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love is my sword and truth is my compass | san fran born & raised | tar heel bred | chicagoan | abolitionist | she/her
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it appears some need reminding:
1) indigenous peoples (native americans) are not immigrants
2) black americans are not immigrants
1) indigenous peoples (native americans) are not immigrants
2) black americans are not immigrants
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There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for
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Gaza’s Government Media Office warns that Storm Byron, arriving today with heavy rain, floods and strong winds, can worsen the suffering of hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinian families living in fragile tents across the war-torn enclave #infograph
December 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Gaza’s Government Media Office warns that Storm Byron, arriving today with heavy rain, floods and strong winds, can worsen the suffering of hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinian families living in fragile tents across the war-torn enclave #infograph
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🧊✈️ VENEZUELA ⛓️😲
👉 An Eastern 777 (tail: N825KW) transports chained humans from Arizona to Caracas 🇻🇪
👉 An Eastern 777 (tail: N825KW) transports chained humans from Arizona to Caracas 🇻🇪
December 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🧊✈️ VENEZUELA ⛓️😲
👉 An Eastern 777 (tail: N825KW) transports chained humans from Arizona to Caracas 🇻🇪
👉 An Eastern 777 (tail: N825KW) transports chained humans from Arizona to Caracas 🇻🇪
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A man who wasn't born in the United States, talking shit about other people who weren't born in America. Whiteness is a drug.
WATCH: Elon Musk is upset that Somalian Americans in Minnesota get to vote.
December 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A man who wasn't born in the United States, talking shit about other people who weren't born in America. Whiteness is a drug.
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the alt text 😩
December 10, 2025 at 5:07 AM
the alt text 😩
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NEW — With Mayor Johnson and a fraction of the Chicago City Council seemingly at an impasse, one question surrounding the budget debate is why some alders would choose implementing regressive fees on working people over taxing corporations.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
Alternate Chicago budget from 26 alders leans on regressive fees. Why? • The TRiiBE
Proposing increased garbage fees and liquor taxes poses less of a risk for some alders
thetriibe.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
NEW — With Mayor Johnson and a fraction of the Chicago City Council seemingly at an impasse, one question surrounding the budget debate is why some alders would choose implementing regressive fees on working people over taxing corporations.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
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Hundreds of students walked out of Beaverton’s Southridge High School on Monday morning to protest 🧊 in the community.
They were less than 1/2 a mile from the preschool where 🧊 shattered the car window of a man and arrested him as he dropped off his 2-year-old in June. www.opb.org/article/2025...
They were less than 1/2 a mile from the preschool where 🧊 shattered the car window of a man and arrested him as he dropped off his 2-year-old in June. www.opb.org/article/2025...
Hundreds of Washington County students stage walkout over ICE activity
The protest took place less than half a mile from the preschool where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shattered the car window of a local chiropractor and arrested him as he dropped ...
www.opb.org
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Hundreds of students walked out of Beaverton’s Southridge High School on Monday morning to protest 🧊 in the community.
They were less than 1/2 a mile from the preschool where 🧊 shattered the car window of a man and arrested him as he dropped off his 2-year-old in June. www.opb.org/article/2025...
They were less than 1/2 a mile from the preschool where 🧊 shattered the car window of a man and arrested him as he dropped off his 2-year-old in June. www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE
By Ed Shanahan and Stella Raine Chu
17 y.o. William McKernan said, “Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped. I used to go to [P.S] 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country.”
By Ed Shanahan and Stella Raine Chu
17 y.o. William McKernan said, “Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped. I used to go to [P.S] 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country.”
Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE
By Ed Shanahan and Stella Raine Chu
17 y.o. William McKernan said, “Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped. I used to go to [P.S] 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country.”
By Ed Shanahan and Stella Raine Chu
17 y.o. William McKernan said, “Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped. I used to go to [P.S] 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country.”
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“we asked a former cop who got sloshed on liquor then fell asleep behind the wheel about how police should act” is exactly what i expected from the chicago tribune
Interviewing Eddie Johnson or Garry McCarthy about proper law enforcement tactics is inexcusable.
"What does this inveterate liar think of Greg Bovino" is actually not newsworthy
"What does this inveterate liar think of Greg Bovino" is actually not newsworthy
December 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“we asked a former cop who got sloshed on liquor then fell asleep behind the wheel about how police should act” is exactly what i expected from the chicago tribune
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Just heard Pete Davidson and another man on a podcast say they disliked some past partners so much, they refused to let them go bc they didn’t want them to find someone who actually liked them and would treat them right. Also, they weren’t done extracting value from them. So, yeah
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Do men often date women they don’t like?
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just heard Pete Davidson and another man on a podcast say they disliked some past partners so much, they refused to let them go bc they didn’t want them to find someone who actually liked them and would treat them right. Also, they weren’t done extracting value from them. So, yeah
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🎶 god’s tryna tell you somethin’! 🎶
gon’ head and send nations their rightful antiquities.
gon’ head and send nations their rightful antiquities.
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
🎶 god’s tryna tell you somethin’! 🎶
gon’ head and send nations their rightful antiquities.
gon’ head and send nations their rightful antiquities.
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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Dear reader — there was, in fact, a way. . .
Aye man, what do yall niggas be doing to these women man... Aint no way all of yall on bullshit-
December 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Dear reader — there was, in fact, a way. . .
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Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
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Washington State: ICE attacks are increasing rapidly across the state. They are here. They are going to get worse. You MUST organize locally to stand up against this. #washingtonstate #ice
December 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Washington State: ICE attacks are increasing rapidly across the state. They are here. They are going to get worse. You MUST organize locally to stand up against this. #washingtonstate #ice
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Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
listen, a time was had at the robert townsend film festival yesterday!
December 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
listen, a time was had at the robert townsend film festival yesterday!
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DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
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@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need more of this.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need more of this.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
peanut m&ms and popcorn 😋
Love putting chocolate candy in my movie popcorn 🍿
December 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
peanut m&ms and popcorn 😋
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In September, I went to Greece to report on its rapid move away from coal.
Despite getting ~50% of power from coal a decade ago, it'll be coal free next year. Solar is booming.
It's a stunning shift — but not without challenges for Greece's coal region.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/jus...
Despite getting ~50% of power from coal a decade ago, it'll be coal free next year. Solar is booming.
It's a stunning shift — but not without challenges for Greece's coal region.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/jus...
As solar booms and coal fades, Greece’s mining region struggles to…
Next year, Greece will complete its coal phaseout, a success for the energy transition. But Western Macedonia residents feel left behind.
www.canarymedia.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In September, I went to Greece to report on its rapid move away from coal.
Despite getting ~50% of power from coal a decade ago, it'll be coal free next year. Solar is booming.
It's a stunning shift — but not without challenges for Greece's coal region.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/jus...
Despite getting ~50% of power from coal a decade ago, it'll be coal free next year. Solar is booming.
It's a stunning shift — but not without challenges for Greece's coal region.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/jus...
sean could find $50k in a biz account to purchase a diamond necklace to woo someone else’s woman, but handed craig mack $100 at the height of craig’s career when he didn’t have any money
#SeanCombsTheReckoning
#SeanCombsTheReckoning
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
sean could find $50k in a biz account to purchase a diamond necklace to woo someone else’s woman, but handed craig mack $100 at the height of craig’s career when he didn’t have any money
#SeanCombsTheReckoning
#SeanCombsTheReckoning