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June 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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1) DOGE employees can access millions of Americans' sensitive Social Security data, the Supreme Court ruled Friday in a party-line decision.

Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson wrote a dissent joined by Justice Sonya Sotomayor that chastised the Supreme Court
DOGE given access to Americans' Social Security data by Supreme Court
Justice Jackson in a dissent chastised the Supreme Court for once again reporting to the emergency docket.
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June 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Now everyone will go look up the book and it will make NY Times. #sighs #booksky #writingcommunity
June 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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April 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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A US-born American citizen was detained at the request of immigration authorities Thursday despite an advocate showing his US birth certificate in court & a county judge finding no reason for him to be considered an “illegal alien” who illegally entered Florida...
U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia
Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”
www.nbcnews.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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"Diversity is discrimination" is literally Orwellian language, like "war is peace, hate is love, slavery is freedom."

You can find it at civilrights.justice.gov
April 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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April 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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True ✅
April 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Where’s the mad king while the market crashes? Golfing in Florida.
April 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Welcome to all our new followers! 💚
March 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Western Forest will cover 2,500 hectares across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Bristol

A new Western Forest is to be created across a swathe of the west of England from the Cotswolds to the Mendips, the government has said.

The project, one of the government’s promised national forests,…
New forest to be created in west of England, with 20m trees planted by 2050
Western Forest will cover 2,500 hectares across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Bristol A new Western Forest is to be created across a swathe of the west of England from the Cotswolds to the Mendips, the government has said. The project, one of the government’s promised national forests, will create 2,500 hectares (6,200 acres) of woodland by 2030 across five priority areas in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Bristol, with plans to plant 20m trees by 2050. Continue reading...
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March 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, David Herasimtschuk's images illustrate not only the beauty of the forests and their creatures but the symbiotic relationships that are vital to the forests’ health and the planet’s welfare.
A photographer captures life in America’s last remaining old-growth forests
From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, David Herasimtschuk's images illustrate not only the beauty of the forests and their creatures but the symbiotic relationships that are vital t...
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March 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Who wants some good news?

The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles
The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.
www.worldwildlife.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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TODAY'S TRAITOR QUIZ
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What is Trump's KGB Secret Agent name?
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March 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Brutal.
March 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Is this how the USA surrendered to Russia? This and the obscene ruckus in the White House today?
February 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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As Elon Musk guts entire government agencies and fires thousands of federal workers that deliver vital services to the country, remember that his corporations have received at least $38 billion in government contracts over the past 20 years.

Yet will any of this be touched by DOGE? Of course not.
February 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Republicans want your private data and they are going to stop ANYONE getting in their way.
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February 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Lawyers for trump in line to take top jobs at the Justice Department sparred with Democrats yesterday over whether trump could simply ignore some court orders - an early skirmish in a larger fight over the White House’s efforts to claim more sweeping presidential powers...
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February 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Serious q: why do we/ the media call it "misinformation" rather than a good old fashioned anglo-saxon word that doesn't gloss or sanitize: ... "lies".
February 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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February 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM