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Retired middle school teacher, avid reader, gardener, and hobby-artist who loves mountains and oceans and every landform in between

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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

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$1.5T defense budget
$170B on ICE & Border Patrol
$100B on tax cuts for the 1%
$20B from Treasury for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$300M on Kristi Noem's jets
$100M+ for Trump to golf
$75k+ for Kash Patel's Olympic trip

And now $50B in emergency funding for war in Iran?

Priorities.

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“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.”

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

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BREAKING: Babe, wake up. New war just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

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Live Ticker: Cost of the Iran War in U.S. taxpayer dollars, updated in real time. 💰
iran-cost-ticker.com

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Trump's global reign of terror expands

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The USA Hockey team visited Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada & he showed WAY more respect for these champion Olympians than Trump did.

That says everything.

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So far we’ve heard 12 different primary reasons for the war, 7 different main objectives, and 5 different exit strategies.

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Great reporting here from @gregsargent.bsky.social on the escalating danger of what ICE has become. 1/

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#MomSky

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February 21, 2026 On February 22, 1889, outgoing Democratic president Grover Cleveland signed an omnibus bill that divided the Territory of Dakota in half and enabled the people in the new Territories of North Dakota a...

February 21, 2026

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So cool!! 😲

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U2 - American Obituary (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by U2 U2 - American Obituary (Lyric Video)

New song from U2 about the killing of Renee Good -- "American Obituary."

"America will rise
Against the people of the lie"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3zi...

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Amazon just saved nearly $8B on its 2025 tax bill — despite profits hitting $90B — thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill.

Remember: Amazon spent $75M producing and marketing the Melania movie, while Jeff Bezos gave $1M to Trump's inaugural fund.

Quite a return on investment, huh?

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Early voting is officially underway in Wake County!

* If you plan to vote early, polls are open every day until Saturday, Feb 28.
* If you prefer to vote on Election Day, March 3 is primary day.

Pick the day that works for you and make a plan to vote.

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Thou shalt not let an 80-year-old pedophile and his pedophile friends steal yet another election so they can continue to rape children free from consequence.

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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

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State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service.

Another barrier to obtaining passports. While it impacts only a small share of libraries, reduced access can make it harder for Americans to secure passports—especially as Republicans push the SAVE Act, which would require a passport as voter ID.

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👇👇👇👇

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…she will make sure they vote for “the right leaders?”

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"There will be no negotiations in Moscow or Minsk. I cannot come to negotiations with Putin in the capital of a country that is the aggressor in this war." - Zelenskyy.

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“They thought they could break us, but a love for our neighbors and a resolve to endure can outlast occupation,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said in a statement. “These patriots of Minneapolis are showing that it’s not just about resistance — standing with our neighbors is deeply American.”

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Breaking on MSNOW right now: the DOJ is tracking the search histories of Congresspeople in the unredacted Epstein files, and Pam Bondi is using those search histories in her Burn Book today.

This is surveillance of Democratic lawmakers as the review the Epstein files, and it is chilling.

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Why haven’t American elites stood up for Minnesota? | Daniel Altschuler If US elites can find the courage to speak up, we can still prevent our country from descending into full-blown autocracy

🚨 If business leaders, including 200+ CEOs of the Business Roundtable, can find the courage to speak up, we can still prevent our country from descending into full-blown autocracy. CEOs have continued on their course of compliance and complacency. And silence.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Bad Voting Bill that Refuses to Die The SAVE Act would stop millions of eligible Americans from voting.

The SAVE Act would stop millions of eligible Americans from voting.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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Multiple potential measles exposures in DC: Check sites and dates DC Health said Saturday it was notified of multiple people with confirmed cases of measles who visited a variety of locations in the District. Officials did not specify exactly how many infected peopl...

DC Health said Saturday it was notified of multiple people with confirmed cases of measles who visited a variety of locations in the District including the March for Life. www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/...

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Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.

Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.

Unidos somos América.

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Trump goes full racist during Black History Month, refuses to apologize. What the research says about why this matters.
www.whitetoolong.net/p/trump-goes...

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