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Pamela Smith

@kiteinthewind.bsky.social

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Mom, Grammy, Retired R.N., Happily married Progressive living in a red state. KC area. 💙 #BlueResister 🚫 MAGA or anyone that in any way supports or justifies this fascist robber baron regime. 🚫 DM UNLESS I KNOW YOU!! 🚫 Porn, OF, or crypto BS

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Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 2d

I'm attending 50501Missouri's event, “No Kings #IndependenceMO” AND #KansasCity- sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

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No Kings Independence · Mobilize

You asked, it is coming. No Kings in Independence, MO! The tide is turning. With ICE raids reaching unprecedented levels and the specter of authoritarianism growing louder—exemplified by former Presi...

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Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 6h

👏👏👏👏

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 8h

Good. This isn't just their usual revenge games. They will go to nearly any length to keep those files hidden to protect dear leader.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 6h

Good. 😂

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 8h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 12h

👏👏👏👏

Jan Skudlarek @janskudlarek.bsky.social · 13h

Wenn man "fürchterlicher Mensch" googelt, sollte ein Bild von Alex Jones erscheinen

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 12h

🚨🚨🚨🚨

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 12h

“One State Senator admitted to a recent vote to gerrymander a Kansas City district as a way to replace Emanuel Cleaver, the current Congressman. A Black Congressman.
The Senator admitted it…”
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Preaching to the Choir

Rural Democrats

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Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 16h

#EPSTEIN

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Today, Mike Johnson will continue to keep the House adjourned for the 71st day out of the last 83, with Republicans refusing to show up to work again to avoid having to vote on the Epstein files or negotiate with Democrats.

Epstein Shutdown

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Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 16h

I AM PROUDLY
ANTI-FAcist!!

lola1985.bsky.social @lola1985.bsky.social · 1d

💙🫶💙✌️💙

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom: "Masked men. Jumping out of unmarked vehicles. People disappearing. No due process. No oversight. No accountability. People say I'm being hyperbolic. Bullshit. This is happening in America today."

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Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 16h

To clarify: The protest was not unlawful, the new Gerrymandered congressional map IS.

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Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 1d

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SugarRhi~ (@sugarrhi)

If demons are real, then these MAGAts are their physical embodiment. 🤬

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LillianDCA @lillianorlando.bsky.social · 1d

Jamal Khashoggi would be 67 years old today had Jared Kushner not provided MBS with the intel needed to facilitate his murder. MBS later rewarded Kushner with a $2 billion dollar slush fund.
Threads

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

i’ll never get over this

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Nice recap

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j-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 2d

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 1d

As of July 2025, Louisiana has one of the highest percentages of its population on Medicaid nationwide! #MikeJohnson #GOP #HandsOffMedicaid #Epstein

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 1d

There was a huge protest inside the capitol in Jefferson City when it was happening. The building was packed, BOTH parties! It is unlawful by our state constitution. #Missouri

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Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 1d

Missouri did it last month, BUT we have a petition initiative to get it put on the ballot for people to vote on it! We only have until December 11 to turn signatures in, but I am hopeful that we will manage. #Missouri

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Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 1d

OMG! Miserable human being. 🤯

Pamela Smith @kiteinthewind.bsky.social · 1d

Have you seen ‘Imperium’?? Based on true story and exposes how some of these ‘christians’ truly are. Their beliefs are antithetical to the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.

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Dirt @mbdeed.bsky.social · 1d

This is Dorthy Thompson, who wrote a 1941 essay titled, "Who goes Nazi?" where a woman at a dinner party views the guests gathered there and examines personality types who are inclined to support a fascist government. Read it.

She was the first American Journalist expelled from Germany.

carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 2d

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Dirt @mbdeed.bsky.social · 1d

How the True Believers in the teachings of Christ react to this moment.
WHERE ARE THE REST OF YOU?
WHERE IS YOUR GOD?

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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