WhatRWeDoingHere
@voteblue4vr.bsky.social
Lifelong liberal, eclectic creative, eternally optimistic realist, avid reader, movie lover.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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The United States, which currently ranks behind Albania in terms of life expectancy, has now decided improve on that by ending the Hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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December 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The United States, which currently ranks behind Albania in terms of life expectancy, has now decided improve on that by ending the Hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
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This is from a few months back but I don’t think people realize the significance of this, or it would have been a push alert on every news app in the country
From nine former CDC directors, who collectively worked at the agency for more than 100 years:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Read every word.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Read every word.
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This is from a few months back but I don’t think people realize the significance of this, or it would have been a push alert on every news app in the country
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I will never forget this photo from 2018:
December 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I will never forget this photo from 2018:
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In Bolton’s book,Mattis recalls how President Trump pushed to pull U.S missile-defense systems out of S Korea.Mattis struggled to explain they protect the U.S by stopping a N Korean nuclear strike in 22 seconds, not 10 minutes.He barely talked Trump out of it, showing how little he grasped security!
December 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
In Bolton’s book,Mattis recalls how President Trump pushed to pull U.S missile-defense systems out of S Korea.Mattis struggled to explain they protect the U.S by stopping a N Korean nuclear strike in 22 seconds, not 10 minutes.He barely talked Trump out of it, showing how little he grasped security!
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They’ve been through the whole process. They’ve been approved. They show up to swear allegiance and become citizens, but ICE pulls them out of line.
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
They’ve been through the whole process. They’ve been approved. They show up to swear allegiance and become citizens, but ICE pulls them out of line.
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A huge number of people were deprived of citizenship by the Nazis. Political opponents first, then Jews. Maybe more than 200,000 people in total.
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
A huge number of people were deprived of citizenship by the Nazis. Political opponents first, then Jews. Maybe more than 200,000 people in total.
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This is in fact the material point:
“The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.
“The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.
‘The professor was right’: Oklahoma Republican college leader criticizes essay controversy
The chairman of the Oklahoma Federation of College Republicans is weighing in on controversy surrounding a failed essay submitted by a University of Oklahoma student.
www.kswo.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is in fact the material point:
“The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.
“The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.
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This is like announcing you won a marathon because you thought about running one.
December 7, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This is like announcing you won a marathon because you thought about running one.
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the gall to claim you are fighting pediatric cancer after destroying most of the research on cures for it and cutting the medicaid children’s hospitals depend on
This is like announcing you won a marathon because you thought about running one.
December 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
the gall to claim you are fighting pediatric cancer after destroying most of the research on cures for it and cutting the medicaid children’s hospitals depend on
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We earned it.
I’ve now had multiple sources tell me the UK NHS is removing the CDC from its list of reliable sources.
Welcome to irrelevance.
Welcome to irrelevance.
December 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
We earned it.
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Don't cha wish your party was corrupt like me?
The Only Democrats Trump Likes...
...are ones accused of corruption.
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December 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Don't cha wish your party was corrupt like me?
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“The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the 'war on terror.'"
“Imperial Blowback”: Suspect in D.C. Shooting Was Part of CIA Death Squad in Afghanistan
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man who authorities say shot two National Guardsmen outside the White House, had previously worked in a CIA-backed “Zero Unit” in Afghanistan, often called “death squads” by ...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
“The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the 'war on terror.'"
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Thank you to @oagmaryland.bsky.social and this nationwide coalition for securing this injunction and helping to protect people’s health care.
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Thank you to @oagmaryland.bsky.social and this nationwide coalition for securing this injunction and helping to protect people’s health care.
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NEW: A judge tonight blocked the Justice Department from accessing the emails/hard drive of Comey adviser/former lawyer Dan Richman. The ruling on the docs is a blow to prosecutors as they consider bringing new charges against Comey
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Judge blocks prosecutors’ access to James Comey’s lawyer’s emails and data
Court says government’s retention and use of law professor Daniel Richman’s data appears to have been illegal.
www.politico.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
NEW: A judge tonight blocked the Justice Department from accessing the emails/hard drive of Comey adviser/former lawyer Dan Richman. The ruling on the docs is a blow to prosecutors as they consider bringing new charges against Comey
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
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The terminally online brain-dead administration, worthless in securing grand jury indictments.
This woman is a senior officer of Pam Bondi's DOJ.
December 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The terminally online brain-dead administration, worthless in securing grand jury indictments.
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Hegseth’s own “fog of war” excuse fully contradicts this new excuse, which they have clearly just come up with to try to keep him out of the Hague
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.
nbcnews.to
December 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Hegseth’s own “fog of war” excuse fully contradicts this new excuse, which they have clearly just come up with to try to keep him out of the Hague
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If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
AKA: kidnapping
They didn't have a judicial warrant.
They didn't have a judicial warrant.
Masked immigration authorities were recorded on video following a woman back to her Louisiana home during what the Department of Homeland Security is calling a “targeted immigration enforcement operation.”
Video shows masked Border Patrol agent chasing woman back to her Louisiana home
Jacelynn Guzman said she is a U.S.-born citizen. The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it "determined the individual in question was not the target."
nbcnews.to
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
AKA: kidnapping
They didn't have a judicial warrant.
They didn't have a judicial warrant.
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Oh, neat, so you can tell us the exact names of all eleven people on the boat by, say, tomorrow morning, right?
Because you have a list. You can do that, right away.
No reason to delay, their buddies know they got blown up. So let's see that list.
(Also doesn't make this legal)
Because you have a list. You can do that, right away.
No reason to delay, their buddies know they got blown up. So let's see that list.
(Also doesn't make this legal)
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.
nbcnews.to
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Oh, neat, so you can tell us the exact names of all eleven people on the boat by, say, tomorrow morning, right?
Because you have a list. You can do that, right away.
No reason to delay, their buddies know they got blown up. So let's see that list.
(Also doesn't make this legal)
Because you have a list. You can do that, right away.
No reason to delay, their buddies know they got blown up. So let's see that list.
(Also doesn't make this legal)
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Bullshit.
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.
nbcnews.to
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Bullshit.
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Did you or someone you know dance on Soul Train in the 1970s?
I’d like to talk with you or them about that experience for my research
Thanks!
I’d like to talk with you or them about that experience for my research
Thanks!
December 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Note: this is yet another variation on the story. First, they said they killed them in the second strike because they were trying to continue the smuggling. Or possibly signalling to allies.
But now the story is they killed them because their names were on a target list.
But now the story is they killed them because their names were on a target list.
"Bradley told lawmakers that the orders he received from Hegseth were to kill the individuals on the approved target list, which included everyone on the boat, then destroy the drugs and sink the boat, those sources said."
They were civilians.
They were civilians.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling ve...
www.nbcnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Note: this is yet another variation on the story. First, they said they killed them in the second strike because they were trying to continue the smuggling. Or possibly signalling to allies.
But now the story is they killed them because their names were on a target list.
But now the story is they killed them because their names were on a target list.