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BET: you have very good sarcasm skills, eema.
#parentingawards
#parentingawards
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Commander White is one of the very few people involved in family separation from the inside who acquitted himself well. He raised alarm bells, pushed back, and got ORR to start tracking separations long before DHS did, so that it was possible later to reunite kids and know the scale.
He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he’s running for Congress. wapo.st/3KdDBQ1
He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he’s running for Congress.
Jonathan White, a longtime civil servant who fought Trump officials’ efforts to separate migrant families, says Democrats must do more to combat the president.
wapo.st
November 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Commander White is one of the very few people involved in family separation from the inside who acquitted himself well. He raised alarm bells, pushed back, and got ORR to start tracking separations long before DHS did, so that it was possible later to reunite kids and know the scale.
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Please forgive me, I inadvertently shared a family list of mostly grownup books and randome bits an bobs. This should be correct. So very sorry.
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
November 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Please forgive me, I inadvertently shared a family list of mostly grownup books and randome bits an bobs. This should be correct. So very sorry.
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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If a video has no captions, I don't watch
If a video has no captions I don't watch
I don't wanna have to listen
It's hard work but have you considered
That if your video has no captions I won't watch.
If a video has no captions I don't watch
I don't wanna have to listen
It's hard work but have you considered
That if your video has no captions I won't watch.
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If a video has no captions, I don't watch
If a video has no captions I don't watch
I don't wanna have to listen
It's hard work but have you considered
That if your video has no captions I won't watch.
If a video has no captions I don't watch
I don't wanna have to listen
It's hard work but have you considered
That if your video has no captions I won't watch.
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You can run from counterfactuals but you cannot hide.
W/o showing his work, Prasad blames at least 10 pediatric deaths on the COVID vax.
Meanwhile, a "2023 JAMA paper said that during the 12 months ending in July 2022, 821 people aged 19 and under died of Covid." The authors also indicated that was an underestimate.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/29/c...
Meanwhile, a "2023 JAMA paper said that during the 12 months ending in July 2022, 821 people aged 19 and under died of Covid." The authors also indicated that was an underestimate.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/29/c...
Experts say top FDA official’s claim that Covid vaccines caused kids’ deaths requires more evidence
The FDA’s top vaccine regulator asserted in a staff email that the Covid vaccine caused at least 10 kids' deaths, but experts told STAT they are skeptical of the “extraordinary” claim because it was n...
www.statnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
You can run from counterfactuals but you cannot hide.
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News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
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You misspelled "tried", Senator
Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.
November 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
You misspelled "tried", Senator
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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i love my city so much. thank you to every single person who was out there.
ICE was blocked and impeded by people all the way to the Lincoln Tunnel
November 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
i love my city so much. thank you to every single person who was out there.
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Today, our brave neighbors refused to let go of anyone’s hand. They put their bodies on the line to stop ICE kidnappings. I’m proud that my bill to clarify & strengthen our sanctuary laws & stop ICE from setting up in any of our jails is being heard on 12/8. We must fight to protect our neighbors.
Breaking News: Protesters blocked federal agents gathering in Lower Manhattan, leading to scuffles with the police and several arrests.
Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage
The confrontation appeared to foil a possible ICE raid nearby, underscoring the numerous challenges the federal government faces in trying to stage raids in a dense city like New York.
nyti.ms
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Today, our brave neighbors refused to let go of anyone’s hand. They put their bodies on the line to stop ICE kidnappings. I’m proud that my bill to clarify & strengthen our sanctuary laws & stop ICE from setting up in any of our jails is being heard on 12/8. We must fight to protect our neighbors.
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Props to the protestors who the New York Times credits for foiling ICE’s intended raid in Chinatown earlier today.
So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Props to the protestors who the New York Times credits for foiling ICE’s intended raid in Chinatown earlier today.
So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
So many people are showing they know what it means to be New Yorkers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
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Fwiw it gets its bible wrong. God doesn't "describe Himself in the Bible using "ezer kenegdo"" as the essay states. At various points in the Bible, God is described as an "Ezer" by other people, usually in Biblical poetry that praises God. God is not described as an "ezer kenegdo".
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Fwiw it gets its bible wrong. God doesn't "describe Himself in the Bible using "ezer kenegdo"" as the essay states. At various points in the Bible, God is described as an "Ezer" by other people, usually in Biblical poetry that praises God. God is not described as an "ezer kenegdo".
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All grift all the way down.
The MAHA criticism of Pharma is not of their profits by cause - its that they have too much of the pie w/ their <checks notes> trial supported 'evidence' and regulatory approval.
Cut out Federal middle and let the Wellness industry cash in on Americans health anxiety!
The MAHA criticism of Pharma is not of their profits by cause - its that they have too much of the pie w/ their <checks notes> trial supported 'evidence' and regulatory approval.
Cut out Federal middle and let the Wellness industry cash in on Americans health anxiety!
Casey Means, the nominee for surgeon general, created a company to sell these monitors for healthy people.
I also wonder about the role of wearables like these in NIH research.
I also wonder about the role of wearables like these in NIH research.
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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i’d push back on this a little — from the start, the MAHA pitch ended with buying the wellness scams and supplements its leaders directly sold (or profited from via affiliate marketing). they haven’t really hidden it
The MAHA pitch was supposed to be that Americans don’t really need insurance, vaccines, or other “establishment” medical care — they just need better nutrition and less exposure to environmental toxins.
And yet: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
And yet: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
F.D.A. Withdraws Rule to Require Testing Cosmetics Made With Talc for Asbestos
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
i’d push back on this a little — from the start, the MAHA pitch ended with buying the wellness scams and supplements its leaders directly sold (or profited from via affiliate marketing). they haven’t really hidden it
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Louis CK has never fully acknowledged his misconduct, and has misrepresented it multiple times—including in his initial apology. In so doing, he has continued to do harm to his victims.
Fuck that. Fuck him.
Fuck that. Fuck him.
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Louis CK has never fully acknowledged his misconduct, and has misrepresented it multiple times—including in his initial apology. In so doing, he has continued to do harm to his victims.
Fuck that. Fuck him.
Fuck that. Fuck him.
listen i don’t know what’s up with stephen miller’s “i should have never been born” feelings,
but i sure wish he’d leave the rest of us out of it
but i sure wish he’d leave the rest of us out of it
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
listen i don’t know what’s up with stephen miller’s “i should have never been born” feelings,
but i sure wish he’d leave the rest of us out of it
but i sure wish he’d leave the rest of us out of it
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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we badly need more of this from democrats in congress
Strong message from Congressman Moulton:
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
we badly need more of this from democrats in congress
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Broke: Department of Defense
Woke: Department of War
Bespoke: Department of War Crimes
Woke: Department of War
Bespoke: Department of War Crimes
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Broke: Department of Defense
Woke: Department of War
Bespoke: Department of War Crimes
Woke: Department of War
Bespoke: Department of War Crimes
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Hegseth is a war criminal and I think it doesn’t get the attention it deserves because he’s also stupid and it’s hard to reconcile the gravity of his crimes with his clownish persona www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Hegseth is a war criminal and I think it doesn’t get the attention it deserves because he’s also stupid and it’s hard to reconcile the gravity of his crimes with his clownish persona www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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I'm thankful for my ICE whistle.
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I'm thankful for my ICE whistle.
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The Target boycott that AFT joined on Labor Day is seeing success. This holiday season, we're doubling down to demonstrate organized labor's economic power, as well as the consequences of ignoring the will of workers and the good of working families.
www.aft.org/news/we-aint...
www.aft.org/news/we-aint...
We ain’t buying it: Why we boycott Target
For a long time, Target—that popular mega store that seemed to hit just the right combination of low prices and of-the-moment swagger—was everyone’s darling, the go-to spot for everything from groceri...
www.aft.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The Target boycott that AFT joined on Labor Day is seeing success. This holiday season, we're doubling down to demonstrate organized labor's economic power, as well as the consequences of ignoring the will of workers and the good of working families.
www.aft.org/news/we-aint...
www.aft.org/news/we-aint...
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It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th.
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th.
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
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Engage base to carry message, create clear moral quandary to convert the conflicted, and expose opposition for the true outliers they are. BRAVO to @ndlon.bsky.social for brilliant giving media something to talk about:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Engage base to carry message, create clear moral quandary to convert the conflicted, and expose opposition for the true outliers they are. BRAVO to @ndlon.bsky.social for brilliant giving media something to talk about:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...