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Natalie M
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book nerd ... beach bum ... anglophile ... writer-ish ... quiet-seeker … Santa Cruz 🩵☀️🌊
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IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE: What I have not seen anyone discussing is that Nexstar pulling Kimmel, forcing ABC’s hand, comes as Nexstar is leading the way for the industry on trying to get FCC approval for media consolidation. www.poynter.org/business-wor...
Nexstar’s takeover of Tegna would require an overhaul of FCC ownership rules - Poynter
The proposed sale would exceed the FCC’s 39% cap, igniting debate among broadcasters, unions and press groups
www.poynter.org
September 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Hero.
Holocaust survivor confronts Trump’s ICE Director.

“History is NOT on your side!”
April 18, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Bone chilling.

A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0.

1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.
April 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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"As a political and moral matter, however, it is monstrous. There is no defending this. So maybe we shouldn’t be surprised the administration is barely trying. They’re arguing anyone who has the gall to ask is a subversive who is carrying water for gang members." www.thebulwark.com/p/innocent-b...
Innocent (In a Brutal Prison) Abroad
The Trump administration’s latest stain on our values: sending a man without a conviction to a country where a judge ruled he couldn’t be sent.
www.thebulwark.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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When "due process" doesn't exist, and in its place there's just a half-assed, lazy, racist hunt for bodies:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
www.theatlantic.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Imagine going about your life and getting abducted by ICE. Imagine they admit you shouldn’t have been deported but abandon you in a concentration camp in El Salvador anyway.

We have become more evil than fictional villains.
BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
www.theatlantic.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This HAS to be resolved or due process is meaningless. This article is the best I’ve read so far.
April 1, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
 
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
March 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight.

This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.
March 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Wow…
March 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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This. It's time to call your blue reps.
It is not the responsibility of Democrats to give the Republicans a working majority.

Democrats need to be extracting monumental concessions out of these negotiations.
February 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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These Republicans and others like them need to be inundated with calls and protests about what Elon Musk and Donald Trump are doing.

They know it’s wrong. They are feeling the heat. So keep the pressure on.
Dynamic to watch: Republicans who can't bear what Trump is doing to their constituents but who are too scared to speak up against it.
February 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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173 law professors have signed on to a Statement of Urgency about the peril of the constitutional crisis that is now upon us. Complete list of signers below. Please read and repost!! Thank you!
February 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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It’s pretty funny that Google today basically went into their company policy and clicked something that changed

Building murderous hell robots 🚫

to

Building murderous hell robots ✅
February 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
“And you’re looking tired, but you don’t look scared.”

I’ve been thinking about the song “The Joke” by Brandi Carlile a lot lately. It’s so important to ensure those who are marginalized feel seen, supported and encouraged to hope even as the world … <waves wildly at the state of things>. 1/X
February 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.
January 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨
January 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Wonderful.
December 7, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Rogue’s Gallery a la #Trump is taking form. Now where are the #superheroes who will fight back?
November 21, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Just deleted Twitter, but wanted to preserve the contents of my pinned post, courtesy of @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social from 4+ years ago. Still fighting to keep this perspective, maybe now more than ever.
November 20, 2024 at 1:50 AM