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The Trump Admin will fire you for having a Pride flag on your desk but downplays & normalizes swastikas & nooses?
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The Trump Admin will fire you for having a Pride flag on your desk but downplays & normalizes swastikas & nooses?
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
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4/ The county sheriff’s office first heard about Clint Massie in 2017. But it wouldn’t be until 2023 — six years later — that prosecutors were able to bring charges against him.
The @startribune.com and ProPublica set out to understand how Massie did what he did for so long.
The @startribune.com and ProPublica set out to understand how Massie did what he did for so long.
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
4/ The county sheriff’s office first heard about Clint Massie in 2017. But it wouldn’t be until 2023 — six years later — that prosecutors were able to bring charges against him.
The @startribune.com and ProPublica set out to understand how Massie did what he did for so long.
The @startribune.com and ProPublica set out to understand how Massie did what he did for so long.
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3/ Instead, the preachers held meetings in which children were told to forgive the man who sexually abused them and to forget the abuse.
One woman recalled her father and preacher allowing Massie to hug her. “It was one of the worst things ever,” she said.
One woman recalled her father and preacher allowing Massie to hug her. “It was one of the worst things ever,” she said.
![Document with these excerpts highlighted: VICTIM 3 explained that one of the beliefs in the church is "forgive and forget," which caused confusion regarding what to do with allegations of sexual assault.
VICTIM 3 explained that years ago when this happened, the way the church and community "[p]retty much, it was kind of like we could ask forgiveness about it and forget about it, but, and never talk about it again..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k4jt6heuiamymgi46yeuxtpt/bafkreiglehxnz4wa3e5yrlrprqzv4acnmtjcloddzg2mkyy4beqg5tl3t4@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
3/ Instead, the preachers held meetings in which children were told to forgive the man who sexually abused them and to forget the abuse.
One woman recalled her father and preacher allowing Massie to hug her. “It was one of the worst things ever,” she said.
One woman recalled her father and preacher allowing Massie to hug her. “It was one of the worst things ever,” she said.
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2/ Clint Massie’s behavior was an open secret in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community of Duluth, Minnesota. Church leaders even sent him to a sex offender specialist.
But none of the preachers reported him to the police.
But none of the preachers reported him to the police.
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
2/ Clint Massie’s behavior was an open secret in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community of Duluth, Minnesota. Church leaders even sent him to a sex offender specialist.
But none of the preachers reported him to the police.
But none of the preachers reported him to the police.
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1/ It should be forgiven. It should be forgotten. If she spoke of it again, the sins would be hers, she was told.
But she could never forget. And neither could the other girls.
This is the story of how her church enabled a child abuser for years 👇
[content warning: sexual abuse]
But she could never forget. And neither could the other girls.
This is the story of how her church enabled a child abuser for years 👇
[content warning: sexual abuse]
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
1/ It should be forgiven. It should be forgotten. If she spoke of it again, the sins would be hers, she was told.
But she could never forget. And neither could the other girls.
This is the story of how her church enabled a child abuser for years 👇
[content warning: sexual abuse]
But she could never forget. And neither could the other girls.
This is the story of how her church enabled a child abuser for years 👇
[content warning: sexual abuse]
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Love running into @thebulwark.com fans on the street!
In Washington DC on vacation at ran into @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on the street. I was fanboying out!
July 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Love running into @thebulwark.com fans on the street!
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Martin Luther King's daughter Bernice had this to say about donald releasing her father's files today...
July 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Martin Luther King's daughter Bernice had this to say about donald releasing her father's files today...
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This is where I tell you that, just like Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert is a profoundly kind, generous and decent man. He has been that way to me and I've never heard a bad word about him, ever. He deserves better than this and I have no doubt -- like Conan -- he will get it.
July 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This is where I tell you that, just like Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert is a profoundly kind, generous and decent man. He has been that way to me and I've never heard a bad word about him, ever. He deserves better than this and I have no doubt -- like Conan -- he will get it.
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Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."
h/t @msnbc.com
h/t @msnbc.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."
h/t @msnbc.com
h/t @msnbc.com
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🚨🚨🚨
IT GETS WORSE 😳
"Kristi Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN."
Story: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
IT GETS WORSE 😳
"Kristi Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN."
Story: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
July 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
🚨🚨🚨
IT GETS WORSE 😳
"Kristi Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN."
Story: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
IT GETS WORSE 😳
"Kristi Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN."
Story: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
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Want to grab my book without supporting Jeff Bezos this week?
Bookshop.org is offering free shipping through Friday, and sales go directly to local, independent bookstores. Win win!
bookshop.org/p/books/abor...
Bookshop.org is offering free shipping through Friday, and sales go directly to local, independent bookstores. Win win!
bookshop.org/p/books/abor...
July 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Want to grab my book without supporting Jeff Bezos this week?
Bookshop.org is offering free shipping through Friday, and sales go directly to local, independent bookstores. Win win!
bookshop.org/p/books/abor...
Bookshop.org is offering free shipping through Friday, and sales go directly to local, independent bookstores. Win win!
bookshop.org/p/books/abor...
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The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid
June 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid
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Let me start: Walmart, Amazon…
The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid
July 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Let me start: Walmart, Amazon…
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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NEW: Anti-abortion activists are launching their own telehealth company—basically a virtual crisis pregnancy center—with the goal of becoming a household name as big as Planned Parenthood.
Read more at the newsletter: jessica.substack.com/p/telehealth...
Read more at the newsletter: jessica.substack.com/p/telehealth...
Telehealth Crisis Pregnancy Centers??
6.30.25
jessica.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
NEW: Anti-abortion activists are launching their own telehealth company—basically a virtual crisis pregnancy center—with the goal of becoming a household name as big as Planned Parenthood.
Read more at the newsletter: jessica.substack.com/p/telehealth...
Read more at the newsletter: jessica.substack.com/p/telehealth...
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Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.
Shhh. Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of.
They’re not branding it an Obamacare repeal this time around, but congressional Republicans are pursuing cuts to programs that are part of the 15-year-old health-care law.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.
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Texans, flee the nanny state and come up north to enjoy the land of the free.
www.texastribune.org/2025/05/21/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/05/21/t...
Texas Legislature on verge of completely banning THC products after key House vote
The House approved the ban after previously considering proposals to preserve the industry by tightening regulations.
www.texastribune.org
May 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Texans, flee the nanny state and come up north to enjoy the land of the free.
www.texastribune.org/2025/05/21/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/05/21/t...
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The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
May 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
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Oh, ABC. You blew it when you caved the first time and cut a $16m check. Don’t give Shitler another inch or another dime, and tell him to go fuck himself. #GoHarvard #GoMaine
May 18, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Oh, ABC. You blew it when you caved the first time and cut a $16m check. Don’t give Shitler another inch or another dime, and tell him to go fuck himself. #GoHarvard #GoMaine
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Hey Mr. Tapper, is there any timeline for reporting on Donald Trump's clear pattern of cognitive deterioration? I figured you'd be a great person to ask given that you've done so much research and reporting on this area of medicine.
@jaketapper.bsky.social
@jaketapper.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Hey Mr. Tapper, is there any timeline for reporting on Donald Trump's clear pattern of cognitive deterioration? I figured you'd be a great person to ask given that you've done so much research and reporting on this area of medicine.
@jaketapper.bsky.social
@jaketapper.bsky.social
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9/11 First Responders: “The Secretary (RFK JR) is uniquely unqualified… This is 20 years of bullshit… nobody apologized after 9/11 — instead we created the World Trade Center Health program. And then to gut it? You took your own apology away from us… Kennedy is an id*ot.”
May 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
9/11 First Responders: “The Secretary (RFK JR) is uniquely unqualified… This is 20 years of bullshit… nobody apologized after 9/11 — instead we created the World Trade Center Health program. And then to gut it? You took your own apology away from us… Kennedy is an id*ot.”
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Cato Institute’s Director of immigration studies 👇🏽
May 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Cato Institute’s Director of immigration studies 👇🏽
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Senator Van Hollen cannot be any more clear as to what this is all about.
It’s about the rule of law. Period. Not the whims of an authoritarian or our feelings toward any individual.
If you allow it to be dismissed for even one person. Any person. You risk suffering the same fate.
It’s about the rule of law. Period. Not the whims of an authoritarian or our feelings toward any individual.
If you allow it to be dismissed for even one person. Any person. You risk suffering the same fate.
Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "My whole point here is if you deprive one man of his constitutional rights, you threaten the constitutional rights of everybody ... if you threaten the rule of law for one person, you threaten if for everybody in America."
April 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Senator Van Hollen cannot be any more clear as to what this is all about.
It’s about the rule of law. Period. Not the whims of an authoritarian or our feelings toward any individual.
If you allow it to be dismissed for even one person. Any person. You risk suffering the same fate.
It’s about the rule of law. Period. Not the whims of an authoritarian or our feelings toward any individual.
If you allow it to be dismissed for even one person. Any person. You risk suffering the same fate.