TravisJL
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TravisJL
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”

@reuters.com #Chicago
www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Transgender Youth Have Better Emotional Health after Taking Hormones, New Study Finds

www.scientificameric...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Transgender Youth Have Better Emotional Health after Taking Hormones, New Study Finds
Hormone therapy improves transgender young people’s well-being and social relationships, but Trump’s recent executive order and state bans threaten to take it away
www.scientificamerican.com
February 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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I love the cover of my upcoming collection. I feel very very lucky. My dream for 2025 would be that my cover gets to compete in the @electriclit.bsky.social best book covers of the year bracket!
December 20, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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Bernie Kaminski creates lifelike papier-mâché iterations of everyday items.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/12/bern...
December 12, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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Doechii: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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December 6, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

#books #reading #booksky #poetry
November 20, 2024 at 3:34 AM
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The Biden-Harris admin has canceled $175 billion in student debt for nearly 5 million people.

Project 2025 seeks to get rid of student loan forgiveness programs and income driven payment plans.

The result? Monthly student loan payments could triple for many borrowers.
October 19, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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Morning friends

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August 31, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Whoever runs the Lake Superior account is burnin down houses rn
August 22, 2024 at 5:11 AM
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Feels like a good day to remind everyone that JD Vance was a no-show on the vote for my bill to expand the child tax credit when it was on the senate floor two weeks ago. My bill failed after Republicans blocked it, leaving 16 million kids worse off.
August 17, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Routine childhood vaccines prevented "hundreds of millions of illnesses, tens of millions of hospitalizations and more than 1 million deaths among people born between 1994 and 2023..." www.cnn.com/2024/08/08/h...
Childhood vaccinations will have prevented more than 500 million illnesses and 1 million deaths in US since 1994, CDC report says | CNN
Routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented hundreds of millions of illnesses, tens of millions of hospitalizations and more than 1 million deaths among people born between 1994 and 2023, accor...
www.cnn.com
August 12, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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"Trump took the flight to speak at a Heritage Foundation conference, where he said, 'They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.'"
www.washingtonpost.com/elections/20...
Trump took a private flight with Project 2025 leader in 2022
Trump took the flight to speak at a Heritage Foundation conference, where he said, “They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.”
www.washingtonpost.com
August 7, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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it’s happening
July 27, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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So, journalists... anyone gonna ask him to explain exactly what he meant by that? Or Vance, or any campaign surrogate, or any GOP elected?
July 27, 2024 at 6:13 AM
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You wouldn't know it by the chyron, but this woman literally said said:

"I'm voting for democracy. A convicted felon is not it. Biden is our guy." That was her quote.
July 12, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Trump's efforts to run from Project 2025 are blowing up in his face:

*CNN reports 140 former Trump officials are involved

*New video shows Trump praised its creators in 2022

On the pod, we go deep into the threat Project 2025 poses, with Amanda Becker of The 19th:
newrepublic.com/article/1837...
Trump’s Sleazy New Project 2025 Disavowal Scam Blows Up in His Face
As new reports tie Trump to Project 2025, a writer who has examined the plan explains what this saga really reveals about the reactionary agenda MAGA wants to inflict on our country.
newrepublic.com
July 12, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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Democrats should be calling it "Trump's Project 2025" to make it at least a little harder for him or others to deny a connection to it. Plus, it only happens if he wins so that's the connection right there!
July 11, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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Breaking news: Inflation eased further in June, handing Federal Reserve officials another dose of encouraging data as they inch closer to cutting interest rates and taking pressure off the economy.
Inflation eased further in June, helping cement path to rate cuts
Fed watchers increasingly think a first rate cut could come in September, so long as the data continues to cooperate.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 11, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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Major publications think one big article outweighs the flood the zone Biden coverage. But that's not how people consume news anymore. A lot of people probably never read this, but they sure as hell saw the stream of Biden articles in their newsfeed.
Everytime The Times is criticized for its hundreds of attacks on Biden and age, it will point to this one (over-designed) editorial it has at last written. #ButHerEmails arithmetic.
July 11, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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The IRS reported Wednesday that it has collected $1 billion in taxes and penalties owed by hundreds of wealthy households who accumulated past-due tax debts for years while IRS enforcement dwindled.
IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households’ back taxes
For years, the tax agency simply didn’t try collecting sizable debts owed by 1,600 filers with annual incomes of at least $1 million.
wapo.st
July 11, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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I sure did not have "Harlan Crow paid for a yacht and private helicopter trip for Clarence Thomas to visit a palace in Vladimir Putin's hometown" on my bingo card, but in hindsight, why the hell not. www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-tho...
Clarence Thomas Gifted Luxe Trip to Putin’s Hometown: Dems
The allegedly secret gifts were disclosed in a letter from two Democratic senators that accused Thomas of potentially committing tax fraud.
www.thedailybeast.com
July 11, 2024 at 4:39 AM
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wait so Orban went to Moscow and now he’s going to Mar-a-Lago?
July 11, 2024 at 10:56 AM