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Accessibility advocate webmaven; @ me for help adding alt text to images ALL memes need alt text Vermont Nana–married Pro-people, justice, mercy, equity Retired from faculty development, adjunct faculty, State gov service BS Music; MS, EdS Adult Learning

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EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel

The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

08.10.2025 05:21 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Yellow flowers with brown centers against green leaves.

Yellow flowers with brown centers against green leaves.

See the world around you...

07.10.2025 23:58 — 👍 151    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 0
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The United Police State of America Has Arrived The lines between local, state, and federal law enforcement and the military have blurred.

The United Police State of America Has Arrived

The lines between local, state, and federal law enforcement and the military have blurred.

theintercept.com/2025/10/04/u...

08.10.2025 05:24 — 👍 9    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

07.10.2025 20:26 — 👍 12526    🔁 3491    💬 413    📌 237

The same day that Frum submitted his pitch to the Atlantic to profile the Israeli ambassador, Frum also was forced to publicly apologize to the New York Times and Reuters for falsely accusing a Palestinian photographer of faking a series of photographs of bereaved Palestinians in Gaza.

7/30/2014

08.10.2025 05:27 — 👍 323    🔁 97    💬 3    📌 2
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Israel intercepts another Gaza aid flotilla amid criticism over treatment of activists Israeli foreign ministry confirms interception and says those on board will be deported A new Gaza-bound aid flotilla has been intercepted by the Israeli army, days after the detention of activists on board vessels bound for the war-torn territory caused international outrage and widespread protests. The Israeli military was jamming signals with at least two boats being boarded, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said on Instagram. Continue reading...

Israel intercepts another Gaza aid flotilla amid criticism over treatment of activists

08.10.2025 06:21 — 👍 66    🔁 47    💬 12    📌 7

A purported leader reacting angrily to a country song seems weak, not strong.

07.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 2426    🔁 221    💬 43    📌 5
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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

08.10.2025 00:36 — 👍 5660    🔁 2950    💬 142    📌 225

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

07.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 15892    🔁 4385    💬 392    📌 135
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‘I have searched and searched for help’: the Sudanese women left alone to live hand to mouth in Chad’s desert camps As the war in Sudan pushes more people across the border, malnutrition is on the rise in Chad’s remote settlements where 86% of the refugees are women and children

‘I have searched and searched for help’: the Sudanese women left alone to live hand to mouth in Chad’s desert camps

08.10.2025 05:49 — 👍 52    🔁 31    💬 5    📌 4

I want to apologize for calling Adam O’Neal’s Washpost editorials “congealed Cream of Wheat” in a column last week.

So, B&G Foods, I am sorry for insulting your fine breakfast product.

08.10.2025 02:07 — 👍 139    🔁 25    💬 4    📌 0

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

08.10.2025 02:14 — 👍 16975    🔁 9287    💬 887    📌 710

Why haven't we heard more about South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein's house being set on fire, after ruling against Trump. Arson is suspected. Her husband and family is hospitalized. MEDIA: Do your f**king job.

08.10.2025 05:53 — 👍 52    🔁 30    💬 1    📌 0
Flowing orange chrysanthemum.

Flowing orange chrysanthemum.

Something beautiful for this day: Chrysanthemum, Yakima, Washington (October 2025). #flowers

08.10.2025 03:30 — 👍 50    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

This is a great video. Credit where credit is due.

“No fucking way!” (The text is bleeped but the audio is not.)

It’s one of the strongest bits of public communication I have seen from Dem leadership since Jan.

08.10.2025 03:44 — 👍 42    🔁 12    💬 6    📌 2

Tomorrow the Epstein survivors will storm Capitol Hill to demand release of the files. I hope new Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is sworn in at their press conference by another judge or official who is authorized to do so (doesn’t have to be the Speaker).

08.10.2025 00:19 — 👍 18048    🔁 4943    💬 375    📌 198

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

08.10.2025 02:22 — 👍 11526    🔁 4068    💬 321    📌 145
Screenshot of clip from Netflix film. Goodall's picture is superimposed on the set where the interview takes place. Below is the title of the film: Famous last words: Dr. Jane Goodall

Screenshot of clip from Netflix film. Goodall's picture is superimposed on the set where the interview takes place. Below is the title of the film: Famous last words: Dr. Jane Goodall

#JaneGoodall's interview to be released after her death is now on Netflix. She's very candid about the political situation today.

08.10.2025 06:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.

07.10.2025 19:44 — 👍 6721    🔁 2032    💬 1376    📌 351
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

07.10.2025 23:29 — 👍 54061    🔁 20414    💬 1661    📌 1191
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RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

07.10.2025 18:31 — 👍 15051    🔁 5188    💬 2077    📌 850

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

07.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 17702    🔁 6247    💬 1014    📌 290
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Murray: I talked to a family that’s paying about $300 a month for their health insurance. It’s going to jump to over $1,800 per month.

Many people will turn away and not pay for it—obviously, they’ll lose their health insurance. The fewer people who have insurance, the more everybody pays.

07.10.2025 22:46 — 👍 7860    🔁 2943    💬 303    📌 113
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CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

07.10.2025 22:26 — 👍 15094    🔁 7300    💬 512    📌 299
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Immigration authorities ordered a Panton man to an ICE check-in. 200 friends decided to join him Juan De La Cruz and his family feared the worst when he showed up for a check-in with immigration officials in St. Albans Tuesday. But the Panton resident will be allowed to stay in Vermont while his ...

«[De La Cruz] said the show of support his family received Tuesday shows why he wants to remain here.

“It’s community. It’s my community,” he said. “My hometown is Panton — that’s where I belong.”»

www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

07.10.2025 22:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

07.10.2025 14:59 — 👍 19128    🔁 6705    💬 661    📌 226
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You shouldn’t be charged more based on who you are ACTION: Let's ban surveillance pricing!

Surveillance pricing should be illegal.
action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251002-...

07.10.2025 18:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

06.10.2025 22:27 — 👍 13363    🔁 5887    💬 167    📌 104

New statute of limitations doctrine just dropped.

07.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 903    🔁 182    💬 26    📌 3

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse asked Pam Bondi about DOJ's decision to drop the investigation into Tom Homan.

MSNBC first reported that Homan was recorded in Sept. 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI sting.

Bondi refused to answer, then attacked Whitehouse.

07.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 5876    🔁 2055    💬 308    📌 89

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