Sandarcon
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Chicago Cubs. 2016 game seven is my forever happy place. I honor my brother Michael who passed before.
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Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday. https://to.pbs.org/4487Kae
Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers in settlement as ongoing strike draws Mamdani and Sanders to picket line
Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday.
www.pbs.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday. https://to.pbs.org/4487Kae
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holding FIRESTORM for the first time. spent 2025 writing about experiencing the L.A. fires. digging deeper. learned so much about what happened, our future and myself. met people I’ll never forget. can’t wait for you to read it. out January 6. preorder: www.harpercollins.com/products/fir...
December 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
holding FIRESTORM for the first time. spent 2025 writing about experiencing the L.A. fires. digging deeper. learned so much about what happened, our future and myself. met people I’ll never forget. can’t wait for you to read it. out January 6. preorder: www.harpercollins.com/products/fir...
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Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
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Stay strong @atg.wa.gov and @governorferguson.bsky.social
The DOJ data request in Washington is part of a national effort that aligns with President Donald Trump’s longstanding claims — unsubstantiated and rejected numerous times by courts — that voting in the U.S. is marred by massive fraud. (Jim Brunner / Seattle Times)
DOJ sues WA secretary of state, demanding info on all state voters
The Department of Justice sued Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs over his refusal to turn over personal information on all state voters.
buff.ly
December 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Stay strong @atg.wa.gov and @governorferguson.bsky.social
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This is too much.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is too much.
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You know what to do!!!!!
here’s another Portland-area fundraiser for a family torn apart by ICE. husband shipped to Tacoma, wife just gave birth to twins www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid...
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
You know what to do!!!!!
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TONIGHT: @maddow.bsky.social joins @colbertlateshow.bsky.social to discuss her new @ms.now podcast "Burn Order" and why she turns to history to make sense of the present.
Plus, Rachel teaches Stephen how to make a proper Manhattan.
Tune in tonight at 11:35pm ET on CBS.
Plus, Rachel teaches Stephen how to make a proper Manhattan.
Tune in tonight at 11:35pm ET on CBS.
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 AM
TONIGHT: @maddow.bsky.social joins @colbertlateshow.bsky.social to discuss her new @ms.now podcast "Burn Order" and why she turns to history to make sense of the present.
Plus, Rachel teaches Stephen how to make a proper Manhattan.
Tune in tonight at 11:35pm ET on CBS.
Plus, Rachel teaches Stephen how to make a proper Manhattan.
Tune in tonight at 11:35pm ET on CBS.
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“I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for. "
— John Brown
— John Brown
Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
December 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for. "
— John Brown
— John Brown
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Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:
Jordan Uhl on Instagram: "ICE is reportedly increasing its presence in Minneapolis/St. Paul to target Somali communities."
The Trump administration's plan to increase ICE's presence in Minneapolis and St. Paul has sparked concerns among local leaders and residents. Critics argue it amounts to racial profiling, violating d...
www.instagram.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:
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Correction! He left prison on Monday.
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Correction! He left prison on Monday.
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Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who got 45 years in prison last year for conspiring to import cocaine to the US. Prosecutors said he ran Honduras like a "narco-state" and accepted millions of dollars in bribes from drug traffickers. He walked out of prison today.
Noem: You have saved hundreds of millions of lives with the Cocaine you’ve blown up in the Caribbean
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who got 45 years in prison last year for conspiring to import cocaine to the US. Prosecutors said he ran Honduras like a "narco-state" and accepted millions of dollars in bribes from drug traffickers. He walked out of prison today.
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On this Giving Tuesday, TRiiBE publisher Morgan Elise Johnson penned a note in our weekly newsletter about the challenges our team faced this year with Trump’s attacks on DEI.
If you gave to The TRiiBE this year, you are a difference maker.
Read our newsletter here: bit.ly/4ozhLV8
If you gave to The TRiiBE this year, you are a difference maker.
Read our newsletter here: bit.ly/4ozhLV8
December 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
On this Giving Tuesday, TRiiBE publisher Morgan Elise Johnson penned a note in our weekly newsletter about the challenges our team faced this year with Trump’s attacks on DEI.
If you gave to The TRiiBE this year, you are a difference maker.
Read our newsletter here: bit.ly/4ozhLV8
If you gave to The TRiiBE this year, you are a difference maker.
Read our newsletter here: bit.ly/4ozhLV8
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❄️⭐ (re)ANNOUNCING ⭐❄️
The Kat For Illinois holiday extravaganza....
Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name of This Show
Join us at Bookclub on December 12th for a night of fun featuring music, performances, drag, comedy, caroling and more!
The Kat For Illinois holiday extravaganza....
Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name of This Show
Join us at Bookclub on December 12th for a night of fun featuring music, performances, drag, comedy, caroling and more!
December 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
❄️⭐ (re)ANNOUNCING ⭐❄️
The Kat For Illinois holiday extravaganza....
Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name of This Show
Join us at Bookclub on December 12th for a night of fun featuring music, performances, drag, comedy, caroling and more!
The Kat For Illinois holiday extravaganza....
Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name of This Show
Join us at Bookclub on December 12th for a night of fun featuring music, performances, drag, comedy, caroling and more!
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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
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A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools:
“It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”
(Published October 2025)
“It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”
(Published October 2025)
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
www.propublica.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools:
“It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”
(Published October 2025)
“It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”
(Published October 2025)
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The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Scoop: The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries banned from travel to the United States earlier this year, halting green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people.
More coming soon.
More coming soon.
December 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
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Say more about why they are afraid to say “bombing”
President Donald Trump suggested the Pentagon will soon start targeting drug cartels with strikes on land in Venezuela and beyond, after a campaign that has mainly focused on alleged trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean.
Trump Said US Will ‘Soon’ Do Land Strikes on Drug Traffickers
President Donald Trump suggested the Pentagon will soon start targeting drug cartels with strikes on land in Venezuela and beyond, after a campaign that has mainly focused on alleged trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean.
bloom.bg
December 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Say more about why they are afraid to say “bombing”
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This dude’s private jet is airborne over Africa again.
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This dude’s private jet is airborne over Africa again.
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Ilhan Omar rose from a single parent immigrant family where her dad drove a taxi to her current position. Trump is the kid of a racist wealthy slum landlord who headed multiple failed businesses. One of these people is the example of failed ambition and it's not her.
What a racist piece of shit.
What a racist piece of shit.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Ilhan Omar rose from a single parent immigrant family where her dad drove a taxi to her current position. Trump is the kid of a racist wealthy slum landlord who headed multiple failed businesses. One of these people is the example of failed ambition and it's not her.
What a racist piece of shit.
What a racist piece of shit.
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First of all, one of the reporters on that story was in the Army infantry in Iraq
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
First of all, one of the reporters on that story was in the Army infantry in Iraq
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1. This is not what fog of war means.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
1. This is not what fog of war means.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
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Shriver Center is shutting down:
Shriver Center on Poverty Law to close at the end of the year
The Chicago-based organization cited financial challenges for its closure. It has worked for more than 50 years litigating, shaping policy and training lawyers and anti-poverty advocates working towar...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Shriver Center is shutting down: