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High desert dweller. Lover of democracy, music and nature.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Trump’s targeting of Somalis risks an escalation of hate against us: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
Trump’s targeting of Somalis risks an escalation of hate against us
We make a positive contribution to societies where we settle, say Somalis.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Trump’s targeting of Somalis risks an escalation of hate against us: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
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Want to travel to the US? You might have to give the Trump administration the last five years of your social media history.
US wants five years of some tourists' social media to enter the country
Digital rights advocates say it’s an affront to civil liberties.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Want to travel to the US? You might have to give the Trump administration the last five years of your social media history.
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Trump reveals he was recently administered another cognitive exam — a test given to patients to detect signs of dementia.
December 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Trump reveals he was recently administered another cognitive exam — a test given to patients to detect signs of dementia.
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Trump keeps attacking women. We’re still not responding. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Trump on Women
The new Mayor of Miami, Florida, is a Democrat.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Trump keeps attacking women. We’re still not responding. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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"When asked if he would do DOGE again, Musk said he doesn't think so..."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
December 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
"When asked if he would do DOGE again, Musk said he doesn't think so..."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Ew. What the actual fuck?
Trump on Karoline Leavitt: "That beautiful face and those lips that don't stop like a little machine gun"
December 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Ew. What the actual fuck?
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Donald Trump’s mental decline has gotten worse.
Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?
And why won’t they ask who’s really making the decisions in the White House? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHL...
Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?
And why won’t they ask who’s really making the decisions in the White House? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHL...
Trump’s Mental Decline Is a Danger to Us All
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Donald Trump’s mental decline has gotten worse.
Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?
And why won’t they ask who’s really making the decisions in the White House? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHL...
Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?
And why won’t they ask who’s really making the decisions in the White House? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHL...
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Hegseth: A Security Risk to the United States open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... "I can attest to the fact that in our nation’s history, never has a more damning [IG] statement been written about the conduct of an American Secretary of Defense (SECDEF)."
Hegseth: A Security Risk to the United States
The Steady State | by J, William Leonard
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Hegseth: A Security Risk to the United States open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... "I can attest to the fact that in our nation’s history, never has a more damning [IG] statement been written about the conduct of an American Secretary of Defense (SECDEF)."
‘Pretty Explicit White Nationalism’: Trump National Security Strategy Document Leaves Critics Aghast www.commondreams.org/news/trump-n...
‘Pretty Explicit White Nationalism’: Trump National Security Strategy Document Leaves Critics Aghast | Common Dreams
The Trump administration's National Security Strategy sparks controversy with rhetoric resembling white nationalism, targeting European countries.
www.commondreams.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
‘Pretty Explicit White Nationalism’: Trump National Security Strategy Document Leaves Critics Aghast www.commondreams.org/news/trump-n...
As the US suspends visas, an in-depth look at the global Afghan refugee crisis: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
As the US suspends visas, an in-depth look at the global Afghan refugee crisis
Trump’s moves are only the latest additions to the litany of restrictions confronting Afghan migrants and asylum seekers around the world.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
As the US suspends visas, an in-depth look at the global Afghan refugee crisis: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
After Trump's Latest Racist Rant, Ilhan Omar Hopes 'He Gets the Help He Desperately Needs' www.commondreams.org/news/ilhan-o...
After Trump's Latest Racist Rant, Ilhan Omar Hopes 'He Gets the Help He Desperately Needs' | Common Dreams
“His obsession with me is creepy," said Rep. Ilhan Omar, the first Somali American ever elected to the US Congress.
www.commondreams.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
After Trump's Latest Racist Rant, Ilhan Omar Hopes 'He Gets the Help He Desperately Needs' www.commondreams.org/news/ilhan-o...
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And as the legend goes, he'll be sleeping for the next 20 years -which is probably the greatest Christmas gift any of us has ever, and will ever receive.
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
And as the legend goes, he'll be sleeping for the next 20 years -which is probably the greatest Christmas gift any of us has ever, and will ever receive.
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Why does the press need to do this song and dance with the press secretary where they ask her if the president was sleeping? What she says doesn’t matter. They are suckers for staying in the game when it’s all lies. Of course he was sleeping. Was else was he doing? We can all plainly see it.
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Why does the press need to do this song and dance with the press secretary where they ask her if the president was sleeping? What she says doesn’t matter. They are suckers for staying in the game when it’s all lies. Of course he was sleeping. Was else was he doing? We can all plainly see it.
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His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.
Trump on Walz: "You look at what he's done with Somalia where Somalia, which is barely a country -- they have no anything, they just run around killing each other. When I see somebody like Ilhan Omar, I always watch her, for years I've watched her complain about our Constitution ... "
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.
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Vile, unhinged, gutter racism, the kind of horrifying attacks that literally everyone must rally to oppose
NYT: “.. Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
December 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Vile, unhinged, gutter racism, the kind of horrifying attacks that literally everyone must rally to oppose
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North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.
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Der Spiegel: Commander in Sleep
December 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Der Spiegel: Commander in Sleep
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NEW: DOGE isn’t dead, despite recent reports.
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW: DOGE isn’t dead, despite recent reports.
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
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Smoking gun: Pete Hegseth Bragged on Fox Hours After No Survivors Boat Strike in September — ‘I Watched It Live.’ This guy gave the order to kill survivors. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...
Trump War Sec Hegseth Bragged on Fox Hours After No Survivors Boat Strike — ‘I Watched It Live’
Pete Hegseth bragged on Fox News that he watched, in real time, the controversial boat strike that he is now distancing himself from.
www.mediaite.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Smoking gun: Pete Hegseth Bragged on Fox Hours After No Survivors Boat Strike in September — ‘I Watched It Live.’ This guy gave the order to kill survivors. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...