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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 1h

Why is our country supporting Israel's crimes against humanity?

wmbrainiac.bsky.social @wmbrainiac.bsky.social · 1h

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors

Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, because he's the global mobster controlling the world now. SCOTUS enabled this.

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 2h

Says the mobster.

Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 2h

His "big beautiful" bill created this...well, along with Trump's corruption. No Kings; No Mobsters!

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 2h

And deeper and deeper he digs himself in...as Americans watch in utter amazement and disgust.

Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 3h

The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 3h

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 3h

“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police." The judge, Reagan appointee, compared immigration agents to “cowardly desperados & the despised Ku Klux Klan” and declared efforts to deport outspoken protesters amounted to a “full-throated assault” on freedom of speech.

Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 3h

“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence,” a federal judge, William Young, wrote in a blistering 161-page First Amendment ruling handed down last week.

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 3h

‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

If armed thug agents are masked, that is a clear sign that we are no longer "the land of the free" nor the "home of the brave." Quite the opposite.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

www.nytimes.com

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 6h

Independents: Elections will now be up to YOU to hold the corrupt #GOP accountable

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 10h

China used to be valued trading partner... Where are the Republicans who care about "less government" now?

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/t...

Trump administration will set price floors across range of industries to combat China, Bessent says

www.cnbc.com

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 11h

It increasingly looks like the fight could drag into November and challenge the longest shutdown on record — a 35-day lapse in funding that lasted from late 2018 to 2019 over President Trump’s insistence for border wall funding.

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 11h

Fact: There are more Independent voters than there are Democrats and Republicans. Not a good look, #GOP:

thehill.com/homenews/sen...

thehill.com

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 18h

OBAMA: “What if I sent the National Guard into Texas and said I don’t care what Governor Abbott says… and just kind of took over?”

Imagine that.

Fox News would’ve held a 96-hour emergency broadcast with 18 split screens and a countdown to “Tyranny Day.”

But when it’s Trump doing it? Crickets.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Find your local event at nokings.org/#map.

Bring your family and friends. Stand up with everyone you love, for the country you hold dear.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 11h

We know the real reason he won't: #Epstein files

thehill.com/homenews/hou...

thehill.com

Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 11h

So VP Vance is defending the #YoungRepublicans' obscene, pro-Hitler rants. Interesting:

thehill.com/homenews/adm...

thehill.com

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 11h

Uh-huh.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Gaza death toll from Israeli attacks rises, despite ceasefire

Palestinians continue to be killed by Israel as people struggle for aid in decimated Gaza.

www.aljazeera.com

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 11h

Slow-rolling the genocide:

An Israeli security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, told NPR that "contrary to reports, the Rafah crossing did not open today."

www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...

Israel keeps Gaza border crossing closed while reducing aid deliveries

The ceasefire on Wednesday was largely holding, although Hamas described Israeli attacks in Gaza as violations of the agreement.

www.npr.org

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 11h

Then you should resign, Sir! Our country deserves better than YOU!

www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/p...

House Speaker Johnson says he won’t negotiate with Democrats on the shutdown | CNN Politics

CNN anchor and Chief Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju asks House Speaker Mike Johnson at what point he would consider changing strategy to negotiate with Democrats on reopening the government.

www.cnn.com

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 12h

But only Democrats and Independents can watch:

qctimes.com/life-enterta...

Iowa PBS to premiere documentary on Davenport's historic buildings

The Iowa PBS documentary "Historic Buildings of Iowa: Davenport" examines the architecture and culture of structures like the Adler Theatre, the Village of East Davenport and Trinity Episcopal Cathedr...

qctimes.com

Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 12h

His appearance in the country last month was the latest chapter in the U.S.’ unlikely rapprochement with Belarus, an autocratic Eastern European country that is a client state of Russia, which sees itself as fighting a war against the West.

Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 12h

Suddenly, the van stopped by the side of the road. The doors flung open, and a man addressed them. “Hi, I am John Coale,” the man said. “President Trump sent me to free you all.”

Coale, a Trump admin envoy, had helped broker the release of 52 Belarusian political prisoners.

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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 12h

They were ordered not to look out the windows as the vehicle sped down a highway, past the well-kept pastures of northwestern Belarus and across the border into Lithuania.

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