Raymonda Schwartz
@raescout.bsky.social
Avid mystery reader, mom to 4 rescue dogs, knitter. Was active in my community before it turned blood red.
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Important detail on Paramount's hostile takeover bid to buy WBD:
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount launches hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.
The move comes days after Paramount was bested by Netflix in a competitive bidding process to buy Warner Bros.
www.axios.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Important detail on Paramount's hostile takeover bid to buy WBD:
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
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and what is $25%
December 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
and what is $25%
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And you think he would defend Taiwan?
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
And you think he would defend Taiwan?
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Here are three news stories Democracy Docket published today. If you agree that independent, pro-democracy media is more important now than ever before, please support Democracy Docket with a membership today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
December 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Here are three news stories Democracy Docket published today. If you agree that independent, pro-democracy media is more important now than ever before, please support Democracy Docket with a membership today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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NEW — With Mayor Johnson and a fraction of the Chicago City Council seemingly at an impasse, one question surrounding the budget debate is why some alders would choose implementing regressive fees on working people over taxing corporations.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
Alternate Chicago budget from 26 alders leans on regressive fees. Why? • The TRiiBE
Proposing increased garbage fees and liquor taxes poses less of a risk for some alders
thetriibe.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
NEW — With Mayor Johnson and a fraction of the Chicago City Council seemingly at an impasse, one question surrounding the budget debate is why some alders would choose implementing regressive fees on working people over taxing corporations.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
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Tomorrow at 3:00 House and Senate Democrats will be holding a "shadow hearing" on the detention of U.S. citizens. I'll be there testifying about the broader policy changes which led us to this moment.
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
Blumenthal & Robert Garcia to Hold Forum to Receive Testimony from Five U.S. Citizens Assaulted, Illegally Detained by DHS | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
[WASHINGTON, DC] – On Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 3 PM ET in 216 Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal...
www.blumenthal.senate.gov
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Tomorrow at 3:00 House and Senate Democrats will be holding a "shadow hearing" on the detention of U.S. citizens. I'll be there testifying about the broader policy changes which led us to this moment.
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
/my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
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If you're a farmer getting hosed by Trump's tariffs, not to worry, he's handing you a nice fat check for your troubles. If you rely on the ACA for your health insurance, sorry, not only is your premium about to skyrocket, but it will cover fewer services. Trump's America! 🙄
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
If you're a farmer getting hosed by Trump's tariffs, not to worry, he's handing you a nice fat check for your troubles. If you rely on the ACA for your health insurance, sorry, not only is your premium about to skyrocket, but it will cover fewer services. Trump's America! 🙄
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Also, according to the Ukrainian official, the US offer worsened for Kyiv after Witkoff and Kushner held a five-hour meeting with Putin on December 2.
December 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Also, according to the Ukrainian official, the US offer worsened for Kyiv after Witkoff and Kushner held a five-hour meeting with Putin on December 2.
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Don Snoreleone would like another nap.
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Don Snoreleone would like another nap.
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Keep calm and carry on.
We will not be defeated. #RESIST
Do it for your health and for your country. ✊
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
We will not be defeated. #RESIST
Do it for your health and for your country. ✊
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Turns out fighting fascism helps you live longer
Retirees are mobilizing to defend democracy—and the benefits literally show up in their DNA.
www.motherjones.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Keep calm and carry on.
We will not be defeated. #RESIST
Do it for your health and for your country. ✊
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
We will not be defeated. #RESIST
Do it for your health and for your country. ✊
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
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Good. Zelensky is rejecting "Trump's" peace plan that was written in Russia and given to Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Zelensky rules out ceding land to Russia, refusing to bow to Putin or Trump
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would not give up territory, not to hasten peace talks, not to satisfy Washington and not under pressure from Moscow.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Good. Zelensky is rejecting "Trump's" peace plan that was written in Russia and given to Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
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Here’s the birth of Christ being defiled by masked federal thugs who think terrorizing marginalized people is funny.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
December 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Here’s the birth of Christ being defiled by masked federal thugs who think terrorizing marginalized people is funny.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
Homeland Security would have zip-tied the baby Jesus if its agents had been deployed in Bethlehem.
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I've been receiving so many messages from people here having their own "MELIA" in their home. Many looking like her too. I can't thank you enough for sharing your story. Many think she's a forgotten soul. I know there's someone out there for her ❤️
516.785.5220
[email protected]
516.785.5220
[email protected]
December 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I've been receiving so many messages from people here having their own "MELIA" in their home. Many looking like her too. I can't thank you enough for sharing your story. Many think she's a forgotten soul. I know there's someone out there for her ❤️
516.785.5220
[email protected]
516.785.5220
[email protected]
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In 2016, Whiskey Pete Hegseth bluntly warned that Trump would push unlawful military orders and abandon anyone who refused to break the law for him. These people weren’t fooled; they saw the risk to the country and the military.
They chose complicity over integrity, and they’re still doing it.
They chose complicity over integrity, and they’re still doing it.
December 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
In 2016, Whiskey Pete Hegseth bluntly warned that Trump would push unlawful military orders and abandon anyone who refused to break the law for him. These people weren’t fooled; they saw the risk to the country and the military.
They chose complicity over integrity, and they’re still doing it.
They chose complicity over integrity, and they’re still doing it.
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I thought this was fake, because it's so crazy racist and narcissistic that even Trump couldn't do it. But it's real.
December 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I thought this was fake, because it's so crazy racist and narcissistic that even Trump couldn't do it. But it's real.
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Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
December 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
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3/ This decision wasn’t evidence-based. Hep B has one of the strongest safety records of any vaccine. For decades, the universal birth dose has prevented chronic liver disease & saved lives.
If you want a vaccine at birth, even without a positive test, you still can get it & insurance will cover it
If you want a vaccine at birth, even without a positive test, you still can get it & insurance will cover it
December 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
3/ This decision wasn’t evidence-based. Hep B has one of the strongest safety records of any vaccine. For decades, the universal birth dose has prevented chronic liver disease & saved lives.
If you want a vaccine at birth, even without a positive test, you still can get it & insurance will cover it
If you want a vaccine at birth, even without a positive test, you still can get it & insurance will cover it
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Trump is giving another $12 billion of taxpayer money to bail out farmers again from his disastrous policies. Just like he had to bail them out in his first term from his disastrous policies. But they will continue to vote Republican, as long as they keep getting their welfare checks.
December 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Trump is giving another $12 billion of taxpayer money to bail out farmers again from his disastrous policies. Just like he had to bail them out in his first term from his disastrous policies. But they will continue to vote Republican, as long as they keep getting their welfare checks.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The Trump family wants a piece of every deal now. So when Netflix and Warner Bros. announce their deal, slimy Jared Kushner brings murderer MBS in for a hostile takeover along with Paramount. They’re selling everything to the Saudis.
fortune.com/2025/12/08/j...
fortune.com/2025/12/08/j...
Jared Kushner suddenly emerges in the WBD fight, backed by Saudi billions and fresh off brokering another mega-deal | Fortune
Trump’s son-in-law is emerging as a central conduit for Gulf money moving into American media and they're backing the Ellisons and Paramount.
fortune.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The Trump family wants a piece of every deal now. So when Netflix and Warner Bros. announce their deal, slimy Jared Kushner brings murderer MBS in for a hostile takeover along with Paramount. They’re selling everything to the Saudis.
fortune.com/2025/12/08/j...
fortune.com/2025/12/08/j...