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ShannonB

@shannonbuz.bsky.social

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Semiconductor Physicist and Engineer, Former Geologist. I also got a Class A drivers license and drove various trucks commercially from 2016-2020 for fun. I also build furniture recreationally. Be the change you want to see in the world.

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · Mar 10

Prof. Charles Brainman @expanse.bsky.social · Mar 10

OYE, BELTALOWDA! VIDEOS CAN NOW BE UP TO 3 MINUTES LONG

#TheExpanse

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 3h

"This means you’ve got a right to be left alone unless the police present evidence showing that there’s a strong chance you’ve committed a crime, and a judge issues a warrant."

www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

To the Fourth Amendment: You Were Great While We Knew You | Common Dreams

Trump is aping King George III in attacking constitutional restraints on unreasonable searches and seizures.

www.commondreams.org

ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 3h

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 4h

So glad these nonviolent protests are spreading.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 4h

A marine that served with honor.
Do you think Republicans in Congress will listen and make the changes he's requesting?

butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 9h

They should sue ICE Gestapo n DHS for damages. Hopefully, they get lots of $$$ for the way ICE treated their father! #iceout

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 4h

I have friends there, and I used to visit often when I lived in Seattle.
It really is normal for Portland.

ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 4h

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 7h

MAGGAT trouble maker caught trying to incite violence at a peaceful protest in Portland! #portland #firstamendment

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 4h

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 4h

Keeping Portland weird!

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 5h

A new Portland character has entered the chat at the ICE facility….meet The Unipiper!

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 4h

ICE kidnapping children.
If you grabbed a minor, without parental permission, and took them across state lines, you'd be arrested.
ICE needs to be held accountable.
ICE needs to be abolished.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 7h

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.

ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 4h

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 9h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 4h

There is no security threat in allowing detainees to have freedom of religion, and it's unconstitutional to prohibit it.

www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...

Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

www.fox32chicago.com

ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 5h

"Official guidance in place since 2021 directs ICE to avoid detaining pregnant, postpartum, and lactating women, unless their release is 'prohibited by law' or in 'exceptional circumstances.'”

But we all know how well ICE follows the law.

theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...

The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention

The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.

theintercept.com

ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 5h

"When the U.S. ships weapons overseas {..} the State Department is obligated to investigate and, in many cases, alert Congress.
In practice, however, a new Government Accountability Office report shows the system is ad hoc, with little guidance or follow through."

theintercept.com/2025/10/10/s...

The State Department Isn’t Telling Congress When U.S. Weapons Fall Into the Wrong Hands

Congress is being left in the dark about the fate of U.S. weapons transfers, a new federal watchdog report found.

theintercept.com

ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 5h

"23 of the 27 with Republican governors — have been involved in deploying National Guard troops in support of Trump’s war on immigrants and his urban occupations. In at least 19 states with Republican governors, Guard members are assisting [ICE]"

theintercept.com/2025/10/09/r...

Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities

An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.

theintercept.com

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 9h

Apparently TikTok has started censoring content the Republicans won't like because it's true.

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 13h

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH — @drjessicaknurick.bsky.social : “Here’s a partial list of things Trump is choosing to no longer study — food insecurity, gun violence, toxic exposures etc… Just because you don't measure it doesn't mean the problem went away. Censoring science & data collection is scary in a democracy.”

ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 13h

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 13h

MY grand uncle did too. His brother, my grandfather, tried to enlist but was rejected due to an injury caused by an auto accident when he was a teenager. So he drove a truck hauling munitions and chemicals domestically as part of the war effort.

ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 15h

Seriously, some of y'all need to learn how to use a search engine like Google. It literally took me less than 5 minutes to find this. First link is to the archived study that was deleted and the second is the Snopes assessment.

web.archive.org/web/20250911...

www.snopes.com/fact-check/d...

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