Lisa Firestone Rydecki
@ladydeck.bsky.social
Mom, wife, sister. Proud to be liberal.
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Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1
September 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1
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I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
August 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
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This might explain why JD ain’t defending Trump very enthusiastically these past few days.
Is Murdoch and Vance making a move?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Is Murdoch and Vance making a move?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
JD Vance flew to Montana for secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News execs
A source familiar with the trip told The Independent that the vice president spoke to both Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, as well as a group of executives from the right-wing network
www.independent.co.uk
July 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This might explain why JD ain’t defending Trump very enthusiastically these past few days.
Is Murdoch and Vance making a move?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Is Murdoch and Vance making a move?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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They’re chasing quotas, not criminals!
The former head of Chicago’s immigration court, fired by Trump, is finally speaking out. A new lawsuit accuses the administration of unlawfully targeting documented immigrants who were already showing up to court, just so ICE could hit arrest quotas.
The former head of Chicago’s immigration court, fired by Trump, is finally speaking out. A new lawsuit accuses the administration of unlawfully targeting documented immigrants who were already showing up to court, just so ICE could hit arrest quotas.
July 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
They’re chasing quotas, not criminals!
The former head of Chicago’s immigration court, fired by Trump, is finally speaking out. A new lawsuit accuses the administration of unlawfully targeting documented immigrants who were already showing up to court, just so ICE could hit arrest quotas.
The former head of Chicago’s immigration court, fired by Trump, is finally speaking out. A new lawsuit accuses the administration of unlawfully targeting documented immigrants who were already showing up to court, just so ICE could hit arrest quotas.
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While it's absolutely worth celebrating their freedom from CECOT, we can't overlook the fact that more than 60 of these men had pending asylum cases.
“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"We were kidnapped"
On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
www.motherjones.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
While it's absolutely worth celebrating their freedom from CECOT, we can't overlook the fact that more than 60 of these men had pending asylum cases.
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Days after the Ruidoso, Texas, and Chicago floods the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did not answer nearly ⅔ of calls to its disaster assistance line
The fails comes after the agency fired hundreds of contractors at FEMA call centers on July 5th
Reports @nytimes.com
The fails comes after the agency fired hundreds of contractors at FEMA call centers on July 5th
Reports @nytimes.com
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Days after the Ruidoso, Texas, and Chicago floods the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did not answer nearly ⅔ of calls to its disaster assistance line
The fails comes after the agency fired hundreds of contractors at FEMA call centers on July 5th
Reports @nytimes.com
The fails comes after the agency fired hundreds of contractors at FEMA call centers on July 5th
Reports @nytimes.com
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oh my god www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
July 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
oh my god www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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Today, Pete Hegseth bristled when a reporter pointed out that a woman was among the pilots in the Iran bombing mission and asked why he referred to the pilots collectively as "the boys."
He ranted that it doesn't matter.
Wasn't the election for them partly about defining the word "woman"?
He ranted that it doesn't matter.
Wasn't the election for them partly about defining the word "woman"?
June 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Today, Pete Hegseth bristled when a reporter pointed out that a woman was among the pilots in the Iran bombing mission and asked why he referred to the pilots collectively as "the boys."
He ranted that it doesn't matter.
Wasn't the election for them partly about defining the word "woman"?
He ranted that it doesn't matter.
Wasn't the election for them partly about defining the word "woman"?
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Yeah, Democracy was rough. Not having neighbors rounded up & sent to concentration camps, not wasting $200 mn on a futile bombing raid, not forcing the military to put on a parade for his birthday, not kicking millions off healthcare so oligarchs could pay less tax, not killing cancer research ..
June 26, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Yeah, Democracy was rough. Not having neighbors rounded up & sent to concentration camps, not wasting $200 mn on a futile bombing raid, not forcing the military to put on a parade for his birthday, not kicking millions off healthcare so oligarchs could pay less tax, not killing cancer research ..
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Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr. says U.S. will stop funding global vaccine alliance Gavi
Gavi works to expand access to vaccines for children in some of the world’s poorest countries. Health experts say the move could have deadly consequences.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Yes, just imagine.
June 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Yes, just imagine.
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Gavin Newsom speaking Truth to Sarah Huckabee Sanders
June 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Gavin Newsom speaking Truth to Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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The Big Beautiful Betrayal will increase the debt by trillions of dollars. Congressional Republicans want to stick our kids and grandkids with this bill—and raise interest rates for all Americans—to give tax breaks to the wealthy.
June 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The Big Beautiful Betrayal will increase the debt by trillions of dollars. Congressional Republicans want to stick our kids and grandkids with this bill—and raise interest rates for all Americans—to give tax breaks to the wealthy.
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BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.
![Plaintiffs' [103] Motion for Class Certification is DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE
as to the Criminal Custody Class and GRANTED as to the CECOT Class with
modifications. The latter Class shall be defined as follows:
All noncitizens removed from U.S. custody and transferred to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador on March 15 and 16, 2025, pursuant solely to the Presidential Proclamation entitled, "Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua"; and
3. By June 11, 2025, Defendants shall submit a Notice to the Court advising how they
intend to facilitate the ability of the CECOT Class to seek habeas relief.
Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 147 Filed 06/04/25
Page 2 of 2
Is/ James E. Boasberg
JAMES E. BOASBERG
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June 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.
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"Any Secretary of Defense who would intentionally and irrationally remove the name of a gay veteran from a U.S. Navy vessel is making clear what he thinks of the open service of gay service members..."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/hegseth-to...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/hegseth-to...
Hegseth to Remove Harvey Milk's Name from U.S. Navy Ship
They never stop being hateful.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"Any Secretary of Defense who would intentionally and irrationally remove the name of a gay veteran from a U.S. Navy vessel is making clear what he thinks of the open service of gay service members..."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/hegseth-to...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/hegseth-to...
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You have GOT to be kidding me.
NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
www.propublica.org
June 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
You have GOT to be kidding me.
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Same with this. If Trump admin is already censoring farm trade data, reasonable to worry that jobs, inflation, GDP, other market-moving data could be next. bsky.app/profile/cram...
Very ominous: Trump administration officials delayed and censored a govt forecast because it predicts an increase in the nation’s trade deficit in farm goods later this year
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Trump officials delayed farm trade report over deficit forecast
Administration officials blocked publication of written analysis that normally accompanies the report because they disliked what it said about the deficit.
www.politico.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Same with this. If Trump admin is already censoring farm trade data, reasonable to worry that jobs, inflation, GDP, other market-moving data could be next. bsky.app/profile/cram...
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For nearly 160 years, federal govt has been producing a statistical report on condition & progress of education. In 2002, Congress gave Ed Dept annual deadline for that report: June 1.
For first time ever, Ed Dept just failed to meet this statutory obligation.
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
For first time ever, Ed Dept just failed to meet this statutory obligation.
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
Education Department misses key deadline for delivering statistics report
Congress mandates annual ‘Condition of Education’ digest by June 1
hechingerreport.org
June 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
For nearly 160 years, federal govt has been producing a statistical report on condition & progress of education. In 2002, Congress gave Ed Dept annual deadline for that report: June 1.
For first time ever, Ed Dept just failed to meet this statutory obligation.
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
For first time ever, Ed Dept just failed to meet this statutory obligation.
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
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The fact that Emil Bove of all people may now fill a seat for which Senate Dems had the direct opportunity to confirm a Biden nominee is really something.
Last year, a handful of Democrats tanked Joe Biden's impressive judicial nominee Adeel Mangi out of cowardice.
Now Trump is ready to fill this U.S. appeals court seat with his pick: his own criminal defense attorney and "hatchet man" at DOJ. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Now Trump is ready to fill this U.S. appeals court seat with his pick: his own criminal defense attorney and "hatchet man" at DOJ. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Taps His Own Criminal Defense Attorney For Lifetime Federal Judgeship
Democrats tanked Joe Biden's pick for this U.S. appeals court seat out of cowardice. Now Trump is nominating Emil Bove, his hatchet man at DOJ.
www.huffpost.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The fact that Emil Bove of all people may now fill a seat for which Senate Dems had the direct opportunity to confirm a Biden nominee is really something.
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“The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on H.I.V. vaccines, terminating a $258 million program whose work was instrumental to the search for a vaccine.”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...
Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 2:24 AM
“The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on H.I.V. vaccines, terminating a $258 million program whose work was instrumental to the search for a vaccine.”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...
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WATCH: “The politics of this are so bad it literally blows my mind.”
Republicans cutting Medicaid by $880 BILLION to slash taxes for the rich is wildly unpopular — and @MarshaBlackburn’s office just admitted it is their plan.
1 million Tennesseans are on Medicaid.
Republicans cutting Medicaid by $880 BILLION to slash taxes for the rich is wildly unpopular — and @MarshaBlackburn’s office just admitted it is their plan.
1 million Tennesseans are on Medicaid.
May 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
WATCH: “The politics of this are so bad it literally blows my mind.”
Republicans cutting Medicaid by $880 BILLION to slash taxes for the rich is wildly unpopular — and @MarshaBlackburn’s office just admitted it is their plan.
1 million Tennesseans are on Medicaid.
Republicans cutting Medicaid by $880 BILLION to slash taxes for the rich is wildly unpopular — and @MarshaBlackburn’s office just admitted it is their plan.
1 million Tennesseans are on Medicaid.
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Lead Republican tax bill writer says the quiet part out loud.
This “big beautiful bill” CUTS health care for millions of people.
This “big beautiful bill” CUTS health care for millions of people.
May 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Lead Republican tax bill writer says the quiet part out loud.
This “big beautiful bill” CUTS health care for millions of people.
This “big beautiful bill” CUTS health care for millions of people.
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📢 Trump and Musk cut mortgage help for Veterans—let them lose their homes. But they’ve got $45 million to force the U.S. Army to march for Trump’s birthday?
He’s a draft-dodging coward who treats Troops like props in his fascist fantasy.
MORE: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
He’s a draft-dodging coward who treats Troops like props in his fascist fantasy.
MORE: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
May 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
📢 Trump and Musk cut mortgage help for Veterans—let them lose their homes. But they’ve got $45 million to force the U.S. Army to march for Trump’s birthday?
He’s a draft-dodging coward who treats Troops like props in his fascist fantasy.
MORE: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
He’s a draft-dodging coward who treats Troops like props in his fascist fantasy.
MORE: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Here is what we confirmed: After Musk’s rise to power in the U.S. government, the State Department has repeatedly coaxed, lobbied and browbeat this tiny West African country into giving business to Musk’s satellite company Starlink.
The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...
www.propublica.org
May 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Here is what we confirmed: After Musk’s rise to power in the U.S. government, the State Department has repeatedly coaxed, lobbied and browbeat this tiny West African country into giving business to Musk’s satellite company Starlink.
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The Trump administration cut federal funding for a research project at Cornell University aimed at developing a heart pump designed for babies and children with congenital heart defects bringing the effort to a halt.
May 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The Trump administration cut federal funding for a research project at Cornell University aimed at developing a heart pump designed for babies and children with congenital heart defects bringing the effort to a halt.