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The land of Russ Feingold, Tammy Baldwin, Fighting Bob Lafollette. I love cheese.snarky observations. I am Blue Dot in a purple state. Bitter millennial since 1981. πŸ’›πŸ’š discovering acid reflux,slight hearing loss,progressive lenses.

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Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

21.12.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 12958    πŸ” 7033    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 241
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Holy shit.

18.08.2025 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 13063    πŸ” 7020    πŸ’¬ 1414    πŸ“Œ 1414
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β€œone band, one sound” took me outtt🀣😭
(she’s right tho).. #California @governor.ca.gov

16.08.2025 04:51 β€” πŸ‘ 220    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 26
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16.08.2025 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 23101    πŸ” 4884    πŸ’¬ 757    πŸ“Œ 364
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Perfect. πŸ€£πŸ˜‚ @governor.ca.gov

16.08.2025 03:48 β€” πŸ‘ 349    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 6
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Spoken like a true hero.

16.08.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1274    πŸ” 241    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 6
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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

10.08.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3761    πŸ” 2429    πŸ’¬ 143    πŸ“Œ 300

To my earlier point: how ever much you enslave yourself to the mindless Fake President, D. Mentia Trump will eventually turn on you

Now: an overt threat to deport @elonmusk

01.07.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 2
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Newsom: The gloves are off. Let’s go. We’re gonna call out the bullshit. And the propaganda. And the weaponization of lies and disinformation on networks like Fox…

27.06.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 32339    πŸ” 8234    πŸ’¬ 1391    πŸ“Œ 755

Is this the crackers or the hotel?

23.06.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

22.06.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 25654    πŸ” 10091    πŸ’¬ 623    πŸ“Œ 1332
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When the KKK Murdered My Childhood Friend | Robert Reich
As the shortest kid in school, I was an easy target for bullies. When I was about eight, I befriended a kind teenager wh When the KKK Murdered My Childhood Friend | Robert Reich

61 years ago today, the Klan murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi. One of them was a childhood friend. I'd like to share what he meant to me. https://youtu.be/u-kv3wdqqNo?si=Zc3Uh-CJOcODt-RW

21.06.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 11489    πŸ” 3968    πŸ’¬ 299    πŸ“Œ 160
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EPIC response.

15.06.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 37092    πŸ” 7145    πŸ’¬ 1533    πŸ“Œ 550
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www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."

11.06.2025 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 22428    πŸ” 6816    πŸ’¬ 477    πŸ“Œ 356
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πŸ‡»πŸ‡¦πŸ‘€πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Pope Leo talks about war in Ukraine!

10.05.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1831    πŸ” 400    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 64
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This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.

@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

23.04.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 14353    πŸ” 6626    πŸ’¬ 573    πŸ“Œ 679
Go to the online DC or Florida Bar orgs and file a complaint against Pam Bondi for not complying with the Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador. Her bar # is 886440.

Go to the online DC or Florida Bar orgs and file a complaint against Pam Bondi for not complying with the Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador. Her bar # is 886440.

This is something we can all do.πŸ‘‡πŸΌ

File a complaint with the FL and DC Bar to have Pam Bondi disbarred for not complying with the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador.

16.04.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 18739    πŸ” 8387    πŸ’¬ 435    πŸ“Œ 625
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This part

12.04.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 48707    πŸ” 13379    πŸ’¬ 620    πŸ“Œ 681
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Hands off Madison, Wisconsin

05.04.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 26668    πŸ” 4593    πŸ’¬ 267    πŸ“Œ 179
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So good. 🀑

@brendanvduke.bsky.social

03.04.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 21325    πŸ” 5849    πŸ’¬ 557    πŸ“Œ 561

There are no tariffs being put on Russia. Hmmm

02.04.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 47564    πŸ” 11880    πŸ’¬ 2058    πŸ“Œ 699

Dear all foreign friends outside the United States,

Our country is big. Like really big. Like so much bigger than you ken. Our states are bigger than many countries, and there's 50 of them.

So when you wonder why we are not all marching on DC

I live 2,500 miles (4000 km) from the White House

29.03.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 20846    πŸ” 3155    πŸ’¬ 1496    πŸ“Œ 466

It took a lot of stupid to alienate Canada but we did it

28.03.2025 03:18 β€” πŸ‘ 14168    πŸ” 2425    πŸ’¬ 546    πŸ“Œ 112

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

27.03.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 26248    πŸ” 7488    πŸ’¬ 570    πŸ“Œ 335
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How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. β€œIt is c...

"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..."

www.propublica.org/article/elon...

27.03.2025 04:41 β€” πŸ‘ 8928    πŸ” 4119    πŸ’¬ 508    πŸ“Œ 283

😞

26.03.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did he leave a diary? Or write a D.I.Y on dealing with tootie pootie πŸ€”

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Pentagon webpage for Black Medal of Honor winner restored after outcry Error message previously shown on Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s webpage amid Trump administration’s DEI purge

Academics, we should trace the sequence of events that led to this change back. It's more complex than first appears.

#academicsky #blackhistory

17.03.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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