coldmolly
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The hypocrisy noted herein is stunning but not surprising. Thank you @vanhollen.senate.gov for speaking out and remaining true to our values.
Maryland Democrats question legality of raid in Venezuela; Harris says ‘it’s about time’ US acted marylandmatters.org/2026/01/03/r...
Maryland Democrats question legality of raid in Venezuela; Harris says ‘it’s about time’ US acted marylandmatters.org/2026/01/03/r...
Maryland Democrats question legality of raid in Venezuela; Harris says 'it's about time' US acted - Maryland Matters
Maryland lawmakers blasted President Donald Trump's Saturday raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, calling it an act of war without congressional approval, but the state's sole GOP m...
marylandmatters.org
January 4, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The hypocrisy noted herein is stunning but not surprising. Thank you @vanhollen.senate.gov for speaking out and remaining true to our values.
Maryland Democrats question legality of raid in Venezuela; Harris says ‘it’s about time’ US acted marylandmatters.org/2026/01/03/r...
Maryland Democrats question legality of raid in Venezuela; Harris says ‘it’s about time’ US acted marylandmatters.org/2026/01/03/r...
Imagine having the full weight of the federal gov't bearing down on you with the intent of imprisoning you because they are embarrassed that they wrongly imprisoned you.
Federal judge orders release of some records for Abrego Garcia’s vindictive prosecution claim marylandmatters.org/2025/12/30/f...
Federal judge orders release of some records for Abrego Garcia’s vindictive prosecution claim marylandmatters.org/2025/12/30/f...
Federal judge orders release of some records for Abrego Garcia's vindictive prosecution claim - Maryland Matters
A federal judge in Tennessee is ordering federal prosecutors to turn over some documents to lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia as they try to show his indictment on human smuggling charges was the produ...
marylandmatters.org
January 1, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Imagine having the full weight of the federal gov't bearing down on you with the intent of imprisoning you because they are embarrassed that they wrongly imprisoned you.
Federal judge orders release of some records for Abrego Garcia’s vindictive prosecution claim marylandmatters.org/2025/12/30/f...
Federal judge orders release of some records for Abrego Garcia’s vindictive prosecution claim marylandmatters.org/2025/12/30/f...
Reposted by coldmolly
From the NYT 2025 Yearbook:
(but they left out Kristi Noem - Most Ridiculous Cosplay Mean Girl)
(but they left out Kristi Noem - Most Ridiculous Cosplay Mean Girl)
December 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
From the NYT 2025 Yearbook:
(but they left out Kristi Noem - Most Ridiculous Cosplay Mean Girl)
(but they left out Kristi Noem - Most Ridiculous Cosplay Mean Girl)
Concerned that we don't have strong Dems ready for the fight in 2026? "Live From the Resistance" publishes stories of such warriors (and the opposition) regularly. Knowing who to support, and letting others in your state know, is especially crucial this year.
open.substack.com/pub/livefrom...
open.substack.com/pub/livefrom...
New Year’s Resolution: Evict the Crypto King
By: Live from the Resistance
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Concerned that we don't have strong Dems ready for the fight in 2026? "Live From the Resistance" publishes stories of such warriors (and the opposition) regularly. Knowing who to support, and letting others in your state know, is especially crucial this year.
open.substack.com/pub/livefrom...
open.substack.com/pub/livefrom...
A bit of good news that worth watching!
youtu.be/GJiGFNPK32I?...
youtu.be/GJiGFNPK32I?...
Meet the Montana GOP lawmakers who were kicked out of their party for voting with Democrats
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A bit of good news that worth watching!
youtu.be/GJiGFNPK32I?...
youtu.be/GJiGFNPK32I?...
Repost, share, comment...they facilitated the worst and most inhumane treatment possible. We need to be sure this documentation is available for the trials.
Still up. Glad I posted here and not YouTube. This is what Bari Weiss and CBS tried to hide from us.
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
December 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Repost, share, comment...they facilitated the worst and most inhumane treatment possible. We need to be sure this documentation is available for the trials.
Make Billionaires First (and Americans last)
Should have known that was the deal all along!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Should have known that was the deal all along!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US labor unions gear up to fight against Trump’s ‘Billionaire First’ agenda
AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler says union ready to stand up for struggling Americans: ‘Which side are you on?’
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Make Billionaires First (and Americans last)
Should have known that was the deal all along!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Should have known that was the deal all along!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“strives to validate our clients’ suspicions,”
Bounty hunters - knew it would come to this. They target people who might fit a profile. Likely they will come for "antifa" too, if they aren't already.
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters.
theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
Bounty hunters - knew it would come to this. They target people who might fit a profile. Likely they will come for "antifa" too, if they aren't already.
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters.
theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
theintercept.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“strives to validate our clients’ suspicions,”
Bounty hunters - knew it would come to this. They target people who might fit a profile. Likely they will come for "antifa" too, if they aren't already.
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters.
theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
Bounty hunters - knew it would come to this. They target people who might fit a profile. Likely they will come for "antifa" too, if they aren't already.
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters.
theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
Happy holidays to my Bluesky friends, and wishes for a fiercely successful 2026!
December 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Happy holidays to my Bluesky friends, and wishes for a fiercely successful 2026!
This is horrifying. These skeevy multi-Billionaires are inserting themselves further into our economy so we become more dependent on them for basics like wages & housing. Watch to the end; they are genuine threats to our existence: Theil, Altman, Musk, Bezos, Zuck, Gates...
youtu.be/l0K4XPu3Qhg?..
youtu.be/l0K4XPu3Qhg?..
What Sam Altman Doesn't Want You To Know
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is horrifying. These skeevy multi-Billionaires are inserting themselves further into our economy so we become more dependent on them for basics like wages & housing. Watch to the end; they are genuine threats to our existence: Theil, Altman, Musk, Bezos, Zuck, Gates...
youtu.be/l0K4XPu3Qhg?..
youtu.be/l0K4XPu3Qhg?..
This can't be right, can it!?
December 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This can't be right, can it!?
I cannot wrap my head around the level of depravity the sickness that infects the White House right now continues to demonstrate. Whenever I think he can go now lower... I just can't express what I want to, but I get the sense that many of you already understand.
Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.
#NoWords 🤮
#NoWords 🤮
December 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I cannot wrap my head around the level of depravity the sickness that infects the White House right now continues to demonstrate. Whenever I think he can go now lower... I just can't express what I want to, but I get the sense that many of you already understand.
Let's hear for Hoosiers!!👏💪✊Not bending the knee makes Indiana great!
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In Blow to Trump, Indiana Rejects GOP Gerrymander
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Let's hear for Hoosiers!!👏💪✊Not bending the knee makes Indiana great!
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Maybe it's time for him to take his family and move to Costa Rica, which would seem to be a much better place to live than the US has become. I kind of wish I could afford to go.
Abrego Garcia leaves ICE custody, as Trump administration vows to fight release marylandmatters.org/2025/12/11/t...
Abrego Garcia leaves ICE custody, as Trump administration vows to fight release marylandmatters.org/2025/12/11/t...
Abrego Garcia leaves ICE custody, as Trump administration vows to fight release - Maryland Matters
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was no longer in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody Thursday night, after a federal judge ordered his release earlier in the day, said his attorneys and an immigrant...
marylandmatters.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Maybe it's time for him to take his family and move to Costa Rica, which would seem to be a much better place to live than the US has become. I kind of wish I could afford to go.
Abrego Garcia leaves ICE custody, as Trump administration vows to fight release marylandmatters.org/2025/12/11/t...
Abrego Garcia leaves ICE custody, as Trump administration vows to fight release marylandmatters.org/2025/12/11/t...
An important next step toward silencing those they seek to control and/or eliminate
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
An important next step toward silencing those they seek to control and/or eliminate
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Greatly relieved to read this article; had been so disappointed. An estimated $109 billion redirected toward small businesses is the best news!
Record Sales, Empty Carts: How Black Friday Hid a Quiet Consumer Rebellion.
www.the50501movement.org/p/record-sal...
Record Sales, Empty Carts: How Black Friday Hid a Quiet Consumer Rebellion.
www.the50501movement.org/p/record-sal...
Record Sales, Empty Carts: How Black Friday Hid a Quiet Consumer Rebellion.
Fewer items, higher prices, and a $100+ billion shift toward small and local businesses.
www.the50501movement.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Greatly relieved to read this article; had been so disappointed. An estimated $109 billion redirected toward small businesses is the best news!
Record Sales, Empty Carts: How Black Friday Hid a Quiet Consumer Rebellion.
www.the50501movement.org/p/record-sal...
Record Sales, Empty Carts: How Black Friday Hid a Quiet Consumer Rebellion.
www.the50501movement.org/p/record-sal...
The graphic showing wealth percentiles- 50% of us hold so little wealth compared to those in the top, that we don't even register on the damn chart. If the divide continues at this rate, we will be at the level of serfs to land-owners in the not so distant future.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The K-shaped Christmas: wealthy few drive holiday spending splurge while many struggle to get by
A soaring stock market rewards the already well-off but Trump’s handling of the economy has caused his approval ratings to plunge
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The graphic showing wealth percentiles- 50% of us hold so little wealth compared to those in the top, that we don't even register on the damn chart. If the divide continues at this rate, we will be at the level of serfs to land-owners in the not so distant future.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
To resist, we should know where we're going:
Democracy: people govern through elected representatives
Autocracy: absolute power is held by one person
Oligarchy: small group of people have control of the government
Kleptocracy: leaders use political power to steal the wealth of the people
Democracy: people govern through elected representatives
Autocracy: absolute power is held by one person
Oligarchy: small group of people have control of the government
Kleptocracy: leaders use political power to steal the wealth of the people
December 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
To resist, we should know where we're going:
Democracy: people govern through elected representatives
Autocracy: absolute power is held by one person
Oligarchy: small group of people have control of the government
Kleptocracy: leaders use political power to steal the wealth of the people
Democracy: people govern through elected representatives
Autocracy: absolute power is held by one person
Oligarchy: small group of people have control of the government
Kleptocracy: leaders use political power to steal the wealth of the people
The GOP and their ongoing war against America's poor.
"The cuts have deepened existing mistrust in government, known colloquially as Appalachian fatalism, yet many of those interviewed by the Guardian blame Washington politics generally rather than Trump."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"The cuts have deepened existing mistrust in government, known colloquially as Appalachian fatalism, yet many of those interviewed by the Guardian blame Washington politics generally rather than Trump."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The GOP and their ongoing war against America's poor.
"The cuts have deepened existing mistrust in government, known colloquially as Appalachian fatalism, yet many of those interviewed by the Guardian blame Washington politics generally rather than Trump."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"The cuts have deepened existing mistrust in government, known colloquially as Appalachian fatalism, yet many of those interviewed by the Guardian blame Washington politics generally rather than Trump."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I am so overwhelmed these days, and suspect that others are just as tired from efforts to eject these monsters who are ruining America. This virtual event may offer what's needed to keep going. Let's go!
Indivisible's event, “Resilience For Sustainable Activism”
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Indivisible's event, “Resilience For Sustainable Activism”
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Resilience For Sustainable Activism · Indivisible
Many of us entered movement work out of urgency and many of us are exhausted by it. The Resilience Toolkit offers an embodied, justice-aligned framework for sustaining activism over the long arc of th...
www.mobilize.us
December 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I am so overwhelmed these days, and suspect that others are just as tired from efforts to eject these monsters who are ruining America. This virtual event may offer what's needed to keep going. Let's go!
Indivisible's event, “Resilience For Sustainable Activism”
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Indivisible's event, “Resilience For Sustainable Activism”
www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Worth watching! Clearly shows how the current regime is just exploiting the advancing oligarchy. An America run by corporations will not be worth living in... it may even be impossible for most of us.
Trump is the symptom, not the disease.
#BuildBackBetter
youtu.be/cl02K72QFS0?...
Trump is the symptom, not the disease.
#BuildBackBetter
youtu.be/cl02K72QFS0?...
We Went to Arkansas. The Farm Crisis Will Shock You
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Worth watching! Clearly shows how the current regime is just exploiting the advancing oligarchy. An America run by corporations will not be worth living in... it may even be impossible for most of us.
Trump is the symptom, not the disease.
#BuildBackBetter
youtu.be/cl02K72QFS0?...
Trump is the symptom, not the disease.
#BuildBackBetter
youtu.be/cl02K72QFS0?...
"You scratch my back, I scratch yours" - We've known this was the goal all along, but it's infuriating to see them pull it off. So far past impeachment now...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"You scratch my back, I scratch yours" - We've known this was the goal all along, but it's infuriating to see them pull it off. So far past impeachment now...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Make no mistake; this is on us - "Doctors Without Borders dubbed the GHF distribution points as 'sites of orchestrated killing'”
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Calls It Quits After Thousands Die Seeking Its Aid
theintercept.com/2025/11/25/g...
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Calls It Quits After Thousands Die Seeking Its Aid
theintercept.com/2025/11/25/g...
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Calls It Quits After Thousands Die Seeking Its Aid
The aid group GHF oversaw relief in Gaza during a period defined by the killings of Palestinians seeking food during famine.
theintercept.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Make no mistake; this is on us - "Doctors Without Borders dubbed the GHF distribution points as 'sites of orchestrated killing'”
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Calls It Quits After Thousands Die Seeking Its Aid
theintercept.com/2025/11/25/g...
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Calls It Quits After Thousands Die Seeking Its Aid
theintercept.com/2025/11/25/g...
Of course they are lying to spin this tragedy, because they are appalling awful people. Don't let these lies go unchallenged.
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Major Update: The Trump Administration Caught Lying About D.C. Shooting Suspect as CIA Ties Exposed
Good afternoon, everyone.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Of course they are lying to spin this tragedy, because they are appalling awful people. Don't let these lies go unchallenged.
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...