Alexis
@alexis8.bsky.social
Global citizen, currently in Paris, France. Some of the things I love: creating, technology, art, science, literature, music, travel, and more. Democracy is a given.
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"'They all were scared, crying... they were pointing with the guns not to move,' he said.
He said all four are U.S. citizens..."
www.kare11.com/article/news...
He said all four are U.S. citizens..."
www.kare11.com/article/news...
Ring camera captures Burnsville ICE raid that leaves 7-year-old without parents, according to family
ICE agents detained four people from a Burnsville home, according to family members, including a 7-year-old's parents and the husband of a pregnant woman.
www.kare11.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"'They all were scared, crying... they were pointing with the guns not to move,' he said.
He said all four are U.S. citizens..."
www.kare11.com/article/news...
He said all four are U.S. citizens..."
www.kare11.com/article/news...
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President Donald Trump’s personal travel routine has generated an estimated $70.8M in taxpayer costs this year, and projections based on federal audit data show the total could exceed $300M if the pattern continues.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trumps-gol...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trumps-gol...
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
President Donald Trump’s personal travel routine has generated an estimated $70.8M in taxpayer costs this year, and projections based on federal audit data show the total could exceed $300M if the pattern continues.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trumps-gol...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trumps-gol...
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"Among the crowd was a 17-year-old high school student from Astoria who attended P.S. 166.
'Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped,' he said. 'I used to go to 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country'...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...
'Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped,' he said. 'I used to go to 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country'...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...
Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"Among the crowd was a 17-year-old high school student from Astoria who attended P.S. 166.
'Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped,' he said. 'I used to go to 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country'...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...
'Kids shouldn’t be kidnapped,' he said. 'I used to go to 166 and want to show up because I hate seeing this happen in my neighborhood, in my school and in my country'...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/n...
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I wrote about Trump's mental unfitness recently in my free Stop the Presses newsletter, which you should subscribe to.
Media must cover — not cover up — Trump’s unfitness
The president benefits from the failure to focus on his broken brain
www.stopthepresses.news
December 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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When life feels overwhelming, the days are long and it feels like your best of efforts fall short…pause! Often we forget that some of the greatest treasures are the little blessings, right underneath our nose. A place to call home, a warm meal, the beauty of the sunrise…find the little miracles!
December 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
When life feels overwhelming, the days are long and it feels like your best of efforts fall short…pause! Often we forget that some of the greatest treasures are the little blessings, right underneath our nose. A place to call home, a warm meal, the beauty of the sunrise…find the little miracles!
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@nytimes.com reports Pentagon lawyers even floated sending survivors to El Salvador’s CECOT prison to keep them out of US courts
Why? A court case would force the Trump admin to show its legal & factual justification for these strikes
That’s why we @democracydefendersfund.org filed our complaint👇
Why? A court case would force the Trump admin to show its legal & factual justification for these strikes
That’s why we @democracydefendersfund.org filed our complaint👇
December 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
@nytimes.com reports Pentagon lawyers even floated sending survivors to El Salvador’s CECOT prison to keep them out of US courts
Why? A court case would force the Trump admin to show its legal & factual justification for these strikes
That’s why we @democracydefendersfund.org filed our complaint👇
Why? A court case would force the Trump admin to show its legal & factual justification for these strikes
That’s why we @democracydefendersfund.org filed our complaint👇
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This keeps happening.
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This keeps happening.
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Colbert on Paramount's $108 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros: "Wow... If my company's got that kind of green, I'm sure they can afford to un-cancel one of their best shows..."
December 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Colbert on Paramount's $108 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros: "Wow... If my company's got that kind of green, I'm sure they can afford to un-cancel one of their best shows..."
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Crypto casinos have become a multi-billion dollar industry. One of the ways they've grown is with an unusual marketing strategy: paying millions to internet celebrities to livestream themselves gambling for hours.
New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Online Crypto Casinos Use Celebrities and Livestreamers to Recruit Gamblers
Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Crypto casinos have become a multi-billion dollar industry. One of the ways they've grown is with an unusual marketing strategy: paying millions to internet celebrities to livestream themselves gambling for hours.
New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Important detail on Paramount's hostile takeover bid to buy WBD:
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount launches hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.
The move comes days after Paramount was bested by Netflix in a competitive bidding process to buy Warner Bros.
www.axios.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Important detail on Paramount's hostile takeover bid to buy WBD:
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
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In the case of @nytimes.com only when @agsulzberger.bsky.social and that awful Editor are gone. @sulliview.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In the case of @nytimes.com only when @agsulzberger.bsky.social and that awful Editor are gone. @sulliview.bsky.social
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We need a nationwide, well-organized, protest on SCOTUS only @indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social
As SCOTUS once more helps in the drive to bring America back to the fifteenth century.
Supreme Court Questions N.Y. Ban on Religious Exemptions for Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/n...
Supreme Court Questions N.Y. Ban on Religious Exemptions for Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/n...
Supreme Court Questions N.Y. Ban on Religious Exemptions for Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We need a nationwide, well-organized, protest on SCOTUS only @indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social
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BREAKING: At one point, the Pentagon considered sending boat strike survivors to CECOT torture prison in El Salvador to avoid discovery in US courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
BREAKING: At one point, the Pentagon considered sending boat strike survivors to CECOT torture prison in El Salvador to avoid discovery in US courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
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Freedom of the Press is irrelevant if fascist billionaires control all of our media.
