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Bücherwurm.
Bouquineuse.
Librorum amans.
Chess Fencing Shotokan.
Penn
📎 Lifelong student of Critical Thinking.
From a family Fighting for Freedom
since the Seven Years War.
From Lenni Lenape Land to Maricopa Land.
Die hard Philly sports teams fan!
Bouquineuse.
Librorum amans.
Chess Fencing Shotokan.
Penn
📎 Lifelong student of Critical Thinking.
From a family Fighting for Freedom
since the Seven Years War.
From Lenni Lenape Land to Maricopa Land.
Die hard Philly sports teams fan!
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holy shit this is a helluva ad from the democrat running for michigan secretary of state. watch and pass it on!
December 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the democrat running for michigan secretary of state. watch and pass it on!
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Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
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Thank god some countries actually want to prosecute the criminals who helped the cartels unlike you know…AMERICA LOL SMFH
Honduras Attorney General Johel Zelaya says he's issued an international arrest warrant for former president Juan Orlando Hernández, the convicted narcotrafficker who was pardoned last week by President Trump and released from federal prison, on charges of money laundering and fraud
wapo.st/3KP9jTS
wapo.st/3KP9jTS
Honduras issues arrest warrant for ex-president pardoned by Trump
The country’s attorney general said Juan Orlando Hernández was wanted for money laundering and fraud. He had been serving a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Thank god some countries actually want to prosecute the criminals who helped the cartels unlike you know…AMERICA LOL SMFH
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Kids who owned a smartphone by age 12 had a greater risk of depression, obesity, and insufficient sleep compared to those who didn’t, a CHOP study led by psychiatrist and researcher Ran Barzilay found.
When should kids get a smartphone? A CHOP study links owning one before age 12 to health risks.
Kids who owned a smartphone by age 12 had a greater risk of depression, obesity, and insufficient sleep compared to those who didn’t, a CHOP study found.
www.inquirer.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Kids who owned a smartphone by age 12 had a greater risk of depression, obesity, and insufficient sleep compared to those who didn’t, a CHOP study led by psychiatrist and researcher Ran Barzilay found.
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How much did he get paid to say this?
December 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
How much did he get paid to say this?
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people.com/immigrants-a...
America
Try to walk in their shoes
Unbelievable CRUELTY
They completed the long process of becoming a U.S. citizen.
They were taken out of line at their Naturalization Ceremony and told their oath-taking would canceled
All due to their country of origin
Outrage
America
Try to walk in their shoes
Unbelievable CRUELTY
They completed the long process of becoming a U.S. citizen.
They were taken out of line at their Naturalization Ceremony and told their oath-taking would canceled
All due to their country of origin
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Immigrants Approved for Citizenship ‘Plucked Out’ of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report
Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the ceremony. The incident comes after USCIS told employees to halt all immigrat...
people.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
people.com/immigrants-a...
America
Try to walk in their shoes
Unbelievable CRUELTY
They completed the long process of becoming a U.S. citizen.
They were taken out of line at their Naturalization Ceremony and told their oath-taking would canceled
All due to their country of origin
Outrage
America
Try to walk in their shoes
Unbelievable CRUELTY
They completed the long process of becoming a U.S. citizen.
They were taken out of line at their Naturalization Ceremony and told their oath-taking would canceled
All due to their country of origin
Outrage
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Private equity’s latest victim? Your grandma’s nursing home.
Private equity’s latest victim? Your grandma’s nursing home.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Private equity’s latest victim? Your grandma’s nursing home.
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“We have these giant companies trying to take control of even more of what we watch, see, hear and read every day.”
“Merger Madness”: Trump at Center of Rival Netflix-Paramount Bids for Warner Bros.
President Donald Trump says he will be personally involved in the potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, with two enormous buyout offers on the table that risk further exacerbating U.S. media concentration. Netflix announced an $83 billion deal last ...
www.democracynow.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“We have these giant companies trying to take control of even more of what we watch, see, hear and read every day.”
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One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
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Pete Hegseth is scheduled to receive a report by December 10th that decides whether he's going to recall Mark Kelly to active duty and court-martial him. Before that happens, we're asking you to sign on (link in comments) and tell Mark: We've got your six.
December 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Pete Hegseth is scheduled to receive a report by December 10th that decides whether he's going to recall Mark Kelly to active duty and court-martial him. Before that happens, we're asking you to sign on (link in comments) and tell Mark: We've got your six.
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NEW: Last year we found the acceptable level of exposure to formaldehyde set by the EPA left people at risk for cancer.
Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
NEW: Last year we found the acceptable level of exposure to formaldehyde set by the EPA left people at risk for cancer.
Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
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Zillow made headlines pulling climate risk data off their platform. Data on Redfin users, though, shows that potential homebuyers only click a listing's flood, wildfire risk for a short time after catastrophic disasters:
More from Ruby Mellen and I here: 🎁 wapo.st/4pX8MhE
More from Ruby Mellen and I here: 🎁 wapo.st/4pX8MhE
Hurricanes and wildfires influence homebuyers, if only for a minute
Interest in climate risk surges after disasters, according to the real estate platform Redfin, but soon diminishes.
wapo.st
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Zillow made headlines pulling climate risk data off their platform. Data on Redfin users, though, shows that potential homebuyers only click a listing's flood, wildfire risk for a short time after catastrophic disasters:
More from Ruby Mellen and I here: 🎁 wapo.st/4pX8MhE
More from Ruby Mellen and I here: 🎁 wapo.st/4pX8MhE
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Every single day I wake up and think… What now?
