JWS Hikes
@jwshikes.bsky.social
Long time independent, fiscally responsible, socially and environmentally liberal. Retired USAF. Trying to enjoy retirement, however the groundhog said 4 more years of insanity, so trying to do my part to end the madness.
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"Trump rarely faces direct consequences for his shameful rhetoric. That’s because in the past Republicans have largely refused to abandon him no matter what he says or does. But there are signs that's now changing."
Trump's ugly Thanksgiving meltdown
It's getting so bad that even Republicans are starting to notice.
www.publicnotice.co
December 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"Trump rarely faces direct consequences for his shameful rhetoric. That’s because in the past Republicans have largely refused to abandon him no matter what he says or does. But there are signs that's now changing."
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‘I am your retribution’: In his second term, Trump has turned that rallying cry into a governing principle. A Reuters tally finds at least 470 people, businesses and institutions targeted for payback. Full investigation: reut.rs/49B2UWt
December 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
‘I am your retribution’: In his second term, Trump has turned that rallying cry into a governing principle. A Reuters tally finds at least 470 people, businesses and institutions targeted for payback. Full investigation: reut.rs/49B2UWt
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To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
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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...
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
“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...
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
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Venezuela's National Assembly to investigate US boat strikes reut.rs/3M8vxAM
Venezuela's National Assembly to investigate US boat strikes
Venezuela's National Assembly will form a special commission to investigate U.S. President Donald Trump's deadly strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats off the Venezuelan coast and in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the congressional body's president said on Sunday.
reut.rs
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Venezuela's National Assembly to investigate US boat strikes reut.rs/3M8vxAM
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A bi-partisan inquiry into Hegseth and Trump’s Venezuela boat strikes and killings is afoot: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Congressional committees vow to boost oversight in killing of boat strike survivors
The Senate and House armed services committees’ pledge followed a Washington Post report revealing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered that a U.S. strike leave no survivors.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
A bi-partisan inquiry into Hegseth and Trump’s Venezuela boat strikes and killings is afoot: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump and Witkoff seem to believe that all Americans care about is making money. When it comes to Ukraine, however, polls show clearly that American care about right and wrong. Trump is out of step with American people on Ukraine/Russia.
Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Trump and Witkoff seem to believe that all Americans care about is making money. When it comes to Ukraine, however, polls show clearly that American care about right and wrong. Trump is out of step with American people on Ukraine/Russia.
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I’ll let the lawyers and the court s determine the legality is such an order, but Hegseth’s order is grotesquely immoral and extremely damaging to Americas reputation around the world.
SCOOP: For the Trump admin's Sept. 2 strike targeting 11 men on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs, SecDef Hegseth gave an order, officials say, to kill them all. When two men were still alive, orders were given to strike again, finishing them off.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I’ll let the lawyers and the court s determine the legality is such an order, but Hegseth’s order is grotesquely immoral and extremely damaging to Americas reputation around the world.
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Pete Hegseth, you in danger, girl.
November 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Pete Hegseth, you in danger, girl.
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“By the early afternoon, nearly 200 people had gathered outside the garage, chanting and yelling at the agents, who peered out from inside the garage.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“By the early afternoon, nearly 200 people had gathered outside the garage, chanting and yelling at the agents, who peered out from inside the garage.”
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“As the agents moved to exit their vehicles, protesters blocked them, forming a barricade at the mouth of the garage with their bodies and piling mounds of garbage bags beside them. The standoff continued for the better part of an hour as more and more protesters arrived.”
Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“As the agents moved to exit their vehicles, protesters blocked them, forming a barricade at the mouth of the garage with their bodies and piling mounds of garbage bags beside them. The standoff continued for the better part of an hour as more and more protesters arrived.”
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US State Department stops processing visas for Afghan allies reut.rs/48ohFJN
US State Department stops processing visas for Afghan allies
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered its diplomats worldwide to stop processing visas for Afghan nationals, according to a State Department cable seen by Reuters, effectively suspending the special immigration program for Afghans who helped the United States during its 20-year-long occupation of their home country.
reut.rs
November 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
US State Department stops processing visas for Afghan allies reut.rs/48ohFJN
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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Here’s proof that pressure works, even on unelected, MAGA appointees like Pathetic Patel:
Burn the wires: Abolish ICE. If you have a Dem rep, pressure them to stand up against fascism & abolish ICE - primary them if they don’t. If you have a pro-ICE GOP rep, pressure & flip the seat in the general
Burn the wires: Abolish ICE. If you have a Dem rep, pressure them to stand up against fascism & abolish ICE - primary them if they don’t. If you have a pro-ICE GOP rep, pressure & flip the seat in the general
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Here’s proof that pressure works, even on unelected, MAGA appointees like Pathetic Patel:
Burn the wires: Abolish ICE. If you have a Dem rep, pressure them to stand up against fascism & abolish ICE - primary them if they don’t. If you have a pro-ICE GOP rep, pressure & flip the seat in the general
Burn the wires: Abolish ICE. If you have a Dem rep, pressure them to stand up against fascism & abolish ICE - primary them if they don’t. If you have a pro-ICE GOP rep, pressure & flip the seat in the general
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Abolish ICE.
Call your representatives, and ask if they agree that they must be destroyed. Let them know you’ll volunteer, donate to, and vote for their primary opponents if they refuse to help dismantle and prosecute Trump’s SS.
Call your representatives, and ask if they agree that they must be destroyed. Let them know you’ll volunteer, donate to, and vote for their primary opponents if they refuse to help dismantle and prosecute Trump’s SS.
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Abolish ICE.
Call your representatives, and ask if they agree that they must be destroyed. Let them know you’ll volunteer, donate to, and vote for their primary opponents if they refuse to help dismantle and prosecute Trump’s SS.
Call your representatives, and ask if they agree that they must be destroyed. Let them know you’ll volunteer, donate to, and vote for their primary opponents if they refuse to help dismantle and prosecute Trump’s SS.
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All available evidence suggests that the Trump administration’s lethal strikes in the Caribbean constitute murder, plain and simple.
US ordered 2nd attack to kill survivors of Caribbean boat strike: report
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth allegedly issued an order to leave no survivors in a strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, prompting a second attack.
www.nydailynews.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
All available evidence suggests that the Trump administration’s lethal strikes in the Caribbean constitute murder, plain and simple.
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Canvass this morning to elect MIRA TANNA to the Orlando City Council with @annaforflorida.bsky.social! Election Day is just over a week away. Vote on or before Dec 9th if you live in any of these neighborhoods:
COLLEGE PARK
LAKE IVANHOE
ROSEMONT
BALDWIN PARK AUDUBON PARK
PACKING DISTRICT
COLLEGE PARK
LAKE IVANHOE
ROSEMONT
BALDWIN PARK AUDUBON PARK
PACKING DISTRICT
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Canvass this morning to elect MIRA TANNA to the Orlando City Council with @annaforflorida.bsky.social! Election Day is just over a week away. Vote on or before Dec 9th if you live in any of these neighborhoods:
COLLEGE PARK
LAKE IVANHOE
ROSEMONT
BALDWIN PARK AUDUBON PARK
PACKING DISTRICT
COLLEGE PARK
LAKE IVANHOE
ROSEMONT
BALDWIN PARK AUDUBON PARK
PACKING DISTRICT
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Why aren’t the Epstein files released yet? Still being doctored up with black Sharpies?
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Why aren’t the Epstein files released yet? Still being doctored up with black Sharpies?
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Republican Congressman Don Bacon:
“Churchill & Reagan are turning in their graves.”
“Churchill & Reagan are turning in their graves.”
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Republican Congressman Don Bacon:
“Churchill & Reagan are turning in their graves.”
“Churchill & Reagan are turning in their graves.”
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They’re still hiding them right now
New in PN: MAGA's Epstein gaslighting is unsustainable
"The Epstein files are a 'hoax,' Trump says — a lie made up by Dems to make him look bad. Yet somehow, at the same time, there’s nothing in them that could make him look bad — b/c if there was, Biden would have released them. So which is it?"
"The Epstein files are a 'hoax,' Trump says — a lie made up by Dems to make him look bad. Yet somehow, at the same time, there’s nothing in them that could make him look bad — b/c if there was, Biden would have released them. So which is it?"
MAGA's Epstein gaslighting is unsustainable
To believe anything they say requires a complete suspension of common sense.
www.publicnotice.co
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
They’re still hiding them right now
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Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
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I didn’t want to overreact, and took time to read this. Having done so, I’m adding Northwestern to the list of places I won’t visit or speak. The concessions re: international students and gender-affirming care are not merely symbolic.
Here’s the text of the Northwestern settlement with the DoJ, which includes a $75 million financial component / payoff (cc @profmarkovic.bsky.social):
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I didn’t want to overreact, and took time to read this. Having done so, I’m adding Northwestern to the list of places I won’t visit or speak. The concessions re: international students and gender-affirming care are not merely symbolic.
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Election Day for Tennessee’s Special Election is December 2. Spread the word and help counter the misinformation. 🤝
www.newsweek.com/democrats-in...
#Tennessee #AftynBehn #Nashville
www.newsweek.com/democrats-in...
#Tennessee #AftynBehn #Nashville
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Election Day for Tennessee’s Special Election is December 2. Spread the word and help counter the misinformation. 🤝
www.newsweek.com/democrats-in...
#Tennessee #AftynBehn #Nashville
www.newsweek.com/democrats-in...
#Tennessee #AftynBehn #Nashville
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Would this have happened to a white resident? Asking for the First Nations.
November 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Would this have happened to a white resident? Asking for the First Nations.
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While costs are rising for every single American—on everything from groceries to utilities—Trump has used the presidency to get $1.8 BILLION richer (and counting). Talk about corruption.
Don't believe me? Check it out yourself:
Don't believe me? Check it out yourself:
Trump’s Take: Tracking the cash and gifts made from selling the presidency.
Tracking the cash and gifts made from selling the presidency.
www.americanprogress.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
While costs are rising for every single American—on everything from groceries to utilities—Trump has used the presidency to get $1.8 BILLION richer (and counting). Talk about corruption.
Don't believe me? Check it out yourself:
Don't believe me? Check it out yourself: