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Kathlene Postma

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—Writer —Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Pacific University, Oregon —Editor at Pacific University Press —Mother & Partner —Gardener of dahlias, mostly —Avid reader of big fat novels

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Senator calls for DEA to provide info on "incredibly disturbing" Epstein drug investigation Federal drug enforcement investigators targeted Jeffrey Epstein and 14 others in a yearslong probe first reported by CBS News.

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.

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Here's a visual representation of how many times Trump's name appears in the Epstein files... so far.

www.instagram.com/p/DUgiBD_EiSP

18.02.2026 19:39 — 👍 645    🔁 238    💬 24    📌 13
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Good

13.02.2026 19:01 — 👍 3264    🔁 657    💬 71    📌 14
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

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Cruelty is big business

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Haitians Are Vital to U.S. Health Care. Many Are About to Lose Their Right to Work.

Healthcare systems are bracing for a massive hit if Trump and Noem succeed in suddenly revoking TPS for Haitians, who are the backbone of the industry in many states. “At least 50,000 migrants with protected status work in health care,” the NYT reports www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

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Taylor Rehmet’s stunning victory in Texas by flipping a +17 Trump district can’t be overstated. He’s the first Democrat in 35 years to win this district, and he won by 14 points — despite the GOP outspending him by over $2 million. Democrats have now won or overperformed in 240 of 269 key elections.

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Murphy on Fox News Sunday: "I mean -- c'mon. We're still pretending that ICE is going after dangerous people? They aren't. What is happening in Minnesota right now is a dystopia. ICE is teargassing elementary schools, it is disappearing legal residents into cars, it is murdering American citizens."

01.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 16768    🔁 5378    💬 425    📌 205

This. A handful of Americans have the power to stop this NOW, and they are refusing to.

24.01.2026 20:28 — 👍 2351    🔁 1096    💬 86    📌 34

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

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Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

24.01.2026 17:37 — 👍 31067    🔁 14506    💬 1767    📌 1449

We’re the bad guys now.

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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death - ProPublica
www.propublica.org/article/keny...

18.12.2025 08:02 — 👍 178    🔁 114    💬 12    📌 13

So interesting!

30.11.2025 05:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Listen, Trump. Your continued threats will not intimidate me or keep me from doing my job, which includes oversight of the executive branch.

Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.

America deserves better.

24.11.2025 02:28 — 👍 3030    🔁 776    💬 164    📌 30

Thank you! No sacrificing the ACA for this bs deal!

10.11.2025 05:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

05.11.2025 05:27 — 👍 5712    🔁 1477    💬 42    📌 34
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Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps Proposition MM's passage means Colorado will be able to fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students

Colorado approves higher taxes on the wealthy to pay for school lunches and food stamps!

#Pinks #ProudBlue #StrongerTogether #Colorado
#BlueWave
coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p...

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This (moderate) level of racial competency is VERY rare for someone of this demo; white folks should’ve been listening to and learning from people like this for decades.

Sadly, it’s too late to dismantle racism, now. Racism has won.
White America chose it instead of a hyper-qualified Black Woman. 🙁

24.10.2025 20:08 — 👍 639    🔁 223    💬 25    📌 20

That’s how you do it!

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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.

11.10.2025 16:53 — 👍 533    🔁 400    💬 45    📌 47
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A real man of the people…

11.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 1100    🔁 398    💬 68    📌 22

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

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Jane Fonda Relaunches Committee for the First Amendment With Support of 550 Celebrities Including Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and More Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment with the support of Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and more.

“Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a McCarthy-era initiative founded in the 1940s by her father, Henry Fonda, to protect against attacks on free speech.”

06.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 896    🔁 335    💬 7    📌 2
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This.
Is.
Brilliant.

04.10.2025 16:32 — 👍 3311    🔁 2168    💬 54    📌 194

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

04.10.2025 04:48 — 👍 11359    🔁 3560    💬 297    📌 219
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I am just so fucking proud of her.

03.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 14556    🔁 3462    💬 210    📌 277
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Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

01.10.2025 15:32 — 👍 22410    🔁 9388    💬 621    📌 540
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More guns than people…

Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

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