What kind of ignorant foolishness is Trump and MAGA going to drag us through today?
This timeline sucks because the worst people with the lowest ability and poorest critical thinking skills are calling the shots…
What kind of ignorant foolishness is Trump and MAGA going to drag us through today?
This timeline sucks because the worst people with the lowest ability and poorest critical thinking skills are calling the shots…
December 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Every single day I wake up and think… What now?
What kind of ignorant foolishness is Trump and MAGA going to drag us through today?
This timeline sucks because the worst people with the lowest ability and poorest critical thinking skills are calling the shots…
What kind of ignorant foolishness is Trump and MAGA going to drag us through today?
This timeline sucks because the worst people with the lowest ability and poorest critical thinking skills are calling the shots…
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TRUMP: THE DRUG TRAFFICKER’S FRIEND
Why is he blowing up boats with low-level drug runners,
and letting the kingpins go free?
Despite his anti-drug rhetoric, Donald Trump has issued more pardons to drug dealers than any president in history.
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Why is he blowing up boats with low-level drug runners,
and letting the kingpins go free?
Despite his anti-drug rhetoric, Donald Trump has issued more pardons to drug dealers than any president in history.
1/2
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
TRUMP: THE DRUG TRAFFICKER’S FRIEND
Why is he blowing up boats with low-level drug runners,
and letting the kingpins go free?
Despite his anti-drug rhetoric, Donald Trump has issued more pardons to drug dealers than any president in history.
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Why is he blowing up boats with low-level drug runners,
and letting the kingpins go free?
Despite his anti-drug rhetoric, Donald Trump has issued more pardons to drug dealers than any president in history.
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Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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Former Rep. Tom Perriello, a Virginia Democrat who won his sole term in a huge 2008 upset, unexpectedly announces campaign against GOP Rep. John McGuire. Trump carried the current version of #VA05 56-43, but it could look a lot different if Democrats convince voters to approve a new map this spring.
Tom Perriello For Congress Launch Video
YouTube video by Tom Perriello
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Former Rep. Tom Perriello, a Virginia Democrat who won his sole term in a huge 2008 upset, unexpectedly announces campaign against GOP Rep. John McGuire. Trump carried the current version of #VA05 56-43, but it could look a lot different if Democrats convince voters to approve a new map this spring.
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For the Trump administration Kristi Noem is perfect for this role. I don’t know why someone like Youngkin would take this job. That would be career suicide if he did. The guy wants to be president but he won’t be unless he separates himself from Trump. Noem is the perfect idiot to fit their agenda
i am skeptical trump would actually go through with this, even if miller wants it, but i am even *more* skeptical of the idea that youngkin would take the job.
Trump weighing Noem’s ouster at Homeland Security
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is on “very thin ice,” a White House official told MS NOW.
www.ms.now
December 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
For the Trump administration Kristi Noem is perfect for this role. I don’t know why someone like Youngkin would take this job. That would be career suicide if he did. The guy wants to be president but he won’t be unless he separates himself from Trump. Noem is the perfect idiot to fit their agenda
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December 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Breaking:
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal judge grants Justice Department's request to unseal records from Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 sex trafficking case.
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal judge grants Justice Department's request to unseal records from Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 sex trafficking case.
December 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Breaking:
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal judge grants Justice Department's request to unseal records from Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 sex trafficking case.
NEW YORK (AP) - Federal judge grants Justice Department's request to unseal records from Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 sex trafficking case.
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POLITICO: I wonder what grade you'd give the economy
TRUMP: A+
POLITICO: A+?
TRUMP: A+++++
TRUMP: A+
POLITICO: A+?
TRUMP: A+++++
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
POLITICO: I wonder what grade you'd give the economy
TRUMP: A+
POLITICO: A+?
TRUMP: A+++++
TRUMP: A+
POLITICO: A+?
TRUMP: A+++++
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Indiana Republicans are under significant pressure to do something they know is wrong: rig the maps and silence voters.
Washington Republicans are demanding a "9–0 map." That’s not democracy - that’s cheating. They know it, and they’re ashamed, which is why they’re hesitating.
Washington Republicans are demanding a "9–0 map." That’s not democracy - that’s cheating. They know it, and they’re ashamed, which is why they’re hesitating.
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Indiana Republicans are under significant pressure to do something they know is wrong: rig the maps and silence voters.
Washington Republicans are demanding a "9–0 map." That’s not democracy - that’s cheating. They know it, and they’re ashamed, which is why they’re hesitating.
Washington Republicans are demanding a "9–0 map." That’s not democracy - that’s cheating. They know it, and they’re ashamed, which is why they’re hesitating.
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China was the largest export market for American farmers in 2024. They bought 27 metric tons of soybeans last year. They stopped buying in 2025 when Trump started his trade war. These are simple, obvious, basic facts. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Leavitt: "President Trump convinced President Xi to continue purchasing again American soybeans, which is something China wasn't doing under the last administration because they had no respect for President Biden or the country at the time."
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
China was the largest export market for American farmers in 2024. They bought 27 metric tons of soybeans last year. They stopped buying in 2025 when Trump started his trade war. These are simple, obvious, basic facts. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Unvaccinated citizens in the 50s
August 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Unvaccinated citizens in the 50s