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momcjl.bsky.social
Not a drag queen.
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March 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
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and full text of Mahmoud Khalil's letter is available here, from @ccrjustice.org

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Image with yellow-underlined text reading Letter from Mahmoud Khalil in ICE Detention Swipe left Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana Dictated over the phone from ICE Detention March 18, 2025 My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law. Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away. It isn’t the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported without so much as a hearing. Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities. On March 8, I was taken by DHS agents who refused to provide a warrant, and accosted my wife and me as we returned from dinner. By now, the footage of that night has been made public. Before I knew what was happening, agents handcuffed and forced me into an unmarked car. At that moment, my only concern was for Noor’s safety. I had no idea if she would be taken too, since the agents had threatened to arrest her for not leaving my side. DHS would not tell me anything for hours — I did not know the cause of my arrest or if I was facing immediate deportation. At 26 Federal Plaza, I slept on the cold floor. In the early morning hours, agents transported me to another facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. There, I slept on the ground and was refused a blanket despite my request. My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night. With January’s ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forced to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs. It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom I was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria to a family which has been displaced from their land since the 1948 Nakba. I spent my youth in proximity to yet distant from my homeland. But being Palestinian is an experience that transcends borders. I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel’s use of administrative detention — imprisonment without trial or charge — to strip Palestinians of their rights. I think of our friend Omar Khatib, who was incarcerated without charge or trial by Israel as he returned home from travel. I think of Gaza hospital director and pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was taken captive by the Israeli military on December 27 and remains in an Israeli torture camp today. For Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace. I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear. My unjust detention is indicative of the anti-Palestinian racism that both the Biden and Trump administrations have demonstrated over the past 16 months as the U.S. has continued to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians and prevented international intervention. For decades, anti-Palestinian racism has driven efforts to expand U.S. laws and practices that are used to violently repress Palestinians, Arab Americans, and other communities. That is precisely why I am being targeted.
March 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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lincolnproject.us
@therickwilson.bsky.social has an urgent message for the Dems: SHUT IT DOWN!

Watch:
Rick Wilson Has an URGENT Message for Chuck Schumer: SHUT IT DOWN!
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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March 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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eveettinger.com
If voicemails are full, you can also email these staffers in Schumer's office:

mike_lynch [at] schumer [dot] senate [dot] gov

meghan_taira [at] schumer [dot] senate [dot] gov
March 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
If you have scripture on your tongue and hate on your agenda, kindly shut up and take a damn seat. You are what is wrong with this country right now.
February 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Bitch you are the government.
February 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):

1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*

2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything

3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can

4. Citizens march en mass
February 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
Schiff voted to confirm Sean Duffy as Transportation Secretary, even after Trump issued the illegal order to freeze federal funding.
schiff.senate.gov Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · Jan 31
History is littered with democracies that lost their freedoms without seeming to notice while it was happening.

Let’s not become one of them.
January 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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mmpadellan.bsky.social
This is what "merit hire" means to them
February 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION SUBJECT: New Annual Media Rotation Program for Pentagon Press Corps For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department's top military and civilian leaders. Known as the Correspondents' Corridor, this office space loaned to media outlets by the Secretary of Defense stands as a tribute to the importance the Department has long placed on informing the public about the U.S. military and all it does to project peace through strength. It also honors the many correspondents who put their lives on the line, and in many cases died, while covering our finest in battle. In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents' Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalistic value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs will implement a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces. Each year, one outlet from each press medium - print, online, television and radio - that has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps. This year, the following news outlets will begin their rotation by vacating their physical office space effective Friday, February 14, 2025: Print - The New York Times TV - NBC News Radio - National Public Radio Online News - POLITICO In their place, the following outlets from each medium will be invited to move into the Correspondents' Corridor workspaces formerly occupied by the above four outlets. Print - New York Post TV - One America News Network Radio - Breitbart News Network Online News - HuffPost News (aka The Huffington Post) To be clear, the outlets that vacate the spaces loaned to them by the Secretary will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps. They will continue to enjoy the same media access to the Pentagon and will be able to attend and cover briefings and be considered for travel with civilian and military leaders in the Department as they have previously. The only change will be giving up their physical workspaces in the building to allow new outlets to have their turn to become resident members of the Pentagon Press Corps. Thank you in advance for participating in the Pentagon Press Corps Annual Media Rotation Program. By turning over the office space loaned to you by the Secretary, you will ensure that new outlets will have the same opportunity you have enjoyed covering our nation's finest up close from office spaces inside the walls of the Pentagon. (John Ullyot Acting
February 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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zacheverson.com
New: Kash Patel got about $900,000 richer on Tuesday when part of his compensation package vested and he picked up 26,000 of shares of Trump Media.

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Kash Patel's SEC Form 4
January 31, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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sweetfnlucifer.bsky.social
Donald Trump murdered over 60 Americans with his grotesque and grossly negligent policies. He's rabidly gutted air craft controllers and safety personnel since taking office. Now, he's scapegoating DEI and disabled people without a single shred of fucking evidence. Despicable.
January 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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thefarce.org
House Republicans are heading to Miami to decide how many working Americans to uninsure and immiserate to pay for the tax cuts of the richest men who've ever lived. Wheeee!
Analysis | House Republicans are goin’ to Miami
In today’s edition … Martin and Wikler remain ahead in final week of DNC chair race … Democrats eye leveraging the debt ceiling for policy wins.
wapo.st
January 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
It's "toe the line" you semi-literate Trump morons.
January 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social
Say it louder
January 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The new Republican House began with an obvious lie advanced in the service of Christian nationalism, so we’re off to a great start
friendlyatheist.com Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · Jan 3
In his opening speech, Speaker Mike Johnson just recited a long prayer attributed to Thomas Jefferson.

As @jackjenkins.me and others have pointed out, Jefferson never said any of this: www.monticello.org/research-edu...
January 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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mmpadellan.bsky.social
THIS, ALL FUCKING DAY.
January 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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strictlychristo.bsky.social
It's a goddamn mystery!
January 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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trump-tracker.bsky.social
"It is reprehensible that the president-elect would use [the New Orleans] tragedy to promote disinformation about immigration. [This] ... should have provoked a firestorm of condemnation in the legacy media. But they have (again) looked the other way."

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Markers of permanence surround us.
January 2, 2025
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January 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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vermontgmg.bsky.social
The fact that the FBI didn’t hold a press conference announcing the largest seizure of self-made explosives in history tells you everything you need to know about race and ideology of the suspect. Wanna guess? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...
F.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its History at Va. Farm
Investigators discovered more than 150 devices, mostly pipe bombs, on a property outside Norfolk, court papers say.
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Sounds fair to me!
January 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
And I never got a good answer to the question.
December 31, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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just-jack-1.bsky.social
$16 billion was spent in the last election.

Enough to eradicate world hunger. Twice over.

Our elections now feel like auctions. A contest to corral the most billionaires.

Citizens United put us on the fast track to an oligarchy.

For us to find our way back, it has to be undone.
December 30, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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criminalerin.bsky.social
But if we abolish the police, who will shoot a guy to death in his own home while executing a stolen weedwacker search warrant on the entirely wrong person at the entirely wrong address
www.lex18.com/news/coverin...
Neighbors: Police killed man after serving warrant to wrong home
There are a lot of questions surrounding the deadly shooting of a 61-year-old Laurel County man this week, by London police officers who say they were there to serve a search warrant.
www.lex18.com
December 28, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
My new takedown of Kash Patel:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O41...
Kash Patel for the FBI? Buyer Beware!
YouTube video by Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2024 at 4:37 PM