@refugeepat.bsky.social
Trapped in Occupied America
If you’re not furious you’re not paying attention! Using 🤬 way too much these days
I love science, animals, good food, travel and the outdoors. Yoga practitioner, former satellite engineer, teacher’s assistant, marathoner. 🌮
If you’re not furious you’re not paying attention! Using 🤬 way too much these days
I love science, animals, good food, travel and the outdoors. Yoga practitioner, former satellite engineer, teacher’s assistant, marathoner. 🌮
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Sign yesterday:
“Make Orwell fiction again”
“Make Orwell fiction again”
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December 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Happy Thursday!
Give some old clothes away this month!
Local shelters need all the help they can get this year.
Avoid donating to Goodwill or Salvation Army whenever possible.
❤️🎅🫂🍀
Give some old clothes away this month!
Local shelters need all the help they can get this year.
Avoid donating to Goodwill or Salvation Army whenever possible.
❤️🎅🫂🍀
December 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Happy Thursday!
Give some old clothes away this month!
Local shelters need all the help they can get this year.
Avoid donating to Goodwill or Salvation Army whenever possible.
❤️🎅🫂🍀
Give some old clothes away this month!
Local shelters need all the help they can get this year.
Avoid donating to Goodwill or Salvation Army whenever possible.
❤️🎅🫂🍀
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Is this the end of the 年賀状 era? More senders are announcing 年賀状じまい — formally opting out of New Year postcards. From etiquette tips to useful phrases, here’s what to know before the holidays.
Are new year postcards becoming a thing of the past in Japan?
Japan’s new year postcard tradition is fading as more people opt for digital holiday greetings.
ebx.sh
December 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Is this the end of the 年賀状 era? More senders are announcing 年賀状じまい — formally opting out of New Year postcards. From etiquette tips to useful phrases, here’s what to know before the holidays.
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Public health recommendations are based on the risks of the population, not the individual.
Why give a Hepatitis B vaccine at birth?
-Hep B is super contagious!
-Many people with Hep B don’t know they’re infected.
-It reduces the rate of pediatric Hep B by 99%.
It's safe, effective & it works!
Why give a Hepatitis B vaccine at birth?
-Hep B is super contagious!
-Many people with Hep B don’t know they’re infected.
-It reduces the rate of pediatric Hep B by 99%.
It's safe, effective & it works!
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Public health recommendations are based on the risks of the population, not the individual.
Why give a Hepatitis B vaccine at birth?
-Hep B is super contagious!
-Many people with Hep B don’t know they’re infected.
-It reduces the rate of pediatric Hep B by 99%.
It's safe, effective & it works!
Why give a Hepatitis B vaccine at birth?
-Hep B is super contagious!
-Many people with Hep B don’t know they’re infected.
-It reduces the rate of pediatric Hep B by 99%.
It's safe, effective & it works!
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Tried explaining to a MAGA that *we* pay the tariffs, not China, and they looked at me like I'm stupid.
Watch the video to see how it went.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
Watch the video to see how it went.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Tried explaining to a MAGA that *we* pay the tariffs, not China, and they looked at me like I'm stupid.
Watch the video to see how it went.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
Watch the video to see how it went.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
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Imagine what those two men must have been feeling in the 41 minutes where they were shirtless, clinging to the hull of a severed boat with the body parts of their friends in the water around them, no means of communication, in the middle of the ocean. The terror of it.
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The most dishonest White House in U.S. history (by far) wants us to trust them when they say every person in every boat they blew up was a drug runner. There is no logical reason to believe they're telling the truth. The whole operation isn't even about drugs. It's about stealing Venezuela's oil.
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The most dishonest White House in U.S. history (by far) wants us to trust them when they say every person in every boat they blew up was a drug runner. There is no logical reason to believe they're telling the truth. The whole operation isn't even about drugs. It's about stealing Venezuela's oil.
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Kagan: Court “announces that Texas may run next year’s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting. Today’s order,” she continued, “disrespects the work of a District Cour that did everything one could ask..."
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Kagan: Court “announces that Texas may run next year’s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting. Today’s order,” she continued, “disrespects the work of a District Cour that did everything one could ask..."
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Oregon’s largest teachers’ union will host several statewide trainings meant to teach school staff, families and community members how to keep students and families safe under increasingly aggressive federal immigration enforcement actions taking place near schools.
Oregon’s largest teachers’ union hosts training to protect students from ICE
More than 600 teachers and school staff are expected to attend training sessions in Bend, Eugene and Oregon City over the weekend.
www.opb.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Oregon’s largest teachers’ union will host several statewide trainings meant to teach school staff, families and community members how to keep students and families safe under increasingly aggressive federal immigration enforcement actions taking place near schools.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
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Yep. Murder.
I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Yep. Murder.
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"Republican legislators around the country have identified the biggest obstacles to their unprecedented mid-decade redistricting: the courts and the voters. So they’re responding by launching an all-out war on both." - Billy Corriher
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/to-p...
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/to-p...
To Protect Gerrymanders, GOP Lawmakers Target Judges — and Voters
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"Republican legislators around the country have identified the biggest obstacles to their unprecedented mid-decade redistricting: the courts and the voters. So they’re responding by launching an all-out war on both." - Billy Corriher
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/to-p...
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/to-p...
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Thanks, everyone, for getting me to 30,000 in my first year here!
Aaaaand ... If you're not already a Fight the Fire subscriber on Substack, we'd love for you to join us there. Subscriptions and links are free, always.
Aaaaand ... If you're not already a Fight the Fire subscriber on Substack, we'd love for you to join us there. Subscriptions and links are free, always.
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Thanks, everyone, for getting me to 30,000 in my first year here!
Aaaaand ... If you're not already a Fight the Fire subscriber on Substack, we'd love for you to join us there. Subscriptions and links are free, always.
Aaaaand ... If you're not already a Fight the Fire subscriber on Substack, we'd love for you to join us there. Subscriptions and links are free, always.
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.
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How in the hell do you claim that 83 people are enemy combatants when there is no formal congressional declaration of war? No weapons or ordinance were used against the forces present. No heave to announcement. No warning shots were fired. Just kill them all. This is what the U.S. has become
December 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
How in the hell do you claim that 83 people are enemy combatants when there is no formal congressional declaration of war? No weapons or ordinance were used against the forces present. No heave to announcement. No warning shots were fired. Just kill them all. This is what the U.S. has become
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“When we showed up for our green card appointment, they detained him because there was a warrant issued... They had approved us for the green card interview, we paid like almost $5,000 in fees for this and we really didn’t know...”
36 days detained as of this article. 😡
#Pinks
#Resist
36 days detained as of this article. 😡
#Pinks
#Resist
ICE detains man in US for decades at green card interview, wife says
Xelena Diaz, 29, said immigration officials took her husband into custody during a marriage-based green card interview in October.
www.newsweek.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Let’s hand it to Getty photographer Chip Somodevilla for snapping Ol’ YamTits’s rotting right paw today.
And the lack of questions from media at the events and at news desks is astounding. And they (legacy media) opines why Americans don’t trust them and their coverage. Piss poor.
And the lack of questions from media at the events and at news desks is astounding. And they (legacy media) opines why Americans don’t trust them and their coverage. Piss poor.
December 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Let’s hand it to Getty photographer Chip Somodevilla for snapping Ol’ YamTits’s rotting right paw today.
And the lack of questions from media at the events and at news desks is astounding. And they (legacy media) opines why Americans don’t trust them and their coverage. Piss poor.
And the lack of questions from media at the events and at news desks is astounding. And they (legacy media) opines why Americans don’t trust them and their coverage. Piss poor.