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WayBeyondSoccerMom
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Yellow Dog Democrat, vegetarian for 30+ years

“The Tree” at peak! This Japanese Maple, located in the Portland Japanese Garden, is rumored to be one of the most photographed trees in the United States.

Moon Games by Laurent Laveder
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photo showing President Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public.
https://to.pbs.org/4p7dLvg
At least 16 files disappear from DOJ site for Epstein documents, including Trump photo
At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they...
www.pbs.org
December 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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December 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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They updated the website today to remove the word "independent"

Before (left), after (right)
December 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky:

Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.

He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
December 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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People think tyrants rage because they're strong.

But the truth is they only rage when they know the room will absorb it.

Mamdani didn't absorb it.
So Trump didn't rage.

Fear is the oxygen of authoritarianism.

Take it away, and even a strongman starts to sound like a man.

~ Bruce Fanger ~
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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THESE are the documents that need to be released. Gift link, no paywall. #Khashoggi #vindman #saudi #corruption #assassination @indivisible.org
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Trump and Prince Had ‘Disturbing’ Call After Khashoggi’s Murder, Lawmaker Says
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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There’s a lot of political commentary about Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning, but one important point is this: she entered Congress in 2021 with an estimated net worth of about $700,000, and is leaving in 2025 with a net worth of roughly $25 million.
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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The AWS outage is a wake up call. When one corporation controls our communications and our livelihoods, their downtime becomes our crisis. We need community-owned digital infrastructure that puts people over profits and protects everyone from being cut off. 🔌✨ #AWSOutage
October 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
October 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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wizard frog is insane
October 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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September 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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"Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on." ~Thurgood Marshall

This is ours. ✊
September 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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All posts regarding Megyn Kelly should begin: "In a desperate attempt to appear relevant, today Megyn Kelly made the following appalling, baseless statement..."
September 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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This is happening to my district 😭 I live at higher level, I am safe. Hope people are ok 🙏

#ragasa #HongKong
September 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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It was his team that did it.
Turns Out Trump’s Own Team Messed Up U.N. Escalator and Teleprompter
A U.N. official says Donald Trump’s team was responsible for the “broken” escalator and teleprompter he complained about incessantly.
www.yahoo.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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A pop up box on Tylenol dot com
September 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.

And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
September 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Despite claims coming from Donald Trump’s administration that the man who shot far-right conservative gadfly Charlie Kirk was part of a left-wing conspiracy, investigators are finding “no evidence” to back that claim.
Feds coming up empty in attempt to link Kirk shooter to left-wing groups: NBC News
Despite claims coming from Donald Trump’s administration that the man who shot far-right conservative gadfly Charlie Kirk was part of a left-wing conspiracy, investigators are finding “no evidence” to...
www.rawstory.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The Trump administration has reportedly ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, including the historic photograph “The Scourged Back”

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
September 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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“The first interaction that many…have with Charlie Kirk is going to be, from these reputable institutions, a completely whitewashed perspective.”

My colleague @samveep.bsky.social and I spoke with Hasan Piker for @motherjones.com this morning. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hasan Piker was set to debate Charlie Kirk. Now he's warning of a "Reichstag fire moment."
The streaming star on how to reject political violence while staying honest about Kirk's rhetoric.
www.motherjones.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM