KTW
@katebegins2rock.bsky.social
Author: ARBORIA PARK. Editor, historian. Famed punk rock attendee. Used to write books about girls/women saving their hometowns thru history & music. Wish I could just post about that but we're in crisis.
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@katebegins2rock.bsky.social
· Nov 23
You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.
Reminder that my book is seven years old BUT YOU CAN STILL BUY AND READ IT or get it from the library or something and sequels/prequels at my website and IT'S NEW TO YOU!
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.
Couple of things here:
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
1. Trump says he took another cognitive test recently
2. In front of "large numbers of doctors and experts"
3. He called the examinations "long...and very boring"
4. If you're given 3 cognitive exams in one year by panels of doctors, something is VERY wrong with you
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.
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Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care
December 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care
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My minds made up: the kids are getting steel for Christmas
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
My minds made up: the kids are getting steel for Christmas
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“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”
December 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“We are targeting Venezuela because of DRUGS, not OIL, which is why we are blowing up boats without any drugs and stealing a tanker full of oil.”
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the thing about this is that usually visa shit ends up being reciprical. If we do a thing to a country, they do a thing to us.
Bat shit crazy.
US plans to start checking tourists social media.
It will be "mandatory" to hand over the social media info, including email addresses & phone numbers used in the last five years, as well as the names, addresses, numbers, & birthdays of family members.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking tourists social media.
It will be "mandatory" to hand over the social media info, including email addresses & phone numbers used in the last five years, as well as the names, addresses, numbers, & birthdays of family members.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
the thing about this is that usually visa shit ends up being reciprical. If we do a thing to a country, they do a thing to us.
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Not only willing to obey illegal orders but actively wanting to.
Hey if you were wondering whether Hegseth's soldiers are willing to obey illegal orders, let's ask the ones who were last seen scurrying down ropes onto the deck of a Venezuelan oil tanker like contemptible Somali pirates, jonesing to steal some oil as part of a unilateral and unprovoked act of war
December 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Not only willing to obey illegal orders but actively wanting to.
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Rep. Randy Fine: Well, I'm not comfortable with a hierarchy of racism. The president isn't either, but not all cultures are equal and not all countries are equal.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
'Not all cultures are equal': Republican goes on racist tear
Republican Rep. Randy Fine of Florida appeared on CNN Wednesday to defend President Donald Trump’s racist tirades against Somali immigrants—by launching into a wildly racist tirade of his own.
www.dailykos.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Rep. Randy Fine: Well, I'm not comfortable with a hierarchy of racism. The president isn't either, but not all cultures are equal and not all countries are equal.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Adding to this thread the list of ~200 words the Trump administration has banned from Head Start programs bsky.app/profile/did:...
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Adding to this thread the list of ~200 words the Trump administration has banned from Head Start programs bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says
The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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You can be the most loving, compassionate person in the world... but... if you’re not actively guarding your mind...you will become desensitized to human suffering...in ways that are far beyond what you would ever consider acceptable.
They’re not hiding the brutality anymore.
They want you to see it.
They want you to get used to it.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
They want you to see it.
They want you to get used to it.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
You can be the most loving, compassionate person in the world... but... if you’re not actively guarding your mind...you will become desensitized to human suffering...in ways that are far beyond what you would ever consider acceptable.
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If you read one thing today, please prioritize @atrupar.com's PN.
@nberlat.bsky.social writes: "For fascists like Trump, hatred is both a tactic and a goal. That’s why he defaults to bigotry whenever there is a crisis. Racism is his only tool and his only dream."
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-soma...
@nberlat.bsky.social writes: "For fascists like Trump, hatred is both a tactic and a goal. That’s why he defaults to bigotry whenever there is a crisis. Racism is his only tool and his only dream."
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-soma...
Let's call Trump's anti-Somali hate for what it is
It's not "heated" or "divisive." It's Nazi stuff.
www.publicnotice.co
December 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If you read one thing today, please prioritize @atrupar.com's PN.
@nberlat.bsky.social writes: "For fascists like Trump, hatred is both a tactic and a goal. That’s why he defaults to bigotry whenever there is a crisis. Racism is his only tool and his only dream."
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-soma...
@nberlat.bsky.social writes: "For fascists like Trump, hatred is both a tactic and a goal. That’s why he defaults to bigotry whenever there is a crisis. Racism is his only tool and his only dream."
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-soma...
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If Dems were as organized and ruthless as GOP is, they’d all be issuing synchronized “Trump is defending the 9/11 attackers” memes nonstop and everywhere today to make him and Karoline defend his Saudi fawning.
Start bringing guns to gun fights FFS.
Start bringing guns to gun fights FFS.
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
If Dems were as organized and ruthless as GOP is, they’d all be issuing synchronized “Trump is defending the 9/11 attackers” memes nonstop and everywhere today to make him and Karoline defend his Saudi fawning.
Start bringing guns to gun fights FFS.
Start bringing guns to gun fights FFS.
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"Decker said they’re now seeing cases where ICE agents violate constitutional protections on a daily basis. She and other immigration attorneys advise clients about the rights they should have but warn about the areas where ICE agents have been violating them."
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"Decker said they’re now seeing cases where ICE agents violate constitutional protections on a daily basis. She and other immigration attorneys advise clients about the rights they should have but warn about the areas where ICE agents have been violating them."
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Planned obsolescence has gone too far. Teslas rattle themselves into oblivion, destroying any hope of resale or trade-in value. Post-millennial stick-built housing is little more than papier-maché on a poorly-poured slab of the lowest bidder's concrete. It's façade. It's artifice.
Glue. You know what kind of glue was used in a 1972 GMC? It was called welds. I mean, there was seam sealers to seal up trunk areas and around floorboards in older cars; but no "glue". That's ridiculous.
December 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Planned obsolescence has gone too far. Teslas rattle themselves into oblivion, destroying any hope of resale or trade-in value. Post-millennial stick-built housing is little more than papier-maché on a poorly-poured slab of the lowest bidder's concrete. It's façade. It's artifice.
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JFC. The weakening of America continues.
December 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
JFC. The weakening of America continues.
Ministry of Pettiness hard at work with your tax dollars.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Ministry of Pettiness hard at work with your tax dollars.
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And how Democrats missed an opportunity to grill him at his confirmation hearing.
The story behind the "misconduct" allegations against RFK Jr.
And how Democrats missed an opportunity to grill him at his confirmation hearing.
www.motherjones.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
And how Democrats missed an opportunity to grill him at his confirmation hearing.
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"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
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MAGA Traitors Need to "Go Back" and Leave America
If the GOP hates the Constitution, diversity, free and fair elections, voting rights, and the concept of separation of church and state, then maybe it hates America & should leave.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
If the GOP hates the Constitution, diversity, free and fair elections, voting rights, and the concept of separation of church and state, then maybe it hates America & should leave.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
December 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
MAGA Traitors Need to "Go Back" and Leave America
If the GOP hates the Constitution, diversity, free and fair elections, voting rights, and the concept of separation of church and state, then maybe it hates America & should leave.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
If the GOP hates the Constitution, diversity, free and fair elections, voting rights, and the concept of separation of church and state, then maybe it hates America & should leave.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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" I have many questions about whose idea it was to import the confinement box to Alligator Alcatraz. But... I submit to you that its appearance here, structurally speaking, is the result of there being no criminal or even substantial political penalties for the architects of the torture program...:
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
" I have many questions about whose idea it was to import the confinement box to Alligator Alcatraz. But... I submit to you that its appearance here, structurally speaking, is the result of there being no criminal or even substantial political penalties for the architects of the torture program...:
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since it seems like a supreme court majority doesn't believe in independent govt agencies, can the govt stop believing in the supreme court
December 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
since it seems like a supreme court majority doesn't believe in independent govt agencies, can the govt stop believing in the supreme court
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Even giving them the hugest benefit of the doubt, it sounds dodgy. If they know in advance who's going to be on the boats and when, why don't they just arrest them when they first depart? Remember, this is the same regime that claimed gender surgery was being done in few hours by school nurses.
December 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Even giving them the hugest benefit of the doubt, it sounds dodgy. If they know in advance who's going to be on the boats and when, why don't they just arrest them when they first depart? Remember, this is the same regime that claimed gender surgery was being done in few hours by school nurses.
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“There is virtually no mechanism for a child to find a pro-bono attorney on their own while detained, as they do not have the resources or ability to identify and call attorneys, and are actually limited as to who they can contact.”
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“There is virtually no mechanism for a child to find a pro-bono attorney on their own while detained, as they do not have the resources or ability to identify and call attorneys, and are actually limited as to who they can contact.”
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If you’re cutting 9% from your academic budget, while taking a 401,000,000 dollar gift for the athletic department, you’re no longer a university, instead you’re a degree granting athletic academy.
December 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If you’re cutting 9% from your academic budget, while taking a 401,000,000 dollar gift for the athletic department, you’re no longer a university, instead you’re a degree granting athletic academy.