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Patsy Mink.

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Patsy Mink was born on this day in 1927 in Hāmākua Poko, Hawaii Territory. She was the first Asian American woman elected to Congress and the first woman of color to serve in the House of Representatives. She served Hawaii for 24 years and co-authored landmark legislation. /1

In Los Angeles, California, a man’s father was abducted and kidnapped by ICE. While attempting to locate him using a GPS tracker in his car, they discovered that his stolen truck was being driven around by an ICE Bounty Hunter during his off-duty period from December 2nd to December 3rd.

On day of Kristi Noem visit to Chicago, federal immigration agents use tear gas on Elgin crowd Federal immigration agents deployed tear gas and pepper spray Saturday on a crowd that gathered to protest a prolonged arrest in a northwest Chicago suburb, angering neighbors who said it’s “uncall…

NEWS: On day of Kristi Noem visit to Chicago, federal immigration agents use tear gas on Elgin crowd. By Rebecca Johnson and @staceywescott.bsky.social
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GOP lawmaker whines over insider trading ban: 'It's not easy' to make money in Congress Rep. Roger Wilson (R-TX) expressed opposition to a congressional stock trading ban proposed by MAGA Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), noting that it was "not easy" to live on his salary as a lawmaker. Du...

So you can't survive on $174K a year? Yet you've refused to raise the minimum wage for 16 years?
You work 165 days a year, you get health care, per-diem and $174K a year and you are going to whine about money?
Go. Fuck. Yourself. Hypocrite.

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Reddit post from Inside-Specialist-55 in r/povertyfinance: "I have always went here when things were bad. This year our family could not afford anything nice for christmas dinner so we turned to a local church food bank. I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year. We have only been to this one 4 times since 2017 but this year the line wraps around the building a second time to the left behind those rows of cars. Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold and shivering. If this is a sign that America isnt doing well IDK what is. I am in a small town in Kentucky with a population of less than 4,800 people. Literally 10% or more of the county residents are here. This is insane."

Image of long line at food bank

"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."

Reminder from Catman

Indiana’s GOP Shows Us the Future of Gerrymandering — And It’s Grim: A Conversation With Election Law Expert Luis Fuentes-Rohwer Read more here.

Indiana has rapidly become the latest flashpoint in the GOP’s national push to engineer aggressive mid-decade gerrymanders. Few states illustrate the immense costs to voters and how far lawmakers are willing to go to appease President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/ind...

HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait — NPR Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.

This is disrespectful, petty and infuriating.

I expect no less or am surprised that Donald is attempting to erase the trans community.

People hate what they don’t understand.

Donald doesn’t understand a lot.

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YouTube video by KING 5 Seattle Sen. Murray urges release of man allegedly mauled by ICE dog

Warning: dog bite images

Tacoma ICE agents lured Wilmer Martinez out of his home, released their dog on him, he received bites and gashes, was denied medical attention for hours.

Senator Murray @murray.senate.gov is demanding his release. Stop this inhumanity

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Tomorrow is National Special Education Day. Fifty years ago, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) became law. This opened the door to a free and appropriate public education for millions of children with disabilities. We must protect that right.

YouTube video by MeidasTouch PANICKED GOP has NOWHERE TO HIDE as ZOHRAN AGENDA SOARS!!

Full interview and more from MeidasTouch here:

youtu.be/Ad54LMfsiz0

hard to believe just two months ago feds deployed tear gas outside a grocery store and elementary school in logan square.

how many times has this scene played out since then? little village. east chicago. albany park. avondale. old irving park. lakeview.

yet it's never not jarring.

Experts react: What Trump’s National Security Strategy means for US foreign policy Atlantic Council experts delve into the newly released document outlining the Trump administration’s principles and priorities for US foreign policy.

"A Pew Research Center survey from earlier this year shows that most countries view China rather than the United States as the world’s leading economic power.... This is a striking reversal from just two years earlier." www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...

MAGA are now attacking Sabrina Carpenter by calling her and her music too sexual when they fully support a serial rapist pedophile adulterer whose own trashy wife has nude photos of herself all over the internet, not to mention their own endless obsession with sex.

So Donald Trump has been given a vanity trophy based on a sculpture by a member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts.
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The bronze sculpture "Thoughts and Desires" with a number of hands reaching up toward a globe of the world; the sculpture bears a striking resemblance to the "FIFA Peace Prize" recently awarded to Donald Trump

It certainly is, but this is also a possible source - the sculpture "Thoughts and Desires" in Ariana Park at the UN Palace of Nations in Geneva. (I suspect the sculptor will soon be getting some phone calls asking where HE got the idea from....) az-art.gallery/en/mammadov-...

The author of “Camp of the Saints,” also born 100 years ago bsky.app/profile/100y...

Fitting that our new National Security Strategy is basically cribbed from Camp of the Saints, the super-racist 1970s novel that is all the rage amongst contemporary fascists around the globe, like Steve Bannon.
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What an interesting coincidence.

Don't ever call this THING a president!

Musk threatens ‘response’ against individuals who imposed €120M X penalty The tech billionaire blasted “EU woke Stasi commissars” in posts on his social media platform, X.

www.politico.eu/article/elon... #ProudBlue. Elon Musk having a total meltdown over being fined 120 million Euro’s. He is promising retribution and calling for the end of the EU. The EU could ban Musk from doing business in Europe. He can bitch and moan about his fine but the EU holds all the cards

CORRECTION: Earlier in a reply (deleted), I said that we *can* commit war crimes while not at war. That is incorrect. My thought was surely it’s *both* a war crime *and* murder. I thought about the war crimes we committed during Vietnam (not a war), but that IS an armed conflict and that counts. 1/

EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.

The Environmental Protection Agency has approved two new pesticides containing PFAS (“forever chemicals”)—raising serious concerns about their long-term impact on food, water and public health. 🌿🚨 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

gas billows from the ground as community members cough

gas clouds fill the street as community members take photos and scramble away

feds launched multiple gas canisters as they made their exit from elgin, leaving community members scrambling and choking.

unclear if they abducted their target.

this is the first time feds have used gas since the dismissal of a federal lawsuit which had sought to constrain agents’ use of force.

folks may remember karina villa chasing down ice agents through the streets of west chicago *in heels* a couple months ago:

hourslong community resistance against ice still going on in elgin, illinois—a western suburb with a large latine population and a frequent target for ice/cbp.

state rep. karina villa is on scene, per live feed, and used a bullhorn to call out to the person agents are ostensibly looking for.

DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.

Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.

Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide if President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship with an executive order is constitutional, offering the justices an opportunity to revisit w...

The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...