Alice Lastname
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Alice Lastname
@ghiggs.bsky.social
gardener and animal lover
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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This evening's virtual office hour turned into a full 90 minute session on recent global climate trends! If you want to hear more about my thoughts on where we are & where we're headed, including context re: record-breaking global warmth, check it out:
Global climate update: Recent trends, what surprises may lurk, and honest thoughts on our trajectory
The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain on various topics related to extreme #weather and #climate. 12/04/2025 topic: I'll offer an update on recent short- and long-term global climate trends, including the likely upcoming transition
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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If the Supreme Court makes you mad keep in mind that within the last week Democratic senators have been voting for GOP judges to get on the federal bench
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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“What’s your plan for the Court?” is the only question that matters for 2028 Democratic hopefuls, because if they don’t, the Republican Super Legislature is hatcheting their agenda before it can get off the ground.
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.
December 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Ah yes. While everyone with followings here was hyperventilating about “call your senator!”… the lines were busy with the elite folks they really answer to.
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Bidenomics: Truly Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment & Growth—But Unable to Break Through the Media Misinformation Machine
My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the…
braddelong.substack.com/p/bidenomics...
Bidenomics: Truly Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment & Growth—But Unable to Break Through the Media Misinformation Machine
My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the story never did. A brief moderate transitory inflation. A long and strong jobs and...
braddelong.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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When the good news comes with schadenfreude.
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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RAJU: Last week you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
November 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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They've been instructed to be as violent as possible, so the nation will rise up and Dear Leader can crack down. BET. ON. IT.
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
October 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) would have benefited from this sign at the #Birmingham #Alabama #NoKings rally…
October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Best way to resist, protest and eventually topple this posse of idiots cosplaying as fascists

Stop spending except for strict necessities

I have been doing it since January

Consumer strike is the way

Non violent and non prosecutable
October 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party
Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "
October 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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“President Trump on Sunday called the deadly U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea “an act of kindness,” claiming that the attacks had halted drug trafficking via those waters”
George Orwell, 1946: “Political language is designed to make make lies sound truthful and murder respectable”
Trump Calls Deadly Strikes on Boats in Caribbean an ‘Act of Kindness’
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Lmfao
October 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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This frighting fuck has their ear.
Gift link:
Douglas Wilson Wants the U.S. to Be a Christian Republic. MAGA Is Listening.
www.wsj.com/us-news/doug...
Essay | Douglas Wilson Wants the U.S. to Be a Christian Republic. MAGA Is Listening.
The incendiary pastor calls for taking away women’s right to vote and barring non-Christians from holding office. Pete Hegseth and Tucker Carlson are among his fans.
www.wsj.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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This is it. The throughline from then to now. The death cult, having killed everyone else, will eat itself alive.
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Enacted with zero public comment. Zero impact analysis. Zero consideration of its effects on people who've made vast investments which assumed the rule of law. Zero clarity on who the tax even applies to. Essentially zero time (19 hours!) to prepare.

Just numb cruelty. No other words.
September 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM