trump expects to die very soon. Suicide, maybe?

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New Year’s Eve concert is latest cancellation at the Kennedy Center
Jazz supergroup the Cookers have canceled two New Year’s Eve performances at the Kennedy Center, days after a Christmas Eve jazz concert was also canceled.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
A retired policeman was jailed over an anti-Trump meme. Now he’s suing.

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A retired policeman was jailed over an anti-Trump meme. Now he’s suing.
Attorneys for 61-year-old Larry Bushart say a Tennessee sheriff violated the First Amendment: “In America, we do not jail people for political speech.”
www.washingtonpost.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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A retired Tennessee policeman who spent more than a month in jail over an anti-Trump Facebook post is suing the authorities responsible for his arrest.

Attorneys for Larry Bushart, 61, allege in the lawsuit that those responsible violated Bushart's First and Fourth Amendment rights.
A retired policeman was jailed over an anti-Trump meme. Now he’s suing.
Attorneys for 61-year-old Larry Bushart say a Tennessee sheriff violated the First Amendment: “In America, we do not jail people for political speech.”
www.washingtonpost.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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It’s because these lawsuits were brought against the federal government and sought injunctive relief. Whether or not one *must* name an individual defendant in that context, the norm is to do so. So when the lower courts issued an injunction and the government appealed, the case became “Trump v. …”
December 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM