Paula R.
@horsechops.bsky.social
Mother of three. Live in the beautiful NW.
Happy to be here.
Happy to be here.
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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If Germany can outlaw hate speech, so can the USA. Hate speech should NOT be protected speech in the USA. It’s past time to kick white supremacists to the curb. Domestic terrorists have no place in the USA. Stop accepting hateful rhetoric #Voices4Victory #ProudBlie
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
Germany’s Laws on Antisemitic Hate Speech and Holocaust Denial
A look at Germany's changing laws on hate speech and Holocaust denial, in light of the FRONTLINE documentary "Germany's Neo-Nazis & the Far Right."
www.pbs.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:45 AM
If Germany can outlaw hate speech, so can the USA. Hate speech should NOT be protected speech in the USA. It’s past time to kick white supremacists to the curb. Domestic terrorists have no place in the USA. Stop accepting hateful rhetoric #Voices4Victory #ProudBlie
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
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The killing of shipwrecked survivors at sea is a textbook violation of the laws of war.
If Hegseth is so proud of the killing of these survivors, the Pentagon should release the full video, just like they have with other boat strikes.
The American people deserve full transparency & accountability.
If Hegseth is so proud of the killing of these survivors, the Pentagon should release the full video, just like they have with other boat strikes.
The American people deserve full transparency & accountability.
December 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The killing of shipwrecked survivors at sea is a textbook violation of the laws of war.
If Hegseth is so proud of the killing of these survivors, the Pentagon should release the full video, just like they have with other boat strikes.
The American people deserve full transparency & accountability.
If Hegseth is so proud of the killing of these survivors, the Pentagon should release the full video, just like they have with other boat strikes.
The American people deserve full transparency & accountability.
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On behalf of historians, we’d love to hear why this is so anti-historical.
December 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
On behalf of historians, we’d love to hear why this is so anti-historical.
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The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
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Also the framers of the amendment literally said during the floor debates that they knew the jus soli birthright citizenship clause would apply to the children of immigrants from other parts of the world and that they thought that was great.
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Also the framers of the amendment literally said during the floor debates that they knew the jus soli birthright citizenship clause would apply to the children of immigrants from other parts of the world and that they thought that was great.
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Our scoop from mid November: zeteo.com/p/trump-nati...
December 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Our scoop from mid November: zeteo.com/p/trump-nati...
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If they are indeed waking up…(a lot of Americans knew this already, just like we knew Trump was a Russian asset)…
….the why haven’t they kicked Farage to the curb?
…then why aren’t voters
….the why haven’t they kicked Farage to the curb?
…then why aren’t voters
UK is finally all waking up to the fact that Brexit was entirely a Russian/Kremlin plan to divide UK from EU, and destroy the Western Alliance; just as they've also divided USA from the Western Alliance; having destroyed all USA Trade/Military/NATO Allies; NONE of which benefits Americans, nor Brits
December 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If they are indeed waking up…(a lot of Americans knew this already, just like we knew Trump was a Russian asset)…
….the why haven’t they kicked Farage to the curb?
…then why aren’t voters
….the why haven’t they kicked Farage to the curb?
…then why aren’t voters
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* Trump has already removed the bulk of the oil sanctions he put on Putin.
* Kushner & Witkoff meet with Putin & snub Ukraine by skipping a follow-up.
* Putin rejects Trump's peace plan.
* Putin launches massive drone attack.
Trump is a likely Russian asset & US traitor.
* Kushner & Witkoff meet with Putin & snub Ukraine by skipping a follow-up.
* Putin rejects Trump's peace plan.
* Putin launches massive drone attack.
Trump is a likely Russian asset & US traitor.
December 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
* Trump has already removed the bulk of the oil sanctions he put on Putin.
* Kushner & Witkoff meet with Putin & snub Ukraine by skipping a follow-up.
* Putin rejects Trump's peace plan.
* Putin launches massive drone attack.
Trump is a likely Russian asset & US traitor.
* Kushner & Witkoff meet with Putin & snub Ukraine by skipping a follow-up.
* Putin rejects Trump's peace plan.
* Putin launches massive drone attack.
Trump is a likely Russian asset & US traitor.
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Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
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OMFG.
Doesn’t ANYONE remember the ACTUAL topic of the taped conversation from June 2016, among what was then the House Gop leadership, that is instead remembered for Kevin McCarthy saying Putin pays Trump?
Republicans once thought this was “diabolical!”
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Doesn’t ANYONE remember the ACTUAL topic of the taped conversation from June 2016, among what was then the House Gop leadership, that is instead remembered for Kevin McCarthy saying Putin pays Trump?
Republicans once thought this was “diabolical!”
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Watch out Europe, Trump is coming for your elections next
MAGA’s mission to meddle in European politics should terrify Starmer, Macron and Merz. Will any of them fight back?
www.politico.eu
December 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
OMFG.
Doesn’t ANYONE remember the ACTUAL topic of the taped conversation from June 2016, among what was then the House Gop leadership, that is instead remembered for Kevin McCarthy saying Putin pays Trump?
Republicans once thought this was “diabolical!”
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Doesn’t ANYONE remember the ACTUAL topic of the taped conversation from June 2016, among what was then the House Gop leadership, that is instead remembered for Kevin McCarthy saying Putin pays Trump?
Republicans once thought this was “diabolical!”
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
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“The Trump administration has effectively outsourced soaring disaster costs to ill-equipped states, profit-seeking insurers, and, ultimately, helpless individuals.” When the next hurricane hits, these cuts will prove disastrous. From Kenny Stancil:
trib.al/OAJD6Ij
trib.al/OAJD6Ij
Trump’s Katrina Is Coming - The American Prospect
The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.
trib.al
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“The Trump administration has effectively outsourced soaring disaster costs to ill-equipped states, profit-seeking insurers, and, ultimately, helpless individuals.” When the next hurricane hits, these cuts will prove disastrous. From Kenny Stancil:
trib.al/OAJD6Ij
trib.al/OAJD6Ij
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Meanwhile dozens of us are sharing similar experiences, all without the pretentious judgement to boot! Imagine that. A conversation.
To anywhere TNC’s rhetorical question, silence is an option.
To anywhere TNC’s rhetorical question, silence is an option.
You’re in a weird circle. None of my boomer aged friends wants anything to do with AI. Some of them even view Siri with suspicion. My Gen X friends, on the other, are all in.
I don’t know about the rest of you but overnight all of the boomer aged people in my life are gaga over AI photos. I mean they’re making them, posting them a dozen times a day, forwarding them like chain letters.
December 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Meanwhile dozens of us are sharing similar experiences, all without the pretentious judgement to boot! Imagine that. A conversation.
To anywhere TNC’s rhetorical question, silence is an option.
To anywhere TNC’s rhetorical question, silence is an option.
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Sadly, this appears to be AI. There are some tells throughout (hands disappearing, the people in the background staring like collective zombies, some weird configurations on the walls) but overall, this looks pretty real -- it's getting harder to tell what's real and what's not. Which ain't great.
December 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Sadly, this appears to be AI. There are some tells throughout (hands disappearing, the people in the background staring like collective zombies, some weird configurations on the walls) but overall, this looks pretty real -- it's getting harder to tell what's real and what's not. Which ain't great.
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
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Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Trump envoys press plan with Ukraine as sanctions eased on Russia
President Donald Trump's envoys were to meet Thursday with Ukrainian negotiators for the third time in two weeks to press his plan to end the war as his administration eased economic pressure on Russi...
www.france24.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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Amen
December 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Amen
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Manu Raju (CNN) attempted to get a statement from Darrell Issa about his plans to run for a seat in TX, even though he lives in CA. If a Democrat was doing this, all hell would break.🤨
December 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Manu Raju (CNN) attempted to get a statement from Darrell Issa about his plans to run for a seat in TX, even though he lives in CA. If a Democrat was doing this, all hell would break.🤨
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Are we in a game of chicken to see how far a handful of freaks can push things until we bring back consequences and / or guillotines? How have we hyper-normalized them saying this shit out loud in public?
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Are we in a game of chicken to see how far a handful of freaks can push things until we bring back consequences and / or guillotines? How have we hyper-normalized them saying this shit out loud in public?
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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.