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Brooke H
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Teacher. Mother of two. Dog mom. She/her.
“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
(Maya Angelou)

Love this idea so much.
Read more about how the Salaam Shalom kitchen, also known as SaSh, brings people together through food.
SaSh is being supported by advocacy group Hope Not Hate’s charity arm, Hope Unlimited, one of the recipients of this year’s Guardian charity appeal.

Donate at theguardian.com/charityappeal25bsk
‘We’ve got more in common than what divides us’: a Muslim-Jewish kitchen in Nottingham counters hate and hunger
As antisemitism and Islamophobia rise, a community centre brings people together over shared meals, offering an antidote to food poverty, social isolation and division
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
One of my absolute favorite Christmas songs. So beautiful
Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.

Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.

Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
December 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
In other words, segregation. Society separating the rich from the poor with poc being primarily, if not exclusively, in the poor category.
What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/
IMHO, you can’t understand what’s happening to the US if u don’t know about the “network state” movement & its “parallel establishment” strategy, which includes building “parallel societies” (w/ their own physical territories) & “parallel institutions” in media, education, finance, science, etc. 1/
December 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.

You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Instant all-timer here:
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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If only there were previous indications that Harrison Butker might go too far right
December 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I want to see Hegseth on a stand like Colonel Jessop. “Did you order the code red?”
December 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This story is a fitting wrap up to 2025.
A raccoon goes on a drunken rampage in a closed Virginia liquor store, hitting the bottom shelf where the scotch and whisky were stored before smashing bottles and spilling alcohol everywhere before passing out on the floor.
Raccoon goes on drunken rampage in Virginia liquor store and passes out on bathroom floor
An employee at a Ashland, Virginia-area liquor store found the trash panda passed out on the bathroom floor at the end of his drunken escapade.
nbcnews.to
December 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Wow.

"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”

- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”

They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Nativity photo from Seattle.
December 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.

Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.

Shameful.
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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If you want to know why Hegseth is panicking about reminders that there is accountably for giving or carrying out illegal orders, it’s likely because he knows he has given illegal orders to murder people.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Signs of a cult: 1. Shunning 2. Having some type of collateral over defectors to keep them quiet
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Senator Alex Padilla walks out of an immigration hearing stating he refuses to be a part of political theater set up by Republicans.👏🏾 #ICE
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Exactly! Anyone who is implicated in the knowledge of or participation in the trafficking should be investigated. Including a sitting president.
CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?

CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I can’t believe how stupid everything is
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
So Trump's regime might actually be collapsing - great.

But if we don't dismantle the structures that delivered it and work to fix the system then it'll just happen again. We cannot have a free and fair society when billionaires can buy politicians. Period.
November 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM