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@violetthunk.bsky.social
Oft-curious bluestocking.
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There’s ONE area where prices are down: promised “rebate” checks.

$̶5̶0̶0̶0̶ —> $2000
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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President Donald Trump has pardoned a massive slate of prominent allies who supported plans to subvert the 2020 presidential election, according to Ed Martin, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) pardon attorney www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In Symbolic Move, Trump Pardons 77 Allies Who Tried to Steal 2020 Election for Him
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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In a new post, President Trump makes various threats and promises to air traffic controllers who have very, very difficult jobs and hold the safety of air travel in their hands.
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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This isn’t a new skeet from Serwer, but it still resonates bcuz there are so often a few Dems who just will not hold the line — even when surrendering persuades many voters the Dem Party as a whole can’t be counted on in the clinches. This makes it hell for us canvassers. bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The only silver lining to last night’s cave.
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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This is the food-distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base. Active-duty U.S.
service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted
SNAP support for military families.
Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve.
(🎥hatteri621)
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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omg
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.

It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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People need to understand that Chicago is a preview, not a culmination.
I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving
The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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USDA tells states to undo efforts to issue full food aid benefits reut.rs/3WJhxPZ
USDA tells states to undo efforts to issue full food aid benefits
The U.S. Department of Agriculture directed states to roll back any steps taken to issue full food aid benefits to low-income Americans or risk financial penalties.
reut.rs
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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#ICYMI: A sweeping data-sharing agreement authorizing DHS to merge Social Security data into the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system could threaten Americans’ privacy and lead to errors that disenfranchise legitimate voters, experts say.

By @jenafifield.bsky.social
DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks
A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and ...
www.propublica.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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If the political opposition doesn’t put these ICE & CBP institutional criminals in prison, annihilate their budgets, purge the datasets and repeal their authorities, this will keep happening. And that opposition will reveal itself as a false, controlled opposition that is no less predatory on people
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.

Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.

It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Trump fights the release of SNAP benefits, forcing Americans to go hungry, at the same time he’s bragging on lowering the cost of a weight loss drug.

This is America in a nutshell‼️
#ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory
#Pinks
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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I love to point out that evolution came up with two strategies for animals to survive falls:

1. Cat-righting reflex, so an animal can land on its feet when it tumbles

2. Panda gooshiness, so it doesn't hurt when they tumble
I've said it before: everything giant pandas do makes more sense if you imagine they are six drinks in on a Friday night.

But I feel like we haven't fully celebrated their triumphant return. See, the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is no longer Endangered.

A conservation success story!
a panda bear is sitting on a wooden platform with toys
Alt: a panda bear is sitting on a wooden platform with toys, it barrels through them, falls, and manages to roll down every part of the stairs, as if on purpose. Just agent of chaos behavior.
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Apparently... seemingly... typically... Also, his aides lie about everything, but on this we believe?
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Someday maybe the press will note the difference between "taking" questions and "answering" them.
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Child rapist Donald Trump is doing everything to keep accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell happy, until he pardons her, so she doesn't talk.
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM