Amy
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October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.
"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."
"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."
October 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.
"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."
"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."
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We got $20 billion for Argentina though.
October 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We got $20 billion for Argentina though.
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i mean, i don't think it's a mystery NYT
October 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
i mean, i don't think it's a mystery NYT
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It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
October 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
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Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.
October 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.
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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
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This footage of unquestionable abuse of power and assault has haunted me all day.
The New York Times reports this ICE officer was relieved of his duties and is under investigation.
He should be under arrest.
The New York Times reports this ICE officer was relieved of his duties and is under investigation.
He should be under arrest.
September 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This footage of unquestionable abuse of power and assault has haunted me all day.
The New York Times reports this ICE officer was relieved of his duties and is under investigation.
He should be under arrest.
The New York Times reports this ICE officer was relieved of his duties and is under investigation.
He should be under arrest.
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MELVIN: The president repeatedly did say though that he would end the war on day 1, and we are some 250 days into the administration
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah, but that's not up to us to end the war
MELVIN: Repeatedly on the campaign trail he said he would end it on day 1
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah, but that's not up to us to end the war
MELVIN: Repeatedly on the campaign trail he said he would end it on day 1
September 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
MELVIN: The president repeatedly did say though that he would end the war on day 1, and we are some 250 days into the administration
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah, but that's not up to us to end the war
MELVIN: Repeatedly on the campaign trail he said he would end it on day 1
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah, but that's not up to us to end the war
MELVIN: Repeatedly on the campaign trail he said he would end it on day 1
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This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
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One thing about rights is that they only exist if you fight for them. If you just capitulate to authoritarian demands they are worthless.
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
One thing about rights is that they only exist if you fight for them. If you just capitulate to authoritarian demands they are worthless.
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Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”
September 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”
How is it that we have to go to work every day and act like everything is fine in this world we live in right now?
September 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
How is it that we have to go to work every day and act like everything is fine in this world we live in right now?
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Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
Q: On the Venezuela vessel strike, what legal authority were you guys working under?
JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
We have reached the point in this administration where I have to walk to the lake and just stare at it for a good while 3-4 times a week in order to maintain any semblance of mental equilibrium. I recall this now from round 1. As much as I love the lake, I don’t like this NEED for its calm.
September 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
We have reached the point in this administration where I have to walk to the lake and just stare at it for a good while 3-4 times a week in order to maintain any semblance of mental equilibrium. I recall this now from round 1. As much as I love the lake, I don’t like this NEED for its calm.
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“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
#BookSky
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
#BookSky
August 31, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
#BookSky
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
#BookSky
INACCURATE. STOP NORMALIZING THIS
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
August 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
INACCURATE. STOP NORMALIZING THIS
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From The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury’s 1949 sci-fi classic
(aliveonallchannels)
(aliveonallchannels)
August 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
From The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury’s 1949 sci-fi classic
(aliveonallchannels)
(aliveonallchannels)
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Remember, tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "I led the effort to build the IL Holocaust Museum. What I know is that in 53 days, Nazis tore down the constitutional republic in Germany in the 1930s. It doesn't take much. We're seeing pieces of that sort of authoritarian activity happening right now in this country."
August 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Remember, tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
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Two things can be true:
1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &
2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &
2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
August 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Two things can be true:
1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &
2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &
2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.