Geralyn
@hailey57.bsky.social
books, dogs, poetry, creating art and appreciating art, tourist in Nova Scotia for more than four decades, gardening with mixed results every year, favorite month is any month with a holiday calling for decorations :) That's every holiday, correct?
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Sad, but that’s the reality in the U.S.
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Sad, but that’s the reality in the U.S.
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If you missed this training, join our next one on October 15 where we’ll cover our rights when protesting, de-escalation training, and more.
No Kings: Protest Safety, Know Your Rights & De-Escalation Training 10/15
I'm attending this event - sign up now to join me!
act.aclu.org
October 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
If you missed this training, join our next one on October 15 where we’ll cover our rights when protesting, de-escalation training, and more.
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Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
October 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.
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Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
October 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.
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As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.
ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.
Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.
Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.
October 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.
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Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.
I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan
I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan
October 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.
I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan
I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan
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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
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“Advocacy must shift from isolated book battles to defending institutional autonomy and resisting the ideological nationalization of censorship.”
buckscountybeacon.com/2025/10/the-...
buckscountybeacon.com/2025/10/the-...
The Quiet Creep of Censorship: How ‘Everyday Banning’ Is Reshaping American Schools - Bucks County Beacon
PEN America’s new report “The Normalization of Book Banning” exposes how book censorship has become “rampant and common” in public schools across the United States.
buckscountybeacon.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“Advocacy must shift from isolated book battles to defending institutional autonomy and resisting the ideological nationalization of censorship.”
buckscountybeacon.com/2025/10/the-...
buckscountybeacon.com/2025/10/the-...
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This tactic is in the news again because ICE agents in Colorado were filmed breaking the window of a car with a baby in the backseat coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...
In July, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This tactic is in the news again because ICE agents in Colorado were filmed breaking the window of a car with a baby in the backseat coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...
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The state did away with categorical funding for school libraries a couple of budgets ago. They cannot say they support literacy improvements while failing to properly fund our school libraries (and our schools for that matter).
October 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The state did away with categorical funding for school libraries a couple of budgets ago. They cannot say they support literacy improvements while failing to properly fund our school libraries (and our schools for that matter).
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24,576 pounds of cheddar cheese to Food Bank for the Heartland in Nebraska;
270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina;
4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii
--> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina;
4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii
--> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
24,576 pounds of cheddar cheese to Food Bank for the Heartland in Nebraska;
270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina;
4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii
--> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina;
4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii
--> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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Attend an event. Read a banned book. Send an email. But more than anything, talk to your friends and neighbors about what’s at stake.
If they can remove a book you loathe, they can remove a book you love.
Make it a goal next week to inspire one new person a day into action!
If they can remove a book you loathe, they can remove a book you love.
Make it a goal next week to inspire one new person a day into action!
AABB is proud to join this coalition of groups fighting for the freedom to read. Nothing gives us more hope than the understanding that while the fight may be daunting, we are not in it alone. 1/3
October 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Attend an event. Read a banned book. Send an email. But more than anything, talk to your friends and neighbors about what’s at stake.
If they can remove a book you loathe, they can remove a book you love.
Make it a goal next week to inspire one new person a day into action!
If they can remove a book you loathe, they can remove a book you love.
Make it a goal next week to inspire one new person a day into action!
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Apple has removed an ICE tracking app that allows users to report ICE activity nearby from its App Store.
The removal came after a direct demand from Trump’s DOJ.
Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
The removal came after a direct demand from Trump’s DOJ.
Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
October 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Apple has removed an ICE tracking app that allows users to report ICE activity nearby from its App Store.
The removal came after a direct demand from Trump’s DOJ.
Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
The removal came after a direct demand from Trump’s DOJ.
Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
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Food banks had scheduled 94mil(!) pounds of food deliveries through a government program that buys meat, dairy, eggs and produce from American farmers and sends them to help people in need.
Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Food banks had scheduled 94mil(!) pounds of food deliveries through a government program that buys meat, dairy, eggs and produce from American farmers and sends them to help people in need.
Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries.
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans.
U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties.
Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed.
This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda.
It was always about cruelty.
U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties.
Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed.
This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda.
It was always about cruelty.
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans.
U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties.
Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed.
This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda.
It was always about cruelty.
U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties.
Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed.
This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda.
It was always about cruelty.
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According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
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In the spring, Trump cut $500 million from aid to food banks.
But they had already ordered 94 million pounds of food from the program — all abruptly canceled.
People at food banks noticed. The cuts meant less meat and lighter pickups.
We visualized it:
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
But they had already ordered 94 million pounds of food from the program — all abruptly canceled.
People at food banks noticed. The cuts meant less meat and lighter pickups.
We visualized it:
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
In the spring, Trump cut $500 million from aid to food banks.
But they had already ordered 94 million pounds of food from the program — all abruptly canceled.
People at food banks noticed. The cuts meant less meat and lighter pickups.
We visualized it:
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
But they had already ordered 94 million pounds of food from the program — all abruptly canceled.
People at food banks noticed. The cuts meant less meat and lighter pickups.
We visualized it:
projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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No, Democrats Are Not Shutting Down the Government to Give Illegals Healthcare
www.richardhanania.com/p/no-democra...
www.richardhanania.com/p/no-democra...
No, Democrats Are Not Shutting Down the Government to Give Illegals Healthcare
The completely fact-free debate over the continuing resolution
www.richardhanania.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
No, Democrats Are Not Shutting Down the Government to Give Illegals Healthcare
www.richardhanania.com/p/no-democra...
www.richardhanania.com/p/no-democra...
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Proud to work on this with some great folks fighting for the freedom to read. Of note - SO MANY ALLIES. @heykellyjensen.bsky.social @flfreedomread.bsky.social and @txfreedomread.bsky.social!!!! pen.org/report/the-n...
The Normalization of Book Banning
This report offers a window into the complex and extensive climate of censorship between July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
pen.org
October 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Proud to work on this with some great folks fighting for the freedom to read. Of note - SO MANY ALLIES. @heykellyjensen.bsky.social @flfreedomread.bsky.social and @txfreedomread.bsky.social!!!! pen.org/report/the-n...
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The NYT article correctly points out that the judge dances around a decision on “government speech” while siding with the rest of the district’s argument that it can viewpoint restrict as it chooses because patrons do not have 1A rights in our libraries.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
Florida Court Rejects Free Speech Argument in Book Removal Case
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The NYT article correctly points out that the judge dances around a decision on “government speech” while siding with the rest of the district’s argument that it can viewpoint restrict as it chooses because patrons do not have 1A rights in our libraries.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
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I say, ef him!
If Trump wants to withhold funding due to NY, Gov. Hochul should withhold our federal tax payments. NY is among the biggest net payers to subsidize red states. Let them pay their own way!
If Trump wants to withhold funding due to NY, Gov. Hochul should withhold our federal tax payments. NY is among the biggest net payers to subsidize red states. Let them pay their own way!
October 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I say, ef him!
If Trump wants to withhold funding due to NY, Gov. Hochul should withhold our federal tax payments. NY is among the biggest net payers to subsidize red states. Let them pay their own way!
If Trump wants to withhold funding due to NY, Gov. Hochul should withhold our federal tax payments. NY is among the biggest net payers to subsidize red states. Let them pay their own way!