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@sk8rbelle.bsky.social
Scottish Swedish mother of Indigenous, German, & Jewish children, Grandmother of MultiCultural grandchildren, in long-term recovery. Reader of books, Poet, 👩🏼‍🌾,💃🏻♍️😻🐦‍⬛ Creativity. WildWoman. ScarClan. Embracing Wisdom of the Crone. 🎼Faun, Shaboozey, Emancipator
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Restricting kids' access to vaccines is a human rights violation.
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
www.statnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Mahmoud Khalil "is suing the Trump administration for its communications with the anti-Palestinian groups."

"Weeks before Khalil's arrest, the Zionist group Betar USA [..] included his name on a 'Deportation List.'"
#NewYork #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Courts #Deportation #Genocide
Mahmoud Khalil sues the Trump administration
Mahmoud Khalil is suing Trump to release communications between the administration and anti-Palestinian groups.
mondoweiss.net
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Link to item on SPJ website: www.mnspj.org/2025/11/26/m...
MNSPJ condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists – Minnesota SPJ
www.mnspj.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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“This is what corruption looks like,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett said about a firm with ties to Kristi Noem secretly working on a DHS ad campaign. “They’re stealing money from the American people’s pockets and depositing it into their bank accounts.”
Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The demands for an investigation come after a ProPublica story revealed that the Noem-connected Strategy Group was secretly a subcontractor on the ad campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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My deepest condolences to the friends & family of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom of the 863rd Military Police Company, 111th Engineer Brigade, West Va Army National Guard.
She had volunteered to serve this weekend & made the ultimate sacrifice.
May we find a greater peace within our nation.
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Do You Work at a Federal Prison? Help ProPublica Investigate the Federal Prison System

We’re especially interested in tips about the priorities of Bureau of Prisons' leadership, contracting and budget decisions, and concerns about wrongdoing or abuses of power ⤵️
Do You Work at a Federal Prison? Help ProPublica Investigate the Federal Prison System
If you work at a federal prison and know about wrongdoing, we want to hear from you.
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Terribly sorry to contaminate your Thanksgiving evening and your eyeballs w/ this disgusting image. Look at this creature. he is unhinged, permanently, and there is no return to baseline. Always covering his hand in feeble attempt to cover his feebleness. The world needs to stop him, immediately.
November 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving! And don’t forget, economic blackout November 25th to December 2nd! #blackoutthesystem
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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We invite you to pause non-essential spending, avoid big-box and mega-corporations, and, when you truly need to shop, choose local, independent, and Black- and Brown-owned businesses first. Our money is one of our loudest voices. Let’s use it on purpose.
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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From November 25th–December 2nd, we are joining the nationwide Economic Blackout—a week-long boycott calling on people to pull their dollars back from corporations and systems that profit from inequality, anti-democracy policies, and attacks on diversity, equity, and workers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Portland, Oregon
Sunday, November 30
LOVE & RESISTANCE DANCE PARTY
BLACKOUT EDITION
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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In Trump's post calling New York Times reporter Katie Rogers ugly, the president again labeled the newspaper "ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE."

I wrote about Trump's praise of violence against reporters and its extreme danger in 2018:

rantt.com/trumps-prais...
Trump’s Praise Of Violence Against Reporters Should Concern Every American - Rantt Media
While the world grieved the apparent death of Jamal Khashoggi, Trump praised GOP Rep. Greg Gianforte’s criminal assault of journalist Ben Jacobs.
rantt.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Nike Founder Phil Knight gave $3 million to Republicans in Oregon. Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda wore a trump-vance T-Shirt & MAGA hat at a NASCAR event in Japan. Both men are powerful & have everything they could ever need but still chose to support oppression. Shop accordingly. #BoycottMAGA
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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#WomenOnWednesday
#Tennessee
State Rep. Aftyn Behn has the ability to flip a red congressional district, blue.
She simply needs GOTV Tennessee to get it done.
And her prospects are looking good.
Special election: December 2, 2025
Early voting: Closed
The Tennessee race that suddenly has Trump world nervous
Democrat Aftyn Behn is putting up a fight.
www.motherjones.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Turns out fighting fascism helps you live longer
Turns out fighting fascism helps you live longer
Retirees are mobilizing to defend democracy—and the benefits literally show up in their DNA.
www.motherjones.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Great 🧵

Firsthand account of one's time in Peace Corps.
Maybe I’ll tell y’all about Thanksgiving in Uzbekistan, where I was in the peace corps 2000-2001.
I lived in a town; nearest American lived in a qishloq - a true village. A few of us somehow figured out to meet there. (How? No internet, no phones. No recollection of how we planned anything.) 1/
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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I’ve decided to go on offense.
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Just in case you need a visual to explain gerrymandering to your relatives this Thanksgiving…
FB
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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SCOOP—In August, nearly 200 current/former FEMA staffers published the Katrina Declaration, a whistleblower letter detailing all the dangers posed by current leadership.

All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:
FEMA employee terminated for signing whistleblower letter
It appears to be a major violation of federal whistleblower protections and constitutional rights.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Im not surprised when Trump publicly does crime, I more surprised that so many are going along with it, at their own reputational risk, while other countries punish their executives for their crimes.
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Congressional redistricting is monumentally important. But for Black people in places like Fayette County, TN, it is the County Commn where the stakes are highest.

What SCOTUS does in Louisiana v Calláis may threaten Black representation across the rural South.

boltsmag.org/voting-right...
Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS. - Bolts
The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.
boltsmag.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM