Valerie, RN

Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

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Pam Bondi, US 'Attorney General', the joke that absolutely no-one finds funny .. (cartoon Dave Whamond) #politics

"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Lotta fat old guys telling Olympic athletes that they should be sent home. No one is stopping you from getting off your couches and training to take their spots. Until then, enjoy watching them exercise their free speech rights. Go team USA.

A marker and ink drawing of a muscular quadruped monster with plant like features and roots for feet.

An old drawing of a quadruped monster with plant like features and roots for feet

Another redraw!
This time I made this critter out of alcohol markers and De Atramentis Archive Ink. I was going for a sticker and medieval calligraphy cartoon look for this one.

#redrawing #monsterart

February 17: National Day of Lobbying. Show up in your representatives’ district offices and demand impeachment, conviction, and removal. In-district pressure matters more than phone calls to D.C. offices.

February 17: National Day of Lobbying. Show up in your representatives’ district offices and demand impeachment, conviction, and removal. In-district pressure matters more than phone calls to D.C. offices.

It’s bad enough that we’re subsidizing extremely profitable sports teams with our tax dollars to build stadiums, but we’re letting them charge us $17 dollars for a beer and $11 dollars for a damn hotdog at the concession stand?

Enough. Here’s one thing we can do about it.

It's important to understand what Trump is trying to plot. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/could-trump-really-take-over-the

So the “elected” President with his elected majority House and Senate says they have to takeover elections because Dems cheat. Make that argument make sense.

🚨 The WH is now using disasters to take away state’s rights.

Read this thread while it is still allowed.

Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.

🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.

This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.

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I know someone who had health insurance through the work place and when they lost their job they were able to qualify for Medicaid. They work part time, pay taxes. They are now the healthiest they have ever been. It is a program that works and should be expanded to cover all USA citizens.

An ink drawing of a capuchin monkey, smirking and clasping his hands together. He is wearing a warlock outfit with orbs as decoration. There are dead trees in the background.

Finished an ink commission for a friend of mine who started playing Daggerheart. His character is a Capuchin Warlock with "the personality of a used car salesman"

Also, the EMTALA law would need to be rescinded. It is required by law for an ambulance to take you to the nearest ER for life threatening conditions. The receiving ED is required by law to keep you, no transfer to a more affordable or in-network facility, until you are stabilized.

There are good people in this country, people who stand up for their neighbors & put their bodies on the line.

Don't forget that. Good people stand against #ICELawlessness. Be inspired by that. As ICE thugs round up, brutalize & torture our fellow Americans, do or say something! Don't be complicit.

Tuesday - ICE agents used pepper spray to push through a crowd that blocked their vehicles as they checked IDs in a Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis.

The Trump administration is targeting this community and they know it.

ICE and DHS are separating young children from their parents and disappearing them.

6 year old Yuanxin was separated from his father after a routine immigration check in on Nov. 26th.

Yuanxin's father was not told where his son was being sent.

Yuanxin'swhereabouts are still unknown.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones.

I'm in the game and so are my Awklets! 😭🩷 I just want to hug them all!

If ya like puzzle games, especially challenging ones, check out the game yourself! It might look simple, but it's far from it. @arcainess.bsky.social did an incredible job.

#gaming #vtuber #indiegame

Good morning TN-07. Did you hear? TWO MORE DAYS OF EARLY VOTING!!!

We are so close, and this race could come down to a couple of votes. Can I count on you to vote for me within the next two days?

For polling locations and times, check out the link in bio!

#VoteEarlyVoteAftyn

High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.

A 17-year-old high school senior from McMinnville, OR was detained by ICE during his lunch break — even after telling officers he was a citizen. An agent shattered his window and said, “I don’t care.”
This should outrage every all of us.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202... #BlueSky #NewsSky #ICE

Immigration crackdown inspires uniquely Chicago pushback that's now a model for other cities As an unprecedented immigration crackdown enters a third month, a growing number of Chicago residents are fighting back against what they deem a racist and aggressive overreach of the federal governme...

I love Chicago's ingenuity. This article gives several examples of peaceful, proactive pushback to the violent ICE invasion. This is information that other targeted cities can use to protect their vulnerable citizens. We are strong together. 💗

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Early voting has started for the TN-7 special congressional election in Tennessee! 😍

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Build on the platform of environmental justice, scientific literacy, People over profit, wealth equality, Medicare for all, rail infrastructure, and holding accountable those who have failed to uphold their oath and have broken the laws of the land with impunity, for starters.

Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.

Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.

In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria

www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...

a black and white drawing of a robot 's face with a red background Alt: a black and white drawing of a woman 's face with a red background. From SIGNALIS

I wish I could go back and play SIGNALIS for the first time again.

One of my favorite games I had the honor of playing on my channel. Not just because I was crushing on the antagonists >.>

I am all for Universal Healthcare. The funds should be managed by a fiduciary. Properly managed the funds could be more than adequate.

Anyone who has not watched these vids should find and watch them. The game play is amazing. These are some of my favorite vids that Awk has produced.