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Questions, in no particular order:

1. Where’s the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio?
2. Is there a homeland security/CT plan given recent focus on mass deportations and downgrading of CT?
3. Did the “2 weeks” backlash push him or was it a done deal?
4. Did he notify Congress at all?
(More soon)
June 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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"Some see"....

Are the others blind?
April 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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It is breaking our hearts to hear of people taking their lives over the the pain this administration has caused. Please keep your eyes on and your hearts open to your loved ones. Below are resources for anyone struggling.
April 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Filed under: Cylons. 👀
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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This is who you should be running, this is the kind of representation you need.

The want you to “Stay poor, stay hidden and die silently”
"I am a human being" #3E
April 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town.

I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
April 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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i miss discourse that didn’t involve the collapse of the government
April 3, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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To anyone living in a state that doesn't respect you for who you love or who you are: Illinois has a place for you.

You are seen, you are celebrated, you are protected, and you are welcome here in our state.
March 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Just for kicks I typed “what would happen if a ru$$ian operative was elected president” into a search bar this morning. (That reminds me of a joke but that’s a horse of a different color).

An article popped up from BigThink, first published in 2018, and again in 2023,
March 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
1/ I believe, via my own personal internal uprising and resistance, that if you can take just one step to stand up for your core beliefs based on empathy, kindness, generosity, compassion, truth—as opposed to greed, insecurity, distrust, jealousy, condescension toward and sheer hatred for your
March 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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This is excellent.
JD Vance is skiing at a Vermont resort this weekend. The resort’s snow reporter took the opportunity to make some good trouble, sending out a message of resistance against an administration “threatening our democracy, our livelihoods, our land”. [kottke.org]
Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter
JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, VT
kottke.org
March 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Have you heard? There’s a new bill that makes it harder for millions of eligible Americans to vote. Join me and @standupamerica.bsky.social in urging Congress to vote NO on the SAVE Act: act.standupamerica.com/letters/no-o...
Vote NO on the SAVE Act!
The SAVE Act is a trick to undermine our voting rights. Urge Congress to vote no on the SAVE ACT.
act.standupamerica.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Thank you, Marc Elias
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court issues TRO blocking the Department of Education and OPM from disclosing personal information to DOGE.

Visit www.democracydocket.com for breaking democracy news.
February 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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🏴 Day 34! Please boost this! February 28, economic blackout! Prepare accordingly; I'll be making chili on the 27th so I can eat at home the next day! :3
February 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.

It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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New from me —

“What it comes down to is the removal of choice, especially when it comes to established health care. People should not have to suffer the anguish of being denied life-saving drugs because a couple of guys have decided to apply conspiracy theories instead of established science.”
You can pry my antidepressants from my cold, dead hands
A new executive order announced an "assessment" for the use of these meds in children. Adults aren't far behind.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Stop being friends with fascists.
If you saw them take food out of the mouths of starving children overseas, would you stop being their friend? If so, stop being their friend, because their support for Trump is taking food out of the mouths of starving children overseas.
Create a cost for cruelty.
February 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Thank you, Rick Steves 🌎@ricksteves.bsky.social
As our new president and his favorite broligarch move to dismantle US foreign aid in the name of making America “great again,” consider this:
February 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
February 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Capitol switchboard. Call your rep and senators to get the DOGE interns out of the $6T US Federal payment system!
Capital Switchboard
1-202-224-3121
February 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM