Kate
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Kate
@k8tebuggy.bsky.social
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The UN says 1.3 million Palestinians urgently need shelter and tents, tarps and basic materials for all of them have were pre-positioned for entry just outside Gaza’s borders two months ago. But Israel is deliberately blocking any of it from entering for a third straight winter, forcing displaced...
December 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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“Let me tell you a story. In 2007, President Jimmy Carter visited me. I respected him because he conducted himself with high moral standards. He wrote books supportive of the Palestinian cause. I valued him, and he gifted me some of his signed...

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December 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has sharply escalated as the M23 rebel movement pushes beyond its North Kivu strongholds into South Kivu. According to analysis by the Critical Threats Project, M23’s capture of Uvira earlier this month & its advance down the RN5 toward Fizi mark a...
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Why should other countries sign deals with the United States when this president is breaking **his own deals** after less than 6 months?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
US suspends technology deal with Britain, FT reports
The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck with Britain earlier this year, which was intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy, the...
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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NEW: Nearly 180 positions charged with implementing a court order that requires the Chicago Police Department to stop routinely violating Black and Latino residents’ constitutional rights are vacant, according to records obtained by @wttw.bsky.social news.
40% of Jobs Charged with Implementing Chicago’s Court-Ordered Police Reforms Are Vacant, Records Show
Of 439 positions in the Chicago Police Department charged with implementing the consent decree, 179 positions were empty at the beginning of December, according to a Freedom of Information Act request...
news.wttw.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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""A program for deaf-blind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The Trump administration cut the program’s funding over diversity goals." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Trump’s Diversity Rollback Ends Crucial Aid for Deafblind Children Like Annie Garner
A program for deafblind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The Trump administration cut the program’s funding over diversity goals.
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
utterly incapable of grace
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Utah has repealed a law that barred public unions from negotiating on behalf of their members.

Republican Gov. Spencer Cox approved the rollback of one of the most anti-union laws in the country after thousands of union members rallied outside his office for a week.

apnews.com/article/utah...
Utah repeals ban on collective bargaining for teachers, firefighters and police unions
Utah has repealed a collective bargaining ban that prevented labor unions serving teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees from negotiating on behalf of their workers.
apnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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There's a growing community in the US of people who have survived more than one mass shooting. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
In America, Mass Shooting Survivors Can Never Know Peace
A growing number of US residents have lived through more than one massacre.
www.thenation.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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🔗: bit.ly/4qecOCA

President Donald Trump posted a shocking reaction to the deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.

📷️: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic; Eugene Gologursky/Getty
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Buckle up Dem establishment, because me and my maximum wage tied to the minimum wage proposal are coming for your asses
"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Feds call out Wisconsin, 38 other states for diverting benefits owed to foster kids. @erikgunn.bsky.social reports
Feds call out Wisconsin, 38 other states for diverting benefits owed to foster kids • Wisconsin Examiner
Wisconsin is among the states that has diverted foster children's federal benefits to offset costs incurred by the child welfare system.
buff.ly
December 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.
without Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock production company we wouldn’t have:

City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Below rock bottom: America’s descent under Trump 2.0

A scientist and mother gives an account of the Trump administration’s devastating impact on research, academic freedom, and America's future

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/bel...
Below rock bottom: America’s descent under Trump 2.0
A scientist and mother gives an account of the Trump administration’s devastating impact on research, academic freedom, and America's future
westenglandbylines.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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A man initially identified as a "person of interest" in the Saturday, Dec. 13, mass shooting at Brown University has been released from custody — and the real shooter is still on the run | 📷: Bing Guan/AFP via Getty

Everything we know: bit.ly/44tbbsh
December 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Even starting to get the ‘same victims affected multiple times in their lives’ stories like with increased American mass shootings.
Nephew of Poway rabbi injured in 2019 synagogue shooting among those killed in Australia attack
One attack victim was nephew of Poway rabbi
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Ohio U.S. Sen. Jon Husted wants to “freeze” ACA insurance subsidies ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/09/o...
Ohio U.S. Sen. Jon Husted wants to "freeze" ACA insurance subsidies • Ohio Capital Journal
U.S. Sen Jon Husted wants to "freeze" insurance subsidies to nearly 600,000 Ohioans. That would increase their costs or cut eligibility.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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“We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. “They passed directly in our flight path. … They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous.” www.cnn.com/2025/12/14/p...
JetBlue plane near Venezuela avoids ‘midair collision’ with US Air Force aircraft | CNN Politics
A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a US Air Force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing hi...
www.cnn.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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This is good.
I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM