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amdjerz.bsky.social
@amdjerz.bsky.social
Educator, activist, dogmom
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⏰ TRUMP'S FLOUNDERING HASN'T CHANGED HIS DICTATORIAL AMBITIONS🥗

Why we must engage

Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg writes that violence requires quiet cooperation from both institutions and ordinary people.

8 tips for discussing difficult topics with family that center connection over conflict.
Let’s agree to stop ‘keeping the peace’ this holiday season
As we approach the holidays, here are eight tools for discussing difficult topics with family that center connection over conflict.
wagingnonviolence.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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ICE has just under four years to spend $29.9 billion, they are going to outsource AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE to contractors because money is essentially not a problem anymore for the agency.
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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The type of things that happen when a foolish reality TV actor appoints a petty, drunk talk show chatterbox to run our military:
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics.

Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages.

Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare...

This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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We are monitoring the situation in St. Paul and working to understand what unfolded. We received no heads up from federal authorities on this operation.

While we are always willing to work together on public safety, that is clearly not what this chaotic situation was about.
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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I'm tired of the establishment pissing on my shoe & telling me it's raining

Don't vote for bills that will hurt the US

They approved a budget that does exactly that

As long as Democrats allow themselves to be strong armed, they are failing the American people & deserve to be called out on it
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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While Trump is ordering the FBI to investigate U.S. Senators over a video reminding military members they don’t have to follow illegal orders, it might be worth noting that “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff isn’t working for the US, or for humanity. He’s working for Vladimir Putin. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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DOGE may or may not be gone, but we still feel the impact of their reckless attacks on federal workers.

They gutted our essential services, making things even harder on working families just trying to make ends meet. https://reut.rs/3M2CVxm
US government to shed 317,000 workers this year, Trump's HR chief says
The Trump administration will shed about 317,000 employees this year, its human resources chief said, a higher figure than previously estimated.
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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I miss when Twitter was truly great like the time a guy got upset at someone calling out a cricket team and started explaining how bowling worked and at the end OP was like "thanks for explaining btw I hold the world record for most career outs in cricket history"
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Donald Trump is "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

We live in strange times, when you can be liable for damages by simply telling the truth.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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The same executives that just fired 3,200 workers in Lexington a week before Thanksgiving collected $14.4 Million in bonus pay last year.

talkbusiness.net/2024/12/tyso...
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Please read this story by @willbunch.bsky.social of Maj. Hugh Thompson's heroic actions which prevented U.S. troops from continuing their massacre at My Lai. When Thompson testified before Congress, SC Rep. Rivers said that Thompson should be the only one punished.

www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The Catch-22 around Trump’s illegal orders | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, Pennsylvania chooses a budget over the planet.
www.inquirer.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The entire world can clearly see that Putin owns Steve Witkoff and yet Witkoff is the one that Trump wants leading the negotiations on a peace deal. If Putin owns Witkoff, and Trump doesn’t care, that means Putin owns Trump - either directly, by proxy, or by stupidity.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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who knows the future of AI, its real world value, what it can achieve, what profits it will drive. But we can more confidently say something very weird is happening here when we look at the question of resource allocation and the very small number of individuals driving it.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Last month, the Tule River Indian Tribe purchased 17,000 acres of their ancestral lands where they are reintroducing tule elk. The purchase was partly funded by California’s Tribal Nature-Based Solutions Grant, which funds tribal land return projects. www.latimes.com/california/s....
Elk are again roaming on lands that California has returned to the Tule River Indian Tribe
Tribal leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom gathered Wednesday to mark the return of 17,000 acres of ancestral land to the Tule River Indian tribe.
www.latimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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You have to ask, why was Witkoff chosen for this critically important role of special envoy to Putin? He had no diplomatic or foreign policy experience. No education on those subjects. So of all people, why him? I think what we all surmised is clear - Putin wanted Witkoff.
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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They hate Sen. Kelly because he is everything they are not: a true soldier, brave, honest and determined to defend our Constitution.
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Long for the day
America says ENOUGH
Bolsonaro is a cupcake compared to our CORRUPTION
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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“.. The suit, filed in a federal court in Washington, alleges that due to Swalwell’s criticism of President Donald Trump, Pulte began ‘scouring databases at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’ in order to acquire Swalwell’s private mortgage records.”

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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We’re still gathering information about what happened in St. Paul, but what we do know is that once again, federal authorities provided no notice to local leaders or law enforcement.
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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😮😮😮
Evidence that the massive swing among young voters back to Dems that we saw in NY, VA, and NJ earlier this month is not limited to those states.

Take PA: from Eday '24 to Jan 20th, young new regisrants were +5R.

In the last month of this year's election they were +24D.
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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This is their playbook: No warning, no transparency, no coordination. Their goal here isn’t safety, it’s to sow chaos, fear, and intimidation.
We’re still gathering information about what happened in St. Paul, but what we do know is that once again, federal authorities provided no notice to local leaders or law enforcement.
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM