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“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.”Charles M. Schulz
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The Repayment Assistance Plan removed many professions from the designation of professional when reviewing lending caps.
Nursing, PA, PT, & audiology are excluded from the updated list. Others not considered professional include architecture, accounting, & mental health.
Still included? Theology.
Nursing, PA, PT, & audiology are excluded from the updated list. Others not considered professional include architecture, accounting, & mental health.
Still included? Theology.
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The Repayment Assistance Plan removed many professions from the designation of professional when reviewing lending caps.
Nursing, PA, PT, & audiology are excluded from the updated list. Others not considered professional include architecture, accounting, & mental health.
Still included? Theology.
Nursing, PA, PT, & audiology are excluded from the updated list. Others not considered professional include architecture, accounting, & mental health.
Still included? Theology.
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A 17-year-old high school senior from McMinnville, OR was detained by ICE during his lunch break — even after telling officers he was a citizen. An agent shattered his window and said, “I don’t care.”
This should outrage every all of us.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202... #BlueSky #NewsSky #ICE
This should outrage every all of us.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202... #BlueSky #NewsSky #ICE
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A 17-year-old high school senior from McMinnville, OR was detained by ICE during his lunch break — even after telling officers he was a citizen. An agent shattered his window and said, “I don’t care.”
This should outrage every all of us.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202... #BlueSky #NewsSky #ICE
This should outrage every all of us.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202... #BlueSky #NewsSky #ICE
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Fernando Vazquez, 18, was detained by Border Patrol agents at a worksite in Cary Tuesday. Vazquez, a U.S. citizen, was born in Raleigh.
Apex landscaper says Border Patrol saw his REAL ID and still detained him
Fernando Vazquez, 18, was detained by Border Patrol agents at a worksite in Cary Tuesday. Vazquez, a U.S. citizen, was born in Raleigh.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Fernando Vazquez, 18, was detained by Border Patrol agents at a worksite in Cary Tuesday. Vazquez, a U.S. citizen, was born in Raleigh.
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After Texas news outlets made a public records request to see emails Gov. Abbott and Musk’s companies, state officials took months fighting and delaying their release.
Then, they released 1,374 pages with all but 200 of those pages entirely blacked out. trib.al/ldzeTdi
Then, they released 1,374 pages with all but 200 of those pages entirely blacked out. trib.al/ldzeTdi
Abbott Releases—and Blacks Out—1,400 Pages of Emails With Elon Musk
Texas Governor Greg Abbott was forced to reveal his emails with Musk. He didn’t totally comply.
trib.al
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
After Texas news outlets made a public records request to see emails Gov. Abbott and Musk’s companies, state officials took months fighting and delaying their release.
Then, they released 1,374 pages with all but 200 of those pages entirely blacked out. trib.al/ldzeTdi
Then, they released 1,374 pages with all but 200 of those pages entirely blacked out. trib.al/ldzeTdi
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If you use Gmail, you need to be aware of this new feature that allows it to use your emails to train AI, but there is a way to opt out.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #StrongerTogether #Gmail #Google
youtube.com/shorts/XqXo2...
#Pinks #ProudBlue #StrongerTogether #Gmail #Google
youtube.com/shorts/XqXo2...
Why You Should Turn Off Gmail Smart Features (and How To Do It)
YouTube video by Meira G
youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If you use Gmail, you need to be aware of this new feature that allows it to use your emails to train AI, but there is a way to opt out.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #StrongerTogether #Gmail #Google
youtube.com/shorts/XqXo2...
#Pinks #ProudBlue #StrongerTogether #Gmail #Google
youtube.com/shorts/XqXo2...
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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AI slop is warping news media, but "artificial intelligence" is no match for actual news, written by actual humans & rooted in actual interactions with our communities. Stop the slop & support people-powered media — if you donate to Prism now, @inn.org will match your donation for double impact!
Support independent, nonprofit news led by journalists of color.
Join Prism's community of justice seekers and truth-tellers, building collective power through journalism. Understanding the full story has never mattered more.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
AI slop is warping news media, but "artificial intelligence" is no match for actual news, written by actual humans & rooted in actual interactions with our communities. Stop the slop & support people-powered media — if you donate to Prism now, @inn.org will match your donation for double impact!
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Today: BW @somevelvetblog.bsky.social on the air until 2p, followed by Wendy Rollins @wendyrollins.bsky.social until 6. Then it's our pal Ben Vaughn w/ The Many Moods and Jonny Meister w/ The Blues Show at 7pm.
Playing records on the radio today on WXPN @wxpnfm.bsky.social until 2pm Philly time. I got your Geese, got your Goose, got your Beatles, got your Stones, got your Joni, got your Brandi, got your LCD, got your DMC. xpn.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Today: BW @somevelvetblog.bsky.social on the air until 2p, followed by Wendy Rollins @wendyrollins.bsky.social until 6. Then it's our pal Ben Vaughn w/ The Many Moods and Jonny Meister w/ The Blues Show at 7pm.
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AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
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They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people.
This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
DOJ is now recruiting for immigration judges by calling them “deportation judges.”
That’s seems really bad.
That’s seems really bad.
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people.
This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
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Mark my words, teaching will be next.
The regime is targeting loans for traditionally female occupations.
The regime is targeting loans for traditionally female occupations.
I realized it was only a matter of time for other professions once I heard the professional, moral, intellectual & ethical requirements to be POTUS were completely eliminated. 🤷🏻♀️
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Mark my words, teaching will be next.
The regime is targeting loans for traditionally female occupations.
The regime is targeting loans for traditionally female occupations.
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
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If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
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Examples include:
🔸️Targeting civilians intentionally
🔸️Torturing prisoners of war
🔸️Looting or pillaging property
🔸️A commanding officer orders personnel to suppress lawful protests in violation of First Amendment rights
🔸️Violations of International Laws
🔸️Targeting civilians intentionally
🔸️Torturing prisoners of war
🔸️Looting or pillaging property
🔸️A commanding officer orders personnel to suppress lawful protests in violation of First Amendment rights
🔸️Violations of International Laws
No better way to signal intent to give illegal orders than to blow up at the lawful suggestion to not follow illegal orders.
Do not follow illegal orders.
GI Rights Hotline (Independent & Confidential): 877-447-4487.
Do not follow illegal orders.
GI Rights Hotline (Independent & Confidential): 877-447-4487.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Examples include:
🔸️Targeting civilians intentionally
🔸️Torturing prisoners of war
🔸️Looting or pillaging property
🔸️A commanding officer orders personnel to suppress lawful protests in violation of First Amendment rights
🔸️Violations of International Laws
🔸️Targeting civilians intentionally
🔸️Torturing prisoners of war
🔸️Looting or pillaging property
🔸️A commanding officer orders personnel to suppress lawful protests in violation of First Amendment rights
🔸️Violations of International Laws
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🕯️Today, we honor and mourn the trans and nonbinary people whose lives have been taken by violence, discrimination, and hate.
✊ Indivisible Chicago stands with our transgender & gender nonconforming neighbors, organizers, and loved ones. We fight for protections, dignity, and liberation—every day!
✊ Indivisible Chicago stands with our transgender & gender nonconforming neighbors, organizers, and loved ones. We fight for protections, dignity, and liberation—every day!
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
🕯️Today, we honor and mourn the trans and nonbinary people whose lives have been taken by violence, discrimination, and hate.
✊ Indivisible Chicago stands with our transgender & gender nonconforming neighbors, organizers, and loved ones. We fight for protections, dignity, and liberation—every day!
✊ Indivisible Chicago stands with our transgender & gender nonconforming neighbors, organizers, and loved ones. We fight for protections, dignity, and liberation—every day!
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Last month it was the Young Republicans praising Hitler. Last week it was Fuentes & Carlson criticizing "Jewry". This week, they're saying swastikas and nooses aren't hate speech. The rot is party-wide. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.seattletimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Last month it was the Young Republicans praising Hitler. Last week it was Fuentes & Carlson criticizing "Jewry". This week, they're saying swastikas and nooses aren't hate speech. The rot is party-wide. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
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No better way to signal intent to give illegal orders than to blow up at the lawful suggestion to not follow illegal orders.
Do not follow illegal orders.
GI Rights Hotline (Independent & Confidential): 877-447-4487.
Do not follow illegal orders.
GI Rights Hotline (Independent & Confidential): 877-447-4487.
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
No better way to signal intent to give illegal orders than to blow up at the lawful suggestion to not follow illegal orders.
Do not follow illegal orders.
GI Rights Hotline (Independent & Confidential): 877-447-4487.
Do not follow illegal orders.
GI Rights Hotline (Independent & Confidential): 877-447-4487.
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ICE break down bedroom door—point guns at mother & 4 U.S. citizen children.
Agents drag mother by her hair & aim rifle at 13-year-old daughter—yell "Put your hands up, stupid!"
Didn't show any ID or warrant before breaking in—were looking for a cousin who hadn't lived there in 2 years
Agents drag mother by her hair & aim rifle at 13-year-old daughter—yell "Put your hands up, stupid!"
Didn't show any ID or warrant before breaking in—were looking for a cousin who hadn't lived there in 2 years
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
ICE break down bedroom door—point guns at mother & 4 U.S. citizen children.
Agents drag mother by her hair & aim rifle at 13-year-old daughter—yell "Put your hands up, stupid!"
Didn't show any ID or warrant before breaking in—were looking for a cousin who hadn't lived there in 2 years
Agents drag mother by her hair & aim rifle at 13-year-old daughter—yell "Put your hands up, stupid!"
Didn't show any ID or warrant before breaking in—were looking for a cousin who hadn't lived there in 2 years
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One reason the country is here today is because many white churches still hold these sentiments
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Nov. 20, 1955 | White Mississippi Congregation Fires Pastor for Defending Racial Integration
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
One reason the country is here today is because many white churches still hold these sentiments
calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...