Pdxeagle
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Pdxeagle
@pdxeagle.bsky.social
SGI Buddhist. Active in 1960’s and 1970’s protests, having déjà vu. Committed to dialogue.
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I think Trump doesn’t want the bad publicity and wants to bully the ICC.
December 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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A for-profit virtual education company accused of defrauding investors and other harms is set to run a new school at an immigration prison in Texas, according to job advertise...
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison - The American Prospect
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended detention...
prospect.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I worry that he’s goading Venezuela into taking some action against U.S. that he can interpret as a hostile action that justifies U.S. declaring war. Talk me down?
the.as
December 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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The U.S. is not a member of the ICC, but the court can still prosecute individuals for actions carried out on the territory of ICC member nations.
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
December 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was taken to a detention center and held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care
December 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Democrats need just four Republican signatures to force a vote on ACA tax credits and make health insurance more affordable in America.

Speaker Johnson refuses to budge.

www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
GOP moves to let Obamacare subsidies expire as Trump promises ‘money to the people’
As the president rails against insurance companies, other Republicans say allowing a subsidy lapse is “not acceptable.”
www.politico.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Pam Bondi is Coming for Domestic Terrorists. You Might Be One of Them.

I recorded an emergency pod to explain this story. Fair warning: it’s likely to be the scariest thing you hear today. And, if you’re not alarmed, you’re not paying attention.

open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Pam Bondi is Coming for Domestic Terrorists. You Might Be One of Them.
An emergency video/podcast
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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I've had to have uncomfortable conversations like this with it as well.

It sadly assures me it's not feeding me a line consistently.

And thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social for your public nudge yesterday for us to move our substack support from you to others who need $.

👍
December 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Donald Trump is trying to shut down the CFPB, an agency that has returned $21 billion to Americans who were cheated by big banks and giant corporations.

I joined my fellow @banking.senate.gov to break down what it means for you.

Trump is siding with the scammers. We’re fighting back.
Donald Trump is trying to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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The EPA reveals a new website, which looks just like it was written by the fossil fuels industry... and that's because it was. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
The EPA erases mentions of human-fueled climate change from its web pages
A spokesperson for the EPA said the agency ‘no longer takes marching orders from the climate cult’
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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No one is going to want to come here
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
So the White House is changing the print font because the previous change to one more easily-read by visually impaired people was a DEIA action? There truly is no bottom to the cruelty. He’ll do away with all handicap access laws any day now, and I wish I was being sarcastic.
December 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Japan Issues ‘Megaquake’ Warning: What to Know - TIME
December 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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‘Absolutely appalled’: Judge blasts ICE for failing to feed detainee before court

@oregonian.com

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
‘Absolutely appalled’: Judge blasts ICE for failing to feed detainee before court
A federal judge in Eugene ordered the 22-year-old's release on supervision.
www.oregonlive.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Speaking of second chances at live events, Rachel's event this Sunday in Los Angeles in connection with the "Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order" podcast was sold out but more seats have been made available.

Details here: www.ticketmaster.com/event/090063...
December 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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🚨Pam Bondi just ordered the FBI to compile a list of American "extremists" and to establish a bounty fund to reward tipsters, per DOJ memo leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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11/ When Blue Cross, Georgia’s largest health insurer, moved to include Palmyra in its health care plans, Wernick threatened to withdraw Phoebe from the Blue Cross network if it went ahead with the deal.

It did not.
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I can’t be the only one who worries that these investment accounts for babies means those children will be tracked by the federal government starting from birth? It seems like one more way to create a data base.
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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"The small figures huddled together at Miami's airport carried backpacks, stuffed animals and suitcases. One wore a silver cross necklace. Families of the travelers – ages 3 to 15 – have been torn apart this year by Trump's deportation campaign..."

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
‘A sad, cruel moment’: 58 Florida children leaving US amid parent deportations
“The only losers are the children.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I’m sure I’m not the only one who predicted, when he took over the Kennedy Center, that he would use the occasion of the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony to rename the building after himself.
December 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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The hits keep coming.

I would think a lot of MAGA fly Southwest and got treated terribly and ripped off and wouldn't be happy about this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/u...
Trump Administration Waives $11 Million Southwest Airlines Fine
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM