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Tired of #BlackFriday and #CyberMonday spending? #GivingTuesday is the antidote!

It's the annual day dedicated to supporting a cause, whether with your wallet or your time. This year, it falls on December 2nd!

Find charities to support this GivingTuesday: https://bit.ly/3LEkGhA
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“And all these data streams can be combined to develop detailed dossiers on people who are not suspected of any crime.”
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Coast Guard allows Swastikas, nooses, and confederate flags.

The U.S. military accidentally conducts incursion into Mexico.

Senator Slotkin joins me to talk about intelligence agencies conducting operations on American soil and to respond to Trump's calls to execute her.

A major news update:
Urgent Evening News Update
Coast Guard allows Swastikas, nooses, and confederate flags, U.S. military accidentally conducts incursion into Mexico, Senator Slotkin blasts Trump's calls to execute her, and much more.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs https://theonion.com/ice-agent-panics-after-realizing-there-more-children-than-he-has-flash-bangs/
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
October 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
#nokings
Salt Lake City, Utah
October 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The Arc de Trump 👑

“Who is it for?” asked CBS reporter Ed O’ Keefe. “Me. It’s going to be beautiful” replied President Trump.

www.nokings.org#map
Trump Shows Off Latest D.C. Construction Project
The 'Independence Arch' has also been dubbed the 'Arc de Trump', which Trump hinted was for himself.
time.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Just west of Fort Qu’Appelle in Saskatchewan, the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation is working across the US border to revive centuries-old trade routes as part of a new Indigenous-governed trade corridor.

From our friends at @nationalobserver.com:
Indigenous nations plan a tariff-free trade corridor across the US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."
www.motherjones.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Ohio Begins Executing Random People In Hopes They’re Criminals https://theonion.com/ohio-begins-executing-random-people-in-hopes-they-re-cr-1851218315/
October 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:
October 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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“They was bringing the kids down too, had them zip-tied to each other,” she said. “That’s all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where’s the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, ‘f*** them kids.’” trib.al/QmjwZi0
ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building
ICE agents forced everyone out of a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night.
trib.al
October 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Rather remarkable that the Trump administration response to a government shutdown is "let's inflict as much pain as possible on as many Americans as possible"
October 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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gift link - no paywall.

very much worth reading:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” Trump said, referring to War Secretary Pete Hegseth. “We’re going into Chicago very soon.”
Trump’s Plan to Use U.S. Cities as Military Training Grounds Sparks Legal, Civil-Military Concern
On Sept. 30, 2025, at Marine Corps Base Quantico, President Donald Trump told hundreds of military officials that American cities should serve as “training grounds” for U.S. troops, a proposal that wo...
www.military.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Sinclair; playing the long game:
What is Sinclair Broadcast Group?
YouTube video by Washington Post
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM