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Salty Mom
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Eclectic creative 🎨 🐚 🪡 ✍️ Don’t wait for 2026; there are elections in 2025 🗳️ #SaveSection504 You can’t make anything better by destroying it — “Sisi” Postcards to Voters and beachy things: https://thesaltyinkslinger.etsy.com
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HOOOOLY COW, can we please revive this in the USA!?!

I was looking for a different commercial, but Americans need this reminder:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=o5F6...
Don't spread germs (1948)
YouTube video by Wellcome Library
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Christy GOTTA GO
EXCLUSIVE: Christy McCormick, a top federal voting official, is facing calls to resign following an unhinged public rant in which she accused Democrats of promoting "open borders" and widespread voting by "illegal citizens" to gain votes.
Dems ‘Need the Votes’ of ‘Illegal Citizens,’ Top Federal Election Official Claims in Unhinged Rant
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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ACLU @aclu.org · 7h
BREAKING: A federal court permanently blocked part of President Trump's executive order that required unnecessary documentary proof-of-citizenship on the federal voter registration form.
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Halloween Haunted House
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I'm not convinced that ppl understand that T and the administration really think ppl who need any kind of help/charity should be eradicated by neglect while the administration does nothing and blames others.
Looks like it’s made for easy clean up when he misses the bowl.

But mostly I see a huge slip hazard.
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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Reminder:

ALL WORKING FAMILIES PARTY CANDIDATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY CAN BE FOUND AT THIS LINK -> wfpus.org/Candidates
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[email protected] is a great source for what's happening on the ground in and around Chicago.
A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today:
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston
BREAKING: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of raids across Chicago, Evanston and Skokie on Friday, does not have to report every weekday at 6 p.m. in person to the federal judge who has tried to rein in federal agents’ use of force, an appeals court ruled. @wttw.bsky.social
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It might be fairer to say Republican members of Congress practice their cruelty on the citizens of their own states in order to perfect it before they inflict it upon the rest of us.
Many people have pointed out that Republicans are harming their own constituents, as if they don’t already know this, and telling them would make them go, “Oh, heck, we forgot, thank you, we better go change our ways. Praise Jesus.”

News flash: They know. They just don’t care. trib.al/hd2UcUv
Mike Johnson’s Christian Values: Children Starve, Pedophiles Skate
On Saturday, November 1, the real pain of the shutdown starts for people. Donald Trump and the Republicans have screamed: We. Don’t. Care.
trib.al
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I'm still training myself to use the scroll bar as a dislike button.

Not all content is for me.
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It’s a known problem that onshore wind turbines kill bats.

But it’s unclear whether the same issue applies to offshore wind installations—and the Trump administration just canceled groundbreaking research into the question.

From @canarymedia.com:
Halloween shocker: Trump axes research to determine whether offshore wind farms harm bats
The project was among 351 federal awards recently slated for termination by the Energy Department.
www.motherjones.com
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I went down another block and they are hooking up a fire hose

Just soldiers and emergency personnel and confused people in costumes everywhere
I’ve had to had a conversation with one of my kids about not relying on the AI summary for information for a project in his gifted class. I am dismayed, but not surprised, that schools have not told kids to turn that feature off/don’t rely on it. The info AI gave wasn’t 100% correct 😒
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Last year I did 100% little toys from Oriental Trading Co and had enough left over for this year. Next year will hurt though.
Americans should be able to celebrate Halloween without fearing for their wallets.
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THEY LITERALLY DO, and if you still don't see that now, you must live a pretty privileged life.
I wish that these lawsuits had an effect.
Feels like tilting at windmills. That said, spear those damned windmills.
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund.

Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
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All of this *just* happened in two totally separate cases, so be careful with differing stories about where things stand:
- TRO granted in the Rhode Island case (Judge Jack McConnell), but no written order yet.
- Trump admin was given until Monday to act in the Mass. case (Judge Indira Talwani).
NEWS: The Trump admin's decision to suspend SNAP benefits due to the shutdown has been blocked. In two cases, both judges found the government action is likely illegal. Although a judge in Mass gave the admin until Monday to reverse course, a judge in Rhode Island issued a TRO from the bench today.
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund.

Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
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News on Trump boat bombings --> Rep Adam Smith, top Dem on Armed Services, tells me GOPers are failing to press for testimony from the top Pentagon official who recently resigned, potentially over the strikes.

Appallingly, we may never hear from him.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
Trump Boat Bombings Worsen as New Horror Shakes Experts: “Alarm Bells”
Remember the Southern Command admiral who resigned two weeks ago? Hill Republicans haven’t heard from him—and they don’t apparently want to.
newrepublic.com
People like Thiel and Miller won’t want to relinquish power. I’m more worried about them. This isn’t just about stopping Trump.
I remember people were insisting he wouldn’t live this long 10 years ago. Prepare for every possibility while repeating over and over that he can’t legally be POTUS after January 2029.

The people in his cabinet don’t want to relinquish power. This is all bigger than the orange guy
I love you Elie and I agree with you on a lot of things, including everything you wrote here, BUT I also know enough after this last decade we've all been through to brace myself for him at least trying to stay in office if he's alive when the time comes for him to try.
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Every instance of ICE and CBP in our American city streets is an active terrorist attack.
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"(ICE) does not let people decline to be scanned by its new facial recognition app...according to an internal (DHS) document obtained by 404 Media. The document also says any face photos taken by the app, called Mobile Fortify, will be stored for 15 years, including those of U.S. citizens."

#Pinks
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
www.404media.co
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“I never thought I'd see anything like that, in the United States of America in 2025.”

Watch as Illinois State Rep. Hoan Huynh, once a refugee from Vietnam, describes the chilling parallels between authoritarian tactics he fled, and ICE’s new operation “Midway Blitz.”