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Elizabeth Strater
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These kids are all right
group of high school students, one holding a sign saying “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here”
November 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I was denied entry to a federal courthouse for “wearing propaganda” lol
selfie in front of a courthouse. my jacket has a small red pin with the black eagle UFW logo with no text.
October 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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DHS crammed a bunch of agents in a Penske rental truck this morning in Los Angeles.

The owner, Roger Penske, was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019 (by Trump).
PENSKE pensketruck = ••• Penske Truck Rental is aware of recent reports and videos regarding a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operation in Los Angeles. Penske strictly prohibits the transportation of people in the cargo area of its vehicles under any circumstances. The company was not made aware that its trucks would be used in today's operation and did not authorize this. Penske will reach out to DHS and reinforce its policy to avoid improper use of its vehicles in the future. August 6, 2025 PENSKE pensketruck A statement from Penske Truck Rental
August 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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it does feel nice to make stephen miller THIS mad
stephen miller tweet: The ruling has just been issued. A communist judge in LA has ordered ICE to report directly to her and radical left NGOs — not the president. This is another act of insurrection against the United States and its sovereign people.
July 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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ok girl don’t hold back
Punkin the small ginger tabby cat has her mouth open super widely
April 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Thinking about this painting a lot. How do you interpret it?
Painting: A tall mexican revolutionary fighter with a gun, bandoliers crossing his chest, looks proud and defiant. A smaller figure in a suit, either a child or a very small man, is standing slightly behind the fighter with a book of law (leyes) in his hand.
March 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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I still don’t know what’s happening
screenshot of texts 1. Thank you, remember to copy jocelyn. [tiny Bolsonaro sticker in the text] 2. ok i’m sorry about the bolsonaro sticker i literally don’t know how that happens
March 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Ok so my wife and I independently saw this whale and felt he was @banditelli.org coded. Is the whale super anxious? Yes. Is he also full of optimism for the future? Yes, he is
a super optimistic but anxious whale stuffy, and a super optimistic and also anxious friend brett banditelli
February 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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It’s been repeated over and over since one person was quoted claiming 75% of farmworkers are stating home from work due to fear of immigration sweeps.

This is simply not true. Workers are scared, but they can’t afford to stay home. It is peak citrus harvest and they’re working.
Snopes * News Unpacking Claim That 75% of Farm Workers Didn't Go to Work Due to Immigration Raids in CA City The United Farm Workers union said claims of 75% absences in Bakersfield were "not accurate" but that raids had caused significant fear and anxiety.
January 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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this cat stole one of my airpods and ran away with it and i could hear my phone call sounds coming from her mouth. asshole.
lava the black cat looking like an asshole
January 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Portia texted Brett and she said “bbbb”
portia the large black cat near a phone that she just used to send a text message
January 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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this 1159 might be the highest AQI I have ever seen
January 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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haha ok
“this is fine” dog on fire meme overlaid with a notification that says Emergenct Alert LACoOEM: Dosregard last EVACUATION WARNING. It was for Kenneth Fire Only.
January 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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no, i don’t know how to make an iphone sticker. and no i don’t know why i have a sticker of bolsonaro in my phone. NO i don’t know how or why i keep accidentally texting it to people mid conversation
bolsonaro “sticker” image in a text message exchange text: here are our flights ok not that sorry text: mom and dad are on their way south bolsonaro sticker text: what in the world is that?
January 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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My gender is Dozer 5
a firedozer labeled 5 is shoving mercedes cars out of the way
January 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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On LA winds and the fires they birth: “The winds shows us how close to the edge we are.”
read it: www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/cms/lib5/CA0...
"The Santa Anas" Joan Didion There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension. What it means is that tonight a Santa Ana will begin to blow, a hot wind from the northeast whining down through the Cajon and San Gorgonio Passes, blowing up sand storms out along Route 66, drying hills and nerves to flash point. For a few days now we will see smoke back in the canyons, and hear sirens in the night. I have neither heard nor read that a Santa Ana is due, but I know it, and almost everyone I have seen today knows it too. We know it because we feel it. The baby frets. The maid sulks. I rekindle a waning argument with the telephone company, then cut my losses and lie down, given over to whatever it is in the air. To live with the Santa Ana is to accept, consciously or unconsciously, a deeply mechanistic view of human behavior. I recall being told, when I first moved to LA and was living on an isolated beach, that the Indians would throw themselves into the sea when the bad wind blew. I could see why. The Pacific turned ominously glossy during a Santa Ana period, and one woke in the night troubled not only by the peacocks screaming in the olive trees but by the eerie absence of surf. The heat was surreal. The sky had a yellow cast, the kind of light sometimes called "earthquake weather". My only neighbor would not come out of her house for days, and there were no lights at night, and her husband roamed the place with a machete. One day he would tell me that he had heard a trespasser, the next a rattlesnake. "On nights like that," Raymond Chandler once wrote about the Santa Ana, "every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen." That was the kind of wind it was. I did not know then that there was any basis for the effect it had on all of us, but it turns out to be another of those cases in which science bears out folk wisdom.
January 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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this will go fine
Lava the black cat is standing on her hind legs on the tv console with her front paws touching the christmas tree
December 19, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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It’s alarming to read of a critically ill H5N1 patient and a state of emergency on the same day, but the Louisiana case is a different strain from the one causing such widespread dairy cattle outbreaks in California.
www.cdc.gov/media/releas...
CDC report linked, screenshot: Partial viral genome data of the H5N1 avian influenza virus that infected the patient in Louisiana indicates that the virus belongs to the D1.1 genotype related to other D1.1 viruses recently detected in wild birds and poultry in the United States and in recent human cases in British Solumbia, Canada, and Washington state. This H5N1 bird flu genotype is different than the B3.13 genotype detected in dairy cows, sporadic human cases in multiple states, and some poultry outbreaks in the United States. Additional genomic sequencing and ehorts to isolate virus from clinical specimens from the patient in Louisiana are underway at CDC.
December 19, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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great news about the raccoon-proof bucket
a large black container open on its side, with a raccoon eating out of it
December 10, 2024 at 4:42 AM
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knocked on our window like a creep and woke us all up
a raccoon on my porch
December 8, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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Here’s an example. The product description is helpful to illustrate why one might consider this the bystander-friendly equipment to use when you want to avoid panic or unintended injury in anyone other than intended target. (I am commenting on agricultural use.)
ammoterra.com/product/b-t-...
This reduction can be further decreased as much as 4 dB A by using subsonic ammunition. This noise is about the same as a car door closing. This sound level will not cause any undue stress on the environment or among the general public. There is no supersonic crack. After firing the first shot the operator then uses the support hand to manually manipulate the bolt behind the suppressor. The gun is so quiet in fact that the noise of the bolt being unlocked and cycled actually makes more noise that the bullet being fired. It is a hand operated device which some people have compared it to a bolt action. Another interesting point is that since the projectile leaves the barrel and the suppressor at subsonic velocity the penetration is much less than that of a supersonic round thus minimizing the chance of a ricochet or stray round going off in an unintended direction.
December 8, 2024 at 7:05 AM
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thinking ahead: when i put the little button on my jacket and also put a smaller one on my vest in case i take the jacket off
holding my jacket lapel open so you can see i have a UFW pin on my jacket and another smaller UFW pin on my vest under the jacket
December 4, 2024 at 11:49 PM
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…good to know
sign saying only the following We are open normal hours
November 18, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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OMG it was just their SKIN
A newly molted grasshopper (large) a grasshopper skin held up for comparison to the big grasshopper that shed the skin
May 17, 2023 at 2:29 AM
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What the hell kind of bug is this
a pale white grasshopper kind of bug
May 17, 2023 at 2:24 AM