Mary G
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Mary G
@mgoly.bsky.social
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Deep believer in kindness and open, transparent, effective government and civic responsibility/involvement. Loves live music, travel, New Orleans, cats and more. Retired WA State employee.
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If I see as much as a single video edit I’m suing for $10 billion. Your move, CBS.
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abc7chicago.com/post/ice-eva...

This is what’s happening in my neighborhood. ICE causes an accident to arrest citizens trying to protect our immigrant neighbors in Evanston. I am terrified. It looks like the SS rounding up whoever Hitler deemed undesirable. We must stop ICE, CBP and Trump
Federal agents arrest 3 US citizens after crash during immigration operation in Evanston
Witnesses say agents slammed on their brakes, causing a car that was following them to crash. DHS says the collision happened as agents tried to make a U-turn.
abc7chicago.com
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I couldn't let this week go without reviewing HOUSE OF DYNAMITE — which gets right to me the four core principles of nuclear thrillers. Most of all it should serve as a reminder why Trump's nuclear threats this week are so dangerous: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-od...
Trump’s Odd Nuclear Threat and America’s House of Dynamite
Almost nothing about Trump's latest nuke tweet is correct. Plus what Netflix's HOUSE OF DYNAMITE gets right about nuclear war.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
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The White House says it’s going to use procurement dollars to illegally pay the troops for rather than do it the legal way of enacting a military pay bill.

You cannot w/ a straight face tell me using procurement dollars to pay the military adheres to the purpose statute and the Antideficiency Act.
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
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🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Bill Essayli, a Trump-appointed Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, has been serving unlawfully in the nation’s largest federal district — the third such finding against a prosecutor installed by President Donald Trump.
Another Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorney Found to be Serving Unlawfully, Federal Judge Rules
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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It’s almost as if we are being run by a giant well funded international multigenerational pedophile ring
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ICE deported a Sacramento mother of 8 U.S. citizen children just one day after she accused an ICE contractor of sexual abuse. Reyna Mendoza said the officer demanded “sexual favors” in exchange for help, telling her, “If you’re good to me, I’ll be good to you.” Her story aired Thursday night.
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BREAKING: The full bench of the 9th circuit has agreed to take up the Portland National Guard case and vacated the panel decision that had blessed Trump’s deployment.
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Trump: “my numbers are up”

Reality:
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Bubble rated ★★★★★★★★ out of ★★★★★★★★.

Would not recommend.
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The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow

'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'
As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void
The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.
www.whatimreading.net
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Even if the Republican controlled federal government had allowed the $6 billion contingency reserve to be used to fund SNAP benefits it wouldn’t have been enough to completely fund SNAP

Let that sink in, The Trump administration made a conscious choice to starve millions of Americans.
"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."
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Amazon announces they are laying off the largest amount of workers ever in the company’s history.

30,000+ workers will lose their jobs.
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This is what corporations should be doing to face this moment!! 🤝

Door Dash now we just need you to pay employees their fair share.
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Maybe hospitalizing a FOOTBALL player will get the attention of right wing Texans.
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ICE agents violently tackled a father and his teenage son on their way to school—sending the 16-year-old, a U.S. citizen and star athlete, to the hospital with back and neck injuries.

“I was just going to school,” he cried. “I’m underage!”
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BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
www.washingtonpost.com
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On Monday, former Bellingcat journalist Tristan Lee and open-source researcher Jennefer Harper will launch Decoherence Media, a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right.”
Data journalists start news site to track extremist movements
Decoherence Media is a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right,” co-founder Tristan Lee told Semafor.
www.semafor.com
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Where we are as a country
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
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As absolutely vital as courts & elections are, we will never sue or vote our way to democracy. We must be clear about how deep rot goes: Federalist Society, Trump-appointed Justices on appeals & Roberts Court aid authoritarian project on behalf of billionaires who bought them.
By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23
That and not releasing the Epstein files.
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they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