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Picket the Plaza

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🗓️ Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
️📍 Calder Plaza, Grand Rapids, MI
[Grand Rapids, MI] Picket the Plaza, Saturday, April 19, 2025
[Grand Rapids, MI] Saturday, April 19, 2025 - We’re hosting a protest for the rights of others and against the rise of a fascist dictatorship. Participants will gather with signs, voices, and walking ...
theblop.org
April 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"Rubio's grandfather, immigrated to the U.S. legally in 1956, but returned to Cuba to find work. In 1962 he fled communist Cuba and returned to the U.S. without a visa,was detained as an undocumented immigrant was ordered him to be deported. The deportation order was not enforced."
Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants’ Social Media
The order comes as President Trump expands deportation efforts, including of students who have spoken out in support of Palestinians during Israel’s war in Gaza.
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Hope the 12,000 people who work in the auto sector appreciate Huizenga's support of tariffs.

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April 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated.
Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts
The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A moment of peace in this oh so chaotic world.
February 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Major changes at Google today: Pride month has been removed from the...Calendar, as well as many other cultural heritage days... They've changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Google...appears to be complying ...with ...targeting anyone that is not a white, straight, Christian male."
February 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Corrected link to Airlift event tonight
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Corrected link to Airlift event tonight
February 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Congratulations Coach for tying Bobby Knight as the winningist college BB coach! Victory for MSU!
February 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
My backsplash is done.
February 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
67 years ago today, these two headed off on their honeymoon. Miss them tremendously.
February 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
January 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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So, the people who've been putting Bibles in classrooms, the Ten Commandments in courthouses, and legislating away women's rights to their bodies are suddenly worried about the mixing of politics and religion, huh?
a man in a white shirt and tie is holding a clipboard in front of a white board with the word almost written on it
ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is holding a clipboard in front of a white board with the word almost written on it
media.tenor.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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"As an antidote to amnesia, here is an incomplete compilation of remarks about the January 6 violence made by Republicans who now are seeking Cabinet-level positions in the new Trump administration, or are otherwise in Trump’s inner circle."

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Republican Leaders Once Thought January 6 Was ‘Tragic’
Republicans used to denounce the violent insurrectionists of January 6. Their rhetoric is no longer operative.
www.theatlantic.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Follow independent media. You’re being played. politicsgirl.supercast.com
Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed
January 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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A+ Tweet
January 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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The Gulf of America is the space between the ears of Trump supporters.
January 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here.

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America Chose the Monster
We all make mistakes.
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January 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
GO GREEN. Both MSU men's and women's basketball teams won today!
January 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Joe Biden’s Parting Gift open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...

“This presidency has been purchased for the benefit of the super-wealthy.” The oligarchs are so confident in their control over Trump that they have abandoned all pretense of shame or impartiality. ... and he is their puppet."
Joe Biden’s Parting Gift
Janauary 16, 2025
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January 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
How we get rid of the American oligarchy open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

LEARN HISTORY
How we get rid of the American oligarchy
Friends,
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January 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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“Today an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.” Biden
January 15, 2025
It is somehow fitting that President Joe Biden’s farewell address to the nation, scheduled for 8:00 Eastern time tonight, was overshadowed today by the dramatic announcement that after months of negot...
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January 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Witch Trials and Bathroom Bills
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Witch Trials and Bathroom Bills
I can't shake this feeling...
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January 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM