Linda looks, listens, talks
@lindalooks.bsky.social
Retired CPS Social worker, liberal, horrified at the circumstances I see around me, but looking for the good that I know also surrounds us
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This could have been an email.
December 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This could have been an email.
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Jack Smith, the former special counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice, forcefully defended his federal prosecution of President Donald Trump in a closed-door hearing Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
‘Facts and the Law’: Jack Smith Defends Trump Prosecution In Closed Congressional Testimony
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Jack Smith, the former special counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice, forcefully defended his federal prosecution of President Donald Trump in a closed-door hearing Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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State-sponsored dehumanization, wrapped in a Christmas bow.
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
State-sponsored dehumanization, wrapped in a Christmas bow.
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I will never understand a government posting something like this. Spend the time fixing all of the things wrong with your country and stop this shit. People are suffering this holiday season and this kind of thing doesn't help. Help the people it is literally your job! #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
December 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I will never understand a government posting something like this. Spend the time fixing all of the things wrong with your country and stop this shit. People are suffering this holiday season and this kind of thing doesn't help. Help the people it is literally your job! #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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If you are in LA and want to interrupt criminalization in the context of care, join organizers in the streets tomorrow at 10 am to say ICE & cops out of care and get one of these gorgeous signs based on art by @monicatrinidad.bsky.social for @interruptcrim.bsky.social’s toolkit - or make your own!
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
If you are in LA and want to interrupt criminalization in the context of care, join organizers in the streets tomorrow at 10 am to say ICE & cops out of care and get one of these gorgeous signs based on art by @monicatrinidad.bsky.social for @interruptcrim.bsky.social’s toolkit - or make your own!
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"[T]here is a need for [the government] to be held accountable ... [I]f that means going to the Hague so be it."
"[R]elease the footage."
"The family of a British aid worker killed by Israel have made a fresh demand for the UK military to release its surveillance footage of Gaza from the day they died."
#UK #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Aid #Surveillance #Genocide #Military
"The family of a British aid worker killed by Israel have made a fresh demand for the UK military to release its surveillance footage of Gaza from the day they died."
#UK #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Aid #Surveillance #Genocide #Military
'Release Gaza footage,' British victim demands in new spy flight documentary
Father of former Royal Marine killed in Gaza says footage captured by opaque UK surveillance programme could clarify what happened to his son.
www.declassifieduk.org
December 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"[T]here is a need for [the government] to be held accountable ... [I]f that means going to the Hague so be it."
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I've helped introduce a bill to ensure that people like Jose can contact their lawyer. We're talking about basic dignity and respect here.
ICE should not be able to crush someone's foot, lie about it, and then disappear them from their legal counsel.
ICE should not be able to crush someone's foot, lie about it, and then disappear them from their legal counsel.
Murray, Murphy, Dexter, Colleagues Introduce Bicameral Bill to Ensure DHS Detainees Can Speak to a Lawyer, Contact their Families - Senator Patty Murray
ICYMI: Senator Murray Leads Colleagues in Reintroducing Legislation to Prevent the Shackling and Mistreatment of Pregnant Women in ICE and CBP Custody ICYMI: Murray, Durbin, Senate Democrats Urge Pres...
www.murray.senate.gov
December 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I've helped introduce a bill to ensure that people like Jose can contact their lawyer. We're talking about basic dignity and respect here.
ICE should not be able to crush someone's foot, lie about it, and then disappear them from their legal counsel.
ICE should not be able to crush someone's foot, lie about it, and then disappear them from their legal counsel.
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I’m telling you, the regime is crumbling.
BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I’m telling you, the regime is crumbling.
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🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Colorado and Hawaii Thursday in the latest lawsuits by the administration seeking to force states to hand over their unredacted voter rolls. DOJ has now sued 16 states over access to their voter data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump DOJ Sues Colorado and Hawaii in Latest Attempt to Seize Voter Data
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Colorado and Hawaii Thursday in the latest lawsuits by the administration seeking to force states to hand over their unredacted voter rolls. DOJ has now sued 16 states over access to their voter data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
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Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are moving decisively away from extending key Obamacare tax credits that help more than 20 million Americans pay for health insurance — following direct cues from Trump while also stoking ire among many in the GOP who fear severe political repercussions.
GOP moves to let Obamacare subsidies expire as Trump promises ‘money to the people’
As the president rails against insurance companies, other Republicans say allowing a subsidy lapse is “not acceptable.”
www.politico.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are moving decisively away from extending key Obamacare tax credits that help more than 20 million Americans pay for health insurance — following direct cues from Trump while also stoking ire among many in the GOP who fear severe political repercussions.
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🚨BREAKING: More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
300,000 Missouri Voters Sign Petition To Put GOP Gerrymander to Statewide Vote
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
🚨BREAKING: More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
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"Prices [for religious items sold by prison commissaries] also varied from state to state and, in some instances, from religion to religion, with Muslim prisoners paying particularly hefty prices ... For instance, in Virginia, a Christmas card cost 80 cents, but a Ramadan card sold for $2.33."
December 8, 2025 at 5:47 AM
"Prices [for religious items sold by prison commissaries] also varied from state to state and, in some instances, from religion to religion, with Muslim prisoners paying particularly hefty prices ... For instance, in Virginia, a Christmas card cost 80 cents, but a Ramadan card sold for $2.33."
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it is insanely dishonest to characterize the reaction to the most corrupt pardons in american history as pro-police and pro-prison. fuck off
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
it is insanely dishonest to characterize the reaction to the most corrupt pardons in american history as pro-police and pro-prison. fuck off
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It's unbelievable how corrupt the Supreme Court is. It's insane that we are letting them get away with it. They are taking away all of our rights.
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
It's unbelievable how corrupt the Supreme Court is. It's insane that we are letting them get away with it. They are taking away all of our rights.
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She should sue them
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
She should sue them
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“What have I done!” 🤡
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“What have I done!” 🤡
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JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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Push is on in US Congress to impose ban on lawmaker stock trades reut.rs/4auFJxn
Push is on in US Congress to impose ban on lawmaker stock trades
A bipartisan coalition in the U.S. Congress is seeking action to ban lawmakers from buying and selling individual stocks, a practice that has long raised ethics questions and is stoking infighting among lawmakers over how deeply to regulate their personal finances.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Push is on in US Congress to impose ban on lawmaker stock trades reut.rs/4auFJxn
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JUST IN: Mike Johnson plans to swear in Rep.-elect Matt Van Epps on Thursday — less than two days after he won the TN-07 special election.
As a reminder, it took Johnson 50 days to swear in Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva.
As a reminder, it took Johnson 50 days to swear in Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva.
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
JUST IN: Mike Johnson plans to swear in Rep.-elect Matt Van Epps on Thursday — less than two days after he won the TN-07 special election.
As a reminder, it took Johnson 50 days to swear in Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva.
As a reminder, it took Johnson 50 days to swear in Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva.