@obrien1988.bsky.social
Unionist, mom, gun control, dairy farm kid, Cornell grad, Go Blue, CKCS mom, gardener, dancer, theater costumer, Moth, Navy daughter and sister, Army sister, knitter
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My mothers family would not be where they are had my grandfather not worked as a lawyer for the Dept of Ag in the 50-70s. I am so enraged that his 2 living daughters, SIL, 2granddaughters and 3 greats all voted for TFG. The willful ignorance and racial hatred is mind blowing.
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So the GOP unveiled a healthcare plan with no ACA extensions.
Then GOP moderates rebelled, calling getting rid of the extensions “political shocked” and now they’re apparently going to vote on the new health plan *and* ACA extensions next week.
We’ll see.
Then GOP moderates rebelled, calling getting rid of the extensions “political shocked” and now they’re apparently going to vote on the new health plan *and* ACA extensions next week.
We’ll see.
December 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
So the GOP unveiled a healthcare plan with no ACA extensions.
Then GOP moderates rebelled, calling getting rid of the extensions “political shocked” and now they’re apparently going to vote on the new health plan *and* ACA extensions next week.
We’ll see.
Then GOP moderates rebelled, calling getting rid of the extensions “political shocked” and now they’re apparently going to vote on the new health plan *and* ACA extensions next week.
We’ll see.
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This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.
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To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
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BREAKING
Trump DOJ must give files unconstitutionally taken from the devices of Comey’s ex-legal adviser Daniel Richman back to him, a federal judge rules.
It’s the evidence at the center of Comey’s case.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/richman-su...
Trump DOJ must give files unconstitutionally taken from the devices of Comey’s ex-legal adviser Daniel Richman back to him, a federal judge rules.
It’s the evidence at the center of Comey’s case.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/richman-su...
December 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
BREAKING
Trump DOJ must give files unconstitutionally taken from the devices of Comey’s ex-legal adviser Daniel Richman back to him, a federal judge rules.
It’s the evidence at the center of Comey’s case.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/richman-su...
Trump DOJ must give files unconstitutionally taken from the devices of Comey’s ex-legal adviser Daniel Richman back to him, a federal judge rules.
It’s the evidence at the center of Comey’s case.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/richman-su...
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The president told her she had to be “nice and easy” when speaking to him.
Trump Chastises ‘Aggressive’ Female Reporter for Trying to Ask a Question
The president told her she had to be “nice and easy” when speaking to him.
trib.al
December 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The president told her she had to be “nice and easy” when speaking to him.
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Swiss lawmakers are calling for a bribery investigation into Trump tariffs.
December 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Swiss lawmakers are calling for a bribery investigation into Trump tariffs.
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Let's start boosting this far and wide. Reform of the presidential pardon system is LONG overdue, thanks mostly to the abuses of one person. Let's get it moving. Support Rep. Mike Levins @levin.house.gov's amendment for REFORM.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
December 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Let's start boosting this far and wide. Reform of the presidential pardon system is LONG overdue, thanks mostly to the abuses of one person. Let's get it moving. Support Rep. Mike Levins @levin.house.gov's amendment for REFORM.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
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This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.
They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.
They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
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Alabama’s experiment of execution by nitrogen hypoxia has utterly failed, Elizabeth Bruenig argues. She reports on yesterday’s brutal execution of Anthony Boyd and its implications:
Tortured to Death in Alabama
The state killed Anthony Boyd last night, and the process was anything but humane.
bit.ly
October 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Alabama’s experiment of execution by nitrogen hypoxia has utterly failed, Elizabeth Bruenig argues. She reports on yesterday’s brutal execution of Anthony Boyd and its implications:
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Hope people are realizing that rigging the 2026 and 2028 elections have always been the plan.
October 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Hope people are realizing that rigging the 2026 and 2028 elections have always been the plan.
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Women are being erased at the Pentagon. Women are being erased from history. And now a woman has been erased from the desecrated White House.
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
(📸 Getty Images)
October 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Women are being erased at the Pentagon. Women are being erased from history. And now a woman has been erased from the desecrated White House.
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Government shutdowns hit American women harder than anybody.
- women are a HUGE portion of the government workforce
- Head Start has closed in the past b/c of those lack of funds. Where do these children go?
- domestic violence shelters close
- WIC, EBT, and DHS housing are all threatened
- women are a HUGE portion of the government workforce
- Head Start has closed in the past b/c of those lack of funds. Where do these children go?
- domestic violence shelters close
- WIC, EBT, and DHS housing are all threatened
October 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Government shutdowns hit American women harder than anybody.
- women are a HUGE portion of the government workforce
- Head Start has closed in the past b/c of those lack of funds. Where do these children go?
- domestic violence shelters close
- WIC, EBT, and DHS housing are all threatened
- women are a HUGE portion of the government workforce
- Head Start has closed in the past b/c of those lack of funds. Where do these children go?
- domestic violence shelters close
- WIC, EBT, and DHS housing are all threatened
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"Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone."
-- Anne Frank
-- Anne Frank
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone."
-- Anne Frank
-- Anne Frank
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Newsom signed bills to curb billionaire sway in California elections, citing 2024 Musk sweepstakes as warning on interference.
Gavin Newsom Targets Elon Musk’s Election Move Used to Boost Donald Trump
www.newsweek.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Newsom signed bills to curb billionaire sway in California elections, citing 2024 Musk sweepstakes as warning on interference.
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“.. It’s FIFA’s tournament, FIFA’s jurisdiction, FIFA makes those decisions,” the soccer body’s vice president Victor Montagliani said Wednesday at a sports business conference in London.” 🤡
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/worl...
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/worl...
October 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
“.. It’s FIFA’s tournament, FIFA’s jurisdiction, FIFA makes those decisions,” the soccer body’s vice president Victor Montagliani said Wednesday at a sports business conference in London.” 🤡
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/worl...
@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/worl...
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This is total BS! This is Russian authoritarianism our fathers and grandfathers fought against!
Larry Ellison believes more surveillance makes “citizens behave.” Trump believes it makes subjects obey. The danger isn’t what Trump tweets. It’s what Ellison builds while nobody’s watching.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
Warning: Larry Ellison and the Authoritarian Dream Trump Wants Him to Build
How One Tech Titan Became the Most Dangerous Man You’ve Never Voted For
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is total BS! This is Russian authoritarianism our fathers and grandfathers fought against!
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She called it. The media blew it by letting a serial liar off the hook
October 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
She called it. The media blew it by letting a serial liar off the hook
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In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report
Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...
www.mediaite.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
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Greed and corruption
September 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Greed and corruption
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...the Lanier Law Firm, Beasley Allen, Cooper Law Partners, and Keller Postman. Most have been allies of Mr. Kennedy in other mass torts, such as against the weed-killer Roundup and Merck’s HPV vaccine."
RFK Jr and his buddies make $$$ off such tort litigation.
www.wsj.com/opinion/tyle...
RFK Jr and his buddies make $$$ off such tort litigation.
www.wsj.com/opinion/tyle...
Opinion | Trump, Tylenol and the Plaintiffs Bar
The acetaminophen link to autism is based on weak evidence pushed by RFK Jr. and his legal allies.
www.wsj.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
...the Lanier Law Firm, Beasley Allen, Cooper Law Partners, and Keller Postman. Most have been allies of Mr. Kennedy in other mass torts, such as against the weed-killer Roundup and Merck’s HPV vaccine."
RFK Jr and his buddies make $$$ off such tort litigation.
www.wsj.com/opinion/tyle...
RFK Jr and his buddies make $$$ off such tort litigation.
www.wsj.com/opinion/tyle...
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Why the push on acetaminophen?
The @wsj.com editorial board answer:
"The Occam’s razor answer is the influence of RFK Jr., who is carrying water for his friends in the plaintiffs bar. A who’s-who of lawsuit shops are pushing the Tylenol-autism link in federal court. The litigants include...
The @wsj.com editorial board answer:
"The Occam’s razor answer is the influence of RFK Jr., who is carrying water for his friends in the plaintiffs bar. A who’s-who of lawsuit shops are pushing the Tylenol-autism link in federal court. The litigants include...
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Why the push on acetaminophen?
The @wsj.com editorial board answer:
"The Occam’s razor answer is the influence of RFK Jr., who is carrying water for his friends in the plaintiffs bar. A who’s-who of lawsuit shops are pushing the Tylenol-autism link in federal court. The litigants include...
The @wsj.com editorial board answer:
"The Occam’s razor answer is the influence of RFK Jr., who is carrying water for his friends in the plaintiffs bar. A who’s-who of lawsuit shops are pushing the Tylenol-autism link in federal court. The litigants include...