Elisa📚🖌️🧶☕️
@readcraftcoffee.bsky.social
I 🫶🏽 to read 📚, craft handmade cards 🎨🖌️, coffee ☕️ (also really enjoy a flavorful cup of tea 🫖), and if it weren’t for my carpal tunnel I would knit/crochet more 🧶. I’m here to follow the all things bookish and card making in hopes the community here grows 💜
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The fight for immigrant justice will take all of us. This #GivingTuesday, your donation to NILC fuels our work to defend immigrants' rights and strengthen our democracy.
Make your Giving Tuesday gift here: www.nilc.org/donate-now/
Make your Giving Tuesday gift here: www.nilc.org/donate-now/
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The fight for immigrant justice will take all of us. This #GivingTuesday, your donation to NILC fuels our work to defend immigrants' rights and strengthen our democracy.
Make your Giving Tuesday gift here: www.nilc.org/donate-now/
Make your Giving Tuesday gift here: www.nilc.org/donate-now/
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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The homicidal Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to Washington has been a disgrace to American democracy.
Trump’s thoughts on the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi: “things happen.” What he said about the epidemic of human rights violations in Saudi Arabia: nothing.
Trump’s thoughts on the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi: “things happen.” What he said about the epidemic of human rights violations in Saudi Arabia: nothing.
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The homicidal Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to Washington has been a disgrace to American democracy.
Trump’s thoughts on the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi: “things happen.” What he said about the epidemic of human rights violations in Saudi Arabia: nothing.
Trump’s thoughts on the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi: “things happen.” What he said about the epidemic of human rights violations in Saudi Arabia: nothing.
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Is AI inherently bad? Of course not.
The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?
Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?
I doubt it.
The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?
Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?
I doubt it.
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Is AI inherently bad? Of course not.
The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?
Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?
I doubt it.
The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?
Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?
I doubt it.
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Next time a Republican whines when they get called a fascist, just remind them that Trump says he doesn't mind the label!
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Next time a Republican whines when they get called a fascist, just remind them that Trump says he doesn't mind the label!
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Don Lupe shared that one detained man who volunteered to be deported due to unbearable conditions had to wait months.
“This is a business and it is all about money,” Don Lupe said. “There are a lot of things that are inhumane. It is more beneficial for [the business] for him to be in prison.”
“This is a business and it is all about money,” Don Lupe said. “There are a lot of things that are inhumane. It is more beneficial for [the business] for him to be in prison.”
After 27 years in the U.S., Don Lupe was detained by ICE at his New Jersey workplace. His family and community fought to bring him home. His story shows the quiet, devastating toll these detentions take on families, and the growing rise of raids at NJ bonded warehouses. @documentedny.bsky.social
A Family's Fight to Bring Their Father Home - Documented
Don Lupe had been living in the U.S. for 27 years when he was detained by ICE agents during a worksite raid in New Jersey. Then his family fought to have him freed.
documentedny.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Don Lupe shared that one detained man who volunteered to be deported due to unbearable conditions had to wait months.
“This is a business and it is all about money,” Don Lupe said. “There are a lot of things that are inhumane. It is more beneficial for [the business] for him to be in prison.”
“This is a business and it is all about money,” Don Lupe said. “There are a lot of things that are inhumane. It is more beneficial for [the business] for him to be in prison.”
This church is vile (as many are as they continue time and time again to cover up for abusers). But even more so, the parents who did not stand up for their children against the abusers. If you bring them into this world, it is your duty to provide and protect them. They all failed these children.
The leaders of a church community in Duluth enabled a child abuser for years by encouraging his victims to “forgive and forget” his sins — and never speak of them again.
Young girls were sexually abused by a Duluth church member. They were told to forgive and forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away,” they could never speak of them again.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This church is vile (as many are as they continue time and time again to cover up for abusers). But even more so, the parents who did not stand up for their children against the abusers. If you bring them into this world, it is your duty to provide and protect them. They all failed these children.
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Nick Anderson presents: ‘Things happen’
‘Things happen’
A cartoon by Nick Anderson
contrarian.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Nick Anderson presents: ‘Things happen’
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Republicans can't seem to decipher Epstein's emails, so Jon Stewart does it for them
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Republicans can't seem to decipher Epstein's emails, so Jon Stewart does it for them
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My favorite quote from the National Book awards tonight: “I’m going to speak in Spanish because there are fascists who don’t like that.” —Gabriela Cabezón-Camára
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
My favorite quote from the National Book awards tonight: “I’m going to speak in Spanish because there are fascists who don’t like that.” —Gabriela Cabezón-Camára
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2025 is the deadliest year for immigrants in ICE custody in 20 years — at least 24 people have died in ICE custody since January, signaling a deeply dangerous trend. 🧵
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
2025 is the deadliest year for immigrants in ICE custody in 20 years — at least 24 people have died in ICE custody since January, signaling a deeply dangerous trend. 🧵
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Ken Burns: “The American Revolution is the most important, consequential revolution in history. We then spend the next 12 hours trying to prove it.”
Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
Ken Burns’ American Revolution: 1950s History for a 2026 Audience
Ken Burns’ The American Revolution might seem new and refreshing to audiences, especially on the left, because it acknowledges slavery’s brutality, includes women and Indigenous people, and presents t...
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Ken Burns: “The American Revolution is the most important, consequential revolution in history. We then spend the next 12 hours trying to prove it.”
Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
Conclusion drives the investigation. That’s not historical method; it’s American exceptionalism posing as inquiry.
open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
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Trump did it again.
Today, he publicly took MBS’ side over his own intelligence community, even though our agencies unanimously concluded that MBS approved the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Today, he publicly took MBS’ side over his own intelligence community, even though our agencies unanimously concluded that MBS approved the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Trump did it again.
Today, he publicly took MBS’ side over his own intelligence community, even though our agencies unanimously concluded that MBS approved the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Today, he publicly took MBS’ side over his own intelligence community, even though our agencies unanimously concluded that MBS approved the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
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Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
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In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.
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A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
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Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
For Native American Heritage Month, I’m finally getting around to reading “There There” by Tommy Orange. I’m only 120 pgs in and my heart already hurts.
That prologue though…💔
#IndigenousLit
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
#BookSky 📚💙
That prologue though…💔
#IndigenousLit
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
#BookSky 📚💙
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 AM
For Native American Heritage Month, I’m finally getting around to reading “There There” by Tommy Orange. I’m only 120 pgs in and my heart already hurts.
That prologue though…💔
#IndigenousLit
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
#BookSky 📚💙
That prologue though…💔
#IndigenousLit
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
#BookSky 📚💙
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Cyndi Lauper delivered a powerful call to action during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Cyndi Lauper delivered a powerful call to action during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
"Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark."
Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF
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The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
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These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
VOTE THEM OUT when their reelection comes. They are not meeting the moment!!!
❌ @rosen.senate.gov
❌ @kaine.senate.gov
❌ @fetterman.senate.gov
❌ @hassan.senate.gov
❌ @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us
❌ Senator Angus King
❌ @schumer.senate.gov too! We need new leadership!
Durbin/Shaheen are retiring🙄
❌ @rosen.senate.gov
❌ @kaine.senate.gov
❌ @fetterman.senate.gov
❌ @hassan.senate.gov
❌ @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us
❌ Senator Angus King
❌ @schumer.senate.gov too! We need new leadership!
Durbin/Shaheen are retiring🙄
If Chuck Schumer was a stronger leader, he would have been able to convince most of these senators to hold the line.
I’m terribly disappointed in him.
I’m terribly disappointed in him.
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
VOTE THEM OUT when their reelection comes. They are not meeting the moment!!!
❌ @rosen.senate.gov
❌ @kaine.senate.gov
❌ @fetterman.senate.gov
❌ @hassan.senate.gov
❌ @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us
❌ Senator Angus King
❌ @schumer.senate.gov too! We need new leadership!
Durbin/Shaheen are retiring🙄
❌ @rosen.senate.gov
❌ @kaine.senate.gov
❌ @fetterman.senate.gov
❌ @hassan.senate.gov
❌ @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us
❌ Senator Angus King
❌ @schumer.senate.gov too! We need new leadership!
Durbin/Shaheen are retiring🙄
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Did you know: Congressmen and women have been paid twice (they’re paid monthly) since the govt shut down. $30,000 gross each. Meanwhile Trump trying to stop food stamp payments while he has parties. And @SpeakerJohnson still has everyone on vacay
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Did you know: Congressmen and women have been paid twice (they’re paid monthly) since the govt shut down. $30,000 gross each. Meanwhile Trump trying to stop food stamp payments while he has parties. And @SpeakerJohnson still has everyone on vacay
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Federal judge cracks down on Bovino & his thugs, while surfacing the lies coming from him, DHS & DOJ.
From the Chicago Tribune. Gift link.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...
From the Chicago Tribune. Gift link.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...
‘The use of force shocks the conscience’: Judge issues sweeping injunction on Chicago tactics of immigration agents
The incoming preliminary injunction replaces a temporary restraining order issued by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in early October that was set to expire at 11:30 a.m.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Federal judge cracks down on Bovino & his thugs, while surfacing the lies coming from him, DHS & DOJ.
From the Chicago Tribune. Gift link.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...
From the Chicago Tribune. Gift link.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...