@refugeepat.bsky.social
Trapped in Occupied America
If you’re not furious you’re not paying attention! Using 🤬 way too much these days
I love science, animals, good food, travel and the outdoors. Yoga practitioner, former satellite engineer, teacher’s assistant, marathoner. 🌮
If you’re not furious you’re not paying attention! Using 🤬 way too much these days
I love science, animals, good food, travel and the outdoors. Yoga practitioner, former satellite engineer, teacher’s assistant, marathoner. 🌮
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“Make Orwell fiction again”
“Make Orwell fiction again”
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Meiselas: This guy's a con artist. He's a fraud. He's quite literally a criminal. A felon. He lies. He destroys people's lives. He's a rug puller. 'Look, $23 trillion! Dividend checks are right around the corner! I'm gonna make you so rich!'
It is demented and it is manipulative and it is abusive.
It is demented and it is manipulative and it is abusive.
November 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Meiselas: This guy's a con artist. He's a fraud. He's quite literally a criminal. A felon. He lies. He destroys people's lives. He's a rug puller. 'Look, $23 trillion! Dividend checks are right around the corner! I'm gonna make you so rich!'
It is demented and it is manipulative and it is abusive.
It is demented and it is manipulative and it is abusive.
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In a world where Trump punches down, be like Pope Leo and lift people up.
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
In a world where Trump punches down, be like Pope Leo and lift people up.
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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Mark Kelly: "He's talked about sending troops into more cities, he's talked about invoking the Insurrection Act. You don't have to go too far back to his 1st administration when he went to his Sec Def & said, 'Can't we just shoot these protesters in the legs.' That is an example of an illegal order"
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Mark Kelly: "He's talked about sending troops into more cities, he's talked about invoking the Insurrection Act. You don't have to go too far back to his 1st administration when he went to his Sec Def & said, 'Can't we just shoot these protesters in the legs.' That is an example of an illegal order"
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America: land of the free. Home of the expanding police state. And the “Don’t tread on me” crowd is suddenly silent.
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
America: land of the free. Home of the expanding police state. And the “Don’t tread on me” crowd is suddenly silent.
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Officers then launch into aggressive questioning or conduct a search, and the driver has no idea the real trigger was a computer program tracking their movements.
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Officers then launch into aggressive questioning or conduct a search, and the driver has no idea the real trigger was a computer program tracking their movements.
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Once the algorithm identifies a car, Border Patrol analysts can alert local police. That’s where many people get blindsided: they’re suddenly pulled over for something minor alleged speeding, a turn-signal issue, window tint, even a hanging air freshener.
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Once the algorithm identifies a car, Border Patrol analysts can alert local police. That’s where many people get blindsided: they’re suddenly pulled over for something minor alleged speeding, a turn-signal issue, window tint, even a hanging air freshener.
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These devices automatically record the plates of passing vehicles and feed that data into an algorithm designed to flag travel patterns the government considers “suspicious.” Drivers have no way of knowing when or why they were flagged.
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
These devices automatically record the plates of passing vehicles and feed that data into an algorithm designed to flag travel patterns the government considers “suspicious.” Drivers have no way of knowing when or why they were flagged.
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The U.S. Border Patrol is quietly operating a nationwide monitoring program that tracks the movements of millions of American drivers, far beyond the border itself.
This “predictive intelligence” system uses a vast network of license-plate-scanning cameras positioned across the country.
This “predictive intelligence” system uses a vast network of license-plate-scanning cameras positioned across the country.
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
The U.S. Border Patrol is quietly operating a nationwide monitoring program that tracks the movements of millions of American drivers, far beyond the border itself.
This “predictive intelligence” system uses a vast network of license-plate-scanning cameras positioned across the country.
This “predictive intelligence” system uses a vast network of license-plate-scanning cameras positioned across the country.
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If you want a sense of how far the surveillance state has expanded inside the United States, look at what federal authorities are doing on our highways.
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
If you want a sense of how far the surveillance state has expanded inside the United States, look at what federal authorities are doing on our highways.
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Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."
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Women Voters Sue Kristi Noem
migrantinsider.com/p/women-vote...
migrantinsider.com/p/women-vote...
Women Voters Sue Kristi Noem
New voting rights lawsuit by the League of Women Voters comes as hundreds of sexual assault allegations against ICE and Border Patrol agents remain largely uninvestigated.
migrantinsider.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Women Voters Sue Kristi Noem
migrantinsider.com/p/women-vote...
migrantinsider.com/p/women-vote...
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AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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Ol Bernie hit the nail on the head once again!
Ol Bernie hit the nail on the head once again!
"“Clearly, Trump has learned something from his good friend MBS: If you don’t like what your political opponents say, execute them,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, that’s not what we do in America.”
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...
'Maybe It's Time to Pick a Fucking Side,' Says Murphy After Trump Calls for Execution of Lawmakers | Common Dreams
"Clearly, Trump has learned something from his good friend MBS: If you don't like what your political opponents say, execute them," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, that's not w...
www.commondreams.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Ol Bernie hit the nail on the head once again!
Ol Bernie hit the nail on the head once again!
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PSA: The President of the United States is a dangerous stochastic terrorist.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
PSA: The President of the United States is a dangerous stochastic terrorist.
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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
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Statement from Rep. Crockett on Threat at D.C. Office
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Statement from Rep. Crockett on Threat at D.C. Office
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Sixteen year old Virginia, in her own words.....
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Sixteen year old Virginia, in her own words.....
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
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Get rid of migrants and destroy the NHS
Just what Tories, Labour & Reform always wanted ...
'A survey conducted by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), seen by the Guardian, found the plans have sparked profound distress among foreign NHS and social care staff.'
Just what Tories, Labour & Reform always wanted ...
'A survey conducted by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), seen by the Guardian, found the plans have sparked profound distress among foreign NHS and social care staff.'
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Get rid of migrants and destroy the NHS
Just what Tories, Labour & Reform always wanted ...
'A survey conducted by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), seen by the Guardian, found the plans have sparked profound distress among foreign NHS and social care staff.'
Just what Tories, Labour & Reform always wanted ...
'A survey conducted by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), seen by the Guardian, found the plans have sparked profound distress among foreign NHS and social care staff.'
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Keep it simple..
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Keep it simple..
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The unintended effect of Liberation Day?
The bond market sold off — and “didn’t just raise the cost of U.S. government borrowing; it also [impacted] the American middle class,” as loan rates rose for “mortgages, auto loans, small business loans ..”
www.pgpf.org/programs-and...
The bond market sold off — and “didn’t just raise the cost of U.S. government borrowing; it also [impacted] the American middle class,” as loan rates rose for “mortgages, auto loans, small business loans ..”
www.pgpf.org/programs-and...
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The unintended effect of Liberation Day?
The bond market sold off — and “didn’t just raise the cost of U.S. government borrowing; it also [impacted] the American middle class,” as loan rates rose for “mortgages, auto loans, small business loans ..”
www.pgpf.org/programs-and...
The bond market sold off — and “didn’t just raise the cost of U.S. government borrowing; it also [impacted] the American middle class,” as loan rates rose for “mortgages, auto loans, small business loans ..”
www.pgpf.org/programs-and...