PattyB
@pattyjb.bsky.social
Progressive Dem, yoga enthusiast, animal lover, dog mom, reader, backyard birder, gardener, yarder. Pro democracy. SoCal. We have always been a nation of immigrants.
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If it weren't for SCOTUS's right wing, I'd have hope that this could be stopped. "The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out" - I've been pointing this out since Trump purged the DOJ. How do we get out of this bind if Trump controls voting?
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
If it weren't for SCOTUS's right wing, I'd have hope that this could be stopped. "The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out" - I've been pointing this out since Trump purged the DOJ. How do we get out of this bind if Trump controls voting?
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"...Faith tradition pressured victims to forgive Massie, then to forget about the abuse and never speak of it again... These “forgiveness sessions” took place between the children and Massie; one girl described the terror she felt being hugged by Massie as her father and a preacher looked on."
What a Recorded Interview Between Police and Preachers Reveals About How a Minnesota Church Handled Sexual Abuse
A roughly 40-minute conversation shows how leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church kept an open secret quiet for so long.
www.propublica.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"...Faith tradition pressured victims to forgive Massie, then to forget about the abuse and never speak of it again... These “forgiveness sessions” took place between the children and Massie; one girl described the terror she felt being hugged by Massie as her father and a preacher looked on."
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Longtime Sports Illustrated columnist Reilly also wrote the book Commander in Cheat which documented the many ways that Trump cheats at golf.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Longtime Sports Illustrated columnist Reilly also wrote the book Commander in Cheat which documented the many ways that Trump cheats at golf.
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🔥 Ukrainian intelligence destroys Russian Buk air defence system in occupied territory
Ukrainian intelligence destroys Russian Buk air defence system in occupied territory – video
Prymary (Phantoms), a special unit of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU), has hit a Russian Buk-M3 surface-to-air missile system near the occupied settlement of Sviatotroitske in Zaporizhzhia Oblas...
www.pravda.com.ua
December 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🔥 Ukrainian intelligence destroys Russian Buk air defence system in occupied territory
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I really want a t-shirt from this event.
Bucks County Punk Rock Flea Market and Burlesque After Party Arrive in Doylestown on Sunday | The market will have over 35 vendors selling records, clothing, art, jewelry, up-cycled goods, goth decor, and more from 12 to 6 p.m. in the basement of Hops/Scotch bar in Doylestown.
Bucks County Punk Rock Flea Market and Burlesque After Party Arrive in Doylestown on Sunday - Bucks County Beacon
The market will have over 35 vendors selling records, clothing, art, jewelry, up-cycled goods, goth decor, and more from 12 to 6 p.m. in the basement of Hops/Scotch bar in Doylestown.
buckscountybeacon.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I really want a t-shirt from this event.
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When Pete Hegseth tweeted he was investigating me, Gabby laughed and laughed.
December 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
When Pete Hegseth tweeted he was investigating me, Gabby laughed and laughed.
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“Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job.”
“Our officers here have a duty to intervene,” he added, saying that duty extends “not just from law enforcement, from our own agency.”—Minneapolis Police Chief, Brian O’Hara.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #ICE #Minnestota
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
“Our officers here have a duty to intervene,” he added, saying that duty extends “not just from law enforcement, from our own agency.”—Minneapolis Police Chief, Brian O’Hara.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #ICE #Minnestota
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job.”
“Our officers here have a duty to intervene,” he added, saying that duty extends “not just from law enforcement, from our own agency.”—Minneapolis Police Chief, Brian O’Hara.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #ICE #Minnestota
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
“Our officers here have a duty to intervene,” he added, saying that duty extends “not just from law enforcement, from our own agency.”—Minneapolis Police Chief, Brian O’Hara.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #ICE #Minnestota
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
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If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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‘Blatant lawlessness’: Judge decries another ‘unlawful’ deportation
‘Blatant lawlessness’: Judge decries another ‘unlawful’ deportation
Faustino Pablo Pablo was deported to Guatemala despite his urgent warnings to immigration officials that he faced serious danger in his home country.
dlvr.it
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
‘Blatant lawlessness’: Judge decries another ‘unlawful’ deportation
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Dozens gathered to show support in Boston's City Hall Plaza in solidarity with community members detained by ICE.
Union Workers Join Immigrants In City Hall Rally Against ICE | WBZ NewsRadio 1030
Dozens gathered to show support in Boston's City Hall Plaza in solidarity with community members detained by ICE.
wbznewsradio.iheart.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Dozens gathered to show support in Boston's City Hall Plaza in solidarity with community members detained by ICE.
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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US vaccine committee scraps recommendation for hepatitis B shot in newborns reut.rs/3KL48V1
US vaccine committee scraps recommendation for hepatitis B shot in newborns
A group of vaccine advisers to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday voted to remove the broad recommendation that all newborns in the U.S. receive a hepatitis B vaccine, in one of the most sweeping changes to vaccine policy under Kennedy's leadership so far. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on which public health recommendations to adopt.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
US vaccine committee scraps recommendation for hepatitis B shot in newborns reut.rs/3KL48V1
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JUST IN: US judge clears Justice Department to release Epstein grand jury transcripts reut.rs/3XDpbM5
December 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
JUST IN: US judge clears Justice Department to release Epstein grand jury transcripts reut.rs/3XDpbM5
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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Yeah, a House member needs to send up that impeachment flag. This is illegal, immoral, dangerous behavior — that is also likely unconstitutional as well.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Yeah, a House member needs to send up that impeachment flag. This is illegal, immoral, dangerous behavior — that is also likely unconstitutional as well.
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BREAKING: U.S. forces struck another boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing all four men aboard.
December 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
BREAKING: U.S. forces struck another boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing all four men aboard.
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Wow, Adm. Holsey didn't leave of his own accord, Hegseth pushed him out. What looked like the SOCOM head resigning rather than do war crimes now looks like SecDef canning him to facilitate war crimes.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
Exclusive | Hegseth Asked Top Admiral to Resign After Months of Discord
The relationship between the Pentagon chief and Adm. Alvin Holsey had been rocky since Trump’s inauguration.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Wow, Adm. Holsey didn't leave of his own accord, Hegseth pushed him out. What looked like the SOCOM head resigning rather than do war crimes now looks like SecDef canning him to facilitate war crimes.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
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BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee
open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...
open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...
BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee
They’re questioning how 31,000 additional votes appeared with 99.4% votes counted - and that's not all.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee
open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...
open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...
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Holding ourselves to account over the boat strike isn’t about the traffickers or the boat… it’s about us
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December 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Holding ourselves to account over the boat strike isn’t about the traffickers or the boat… it’s about us
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NEW: Federal agents wearing tactical gear and wielding assault rifles busted into an apartment in Jackson Heights Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead, according to eyewitnesses and video obtained by THE CITY.
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Feds Bust into Jackson Heights Apartment Building In Pre-Dawn Raid
Dozens of agents wielding assault rifles took two middle-aged, Spanish-speaking people away in cuffs early Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead.
www.thecity.nyc
December 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
NEW: Federal agents wearing tactical gear and wielding assault rifles busted into an apartment in Jackson Heights Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead, according to eyewitnesses and video obtained by THE CITY.
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PRO TIP: If you're going to lash out at reporters for questioning your stamina, don't fall asleep mid-rant.
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
PRO TIP: If you're going to lash out at reporters for questioning your stamina, don't fall asleep mid-rant.