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Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.

I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

27.04.2025 03:58 — 👍 31444    🔁 7545    💬 1988    📌 494
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St.Johns Food Share Help needed! Community of Hope is offering SJFS 2-3 garden plots. Anyone interested in volunteering to manage/care for these plots? We have someone willing to design but need a person or team to...

www.facebook.com/100092484621...?

Want to get your hands dirty? Come help grow veggies for our local food share

27.04.2025 02:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Heather and I discussed this ridiculous claim about the January 6 attackers not getting due process -- and the REALITY and significance of due process -- tonight.

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

22.04.2025 01:45 — 👍 259    🔁 54    💬 10    📌 2

Great discussion

22.04.2025 05:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love this

14.04.2025 22:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I watched the course scooper if years ago and loved it.

10.04.2025 00:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Holy smokes, Batman.

01.04.2025 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s exactly what i said

27.03.2025 01:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mister grumpy mug required!

13.03.2025 18:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pressure matters! Your voice matters

13.03.2025 18:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices (Gift Article) An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.

These offices work to fight pollution in poorer communities.

Like the Department of Education, that works for the education of underserved children.

I wish his base could see how profoundly he doesn’t care about them—or American citizens generally.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

12.03.2025 03:46 — 👍 244    🔁 83    💬 12    📌 6

Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer joins me next on @allinwithchris.bsky.social

12.03.2025 00:27 — 👍 2297    🔁 199    💬 44    📌 2

I agree. It’s so blatant and obvious. Plus the Nero-like approach to the fires around us

12.03.2025 01:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ?

They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses.

That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue.

The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

10.03.2025 21:38 — 👍 97513    🔁 16093    💬 2839    📌 586
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Tadaa.

07.03.2025 23:03 — 👍 32425    🔁 13649    💬 1419    📌 897

Can this really be what people voted for?

08.03.2025 06:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I always appreciate your analysis.

07.03.2025 07:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A dire reminder of what we are throwing away.

06.03.2025 09:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | A Day of American Infamy A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.

“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

01.03.2025 11:11 — 👍 3816    🔁 1202    💬 60    📌 33
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Donald Trump is lying to you.

05.03.2025 04:37 — 👍 22953    🔁 6217    💬 507    📌 657

Senator Wyden is doing an open town hall as counter program in FB live.

03.03.2025 06:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

02.03.2025 16:55 — 👍 54282    🔁 37188    💬 2038    📌 3085

Get on the phone and pressure your elected officials to stop this

02.03.2025 15:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is badass good trouble

23.02.2025 15:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Freedom, opportunity, the rule of law, constitutional and competent government, equal justice, accountability, affordability, anti-corruption, truth, and character-driven leadership.

Defend them all with us this weekend.

22.02.2025 03:28 — 👍 1073    🔁 216    💬 137    📌 60
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What a crowd at @principlesfirst.bsky.social!

23.02.2025 14:51 — 👍 1339    🔁 74    💬 40    📌 0

NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

23.02.2025 14:01 — 👍 7922    🔁 1860    💬 129    📌 87
Senator Mark Warner’s response notes that he is “alarmed by reports that Elon Musk and his associates have gained access to U.S. Department of Treasury systems that control payments to millions of American citizens, including Social Security payments, Medicare payments and tax refunds”

Senator Warner has also “called on the Committees on Finance and Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs to immediately hold hearings requiring Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to explain to the Senate, under oath, exactly what is taking place.”

Senator Mark Warner’s response notes that he is “alarmed by reports that Elon Musk and his associates have gained access to U.S. Department of Treasury systems that control payments to millions of American citizens, including Social Security payments, Medicare payments and tax refunds” Senator Warner has also “called on the Committees on Finance and Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs to immediately hold hearings requiring Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to explain to the Senate, under oath, exactly what is taking place.”

Senator Warner states that “allowing unknown individuals access to the incredibly sensitive payment system of the Treasury Department goes way outside the scope of government efficiency.”

He includes a link to video of a February 5th Banking Committee hearing and concludes by stating “You may be assured that I will continue to press the Trump administration for answers to exactly who has access to Treasury systems and exactly what they are doing with that access.”

Senator Warner states that “allowing unknown individuals access to the incredibly sensitive payment system of the Treasury Department goes way outside the scope of government efficiency.” He includes a link to video of a February 5th Banking Committee hearing and concludes by stating “You may be assured that I will continue to press the Trump administration for answers to exactly who has access to Treasury systems and exactly what they are doing with that access.”

Pleased with Senator @markwarner.bsky.social response to my letter expressing concern about DOGE access to federal systems. He gets it.

Thank you Senator Warner.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

22.02.2025 23:49 — 👍 566    🔁 96    💬 12    📌 1

JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland.

Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies.
civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

18.02.2025 20:51 — 👍 9024    🔁 5487    💬 539    📌 463

"Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Jim Moran (Kansas) and Steve Daines (Mont.) were all co-sponsors of this law. None responded to requests for comment."

18.02.2025 21:40 — 👍 2669    🔁 1152    💬 115    📌 60

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