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Immigrant Advocates ‘Preparing for Disaster’ as Trump Returns Mississippi immigrants’-rights advocates say they are “preparing for disaster” ahead of Trump’s return and his promise of mass deportations.

Mississippi immigrants’-rights advocates say they are “preparing for disaster” ahead of Trump’s return and his promise of mass deportations.

As an attorney and the wife of a retired criminal defense attorney, I 100% agree with this. I'd also add that for the most part, you should never speak with any law enforcement agency without having a lawyer present. LEOs are allowed to lie to you to elict admissions! www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Splendor of the Season Wishing you the beauty, the wonder, the joy and the splendor of this special time of year. Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas!
Happy Hanukkah!
Happy Kwanzaa!

Wishing you all peace and love 🌟

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Runekeeper Update #2

Today we have a patch ready that will hopefully give you all some extra cheer to start off the holidays with plenty of bug fixes and improvements! store.steampowered.com/news/app/379...

#roguelike #gamedev

Today!

States and the Future of Antitrust: An ILSR Virtual Event - Institute for Local Self-Reliance In this ILSR event, two State AGs and other changemakers have a lively discussion about how states can advance the goals of the antitrust movement.

States are energized about antitrust! Join us on Jan. 15th for a virtual event: How State Policymakers Can Take On Monopolies and Rebuild Local Economies in 2025. Featuring attorneys general @azagmayes.bsky.social & @keithellison.bsky.social & state lawmakers. Register: ilsr.org/articles/sta...

The Mystery of Food Deserts They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

We could have had a whole cookbook of family recipes by the end of the Harris-Walz administration, but no... 😭

Just in case anyone thinks ableism isn't a real thing...

In rare move, Republican senators call for Hegseth’s FBI report — POLITICO The Senate Armed Services Committee usually limits who can view these types of background checks. Lawmakers want to see this one.

Senators want the FBI report on Hegseth released.
Here’s to hoping the FBI actually investigated Hegseth and didn’t pull a Kavanaugh.
#Voices4Victory
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An owl stares into the camera from atop a family’s Christmas tree

An owl perched on top of a Christmas tree inside a Virginia home

A huge barred owl flew down a Virginia family’s chimney, knocked over the star on top of their Christmas tree, and perched himself on top www.wusa9.com/article/life...

This is so awe inspiring!

Watch this inspirational call to action for us all 🔥

“What we need right now is for everyone to stand up and have courage. We need everyone to stand up and say, ‘I am not going to back down to this bully.’ We need people to be warriors for democracy.” @marcelias.bsky.social

She just described the next four years. No one in the trump administration is capable of thinking for two seconds.

I gave 4 of my fellow long-haired loved ones matching hair swords (basically hair sticks in the shape of rapiers). They all admired mine when I visited them.

Welcome to Banters Issue #1 Let’s get into it and get through it, TOGETHER

I did a thing called Banters and it’s live! In true outspoken fashion I insist you come get to know me, @ourshallowstate.bsky.social and the community we’re creating on the politics of staying sane. It’s free to subscribe. See you there, and do tell two friends 😉

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It is my great honor to appoint Mark Burnett as the Special Envoy to the United Kingdom. With a distinguished career in television production and business, Mark brings a unique blend of diplomatic acumen and international recognition to this important role. Mark is known for creating and producing some of the biggest shows in Television History, including "Survivor," "Shark Tank," "The Voice" and, most notably, "The Apprentice." He is the former Chairman of MGM, and has won 13 Emmy Awards! Mark will work to enhance diplomatic relations, focusing on areas of mutual interest, including trade, investment opportunities, and cultural exchanges. Congratulations Mark!

Trump just appointed the guy who launched and produced The Apprentice as the special envoy to the United Kingdom.

Billionaires don’t seem to understand that most people don’t want more than one home, more clothes or cars than they can ever wear or drive, exotic vacations. We want to be healthy and housed and nourished and educated and gainfully employed. We don’t want more than enough, as they do.

The most that can be said about the present moment is that there is disagreement within the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party about which faces to eat in what order.

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Please help Falco out in whatever way you're able to. Share, donate, encourage a $10 match train, whatever works to keep them housed, fed, and safe 🌟

#MutualAidBoost
#DisabilityCrowdFunding

Happy birthday! 🎂

This is just for rent, although I'm also WAY behind on storage. If I can't raise the whole amount, $520.10, before the 22nd, I lose everything in my unit- spare mobility tools, clothing, art, documents, etc.

Also running low on food and toiletries. Please help if you can?

26 hour crunch!

Must raise $700 rent by 11AM tomorrow. At $125 right now- thanks for a fair start to Saturday!

#PleaseShare, and chip in if able? Staying housed is the ONLY way I can survive with my disabilities.

#MutualAidRequest
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#HelpFolksLive2024

Discussing blanket pardons draws us off of the real issue, the concern that Trump will pervert the criminal justice system & use DOJ as a political tool, which is forcing the Biden administration into these considerations. Don't forget why we're here.

The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight.

The class wars.

I'll never get over this.

There's a sliding scandal-scale w/DJT at one end in a no-scandal-zone

Scandalous behavior needs to be reported, even if expected. It may not feel like news when DJT violates norms or laws; it's certainly not "new"

But it's vitally imp't news by any definition of the word

*cracks knuckles*

The long and short of Skrmetti is that trans people are a vulnerable population (or in constitutional terms, a suspect class because:

1) they don't have a lot of political power
2) they dont have numbers
3) being trans is an immutable characteristic

To set the stage for what's about to happen at SCOTUS at 10:00am, the case is called US v. Skrmetti. It involves a Tennessee law that bans gender affirming care to trans minors, mainly things like hormone blockers.