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Diane Umstead

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Lover of Justice. Connoisseur of Life. Mid-Century Modern. Lifelong Democrat. Opinions My Own!

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Eileen Higgins will win Miami mayor’s race, CNN projects, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold | CNN Politics Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, according to a projection from CNN’s Decision Desk, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak in holding the nonpartisan seat and giving D...

For nearly three decades, Miami’s mayoral office has been a Republican stronghold, a symbol of continuity in a city that has otherwise evolved into a vibrant, diverse, and rapidly changing metropolis. That streak is over.

10.12.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 576    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

Good reminders of the Pearl Harbor history linked to present day.

07.12.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Friday evening, the Dept of Transportation relieved Southwest of its final $11M payment for "significantly improving its on-time performance.” The $11M was nearly a third of the total $35M fine that SW owed to the government, 30x larger than any previous penalty for consumer-protection violations.

07.12.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Christian, If You're Celebrating ICE, You Shouldn't Be Celebrating Christmas Christian, I’m trying to reconcile two things I’ve seen this season, maybe you can help me make sense of them…

Christian, if you’re applauding the mass deportations of distraught, exhausted human beings seeking refuge, you probably shouldn’t be singing sweet songs about a baby with β€œno crib for a bed.”

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/christian-...

07.12.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 654    πŸ” 194    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 12
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Tell AT&T: Stop collaborating with ICE! AT&T is profiting from and providing services to ICE, CBP, and other agencies whose actions harm communities. Add your information to send a letter to AT&T CEO John Stankey to tell them to stop contra...

Sign petition demanding AT&T end their multi-million dollar contracts with ICE and CBP!

06.12.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Most definitely. And what's more striking to me is the non-foreign agents aiding and abetting this. Congressman and Senators who surely see what is going on but put their own self-interests over the good of the country.

06.12.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 300    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

I believe there is no historic precedent of a dominant world power dismantling its own influence unilaterally. This is a colossal self destruction.

06.12.2025 07:42 β€” πŸ‘ 691    πŸ” 165    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 3

It's pure toxic & naked Southern Confederacy ethos:
2025 NSS is the logical outcome of an outdated Southern Confederate ethos. It revives themes of cultural purity, hierarchical order, and hemispheric dominance, which stand in tension with modern democratic values of diversity, equity & inclusion.

06.12.2025 07:36 β€” πŸ‘ 330    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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December 5, 2025 Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.

December 5, 2025

06.12.2025 06:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1073    πŸ” 387    πŸ’¬ 105    πŸ“Œ 178

European Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Ulrike Franke commented: β€œThe transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a speech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.”

06.12.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the USA….quietly, although as Politico noted, the release of the NSS is usually accompanied by fanfare, as it shows an administration’s foreign policy priorities and the way it envisions the U.S. position in the world.

06.12.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"What are believed to be ICE agents" is not a sentence the news should have to use to report on law enforcement operations.

05.12.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2357    πŸ” 603    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 29

Re. strikes: Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said: β€œThere is a difference between being accused of being a bad guy and being a bad guy. It is called the presumption of innocence. It is called due process. It is called, basically, justice that our country was founded upon.”

05.12.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

SICKOS!

Andrew Kolvet of Turning Point USA posted on social media: β€œEvery new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean.”

Hegseth quoted Kolvet and commented: β€œYour wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat.”

05.12.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Happy Holidays' isn't an Insult to Jesus, But Christians Who Weaponize Christmas are. American Evangelicals’ annual campaign against the supposed β€œWar on Christmas” began early this year, with the White House promising the apparently perpetually oppressed faithful that with Donald Trum...

It’s laughable witnessing these yearly railings against some imaginary conspiracy and being told we need to β€œkeep Christ in Christmas,” by people who don’t seem the slightest bit interested in keeping Christ in their Christianity the rest of the year.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/happy-holi...

04.12.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 276    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 4
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The Dangerous Ones (@thedangerousones) This is BRILLIANT. Watch the whole thing. πŸ”₯

Brilliant!

substack.com/@thedangerou...

02.12.2025 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜The government is subsidizing corporate profits’: Who employs the most SNAP recipients in Massachusetts? - The Boston Globe In Massachusetts, 74 percent of working-age SNAP recipients have jobs.

In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of food stamps are employed, half of them full-time. Nearly 2,500 work for Amazon and another 2,300 work for Walmart. Uber, DoorDash and Tempus Unlimited each have more than 1,400 workers who rely on SNAP www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

02.12.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2702    πŸ” 1597    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 86

Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us

02.12.2025 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 14726    πŸ” 3821    πŸ’¬ 487    πŸ“Œ 192

β€œLet us…constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage…(FDR to DNC when accepting nomination). This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.”

01.12.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the most corrupt, lawless administration in the history of the United States and there’s no close second.

29.11.2025 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 7343    πŸ” 1744    πŸ’¬ 203    πŸ“Œ 97
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More cracks in the dam

29.11.2025 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 17224    πŸ” 4999    πŸ’¬ 607    πŸ“Œ 255

It’s clear that the primary interest of the US in β€œpeace negotiations” is to create opportunities for Trump, Witkoff, their family members, business partners and cronies to make billions from business deals with Russia, and Ukraine is just the annoying nuisance in the way.

29.11.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4045    πŸ” 1276    πŸ’¬ 150    πŸ“Œ 52

Honestly, no officer should need advice to decide if "kill these guys flailing around in the water" is a legal order

29.11.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2409    πŸ” 453    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 13

The admin justifies its strikes on Venezuelan boats claiming to fight β€œnarcoterrorism,” but DJT announced a full pardon for former Honduran Pres. HernΓ‘ndez, found guilty last yr by an American jury of conspiring to import 400 tons of cocaine into the US, sentenced to 45 years in federal prison.

29.11.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Representative Seth Moulton (D-MA), a Marine Corps veteran who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, said: β€œMark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.” Hegseth dismissed the story as β€œfake news.”

29.11.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Former military lawyer Todd Huntley, who advised special operations forces for 7 yrs, told Washington Post journalists that the strikes against civilians amount to MURDER because the U.S. is NoT AT WAR while even during wartime, killing those who cannot fight back is a WAR CRIME. (HCR 11/28/25)

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Watch this video before you do your Black Friday shopping on Amazon.

28.11.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2850    πŸ” 1461    πŸ’¬ 148    πŸ“Œ 125
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We are now one of the few countries that will no longer honor World AIDS Day

We join with Russia, Iran, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Libya, North Korea

You know all the countries that hate humans rights

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

27.11.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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US justice department memo about boat strikes diverges from Trump narrative Exclusive: Officials frame strikes as self-defense against violence, without naming aggressor, while Trump claims they’re to stop US overdose deaths

Here’s the legal argument, but…

26.11.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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