Toriana Richese
@torianarichese.bsky.social
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Given the high suicide rates for veterans, cutting mental health and suicide prevention jobs at the Veterans Administration is UNCONSCIONABLE. The Trump administration is full of incompetent, hateful monsters.
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Given the high suicide rates for veterans, cutting mental health and suicide prevention jobs at the Veterans Administration is UNCONSCIONABLE. The Trump administration is full of incompetent, hateful monsters.
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damages if those officers violate constitutional rights while carrying out immigration-related operations. Pritzker also finalized a previously passed measure that prohibits immigration enforcement from taking place outside court proceedings.
Gov. JB Pritzker signs bills protecting Illinois immigrants from federal immigration enforcement
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a slate of legislation Tuesday morning to protect immigrants from "unjust" federal immigration enforcement actions.
www.cbsnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
damages if those officers violate constitutional rights while carrying out immigration-related operations. Pritzker also finalized a previously passed measure that prohibits immigration enforcement from taking place outside court proceedings.
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One law directs hospitals, schools, and childcare centers to safeguard the immigration status of the people they serve, keeping that information confidential. Another creates a pathway for individuals to sue law enforcement officers for financial
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
One law directs hospitals, schools, and childcare centers to safeguard the immigration status of the people they serve, keeping that information confidential. Another creates a pathway for individuals to sue law enforcement officers for financial
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We need more of this across the USA! Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has approved a set of new laws designed to strengthen protections for immigrants and limit abusive immigration enforcement practices.
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
We need more of this across the USA! Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has approved a set of new laws designed to strengthen protections for immigrants and limit abusive immigration enforcement practices.
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Authoritarian regimes often work by co-opting people into their crimes and thus giving them a vested interest in maintaining the regime lest crimes get punished. Old as the hills. Do none of you study history?
December 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Authoritarian regimes often work by co-opting people into their crimes and thus giving them a vested interest in maintaining the regime lest crimes get punished. Old as the hills. Do none of you study history?
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Political corruption. Vast inequality. Giant monopolies. Ultra-wealthy elites. Conspicuous consumption.
These problems defined the Gilded Age of the late 1800s. And they're dominating America again today.
But we have the power to fight back. https://youtu.be/Nmq7QqqY4vo?si=F3dxZcPJJRcBXB1O
These problems defined the Gilded Age of the late 1800s. And they're dominating America again today.
But we have the power to fight back. https://youtu.be/Nmq7QqqY4vo?si=F3dxZcPJJRcBXB1O
From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
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December 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Political corruption. Vast inequality. Giant monopolies. Ultra-wealthy elites. Conspicuous consumption.
These problems defined the Gilded Age of the late 1800s. And they're dominating America again today.
But we have the power to fight back. https://youtu.be/Nmq7QqqY4vo?si=F3dxZcPJJRcBXB1O
These problems defined the Gilded Age of the late 1800s. And they're dominating America again today.
But we have the power to fight back. https://youtu.be/Nmq7QqqY4vo?si=F3dxZcPJJRcBXB1O
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Zelenskyy ‘ready for elections’ after Trump questions Ukrainian democracy
Zelenskyy ‘ready for elections’ after Trump questions Ukrainian democracy
Zelenskyy says he would hold wartime elections within months given help from allies and Ukraine’s parliament
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Trump lambasts ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’ Europe and hints at walking away from Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is ready to hold a wartime election within the next three months, if Ukraine’s parliament and foreign allies will allow it, after Donald Trump accused him of clinging on to power.
Zelenskyy, clearly irritated by Trump’s intervention, said that “this is a question for the people of Ukraine, not people from other states, with all due respect to our partners”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Zelenskyy ‘ready for elections’ after Trump questions Ukrainian democracy
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An important point. Our system of checks and balances isn’t functioning as designed at all due to the craven GOP in Congress AND the Supreme Court.
December 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
An important point. Our system of checks and balances isn’t functioning as designed at all due to the craven GOP in Congress AND the Supreme Court.
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JFC. The weakening of America continues.
December 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
JFC. The weakening of America continues.
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The EPA has scrubbed most of its website of any mention that human activity is driving climate change.
Causes of Climate Change | US EPA
Burning fossil fuels changes the climate more than any other human activity.
www.epa.gov
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The EPA has scrubbed most of its website of any mention that human activity is driving climate change.
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
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Every accusation is a confession!
December 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Every accusation is a confession!
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Why is there no Alarm about the Maoist Language-"DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY" is not in Amer. Terminology. He also used similar re No Kings Protest. THIS IS ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO MAKE DISSENT PUNISHABLE BY THE REGIME. Someone very knowledgeable in how to subvert a population is feeding these words/concepts.
November 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Why is there no Alarm about the Maoist Language-"DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY" is not in Amer. Terminology. He also used similar re No Kings Protest. THIS IS ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO MAKE DISSENT PUNISHABLE BY THE REGIME. Someone very knowledgeable in how to subvert a population is feeding these words/concepts.
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Bookmark this for the investigations to come: the Trump team’s boat bombings trace back to at least 2018. That’s when White House officials asked me & others about whether they could do something like this.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Bookmark this for the investigations to come: the Trump team’s boat bombings trace back to at least 2018. That’s when White House officials asked me & others about whether they could do something like this.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
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"It’s too easy to say, Nothing matters, LOL, Supreme Court. But it matters a lot to have a judge say that the DHS officers themselves incited violence. They created violence and then they answered it with their own violence. And I think that is the moral of the story." @dahlialithwick.bsky.social
Trump’s Border Chief Framed Protesters for Violence. Then the Bodycam Footage Came Out.
The Trump administration faced back-to-back rebukes in a pair of cases that challenged the president’s efforts to intimidate or terrorize deep-blue cities.
slate.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"It’s too easy to say, Nothing matters, LOL, Supreme Court. But it matters a lot to have a judge say that the DHS officers themselves incited violence. They created violence and then they answered it with their own violence. And I think that is the moral of the story." @dahlialithwick.bsky.social
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Kristi Noem is lying.👇
Kristi Noem: “There's no American citizens that have been arrested or detained. We focus on those that are here illegally. And anything that you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting.”
October 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Kristi Noem is lying.👇
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We should have never thought anyone was coming to save us - we were always going to have to do that ourselves.
Right now we should be organizing for the midterms. All of 2026, we need to be focused on get out the vote campaigns and what to do if the administration tries to block voting access. 1/2
Right now we should be organizing for the midterms. All of 2026, we need to be focused on get out the vote campaigns and what to do if the administration tries to block voting access. 1/2
October 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
We should have never thought anyone was coming to save us - we were always going to have to do that ourselves.
Right now we should be organizing for the midterms. All of 2026, we need to be focused on get out the vote campaigns and what to do if the administration tries to block voting access. 1/2
Right now we should be organizing for the midterms. All of 2026, we need to be focused on get out the vote campaigns and what to do if the administration tries to block voting access. 1/2
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For our #democracy, I enjoy these Saturday morning livestream chats on Facebook & YouTube with American historians @hcrichardson.bsky.social and Joanne Freeman about what happened the previous week. #DemocracyInAction #DemocracyMatters #DemocracyNow
What the Heck Just Happened?
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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October 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
For our #democracy, I enjoy these Saturday morning livestream chats on Facebook & YouTube with American historians @hcrichardson.bsky.social and Joanne Freeman about what happened the previous week. #DemocracyInAction #DemocracyMatters #DemocracyNow
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The Trump administration has just agreed to buy thousands of drone parts from Donald Trump Jr.’s new drone company.
October 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Trump administration has just agreed to buy thousands of drone parts from Donald Trump Jr.’s new drone company.
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The White House's new McDonald's™ Epstein™ Ballroom™ appears to have been designed on free software.
October 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The White House's new McDonald's™ Epstein™ Ballroom™ appears to have been designed on free software.
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Honestly most tyrants aren’t even this cruel to non-supporters
"The president’s statement announcing the relief funding emphasized the number of times he won Missouri’s electoral votes, as if there were some kind of connection between his political support in the state and his eagerness to provide disaster aid..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Trump approves disaster declarations for red states, as blue states go without
“President Trump and his administration have politicized disaster relief,” one governor said, “and our communities are the ones who will pay the price.”
www.msnbc.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Honestly most tyrants aren’t even this cruel to non-supporters
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Compare that enormous crowd of people who showed up to criticize Trump yesterday to the number of people who showed up in DC in June to celebrate him when he threw his pathetic, vanity military parade for his birthday.
October 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Compare that enormous crowd of people who showed up to criticize Trump yesterday to the number of people who showed up in DC in June to celebrate him when he threw his pathetic, vanity military parade for his birthday.
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Yesterday, the United States had its biggest protest in history.
But when I look at the New York Times website, I discover that it never happened.
But when I look at the New York Times website, I discover that it never happened.
October 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Yesterday, the United States had its biggest protest in history.
But when I look at the New York Times website, I discover that it never happened.
But when I look at the New York Times website, I discover that it never happened.
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Tell me again, Donald, about the "Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax."
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Tell me again, Donald, about the "Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax."
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Today in an interview with NBC News, Vance said that Trump was considering all of his options for deploying the National Guard to major cities, including invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807, which grants the president emergency powers to deploy troops on U.S. soil.
October 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Today in an interview with NBC News, Vance said that Trump was considering all of his options for deploying the National Guard to major cities, including invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807, which grants the president emergency powers to deploy troops on U.S. soil.