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Jacque
@oakwellplace.bsky.social
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Engaged Citizen, Kindness Advocate, Nurse, Sewist, Quilter, Grammy, Holistic Universalist
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This is not best video but still an amazing crowd despite the majority of attendees Marching away behind the trees.
June 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: California Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses immigration protests in Los Angeles.

"Donald Trump has created the conditions you see on your TV tonight ... His mess — we're trying to clean it up," Newsom said.
June 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Everyone should watch this. Then share it with anyone who thinks these tariffs are a good idea and won’t crush small businesses.

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April 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
oakwellplace.bsky.social
Never forget.
This is the work of a lawless man.
March 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Watch the full interview with @repjasmine.bsky.social and subscribe to support independent media:
GLOVES OFF: Jasmine Crockett drops NIGHTMARE news on Trump, Republicans
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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March 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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March 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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I’m here!
March 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Donald Trump is lying to you.
March 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.
Andrew Tate and His Brother Are Said to Leave Romania for the U.S.
Andrew and Tristan Tate, the online influencers, are facing investigations in Romania and Britain, including accusations of human trafficking and sex crimes.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Elon’s lieutenants demanded access to the government’s payment system and all the data therein. A longtime civil servant refused. He was put on administrative leave, and is now out. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...
Treasury Official Quits After Resisting Musk’s Requests on Payments
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team sought access to the government’s vast payment system, part of its bid to choke off federal funding.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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DEVELOPING: Trump admin. officials have forced out all 6 of the FBI’s most senior execs. and multiple heads of FBI field offices across the country, current and fmr. FBI officials told NBC News. They included the leader of the D.C. field office, which was involved in the prosecutions of Trump.
February 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
All the adjectives.

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January 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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BREAKING: Quakers represented by @democracyforward.bsky.social push Trump admin/DHS to pause ICE enforcement in all houses of worship across the country in advance of weekend services.

Letter: www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...

Notice of intent to file: www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
Dear Secretary Noem, Mr. Griffiths, Ms. Kelleher, and Mr. Haas: My organization represents over 200 Quaker houses of worship spanning 12 states (and the District of Columbia) in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends v. DHS, No. 8:25-cv-243 (Jan. 27, 2025 D. Md.). On behalf of our clients—and people of faith across the country—we write to ask that you voluntarily pause DHS’s new policy allowing immigration-enforcement activities at houses of worship. Because of reports of increasing immigration enforcement, including attempts to enter houses of worship during services and at least one arrest at a house of worship, we believe an immediate pause in the government’s new policy to restore the status quo is necessary.1 A pause will allow people to continue to exercise their religious beliefs and will allow the parties to agree to a briefing schedule in our matter so the court can consider the issue on a nonemergency basis. For many people, including our clients, the weekend is when they gather with their religious communities for worship. They assemble to speak to and hear from God, sing hymns, break bread, receive essential services, and build community. The threat of roving enforcement by armed government agents (and reports of ICE agents already arresting people at houses of worship) is deterring people from exercising their faith. Pausing implementation of your new policy and restoring what was the status quo for more than three decades before the coming weekend will protect the core religious freedoms of people across the country while the court determines whether, in accordance with decades of DHS policy, protecting religious exercise requires more than absolute trust in the “common sense” of an individual agent. For more than 30 years, DHS and its predecessor, INS, have recognized that worship is an “essential activity” and, as a result, that agents need a very good reason to conduct enforcement operations at houses of worship. DHS’s new policy, on the other hand, ignores the critical role that religion plays in people’s lives. Instead, it treats houses of worship as little more than hiding places—nooks from which to root out criminals. The new policy leaves government interference in core rights to the subjective “common sense” of enforcement agents. Our laws demand more. As detailed in our complaint, the right to associate for religious exercise, including communal religious worship, is well established. DHS’s new policy violates that right by deterring worshippers from attending services or otherwise joining their religious communities. That harms not only those who are too fearful to attend services, but also their fellow congregants and houses of worship themselves. This is especially true for Quakers, who deeply believe that every person, no matter their background, can receive and deliver messages from God. Put simply, deterring attendance at Quaker worship impedes our clients’ ability to experience the divine. While the government may be permitted to impede religious gathering in limited circumstances, the Constitution prohibits it from doing so absent (1) a substantial relationship between the government’s activities and a sufficient government interest, and (2) demonstrating that its actions are narrowly tailored to that interest. That is not possible here, as the government has acknowledged for decades that it is perfectly capable of enforcing immigration laws without trampling the religious rights of worshippers. DHS’s policy is also outlawed by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. As explained above, …
January 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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January 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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January 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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January 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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zeteo.com

“What you're seeing being constructed is essentially a kleptocracy, in which the billionaires of this country are going to steal from the poor and the middle class.”

Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social interview Senator Chris Murphy:
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Senator Murphy: Trump's Cabinet is a 'Kleptocracy'
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January 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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axios.com
Trump on Tuesday revoked a decades-old executive order that strengthened protections against workplace discrimination. Here's what to know.
What to know about the equal employment opportunity executive order Trump revoked
Trump's targeting of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives could set the tone for the private sector as well.
www.axios.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Trump has ordered the National Institutes of Health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.

“The impact of [Trump’s] collective executive orders appears devastating,” one senior NIH employee says.
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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January 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
MISSISSIPPI: “Sen. Blackmon (D) files Contraception Begins at Erection Act to make it unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo… brings the man’s role into the conversation...” #ForcedBirthNation www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/m...
January 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM