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Proud retired public school art teacher and union president. Artist and maker of many things. Democracy is worth saving.

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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."

Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

15.11.2025 01:39 — 👍 15349    🔁 7084    💬 524    📌 309

Smarmy sob.

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My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

03.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 26535    🔁 13678    💬 767    📌 528

Why are they unable to sell the harvest, Senator?

28.09.2025 16:29 — 👍 12368    🔁 3490    💬 1485    📌 329

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate.

I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man.

Never change your last name.

22.09.2025 17:36 — 👍 25951    🔁 6121    💬 2042    📌 491
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Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible” In a Q&A with STAT, Nobel winner Drew Weissman addressed concerns raised about Covid shots at a recent meeting of federal vaccine advisers.

Nobel Prize winner for his work on mRNA vaccines says that ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist in the body is absolutely impossible. Dr. Drew Weissman says that the vast literature shows that the Covid vaccines are safe.
www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

21.09.2025 02:59 — 👍 241    🔁 98    💬 8    📌 5
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I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE. An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

20.09.2025 01:40 — 👍 24384    🔁 8509    💬 656    📌 299
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Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

17.09.2025 14:45 — 👍 14192    🔁 4478    💬 294    📌 220

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

17.09.2025 23:22 — 👍 61340    🔁 17764    💬 1772    📌 719
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Gov. Josh Shapiro on political violence: " We need to be universal in our condemnation. And the president has once again failed that leadership test, failed the morality test, and it makes us all less safe."

16.09.2025 18:29 — 👍 3312    🔁 863    💬 68    📌 25
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Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.

12.09.2025 20:39 — 👍 27291    🔁 8634    💬 971    📌 545
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WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid?

RFK Jr: I don't know how many died

W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid?

RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that

W: How can you be that ignorant?

04.09.2025 15:18 — 👍 29095    🔁 7952    💬 1480    📌 771

Loading children up to fly them to Guatemala without a hearing to find out if
they can be cared
for by relatives in USA
and whether they will be
greatly harmed by the
Deportation. These
Trump MAGAS sink so low on the morality scale there is no bottom.

01.09.2025 02:15 — 👍 565    🔁 171    💬 25    📌 4
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New C.D.C. Director Resists Ouster as Other Officials Resign

I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong.

If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.

28.08.2025 00:51 — 👍 12109    🔁 2987    💬 292    📌 130

Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.

28.08.2025 01:43 — 👍 14018    🔁 3182    💬 222    📌 85
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu:

“Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

19.08.2025 16:13 — 👍 25553    🔁 7272    💬 509    📌 518
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German politicians wear rainbow in protest after Parliament bans Pride flag #NOH8

26.07.2025 02:25 — 👍 189    🔁 52    💬 3    📌 3
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Judge strikes down key parts of Florida law that led to removal of books from school libraries A federal judge has struck down key parts of a Florida law that allowed parents to remove books they found objectionable from public school libraries. U.S.

U.S. District Judge Carlos Mendoza in Orlando said in Wednesday’s ruling that the statute’s prohibition on material that described sexual conduct was overbroad.

Mendoza, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, also said that the state’s interpretation of the 2023 law was unconstitutional.

15.08.2025 08:11 — 👍 126    🔁 36    💬 3    📌 1

Missouri Democratic lawmakers are in such a superminority that they don’t even need to show up for laws to be passed in this state.

An even sadder statement? A piece of legislation can go from the House to the Senate to becoming a law on the Governor’s desk while never being signed by a woman.

10.08.2025 15:58 — 👍 5205    🔁 1659    💬 243    📌 85
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On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.

10.08.2025 13:19 — 👍 11443    🔁 6236    💬 1084    📌 643
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U.S. job growth turns cold as Trump’s agenda takes its toll on the economy The question for the White House is simple: “If Trump has created a ‘hot’ economy, why has American job growth slowed to a 16-year low?”

"The question for the White House is simple: 'If Trump has created a "hot" economy, why has American job growth slowed to a 16-year low?'”

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

01.08.2025 20:19 — 👍 2393    🔁 703    💬 121    📌 38
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The degree of panic coming off Trump and the GOP over Epstein right now is almost astonishing.

House runs and hides! Trump goes after Obama (ugly and absurd)! Private meet suddenly set up with Ghislaine Maxwell! MLK files (suddenly) released!

Flop sweat being sweated, bigly. Drippingly.

22.07.2025 20:58 — 👍 155    🔁 36    💬 10    📌 0
(below an image of Pedro Pascal) “I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” - Pedro Pascal

(below an image of Pedro Pascal) “I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” - Pedro Pascal

21.07.2025 00:36 — 👍 5294    🔁 1168    💬 38    📌 41

BREAKING: IRS announces exemption to 1954 ban on 501(c)3 orgs engaging in political activity—now allows churches & houses of worship to endorse political candidates.

The wall separating religion & state is collapsed. It is not hyperbole to state that we are on the footsteps of Christian theocracy.

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Mr. Abrego's Account of Torture at CECOT in El Salvador Mr. Abrego has filed an amended complaint asking the court to declare the government's actions unlawful and to order his release. He describes his torture in El Salvador in the complaint.

NEW: Read Mr Abrego's account of unthinkable torture inside CECOT prison in El Salvador. My latest: content warning: www.muellershewrote.com/p/mr-abregos...

02.07.2025 22:05 — 👍 12157    🔁 6189    💬 620    📌 525

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