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Rae Brown
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Activist, hiker, reader, proud Mom and (Grandmom and GreatGrandmom) sure “Everything’s gonna be alright...”

NO D.M.’s please.
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photo of head of ICE and other agencies kidnapping brown people
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NEW: Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Officer Danny Hodges have filed their response to the government's arguments against hanging the January 6th plaque in the Capitol pursuant to federal law. I'll post a link to the full filing once it's on the docket.
December 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass
Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.

Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Holy shit!

On the morning of the Delaney Hall confrontation, an ICE thug who would shove @replamonica.bsky.social later in the day used a racial slur.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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The Trump admin sanctions several European officials today after Elon Musk was fined for several violations of their Digital Services Act.
December 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Over public dissents from Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch, #SCOTUS refuses to allow President Trump to deploy federalized National Guard troops into and around Chicago.

This is a major loss for President Trump, even if, per Justice Kavanaugh’s concurrence, it’s temporary and on narrow legal Q:
www.supremecourt.gov
December 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Russel Brand has been charged with rape and sexual assault. I'm super surprised. www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault after 2 more women come forward
Police in London said the charges against the actor and podcaster relate to "two further women" and are in addition to charges filed in April.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.
jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.

This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.

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Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
www.ms.now
December 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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PLEASE note that folks in power decided “we’re not allowed” to see a news segment

Not allowed to see a news story about current events.

They may disagree w/it.
But to entirely censor it?

ANTI-democratic.
BIG time.

We have a right to see & judge for ourselves.

W/O the strong-arm of “big brother”
People passing around the 60 Minutes CECOT piece like teenage boys from the 1980s passing around their dad's Playboy issues, and YouTube cannot take down ripped copies fast enough.

Here's one that's interesting: a video of the video.

www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
60 Minutes CECOT Segment Axed by Weiss (Aired in Canada)
YouTube video by JayyRodd
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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This was US response to the letter by Venezuela to the UNSC

youtu.be/c68pLCPrdFA?...
December 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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With the Trump administration promising to continue these illegal boat strikes, transparency can't wait.

Congress, the courts, and we the people have a responsibility to shine a light on these deadly strikes now and defend the principle that no one — not even the president — is above the law.
Trump's Boat Strikes Are Illegal. The Public Needs Answers. | ACLU
The Trump administration must release its legal justification and all other materials related to its illegal lethal strikes on civilian boats at sea.
www.aclu.org
December 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
“Racism is a White problem…not the other way around.”

jesspiper.substack.com/p/not-that-k...
Not That Kind of White
White supremacy
jesspiper.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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There's always a Tweet.
December 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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We at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
December 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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BREAKING: Judge Cannon rules that her restriction on Jack Smith's classified documents report will end on Feb. 24. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.

This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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December 22, 2025
December 22, 2025
This afternoon, President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.
Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant

“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNOW show has 2 Epstein survivors blasting DOJ for failing to properly redact names, leaving some survivors‘ identities newly revealed. They suspect DOJ’s top priority is to protect other people — not the survivors. “We’re being re-traumatized by our government.”
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020

'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Hartford Visibility Brigade this am, 7 of us braving the snow to get the messages out! Please help us, if you can, keep going through winter.
gofund.me/6fadd76b0

Happy Holidays everyone!

@hcrichardson.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social @jesscraven101.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM