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Jeannie🌻吳德瑀

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Texas Democrat 💙 Taiwanese American, AAPI ~ 相逢自是有緣～ By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.” ~Confucius

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Jeannie🌻吳德瑀 @jeanniewl.bsky.social · Nov 9

I’m not giving up.
Democracy is worth fighting for!
#ActLocalThinkGlobal

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1d

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23h

The wet tropical rainforests of Queensland are now a carbon source because CO₂ emitted from trees dying and decaying outstripped the CO₂ taken up by trees growing. 😕

Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study

Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.

www.abc.net.au

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23h

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

newrepublic.com

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 1d

When federal agents turn weapons on citizens, it’s not just a local scandal — it’s a national reckoning.

hartmannreport.com/p/are-the-st...

Are the Streets of Chicago Showing Us the Future of American Democracy?

When federal agents turn weapons on citizens, it’s not just a local scandal — it’s a national reckoning.

hartmannreport.com

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Denise Wu @denisewu.bsky.social · 1d

No shit, just about every pledge made by Xi has been broken.

• not to militarize islands
• stop hacking
• phase 1
• HK autonomy for 50 years

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Liddokun @liddokun.bsky.social · 1d

Sad #HolgerChen has turned into a #CCP propaganda spouting turd all for a few more YT/TikTok views. I guess all that body building has turned him into 💯 musclehead. #Taiwan

Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 1d

Holger Chen out on bail over his remark about “beheading” Lai Ching-te on a livestream

Youtuber Holger Chen bailed over 'behead the president' remark - Focus Taiwan

YouTuber Holger Chen (陳之漢) was released on NT$150,000 (US$4,903) bail Wednesday after being questioned by prosecutors in New Taipei for shouting "behead the president" during a livestream.

focustaiwan.tw

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

This is the "pig butchering" associated with forced labor call centers and romance scammers across social media. Glad to see this.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

In an indictment unsealed in federal court, U.S. prosecutors charge the founder of a Cambodian conglomerate in a massive cryptocurrency scam, bilking would-be investors out of billions of dollars. n.pr/476G2ep

U.S. charges Cambodian tycoon in massive alleged cryptocurrency scam

In an indictment unsealed in federal court, U.S. prosecutors charge the founder of a Cambodian conglomerate in a massive cryptocurrency scam, bilking would-be investors out of billions of dollars.

n.pr

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 2d

Pretending to the world that you are the president of peace while waging war at home is diabolical.

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Robin Kirby @robinmk.bsky.social · 2d

New Mexico

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Annie R @anet2111.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago O’Hare and Midway now joining with other airports across the country refusing to play a video of Kristi Noem blaming Dems for the ongoing government shutdown.

www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Major airports refuse to air Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for shutdown

Airport spokespeople say the decision was made because the message blaming Democrats for the government shutdown violates the Hatch Act.

www.msnbc.com

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Liddokun @liddokun.bsky.social · 2d

Instead of taking in two countries as a whole it's better to look at both #Afghanistan and #Pakistan regions as a series of ethnic tribes along the Durand line that don't usually necessarily get along with each other. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

Border Clash Between Afghanistan and Pakistan Threatens a Wider Conflict

www.nytimes.com

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Jeannie🌻吳德瑀 @jeanniewl.bsky.social · 2d

🤣😂🤣

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

All because on Friday Trump threatened 100% tariffs on China, then over the weekend he switched it up with, “Don’t worry about China, it’ll all be fine.”

Not market manipulation, though. Right?

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Jeannie🌻吳德瑀 @jeanniewl.bsky.social · 3d

..and over a span of a few days. 🔽🔽🔽

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

Respect to those who got here first.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 4d

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Darrin Hall @darrinhall15.bsky.social · 5d

Turning Point USA announces the lineup for their alternative Super Bowl halftime show.

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Jeannie🌻吳德瑀 @jeanniewl.bsky.social · 7d

🤣😆🤣

Jeannie🌻吳德瑀 @jeanniewl.bsky.social · 7d

As always

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Jeannie🌻吳德瑀 @jeanniewl.bsky.social · 7d

Yes. I can totally see that happening.

Jeannie🌻吳德瑀 @jeanniewl.bsky.social · 7d

The word “law” is not in his vocabulary!

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 8d

By law, ATCs will have their back-pay restored after the shutdown ends—although President Trump suggested Tuesday that might not happen. Air traffic controllers are scheduled to receive a partial paycheck on Tuesday, Oct. 14, and a zero paycheck two weeks later. www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

Air Traffic System Under Shutdown Strain—What To Expect Wednesday

Cracks in the air travel system are widening, as air traffic controllers bear the strain of an understaffed system and no pay until the government shutdown ends.

www.forbes.com

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Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · 8d

Pope Leo met with US bishops at the Vatican, telling them to firmly address inhumane treatment of migrants. He’s received dozens of letters expressing fears, and the pontiff “is very personally concerned about these matters,” said El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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