If Paramount is allowed to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the conservative billionaire Ellison family will control:
Paramount Studios
CBS
CNN
MTV
HBO
Comedy Central
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
Warner Bros.
DC Studios
Fandango
New Line Cinema
TNT Sports
TBS
Oracle
And more.
Paramount Studios
CBS
CNN
MTV
HBO
Comedy Central
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
Warner Bros.
DC Studios
Fandango
New Line Cinema
TNT Sports
TBS
Oracle
And more.
December 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Freedom of the Press is irrelevant if fascist billionaires control all of our media.
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Straight from the horse (ass)'s mouth: 'I pardoned the Honduran pres (and who knows who else) bc ppl told me to'
"Well, I don’t know him. And I know very little about him...And they think he was treated horribly, and they asked me to do it, and I said I’ll do it."
Again, who's driving this bus?
"Well, I don’t know him. And I know very little about him...And they think he was treated horribly, and they asked me to do it, and I said I’ll do it."
Again, who's driving this bus?
Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco
The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of ...
newrepublic.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Straight from the horse (ass)'s mouth: 'I pardoned the Honduran pres (and who knows who else) bc ppl told me to'
"Well, I don’t know him. And I know very little about him...And they think he was treated horribly, and they asked me to do it, and I said I’ll do it."
Again, who's driving this bus?
"Well, I don’t know him. And I know very little about him...And they think he was treated horribly, and they asked me to do it, and I said I’ll do it."
Again, who's driving this bus?
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) will potentially treat opponents of President Donald Trump’s policies as “domestic terrorists,” according to a leaked memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi to all U.S. law enforcement agencies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Leaked Memo: DOJ To List, Target Anti-Trump Activists as ‘Domestic Terrorists’
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The Department of Justice (DOJ) will potentially treat opponents of President Donald Trump’s policies as “domestic terrorists,” according to a leaked memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi to all U.S. law enforcement agencies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Eileen Higgins just became the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years.
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Eileen Higgins just became the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years.
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Voldemort (Vought) decided to 'make housing discrimination great again!' On brand for a man who's never had a single original thought. Can't even play evil villain right.🖕🙄
This would (surprise!) hit Black communities hardest, & we know place/where you live is a major social determinant of health.
This would (surprise!) hit Black communities hardest, & we know place/where you live is a major social determinant of health.
CFPB's proposed credit access rule would bring redlining back
A comment deadline is approaching on a proposed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that would dismantle longstanding rules meant to protect minorities from discrimination in the market for cred...
www.americanbanker.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Voldemort (Vought) decided to 'make housing discrimination great again!' On brand for a man who's never had a single original thought. Can't even play evil villain right.🖕🙄
This would (surprise!) hit Black communities hardest, & we know place/where you live is a major social determinant of health.
This would (surprise!) hit Black communities hardest, & we know place/where you live is a major social determinant of health.
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It's vile to kill people with no actual legal justification and also vile to joke about killing those people.
Trump: "The problem is nobody wants to go fishing anymore. They don't want to get in boats. They don't want anything to do with boats. I think we've destroyed the boat market. Other than that it's been very effective."
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It's vile to kill people with no actual legal justification and also vile to joke about killing those people.
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There’s no money to make healthcare free or more affordable, but there’s money to give $40B to Argentina, $350M for a trashy ballroom, $172M on private jets, millions of dollars for golf trips and lavish dinners and $12B to pay back “farmers” (creditors). Funny how that works.
December 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
There’s no money to make healthcare free or more affordable, but there’s money to give $40B to Argentina, $350M for a trashy ballroom, $172M on private jets, millions of dollars for golf trips and lavish dinners and $12B to pay back “farmers” (creditors). Funny how that works.
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"...the (DRAI) questionnaire he said he had been scratched by a skunk."
"The CDC said it was only the fourth reported transplant-transmitted rabies event in the United States since 1978."
If this man said he was bitten, why be allowed to donate at all?
Tragic way to go after getting a transplant.
"The CDC said it was only the fourth reported transplant-transmitted rabies event in the United States since 1978."
If this man said he was bitten, why be allowed to donate at all?
Tragic way to go after getting a transplant.
Man dies of rabies after kidney transplant from donor who saved kitten from skunk
Michigan man received kidney transplant from donor who had fought off a skunk and was later found unresponsive
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"...the (DRAI) questionnaire he said he had been scratched by a skunk."
"The CDC said it was only the fourth reported transplant-transmitted rabies event in the United States since 1978."
If this man said he was bitten, why be allowed to donate at all?
Tragic way to go after getting a transplant.
"The CDC said it was only the fourth reported transplant-transmitted rabies event in the United States since 1978."
If this man said he was bitten, why be allowed to donate at all?
Tragic way to go after getting a transplant.
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I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
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PSA: UnderArmour.com compromised
If you have an underarmour.com account... go change your password - they were hacked. Accounts and passwords at a minimum are on the dark web as of 12/6.
If you have an underarmour.com account... go change your password - they were hacked. Accounts and passwords at a minimum are on the dark web as of 12/6.
December 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
PSA: UnderArmour.com compromised
If you have an underarmour.com account... go change your password - they were hacked. Accounts and passwords at a minimum are on the dark web as of 12/6.
If you have an underarmour.com account... go change your password - they were hacked. Accounts and passwords at a minimum are on the dark web as of 12/6.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM