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Julian Mope
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I sometimes post about bikes or dogs and stuff. I also share posts about threats to democracy and my community. My follower count is mostly blocked bots. 🇺🇦
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So long to a great one. Rest in peace, Wats.
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I know this is only adding to the list of emails and calls to representatives, but please consider doing either or ): these poor social creatures don't deserve any of this.
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
December 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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just found this great anti-velvet underground write-up about their december '65 summit high school debut by eyewitness suzie surfer! (see responses in the first post in this thread.)
December 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Pretty remarkable given her injuries. One last shot at glory in Cortina 2026.
Lindsey Vonn wins!

The 41-year-old American just won her first race since 2018, skiing to a win in the St. Moritz super-G.

She trailed by over .6 seconds early in the race, but ended up winning by an astonishing 0.98.

Insane stuff from a legend.
December 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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When an elected official talks like this, he is telling you he is willing to burn the country down for one man, Trump. This is the mindset fueling the attacks on democracy, and it should alarm anyone who still cares about the nation.
December 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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“Chicago faces a choice: balance the budget by cutting the very projects that reduce crashes, injuries, and lawsuits, or treat safe streets as a core component of fiscal responsibility that saves lives and money.” chi.streetsblog.org/2025/12/10/d...
Chicago’s capital plan would cut traffic-safety funding by nearly 70% as CPD lawsuit and CFD pension costs climb - Streetsblog Chicago
Documents show the main funding source for crash prevention dropping from $791M to $212M to help cover firefighter back pay and police misconduct settlements
chi.streetsblog.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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"Do the rich have too much political power?"

Yes: 80%
No: 8%

YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
December 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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@warren.senate.gov publishes a report listing all the $$ that Congress gave to DOD to do DOD things that DOD instead spent on Stephen Miller's snatch and grab.

As you look at these numbers, think how much cancer research could have been funded.

www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
December 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.

Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.

Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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No question whatsoever
I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
December 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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I’ve seen the Trump Administration do many terrible things, but this one is a first.

They wrongfully deported a 19-year-old Austin constituent in shackles. When she spoke out, armed ICE agents were sent in an unmarked van to threaten her parents. (1/2)
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December 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
They are who we said they are.
December 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Racist to the core. Same reason why they want to end birthright citizenship. Same reason they threaten to denaturalize anyone who doesn’t look and think like them.
Trump: "I've also announced a permanent pause on 3rd world migration, including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries. I didn't say shit hole, you did. I said that to the senators, the Democrats, so they came in and they said this is totally off the record .... "
December 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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This is a white supremacist rally. Anyone who attends something like this or still supports the leader of this movement should be unwelcome in your home and shunned from civil society. Period. We’re way past the point where this crap should be tolerated from anyone. Cast them out.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."

The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
December 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
December 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Billy Doran is on at the cafe for some reason.
December 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump
David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.
www.wsj.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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The Big Sur Coast is just insanely beautiful. It's the last few weeks before they open hwy1 from the slide, right now if you park at Nepenthe and ride south you have the road to yourself #bikesky #santacruzñ
December 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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“We are at war with Europe, not with Ukraine. This war will not end until we defeat Europe.”

If it acts like an aggressor, quacks like an aggressor, then it probably is russia.

They want to take over the entire continent. Take their word for it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Worms.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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New: Gov. Greg Abbott and Turning Point USA are launching a partnership to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every Texas high school campus.
Abbott says Turning Point USA will expand in Texas schools
Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also launched plans to expand the presence of the conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk.
www.texastribune.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Sometimes, it's difficult to predict how #SCOTUS is going to rule based solely on how the oral argument goes.

And sometimes ... it's not.
December 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Ellison understands exactly what it takes to secure Trump's support and all the leverage the US Government can bring to bear. The corruption of this administration has no parallel in prior US history.
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM