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Human-powered news feed defending your civil liberties and climate from oligarchs & fascists. Rants as necessary here already for quite a while.
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whstancil.bsky.social
“What is remigration, which the Department of Homeland Security is calling for?”

It’s this:
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
Don't. Print. Lies. in. The. Newspapers.
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
so none of what he’s saying is real btw
Donald J. Trump + @realDonald Trump Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect. The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States. The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him. I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
webrant.bsky.social
Embracing a scam makes you part of it.
astrokatie.com Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 6h
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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ryanjreilly.com
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.

She didn't want to deploy to D.C.

"She hated it. She cried about it."

But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.

May she rest in peace.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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newrepublic.com
A report reveals the DOJ—after frantically realizing the files would be released—has been paying FBI agents nearly $1M in overtime to work on the “Epstein Transparency Project."

Ostensibly aimed at protecting victims' privacy, the project could also prevent exposing Trump. trib.al/su4zh6N
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
Trump's standing with the public has taken a huge hit in the past few months. He's now regularly polling in the 30s. And their big play to reverse this decline? War in Venezuela - and that's even more unpopular than his handling of inflation. 4/
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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atrupar.com
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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davidsirota.com
🚨NEW: A new poll Americans’ support for Medicare For All has intensified to the point where the old attacks may no longer work.

As both parties legislate criticism of socialism, there has been a 50-point shift on a key question in just 6 years.

This is YUGE.

substack.com/home/post/p-...
A Massive Shift In Health Care Politics
As both parties are legislating criticism of socialism, Americans’ support for Medicare For All has intensified to the point where the old attacks may no longer work.
substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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ultraviolet.bsky.social
Idaho is showing up for reproductive freedom! Let's go!
Ballot initiative to end Idaho’s abortion ban has more than 50,000 signatures, group says • Idaho Capital Sun
Idahoans United for Women and Families announced it has collected more than 50,000 signatures so far out of the nearly 71,000 needed.
idahocapitalsun.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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jonmladd.bsky.social
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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diplomatofnight.com
Van Hollen is being personally credited as the chief pressure point that made Israel release a Palestinian teenager with American citizenship from their dungeons, where he was held for 9 months without even a criminal charge.
dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3h
⭕️ Sen. Chris Van Hollen (@vanhollen.senate.gov) credited for key role in release of US teen from Israeli detention

Palestinian-American child Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, was freed today after 9 months of Israeli imprisonment w/o charge. Journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who has been a major advocate for...
⭕️ Sen. Chris Van Hollen credited for key role in release of U.S. teen from Israeli detention Palestinian-American child Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, was freed today after nine months of Israeli imprisonment without charge. Journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who has been a major advocate for and reported extensively on the teen’s release, says Sen. Chris Van Hollen and his staff “fought hard for this, including behind the scenes.” Van Hollen has also applied sustained pressure across a series of human-rights cases and foreign-policy issues in the past year: ▪️ He flew to El Salvador in mid-April 2025 after Trump’s DHS illegally deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, intervening directly to gain access and press for his lawful return. Garcia was subsequently brought back to the United States. ▪️ He has co-led legislation to block U.S. arms sales to the UAE over its support for Sudan’s genocidal Rapid Support Forces. ▪️ He publicly pressed for oversight of Trump’s UAE-linked crypto dealings in May 2025, warning of foreign-influence risks and conflicts of interest. ▪️ He was also among the only senators sharply critical of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation scheme (that led to mass killings of Palestinians) and the organization’s lack of transparency — part of the sustained scrutiny the organization faced before its recent shutdown. ▪️ During a summer delegation trip to Israel, the West Bank, Jordan and Egypt, Van Hollen urged action to curb settler violence, expand humanitarian access to Gaza, and enforce U.S. human-rights conditions tied to security assistance to Israel. Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen 16-year-old American Mohammed Ibrahim has been released after over 9 months in an Israeli prison without trial. I was relieved to hear from his family today and to know that he’s safe and where he belongs — with his family.
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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webrant.bsky.social
FUN FACT: His USAID cuts have already resulted in the starvation deaths of over 224,575 children with millions more expected.

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patriottakes.bsky.social PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 3h
Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children.

Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
November 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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patriottakes.bsky.social
People clapping for Trump shortly after the song’s line warns “there are people dying” of starvation
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
Beyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).

There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.

The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial

www.usni.org/magazines/na...
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3h
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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murshedz.bsky.social
Dem Senators and MoCs shouldn’t be voting for DoD authorization spending legislation as long as Hegseth remains in charge of DoD. This should be basic and a position that Dem Leadership should be whipping while loudly speaking out against war crimes/extra judicial killings funded by our tax dollars.
rgoodlaw.bsky.social Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 3h
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
There is no reason for anyone to be intimidated by this unpopular failing lame duck whose mental and physical health is circling the drain
simonwdc.bsky.social Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 3h
Four polls in recent days now have Trump in the 30s, with 3 at 35%-36%: 2/
35%-62% (-27) ARG
35%-56% (-21) High Point University
36%-60% (-24) Gallup
38%-57% (-19) Econ/YouGov
Again, Trump just keeps dropping.

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simonwdc.bsky.social Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 3d
Two polls released today have Trump at 35% job approval, his lowest yet.
35%-62% ARG
35%-56% High Point University

Economist/YouGov track had him at 38%-57%, their lowest reading this year. He just keeps dropping.

Wag the dog time!

Data and graph from fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said. A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack - the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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webrant.bsky.social
While we wait for the release of more files implicating the serial rapist in child sex trafficking.

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November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Rejected cover sketch
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
🎁 link to the WSJ editorial that made Stephen Miller so mad.

"It would be a shame if this single act of betrayal became the excuse for deporting all Afghan refugees...

"Thousands are building new lives here in peace. Collective punishment won’t make America safer."

www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The Ambush on the National Guard
The alleged shooting by an Afghan ‘partner’ shouldn’t condemn all who assisted the U.S. and now live here.
www.wsj.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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sheg7.bsky.social
I think it is super telling that no MPs other than the @greenparty.org.uk is saying that trans people are being targeted and the policy is aimed at them. Just that they are distressed by "stuff"
mariecgoldman.bsky.social Marie Goldman MP @mariecgoldman.bsky.social · 9h
Imagine being turned away from a bathroom, hospital, or cinema for “not looking female enough”. The leaked EHRC guidance could do just that. Along with my Lib Dem colleagues, I’ve written to the Minister calling for new, inclusive, practical guidance that protects everyone’s rights.
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM