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gtconway.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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harrylitman.bsky.social
Morally repugnant. Just unspeakable.

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chriso-wiki.bsky.social ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · Nov 9
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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jojofromjerz.bsky.social
When I took these images of the East Wing, I knew it would be some time before I ever got to see them in person again. I never imagined no one would ever be able to see them in person again. 😞
October 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
That’s some chyron. 👑

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October 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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jokeractual.bsky.social
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kryton3298.bsky.social Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · Sep 15
The proof that the extremism & violence are far-right. The regime has removed it.
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September 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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anniewaldman.bsky.social
NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies.

We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left.

They refused to give us numbers.

So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵

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In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left, and the admin refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis, a thread...
August 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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amonck.bsky.social
🧵 THREAD: What the leaked Alaska summit documents really reveal (excellent scoop by @NPR) 1/

NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.
August 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
Please pay attention.
briantylercohen.bsky.social Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 8
@marcelias.bsky.social: "I want everyone to pay attention... Trump is laying the groundwork to steal the 2026 election."
August 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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thedailybeast.bsky.social
OPINION | The Washington Monument? No, it’s now a tribute to President Trump’s mighty phallus, writes Holly Hudson.
Here’s What the Trump Administration Should Be Renaming Next
The Washington Monument? No, it’s now a tribute to President Trump’s mighty phallus.
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August 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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coreyryung.bsky.social
I love how Trump waits for his caddie to toss the new ball on the ground before getting out of his cart so that he can pretend he just located it.
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jul 27
Trump’s Caddie magically drops a ball for him not in the deep stuff ⛳️
July 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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mycabbagesoo.bsky.social
Yeah i'm starting to think this parade was worth every penny
June 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
jsblain.bsky.social
Wonder how long it will take Trump to take credit for there being an American pope?
May 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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jennburrill.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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samillingworth.com
🧬📉 Falling vaccine rates & rising outbreaks

A modelling study warns that a 50% drop in US childhood vaccination could cause 51 million measles cases, 159,000 deaths, and endemic measles in 5 years.

🔗 doi.org/10.1001/jama...

#SciComm 🧪 #Vaccines
Modeling Reemergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the US
This study estimates the number of cases and complications in the US under scenarios of declining childhood vaccination for measles, rubella, poliomyelitis, and diphtheria.
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April 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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markzaidesq.bsky.social
"Furthermore, I expect the German legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them, but that they are here for the nation"

Hitler, 1942

Doesn't sound much different, does it?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 25
Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."
April 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
We are nearing the end.
April 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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katiephang.bsky.social
“Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic”

But, of course that happened 😡

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h • Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY
April 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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altyellonatpark.org
Despite popular belief wolves have no fear or aggression towards humans. They're actually one of the least likely mammals in all of North America to harm a human.

Wolves are essential
Black wolf crossing the road right smack in front of a car with tourists hanging out the windows.
April 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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pgourevitch.bsky.social
I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”
informor.bsky.social Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · Apr 5
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
guys they're going to stop feeding TSA's bomb-sniffing dogs, per Fox News nat security correspondent:
March 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM