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polcoastal.bsky.social
@polcoastal.bsky.social
Prioritizes family. Lifelong reader. Advocate for banned books. Feline fanatic. Compassion > greed
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Lots of people have been killed because multiple police officers screamed conflicting instructions at them. It's a sadistic game that predatory cops enjoy playing so they can provoke a "justifiable" shooting.
January 8, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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@petebuttigieg.bsky.social: "We have an ICE agent who should have been trained not to be in front of a vehicle and never to shoot into a moving vehicle, and yet this happened on [Kristi Noem's] watch. The whole POINT of Homeland Security is to make this country more stable and safe."
January 9, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis diverted more than $35 MILLION in taxpayer dollars to defeat two ballot initiatives last year.

I’ve got the @miamiherald.com‘s blockbuster reporting on how DeSantis cheated needy Floridians and children from their already-earmarked funds.

youtu.be/EM0uTojxLCM?...
🚨Desantis CAUGHT FUNNELING $35 MILLION away from Floridians?!?
YouTube video by Katie Phang
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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🚨BREAKING: According to Democracy Docket, there have been 43 anti-voting lawsuits filed this election cycle. The DOJ has filed 25 lawsuits that would ultimately lead to valid voters being removed from registration rolls, putting their right to cast a ballot at risk.
Trump’s DOJ Filed Half the Anti-Voting Lawsuits This Election Cycle
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Share and tell CBS to air this! Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported a segment about migrants sent to the El Salvadoran torture prison CECOT, just sent a blistering letter to colleagues, sounding the alarm that Bari Weiss spiked the story for political reasons.
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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"'If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient,' Ms. Alfonsi wrote."

{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The corruption is absolutely staggering. One big money donor after another receiving direct benefits in return. Trump didn’t drain any swamps, he created a giant sewer to roll around in daily. Great reporting. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
December 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Drug cartels are driven by profit, not by murderous ideology like ISIS. Antifa is a loose-knit group of activists who aren’t plotting mass casualty events like al-Qaeda. Venezuela is complicit in human rights violations & drug trafficking, but it doesn’t sponsor terrorism like Iran. wapo.st/4qrV8U5
Opinion | Trump is losing sight of America’s real terrorist threat
ISIS and al-Qaeda thrive as Trump recklessly reallocates scarce security resources.
wapo.st
December 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?
December 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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TOMORROW 6:30 PM ET: Join me for a live Q&A on the state of democracy — from the biggest legal fights of 2025 to what’s coming in 2026. Become a Democracy Docket member now to join this event and receive all its premium content. newsletters.democracydocket.com/live-qa-with...
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Become a member to join Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias for a live Q&A about the lessons learned in 2025 and what to expect in court ahead of the midterm elections.
newsletters.democracydocket.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Turns out allowing pesticide companies to put PFAS and forever chemicals on our food is a really, really bad idea.
December 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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💯. And it's actually in Americans' interest that they not rely on America right now.
December 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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When Republicans inevitably blame mental health and not the guns for yet another school shooting - kindly remind them that 205 of them voted AGAINST a bill to expand school-based mental health services.
December 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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This came from the 2021 infrastructure bill signed by Biden. Mace voted against it.
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Gobble gobble gobble
Eat until you wobble

Happy Thanksgiving, 😎
Blue sky, friends
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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See Also: "How Clothes Hoarding Is Hurting The Fashion Industry"

If my phone still works, I am using it. I know how to and I'm not interested in throwing money away on the next new thing every few months.
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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🚨BREAKING: Cleta Mitchell and activists from a top anti-voting group with close ties to the White House met last week to discuss plans to push for severely limiting early and mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Exclusive: Cleta Mitchell, Activists Scheme to Bring Back One-Day Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Starbucks' CEO is paid $95.8 MILLION.

The median worker at Starbucks makes $14,674 a year.

Instead of recognizing its worker union, Starbucks writes off its union-busting expenses on its taxes.

That's why Starbucks workers are striking today.

I won't cross the picket line.
November 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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President Stubb:

What we need to do is to give Ukraine the capacity to hit the military or defence industry of Russia, and whatever equipment is needed for that, I think that's the key.
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Trump, the Con Man in Chief, is calling the affordability crisis a “con job by Democrats”.

Here’s the problem: everyone feels it. He’s telling people to ignore their own lived experience. If you voted for Trump to bring down costs, you cannot pretend this is not happening.
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.

So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.

If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM