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Mango’s mom
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Calif native, retired agricultural biotech scientist, history and plant devotee. Blue spot in 6 states so far. Help get those non-voters to the polls.
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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My trust is not restored
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Brett Kavanagh, his friends, and his family will be living with these images until their dying days. Unimaginable betrayal of the American creed.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Why isnt this front page news w banner headlines?

@jennycohn.bsky.social
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández—pardoned by Trump while the counting in Honduras’ current presidential election is still in progress—-was accused not only of drug trafficking, but also of election fraud during the 2013 and 2017 Honduran presidential elections. 1/
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I can’t promise that this is the first time a Canadian publisher of a beloved children’s book series has publicly condemned the bloodthirsty US secretary of defense’s use of its imagery to smirkingly defend heinous war crimes. I mean who can say.
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Ridiculous gerrymandering. These new congressional districts wind and twist, breaking up communities and putting them in the same district as counties over 100 miles away. Marion County (Indianapolis) split into 4 districts. A travesty. Thank you protesters.
NEW TODAY: Hundreds protest against mid-decade redistricting at Indiana Statehouse hours after Indiana Republicans release draft of gerrymandered maps. Details: https://fox59.com/indianapolitics/hundreds-of-hoosiers-gather-at-statehouse-to-protest-redistricting/ 
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.
MAGA legal world, man…

Gorsuch and Grassley should be so proud.
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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This⤵️
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.

Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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National public health “leadership” (hi RFK Jr 🙄) keeps poisoning public health with lies.

Vaccines prevent needless childhood deaths.

No baby in America should be dying of whooping cough — not when we have safe, effective vaccines literally ready to go.

This is a national tragedy
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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I can't read this as anything other than a direct assault on the vaccine industry. Full stop. They are laying the groundwork to prevent all vaccine R&D. Not directly, but by requiring study designs for approval that are scientifically unnecessary and financially inviable.
Here's Prasad's full email, if you'd like to read it for yourself: www.washingtonpost.com/documents/30...

And I jotted down a few thoughts on my substack, including how the strategy of "asking more evidence" — which on the surface, sure, everyone wants more data — can lead to red tape.
FDA's big change to how vaccines will get approved
We obtained an internal email laying out the planned shift in strategy.
dandiamond.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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We need to start talking about how Trump has just a sick fascination with murdering people. That's it.
In unsurprising news: Trump is pardoning narco trafficker/ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez as we're learning that he's actively green lighting murdering civilians in open waters for the crime of being narco traffickers.

Again... This man simply likes to murder people he thinks are beneath him
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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The magnitude of the change over time is striking.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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28 November 1910 | A Czech Jewish woman, Milena Berkovičová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual designed to equip rank and file soldiers with the tools to spot and combat incipient fascism were it to emerge in post-war America. Those lessons are just as American as Miller's illiberal bigotry, and worth remembering today. bsky.app/profile/seth...
The first fascistic tactic to look out for is a hate campaign against a particular religious, racial, or ethnic group. Like, for example, let's say a candidate emerges who calls all people of one nationality "rapists" and "criminals," while promising to ban immigrants from only one religious group.
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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What’s left of this man’s brain is just a Rube Goldberg machine of racism
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.

REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?

TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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I will never understand how at least 100 million people in this country look up to this narcissistic sack of shit
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?

TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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You're a high ranking government official and you shouldn't make things up.

Your 70% number is just a fabrication.

And it's TOTALLY not true that "every single" person you detained is here illegally. For instance, many were allowed in so they could apply for asylum.
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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BREAKING: new emails CONFIRM my reporting that there are TRAINING VIDEOS instructing FBI personnel on how to review the Epstein Files. Plus, a lot more…
The emails reveal the special training given to FBI personnel working on what it called the “Epstein Transparency Project.” In some instances they referred to it as the “Special Redaction Project.” The training entailed PowerPoint slide presentations and video instruction on how to review the files.
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Bureau personnel also reviewed videos. According to an April 15 email, one of the videos was from the New York City jail where Epstein was found dead a month after his arrest in 2019 on sex trafficking charges. (The DOJ publicly released 11 hours of the prison video in July.)
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Shit St Paul ICE agent aims gun
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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1) his first proposal was to eliminate the property tax

2) also says will get rid of income tax

3) will continue giving billions to private schools

4) says the school funding issue is an accounting squabble

So….no

None of what he says adds up
Does he have a plan for funding all this extra public education?
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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if i'm gonna be melting down about ATC cuts and plane crashes you better the fuck believe i'm wearing sweatpants
Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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"It looked more like it was written in Russian to begin with," Rounds says about the plan.

I think we'll find out in the next 24hrs or so, but this might represent a schism — between the pro-Ukraine camp, which includes Rubio, Rounds, and others; and the anti-Ukraine types: Vance, Witkoff, etc.
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM