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Killing time till it kills me. Lifelong coastal CA dweller. A day spent sailing is never a day wasted.
@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼
31.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 5932 🔁 2391 💬 295 📌 321Farage: epic grifter
27.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 7588 🔁 4199 💬 209 📌 393
Incredible things are happening.
www.wdbj7.com/2025/10/19/t...
WATCH: “A MASTER PLAN”
Usually stoic Kushner silently panics as Witkoff spills the beans on the Trump regime’s war profiteering in Gaza - they’ve been working on for ‘TWO YEARS’🤔
(But don’t worry, apparently $50 Billion is “not a lot of money”! 💰🙃)
PSA: This slip-up should be a big deal.
Attempted PIT maneuver.
wikipedia.org/wiki/PIT_man...
Trump’s priorities:
Bulldozing the White House ✅
Reopening the government ❌
Article excerpt: Emily said she made clear the family didn’t have Venezuelan passports but was told that wouldn’t be a problem; the U.S. government would procure any necessary documents for them. They said the operator gave them an Aug. 1 departure date and told them to expect their plane tickets by email. Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved with their children to Columbus, Ohio, where Deybis’ nephew let them stay in his unfinished basement apartment until their departure. The plane tickets never came. Then the nephew was detained in a traffic stop and deported. Panicked, Emily and Deybis said they called the toll-free number again and again, leaving messages that went unanswered. Emily submitted a new application and sent more emails.
Article excerpt: ...They found travel agencies that offer to procure travel documents at a cost but said they were told the Venezuelan government requires an arrival date and proof that plane tickets have been purchased. Emily and Deybis can’t afford them. “Thank you so much for your patience and we understand your frustration,” they heard back in another email. “Wait for new instructions from DHS.” As they wait, they worry about how they’ll survive when winter comes. Most days, Deybis visits local food pantries and looks for discarded items in alleys and on street corners that they can resell. A few weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to help pay the rent. “We’d rather be in Venezuela with our family than suffer here,” he said.
After signing up for self-deportation, Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved to an unfinished basement. But DHS never sent them the promised plane tickets.
Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent.
➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Trump got a Covid vaccine today.
11.10.2025 01:08 — 👍 4901 🔁 1696 💬 872 📌 347
"We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context."
Indigenous nations plan tariff-free trade corridor across US-Canada border.
From our friends at @nationalobserver.com:
The pain on display from non-white members of a democratic society across the pond from the USA is a painful mirror to where we're at as an international community.
02.10.2025 08:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An important episode from abroad: youtu.be/Bwl3JBysglM?....
02.10.2025 08:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0RIP Jane Goodall.
02.10.2025 07:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID?
It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.
Don’t look away
29.08.2025 02:39 — 👍 13689 🔁 7680 💬 2205 📌 1234UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2
When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline.
109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.
Happy birthday!
25.09.2025 18:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oseguera caught another break from the Trump administration. The president’s campaign to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally has taken federal agents away from drug-traffic interdiction. In Arizona, two Customs and Border Protection checkpoints along a main fentanyl-smuggling corridor from Mexico have been left unstaffed. Officers stationed there were sent to process detained migrants. A senior administration official said the U.S. border is more secure than it has ever been. Colombia is producing records amounts of cocaine, and the volume of the drug arriving in the U.S. is driving down prices, the people familiar with cartel operations said. Cocaine prices have fallen by nearly half to around $60 to $75 a gram compared with five years ago, said Morgan Godvin, a researcher with the community organization Drug Checking Los Angeles. “The price of pure cocaine has plummeted,” Godvin said.
The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today.
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
This is why due process is vital.
youtu.be/hWiwHJ3iH5A?...
wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america
10.09.2025 09:45 — 👍 3798 🔁 918 💬 96 📌 128
The CDC quietly neutered the best Covid data on the planet yesterday. ED data visualization has been stripped of age stratification, and state-by-state trends.
ED data has been far better for state by state trends than WW. Poof.
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time.
When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
22.08.2025 16:20 — 👍 3782 🔁 1439 💬 80 📌 94
Cameron, a transgender 17-year-old from Massachusetts, is preparing to leave the country.
“Having to choose my safety over staying with my family at a young age is a really frustrating place to be in.”
Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on.
It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.
Another single, powerless person shows more courage than our massive, elite institutions.
25.07.2025 18:33 — 👍 625 🔁 204 💬 14 📌 4THIS IS GOOD NEWS!!!!
Andry is home.
Yes, we were worried for you, Andry. I'm grateful you've been brought back.
We have to be organized and relentless in protecting people from Trump's illegitimate goon squads.
#OnYourSide
NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
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