~*Christine*~Santa's Pookie
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Anyone who has participated in or attended a naturalization ceremony knows how meaningful and joyous these ceremonies tend to be. The cruelty of this is heartbreaking and enraging.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Anyone who has participated in or attended a naturalization ceremony knows how meaningful and joyous these ceremonies tend to be. The cruelty of this is heartbreaking and enraging.
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fascism is so mundane as it's unfolding and that's part of what makes it so dangerous
NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.
Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
fascism is so mundane as it's unfolding and that's part of what makes it so dangerous
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You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.”
All how you choose to frame it.
All how you choose to frame it.
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.”
All how you choose to frame it.
All how you choose to frame it.
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Travelling light years,
Pierced brilliance through dark canvas,
Starlight masterpiece.
#RetroArtPrompt #haiku #poem #writingcommunity #starlight
Pierced brilliance through dark canvas,
Starlight masterpiece.
#RetroArtPrompt #haiku #poem #writingcommunity #starlight
December 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Travelling light years,
Pierced brilliance through dark canvas,
Starlight masterpiece.
#RetroArtPrompt #haiku #poem #writingcommunity #starlight
Pierced brilliance through dark canvas,
Starlight masterpiece.
#RetroArtPrompt #haiku #poem #writingcommunity #starlight
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A thread . Please read . Because when Black women say this and have for years and get hit with
“You know who I am “ and “this is spreading awareness”
No it’s enabling abuse and exploiting “friendship”
“You know who I am “ and “this is spreading awareness”
No it’s enabling abuse and exploiting “friendship”
Imagine you have a friend. Let’s call him Rick Reasonable.
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Boiling Water
The corrosive damage cause by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.
www.the-reframe.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A thread . Please read . Because when Black women say this and have for years and get hit with
“You know who I am “ and “this is spreading awareness”
No it’s enabling abuse and exploiting “friendship”
“You know who I am “ and “this is spreading awareness”
No it’s enabling abuse and exploiting “friendship”
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it cannot be said enough, and should be shouted from the rooftops:
this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.
this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to take up a challenge to President Trump's January 20 birthright citizenship executive order.
The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.
The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
it cannot be said enough, and should be shouted from the rooftops:
this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.
this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.
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jfc, yeah you gotta send someone to jail for this. the thing that separates a military from a large gang is that you don't do shit like this.
NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
jfc, yeah you gotta send someone to jail for this. the thing that separates a military from a large gang is that you don't do shit like this.
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This is a very good and unflappable job by John Berman of CNN. Worth watching whole segment.
h/t @gottalaff.bsky.social
h/t @gottalaff.bsky.social
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is a very good and unflappable job by John Berman of CNN. Worth watching whole segment.
h/t @gottalaff.bsky.social
h/t @gottalaff.bsky.social
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I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
He thinks I didn't comprehend the material! Good morning, hope everyone else is having a great day!
December 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
He thinks I didn't comprehend the material! Good morning, hope everyone else is having a great day!
Oh my god. You do not have to "hand it to them." They know the history too. And they probably have to ask historians. You just got gaslit. It is intentional they are not "exactly like the Nazis". They know. That is is the point.
Also, different historians make different arguments. So this is wow
Also, different historians make different arguments. So this is wow
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Oh my god. You do not have to "hand it to them." They know the history too. And they probably have to ask historians. You just got gaslit. It is intentional they are not "exactly like the Nazis". They know. That is is the point.
Also, different historians make different arguments. So this is wow
Also, different historians make different arguments. So this is wow
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The arguments Trump’s DoD is making about legitimate targets could be used against members of the American military. A sobering thought.
December 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The arguments Trump’s DoD is making about legitimate targets could be used against members of the American military. A sobering thought.
I think,one of the hardest things to come to terms with when reading about the war crimes boat strikes is, the trauma that comes from knowing it harms the active service members who must comply. Coming from a military family, I empathize. Those there must know it's wrong, hence the reporting.
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I think,one of the hardest things to come to terms with when reading about the war crimes boat strikes is, the trauma that comes from knowing it harms the active service members who must comply. Coming from a military family, I empathize. Those there must know it's wrong, hence the reporting.
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Himes: "The end result was two individuals without any weaponry, without any tools of any kind, clinging to a wrecked boat ... the decision was taken to kill them and that is in fact what happened. And that was pretty hard to watch."
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Himes: "The end result was two individuals without any weaponry, without any tools of any kind, clinging to a wrecked boat ... the decision was taken to kill them and that is in fact what happened. And that was pretty hard to watch."
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Yep. Murder.
I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Yep. Murder.
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
#poetryprompt
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Prompt 1592 #Charon
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#deeptime
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@pgpayt.bsky.social
Prompt 1592 #Charon
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#deeptime
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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#poetry #mpprompt
the people came
by sea
by land & ice
they spread & grew
hunted & built
languages, beliefs, arts
all shifted & formed
till over 1000 civilizations existed, in war or peace
creating plants & music & life
their drums still beat
their vision & strength
their dance
still in our feet
the people came
by sea
by land & ice
they spread & grew
hunted & built
languages, beliefs, arts
all shifted & formed
till over 1000 civilizations existed, in war or peace
creating plants & music & life
their drums still beat
their vision & strength
their dance
still in our feet
Today’s #poetryprompt:
I’m thinking about Deep Time. Write me a poem about something that unfolds over an age. An eon. A trillion years.
#MPPrompt
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I’m thinking about Deep Time. Write me a poem about something that unfolds over an age. An eon. A trillion years.
#MPPrompt
I repost repliesz Follow for daily prompts.
December 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity
December 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity
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December 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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As a Democrat, I do not believe in the goals of the company SauronMurdersEveryone Inc and do not trust their claims that they will not murder everyone. However, in the spirit of bipartisanship, I will be voting to give SauronMurdersEveryone Inc the government contract monitoring citizen locations.
hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
As a Democrat, I do not believe in the goals of the company SauronMurdersEveryone Inc and do not trust their claims that they will not murder everyone. However, in the spirit of bipartisanship, I will be voting to give SauronMurdersEveryone Inc the government contract monitoring citizen locations.
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hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone
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The dastardly woman has once again revealed her cruel desires to consider “making the world a better place” a worthwhile quality in a potential mate, does she even know how many SmurfCoins I own? Does she even know how much I’ve tanned my butthole?
"Men need to spend money to get laid!"
Meanwhile, just the other day...
Meanwhile, just the other day...
December 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The dastardly woman has once again revealed her cruel desires to consider “making the world a better place” a worthwhile quality in a potential mate, does she even know how many SmurfCoins I own? Does she even know how much I’ve tanned my butthole?