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TsarReed
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Progressive just trying to make the world a better place. Who’s with me? In Vietnam until current Admin killed my project. (Permanent residence in Denver.)

Love sports, exploring countries and cultures, the outdoors. Plus platforms to waste precious time!
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At a loose end tomorrow? @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social book club is back for winter. From 8pm UK you can quiz myself and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social all about Ring of Fire! Email [email protected] for zoom logins
November 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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At a loose end tomorrow? Our book club is back for winter. From 8pm UK you can quiz @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social all about Ring of Fire! Email [email protected] for zoom logins
November 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Panthers D?????????

Panthers D!!!!!!!!!

Panthers!!!!!!!
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Panthers!!!!!!!!

(Again)
November 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Also in Colts game that was not DPI on Indy.
November 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
In Colts game the DB clearly tackles WR. But ball was 8 yards toward seats. Absolutely uncatchable (except by Plastic Man).
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Panthers!!!!!
November 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.

Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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GEORGIA: Rodney Taylor, a double amputee barber here his whole life was 2 days away from getting new legs when Trump’s ICE goons grabbed him. He has been held almost a year, facing deportation to Liberia.

What are we doing?
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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“In nearly all of the examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the Department of Homeland Security narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras.”

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge
The ABC7 I-Team is taking a closer look at a trove of videos ordered released by a federal judge in her explanation of the preliminary injunction she issued earlier this month restricting use of force...
abc7chicago.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Once again, the people of Churchville VA (and I’ve been through there many times actually) were perfectly happy seeing other people hurt, especially POC. But can’t believe orangeade would hurt them.
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Since trump’s re-election a year ago, warnings that his use of the presidency to advance his personal interests is corroding American democracy have grown ever louder.

#TheTrumpCrimeFamily is currently operating a corruption system for their own benefit.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Who could have suspected that there would be a downside to making an incompetent sexually-assaulting drunkard the U.S. Secretary of Defense?
November 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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He scammed over 1,000 people, most of whom were not wealthy - veterans, farmers, teachers, nurses, small businesses owners. Some lost everything. But he’s a rich Republican, so Trump let him get away with it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.

This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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"Hegseth did not deny that two defenseless people were killed. We still do not know what, if anything, they were guilty of. Certainly, as they clung to the wreckage of a boat in the ocean, they did not pose an immediate threat to the United States."

They killed them because they could.
November 30, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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This article lays out just how clear the case was against Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran president convicted of trafficking cociane to the US was. He primised ro “shove cocaine up the nose of gringos”

Trump promises to pardon him. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Trump allowed 17 members of the Sinaloa cartel into the US.

In May he commuted the 6x life sentences of the leader of the Gangster Disciples, most notorious drug trafficking & murderous street gang in the US.

Now Honduran drug trafficker Hernandez.

Is Trump setting up his own drug corridor?
November 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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The highest calling of journalism isn’t to tell two sides of a story.

The highest calling of journalism is to tell the truth.

And acting like a stenographer is a betrayal of your audience.
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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A new mural has appeared in Ternopil, dedicated to children killed in Russia’s attack.

The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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A masked ICE agent aggressively sprayed a woman protester directly in the face during a raid in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Another unacceptable act of violence against a peaceful protester that needs to be condemned and punished.
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.

Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?

He gets a full presidential pardon.

Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM