TreeMarie
@treemarie81.bsky.social
A retired teacher of 32 years. I just want to stay informed on the status of our country and the world.
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Can someone explain to me how some of the country's poorest states with some of the lowest ranking public schools can afford to pay their collegiate head football coaches tens of millions of dollars a year in salaries plus bonuses?
November 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Can someone explain to me how some of the country's poorest states with some of the lowest ranking public schools can afford to pay their collegiate head football coaches tens of millions of dollars a year in salaries plus bonuses?
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Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm.
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.
She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.
She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
A Farmworkers Visa Promised Her a Better Life. It Was a Trap.
Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. She ended up a victim of an operation that is alleged to have exploited the H-2A visa program — and the workers it ...
projects.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm.
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.
She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.
She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
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This is the way we need to talk about and report on the disparity. 5 tax cuts in 25 years for the wealthiest among us. Tax law and Citizens United are keeping the majority poor and supplementing our local non-profits while gazillionaires just keep taking in profits.
The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the way we need to talk about and report on the disparity. 5 tax cuts in 25 years for the wealthiest among us. Tax law and Citizens United are keeping the majority poor and supplementing our local non-profits while gazillionaires just keep taking in profits.
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RIP DEL MONTE BRAND‼️
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
RIP DEL MONTE BRAND‼️
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President tRump:
It doesn't matter how many countries you illegally bomb, how many immigrants you deport, how many times you shit on the Constitution, how much smoke or how many mirrors.
We want the Epstein files released, you f*cking degenerate.
It doesn't matter how many countries you illegally bomb, how many immigrants you deport, how many times you shit on the Constitution, how much smoke or how many mirrors.
We want the Epstein files released, you f*cking degenerate.
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
President tRump:
It doesn't matter how many countries you illegally bomb, how many immigrants you deport, how many times you shit on the Constitution, how much smoke or how many mirrors.
We want the Epstein files released, you f*cking degenerate.
It doesn't matter how many countries you illegally bomb, how many immigrants you deport, how many times you shit on the Constitution, how much smoke or how many mirrors.
We want the Epstein files released, you f*cking degenerate.
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🎯 @robsandia.bsky.social on Private School Vouchers (for the wealthy) — “CALL THEIR BLUFF… if they want public dollars, they should have to follow the same rules as public schools… it’s not a ‘COMPETITION’ when not everyone is playing by the same rules.”
(cc: Speaker Sexton)
(cc: Speaker Sexton)
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🎯 @robsandia.bsky.social on Private School Vouchers (for the wealthy) — “CALL THEIR BLUFF… if they want public dollars, they should have to follow the same rules as public schools… it’s not a ‘COMPETITION’ when not everyone is playing by the same rules.”
(cc: Speaker Sexton)
(cc: Speaker Sexton)
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I want my country back… The one that didn't discriminate against international tourists, the one that doesn't have a Gestapo force, the one that doesn't make deals with Russia, the one that doesn't kick good people out of the country and on and on and on. I want my country back.
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I want my country back… The one that didn't discriminate against international tourists, the one that doesn't have a Gestapo force, the one that doesn't make deals with Russia, the one that doesn't kick good people out of the country and on and on and on. I want my country back.
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When the turkey was so good you need help holding your head up.
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
When the turkey was so good you need help holding your head up.
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“There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military,” Juliette Kayyem writes, “one of which is the risk of endangering them”:
A Terrible and Avoidable Tragedy in D.C.
Trump was warned that members of the military could be attacked.
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military,” Juliette Kayyem writes, “one of which is the risk of endangering them”:
Trump owns this. West Virginia National Guard did not belong there.
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Trump owns this. West Virginia National Guard did not belong there.
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If anyone needs to be reinstated back into service to be court martialed, it's
Gen Mike Flynn
#TraitorFlynn
Gen Mike Flynn
#TraitorFlynn
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
If anyone needs to be reinstated back into service to be court martialed, it's
Gen Mike Flynn
#TraitorFlynn
Gen Mike Flynn
#TraitorFlynn
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WTAF? This is unreal and has to be ILLEGAL, FUCK🤬🤬
Local police officers and sheriffs in Mobile, Alabama, are abducting a man from the waiting room of a car dealership mechanic shop on behalf of ICE/DHS. During the kidnapping, he is administered an unidentified sedative.
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
WTAF? This is unreal and has to be ILLEGAL, FUCK🤬🤬
Sometimes we need a smile to start our day!
gotta log off..sending love and hugs and there is joy all around us if you look for it!!😘
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Sometimes we need a smile to start our day!
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This is fu*king outrageous!
The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.
apnews.com/article/utah...
The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.
apnews.com/article/utah...
Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses
The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines worth thousands of dollars during the pandemic.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This is fu*king outrageous!
The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.
apnews.com/article/utah...
The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.
apnews.com/article/utah...
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Release the transcript‼️
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Release the transcript‼️
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And just like that, the Epstein files are now part of an ongoing investigation. Certainly can’t release them NOW. Nope, too bad.
November 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
And just like that, the Epstein files are now part of an ongoing investigation. Certainly can’t release them NOW. Nope, too bad.
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I wonder if Mike Johnson's left leg starts shaking when Donald Trump scratches him behind the ear?
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I wonder if Mike Johnson's left leg starts shaking when Donald Trump scratches him behind the ear?
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I’ve heard of secret grand juries before, but keeping secrets from a grand jury to secure an indictment at any cost is a new low.
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I’ve heard of secret grand juries before, but keeping secrets from a grand jury to secure an indictment at any cost is a new low.
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The author of 2023's 'Swine Republic' and inventor of a gut-churning formula that puts Iowa's livestock waste output in human terms (~168m people) doesn't mind being a thorn in agribusiness's side.
"Almost every aspect of life in Iowa has been steamrolled by the corn-soybean-CAFO production model."
"Almost every aspect of life in Iowa has been steamrolled by the corn-soybean-CAFO production model."
Chris Jones, water quality advocate and author, considers run for Iowa Ag Secretary: 'We need to rethink agriculture' - Little Village
Chris Jones, author of The Swine Republic and one of Iowa’s leading water quality advocates, has created an exploratory committee as he considers a run for Secretary of Agriculture next […]
littlevillagemag.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The author of 2023's 'Swine Republic' and inventor of a gut-churning formula that puts Iowa's livestock waste output in human terms (~168m people) doesn't mind being a thorn in agribusiness's side.
"Almost every aspect of life in Iowa has been steamrolled by the corn-soybean-CAFO production model."
"Almost every aspect of life in Iowa has been steamrolled by the corn-soybean-CAFO production model."
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Jamal Khashoggi. Say his name.
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Jamal Khashoggi. Say his name.