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Journalist & creative generalist. COO at GymCastic Co-Author of Best-Selling books "The Balance" with Aimee Boorman & "Life is Short, Don't Wait to Dance" with Miss Val. Beats: πŸ“ΈπŸ€ΈπŸ½πŸ«ΆπŸΌπŸ§‘β€πŸ¦±πŸ“±πŸ’Ό www.gymcastic.com | https://a.co/d/6Q7yfJp | www.socaljourno.com

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I continue to be shocked by how many corporate leaders stand for nothing and reveal themselves to be vapid cowards. And shame on the boards who reward this behavior.

03.12.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Report Misconduct by Federal Agents to the California Attorney General

@governor.ca.gov and @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov announce a web portal to "report misconduct by federal agents." oag.ca.gov/reportmiscon...

03.12.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Also want to highlight how the unnecessary and embarrassing renaming of things is not free. Why aren’t the fiscal hawks crowing about this?

03.12.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Another Kavanaugh stop of someone screaming she’s a U.S. citizen.

Not sure what an American Gestapo would look like, but I imagine it’s similar to this.

03.12.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The Justice Department launched a new wave of lawsuits against six more Democratic-led states Tuesday β€” escalating a federal effort to seize unredacted information from millions of voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10 (TT: therealpaworotti)

02.12.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5116    πŸ” 888    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 90
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Colombian family files first known formal complaint over deadly US strike in Caribbean | CNN The family of a Colombian man believed to have been killed in a US strike in the Caribbean has filed what’s believed to be the first complaint against such attacks with the Inter-American Commission o...

The family of a Colombian man believed to have been killed in a US strike in the Caribbean has filed what’s believed to be the first complaint against such attacks with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

03.12.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 7468    πŸ” 2081    πŸ’¬ 136    πŸ“Œ 106

This seems like the easiest PR opportunity for local police that I can remember. Get out there and tell your community your job is to protect them, and if masked goons without warrants are snatching people in the community, they will be arrested.

Every department should be doing this.

03.12.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Major decision. In D.C., ICE/CBP can no longer arrest immigrants without a warrant unless they find individualized probable cause of a flight risk.

"Viewing all immigrants potentially subject to removal as criminals is, as a legal matter, plain wrong." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

03.12.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1289    πŸ” 394    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 14

Quacks like a duck ...

Also... WTF!

02.12.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, the first strike on all of these boats is illegal.

02.12.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.

02.12.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5831    πŸ” 2462    πŸ’¬ 169    πŸ“Œ 111
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Those 1990's International Team Meets: Fingerpainting, Vault Chaos & Olympic Legends in the Making Revisit the 1997–1999 International Team Championships with Atler, Amanar, Ling Jie; deep dive into the meets and NBC gymnastics fluff

New Commissioned Episode is upπŸŽ™οΈπŸ”₯

Warning: Make sure you're not in a quiet place because there's no way we can talk about the finger-painting montages without generating laughter. πŸ˜‚
gymcastic.com/those-1990s-...
#gymnastics #gymternet

02.12.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Something something... speak and remove all doubt.

02.12.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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⚑Final Hours: Cyber Monday Sale⚑
store.gymcastic.com

#gymnastics #cybermonday

02.12.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The most galling thing about this is how Congress so willingly abdicated their responsibility and power. They should feel embarrassed.

01.12.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In J-school, we'd also receive an automatic F if we misspelled any proper names.

01.12.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I used to run the internship program at Entrepreneur magazine. We had a writing test for candidates. I would immediately reject applicants who misspelled entrepreneur. I called each one who took the test and was always surprised by the hubris when some would try and argue.

01.12.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Appeals Court Says Alina Habba Is Unlawful U.S. Attorney

Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...

Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

01.12.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2310    πŸ” 436    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 18

Not only is there no authority here, but Trump should remember that he fought to give Biden immunity.

28.11.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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JUST IN: Judge Boasberg gives Trump admin one week to file affidavits from all officials involved in decision to carry out Alien Enemies Act deportation to El Salvador despite Boasberg's order to turn the planes around. 'Contempt prosecution' could follow www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to β€œkill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.

28.11.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1406    πŸ” 760    πŸ’¬ 252    πŸ“Œ 484
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GymCastic Black Friday Sale on now!
Everything in the store is discounted.
Shop here: store.gymcastic.com

#gymnastics #blackfriday #gymternet

28.11.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Perhaps instead of doubling the DHS budget, Congress should have doubled the DoE budget.

28.11.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A tragedy, no doubt, particularly since a judge ruled their presence was illegal. But what makes this doubly tragic is the WV Guard were deployed over fictitious crime; and with hundreds of soldiers deployed to "keep DC safe" a lone gunman, apparently, was still able to commit this horrific crime

27.11.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

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DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order Read more here.

This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

27.11.2025 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 17603    πŸ” 7352    πŸ’¬ 890    πŸ“Œ 410
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No need to wait until Black Friday.

The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles
is now 85% Off! That's under $5!!!

www.amazon.com/Balance-Year...

27.11.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We are not in a war. Killing soldiers on a street corner in D.C. is an act of war only if you are a legitimate combatant. Calling it terrorism is charitable; it is simply murder. It is also what I've been worried about for weeks. Soldiers on the street can't police. All they do is present a target.

26.11.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1757    πŸ” 563    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 30

Yes! The long arch of justice and all that.
No place for nihilism or apathy.

26.11.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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