Tinyfarmnapa
brendaspeth.bsky.social
Tinyfarmnapa
@brendaspeth.bsky.social
A few decades in the news business. Now I make art.
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This could have been an email.
December 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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🚨 BREAKING: Trump wants to scrap federal taxes on gambling winnings, encouraging more gambling even as Americans lost $71 billion to the industry in 2024. One of his top donors, Miriam Adelson, runs one of the world’s largest casino empires.
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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It wasn't long ago that women were forced to have a male co-signer to get a credit card or a home loan.

Now, the Trump administration wants to end protections against such discrimination.

Take 45 seconds today to say "No way." nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/ind...
The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released by the CFPB would eviscerate longstanding fair lending and consumer protections in three dangerous ways:
nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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🇺🇸 On this day 25 years ago, The Conservative Supreme Court handed George W. Bush the 2000 presidential election.
A heartbroken Al Gore graciously conceded, and delivered a passionate call for national unity.

🇺🇸 Just 20 years later, Donald J. Trump lost by 7 million votes and attacked our country.
December 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Trump says he is striking boats off Venezuela to stop drugs, mostly cocaine per reports.

Yet he just pardoned the Honduran ex-president who helped push more than 500 tons of cocaine into the U.S., took a $1 million bribe from El Chapo and bragged he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.”
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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NEW: Service cuts initiated under President Donald Trump’s first postmaster general could delay mail throughout most of the nation, putting millions of mail-in voters at risk of blowing ballot deadlines in future elections. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/pic...
Pick-Up Cuts by Trump’s U.S.P.S. Could Disenfranchise Mail Voters
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Trump on the legality of his deadly boat strikes: ‘I think we’re just gonna kill people’

Trump has embraced a model that allows him to order deadly military strikes against civilians, at a time and location of his choosing, without the approval of Congress.
Trump on the legality of his deadly boat strikes: ‘I think we’re just gonna kill people’
Trump has embraced a model that allows him to order deadly military strikes against civilians, at a time and location of his choosing, without the approval of Congress.
www.msnbc.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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CNN: “Trump said he ‘loved’ America’s cattle ranchers. But those farmers, who overwhelmingly supported the president in the 2024 election, say they aren’t feeling the love right now.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/e...
October 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
September 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social’s social media team isn’t just throwing haymakers they’re out here landing combos 👀
August 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Trump take ̶e̶g̶g̶ entire US wine market in Canada: www.wsj.com/business/us-...
August 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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The first journalist to just say “what the actual fuck are you talking about?” to the president should get a Pulitzer.
August 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...
Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility
Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.
www.wthr.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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August 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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“.. They are nurses, mechanics, sanitation workers and executives. .. They’ve opened restaurants .. paid taxes and contributed to Social Security, living and working legally in the United States since 1999.”

They have 60 days to leave.

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
July 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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A worker was killed. Dozens detained.

Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing.

Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL.

seiuca.org/press-releas...
SEIU California | SEIU California Demands Release of CSU Faculty Member Brutalized By ICE
SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our brother Jonathan Caravello, PhD, a U.S. citizen and union member, who was brutally assaulted and detained by federal agents as he…
seiuca.org
July 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Disabled veteran who is a U.S. citizen taken during Camarillo immigration raid
July 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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If you don’t live in California, you might be unaware of all the ICE mayhem. Here’s just part of the @latimes.com front page right now
July 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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I've been waiting for this.

When ICE agents refuse to identify themselves, this sort of thing is inevitable.
July 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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July 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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I think you should be able to say things the president doesn’t like and still be a citizen. Maybe we should write that down somewhere.
July 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Father of three Marines beaten by masked federal agents, set to be released from immigration facility
Father of three Marines beaten by masked federal agents, set to be released from immigration facility
Narciso Barranco, an undocumented immigrant who was violently arrested and beaten by masked federal agents, is set to be released on a $3,000 bond.
www.latimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Since President Donald Trump sent the military to Los Angeles, practically everything about the protests and the federal response has lacked a connection to reality.
Newton: The Trump administration stages a TV show in Los Angeles
Since President Donald Trump sent the military to Los Angeles, practically everything about the protests and the federal response has lacked a connection to reality.
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July 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM