Raymonda Schwartz
@raescout.bsky.social
Avid mystery reader, mom to 4 rescue dogs, knitter. Was active in my community before it turned blood red.
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#ResistanceRoots
Patsy Mink was born on this day in 1927 in Hāmākua Poko, Hawaii Territory. She was the first Asian American woman elected to Congress and the first woman of color to serve in the House of Representatives. She served Hawaii for 24 years and co-authored landmark legislation. /1
Patsy Mink was born on this day in 1927 in Hāmākua Poko, Hawaii Territory. She was the first Asian American woman elected to Congress and the first woman of color to serve in the House of Representatives. She served Hawaii for 24 years and co-authored landmark legislation. /1
December 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
#ResistanceRoots
Patsy Mink was born on this day in 1927 in Hāmākua Poko, Hawaii Territory. She was the first Asian American woman elected to Congress and the first woman of color to serve in the House of Representatives. She served Hawaii for 24 years and co-authored landmark legislation. /1
Patsy Mink was born on this day in 1927 in Hāmākua Poko, Hawaii Territory. She was the first Asian American woman elected to Congress and the first woman of color to serve in the House of Representatives. She served Hawaii for 24 years and co-authored landmark legislation. /1
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In Los Angeles, California, a man’s father was abducted and kidnapped by ICE. While attempting to locate him using a GPS tracker in his car, they discovered that his stolen truck was being driven around by an ICE Bounty Hunter during his off-duty period from December 2nd to December 3rd.
December 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In Los Angeles, California, a man’s father was abducted and kidnapped by ICE. While attempting to locate him using a GPS tracker in his car, they discovered that his stolen truck was being driven around by an ICE Bounty Hunter during his off-duty period from December 2nd to December 3rd.
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NEWS: On day of Kristi Noem visit to Chicago, federal immigration agents use tear gas on Elgin crowd. By Rebecca Johnson and @staceywescott.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/06/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/06/i...
On day of Kristi Noem visit to Chicago, federal immigration agents use tear gas on Elgin crowd
Federal immigration agents deployed tear gas and pepper spray Saturday on a crowd that gathered to protest a prolonged arrest in a northwest Chicago suburb, angering neighbors who said it’s “uncall…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
NEWS: On day of Kristi Noem visit to Chicago, federal immigration agents use tear gas on Elgin crowd. By Rebecca Johnson and @staceywescott.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/06/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/06/i...
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So you can't survive on $174K a year? Yet you've refused to raise the minimum wage for 16 years?
You work 165 days a year, you get health care, per-diem and $174K a year and you are going to whine about money?
Go. Fuck. Yourself. Hypocrite.
www.rawstory.com/roger-wilson...
You work 165 days a year, you get health care, per-diem and $174K a year and you are going to whine about money?
Go. Fuck. Yourself. Hypocrite.
www.rawstory.com/roger-wilson...
GOP lawmaker whines over insider trading ban: 'It's not easy' to make money in Congress
Rep. Roger Wilson (R-TX) expressed opposition to a congressional stock trading ban proposed by MAGA Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), noting that it was "not easy" to live on his salary as a lawmaker. Du...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
So you can't survive on $174K a year? Yet you've refused to raise the minimum wage for 16 years?
You work 165 days a year, you get health care, per-diem and $174K a year and you are going to whine about money?
Go. Fuck. Yourself. Hypocrite.
www.rawstory.com/roger-wilson...
You work 165 days a year, you get health care, per-diem and $174K a year and you are going to whine about money?
Go. Fuck. Yourself. Hypocrite.
www.rawstory.com/roger-wilson...
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"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."
December 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."
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Reminder from Catman
December 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Reminder from Catman
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Indiana has rapidly become the latest flashpoint in the GOP’s national push to engineer aggressive mid-decade gerrymanders. Few states illustrate the immense costs to voters and how far lawmakers are willing to go to appease President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/ind...
Indiana’s GOP Shows Us the Future of Gerrymandering — And It’s Grim: A Conversation With Election Law Expert Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Indiana has rapidly become the latest flashpoint in the GOP’s national push to engineer aggressive mid-decade gerrymanders. Few states illustrate the immense costs to voters and how far lawmakers are willing to go to appease President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/ind...
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This is disrespectful, petty and infuriating.
I expect no less or am surprised that Donald is attempting to erase the trans community.
People hate what they don’t understand.
Donald doesn’t understand a lot.
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I expect no less or am surprised that Donald is attempting to erase the trans community.
People hate what they don’t understand.
Donald doesn’t understand a lot.
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HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait — NPR
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
This is disrespectful, petty and infuriating.
I expect no less or am surprised that Donald is attempting to erase the trans community.
People hate what they don’t understand.
Donald doesn’t understand a lot.
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I expect no less or am surprised that Donald is attempting to erase the trans community.
People hate what they don’t understand.
Donald doesn’t understand a lot.
apple.news/AFgbdiT4DTi-...
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Warning: dog bite images
Tacoma ICE agents lured Wilmer Martinez out of his home, released their dog on him, he received bites and gashes, was denied medical attention for hours.
Senator Murray @murray.senate.gov is demanding his release. Stop this inhumanity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyB...
Tacoma ICE agents lured Wilmer Martinez out of his home, released their dog on him, he received bites and gashes, was denied medical attention for hours.
Senator Murray @murray.senate.gov is demanding his release. Stop this inhumanity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyB...
Sen. Murray urges release of man allegedly mauled by ICE dog
YouTube video by KING 5 Seattle
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December 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Warning: dog bite images
Tacoma ICE agents lured Wilmer Martinez out of his home, released their dog on him, he received bites and gashes, was denied medical attention for hours.
Senator Murray @murray.senate.gov is demanding his release. Stop this inhumanity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyB...
Tacoma ICE agents lured Wilmer Martinez out of his home, released their dog on him, he received bites and gashes, was denied medical attention for hours.
Senator Murray @murray.senate.gov is demanding his release. Stop this inhumanity
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OeyB...
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Tomorrow is National Special Education Day. Fifty years ago, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) became law. This opened the door to a free and appropriate public education for millions of children with disabilities. We must protect that right.
thearc_us
Tomorrow is National Special Education Day. Fifty years ago, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) became law. This opened the door to a free and appropriate public education for millions of children with disabilities. We must protect that right.
December 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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thearc_us
Tomorrow is National Special Education Day. Fifty years ago, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) became law. This opened the door to a free and appropriate public education for millions of children with disabilities. We must protect that right.
thearc_us
Tomorrow is National Special Education Day. Fifty years ago, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) became law. This opened the door to a free and appropriate public education for millions of children with disabilities. We must protect that right.
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PANICKED GOP has NOWHERE TO HIDE as ZOHRAN AGENDA SOARS!!
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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December 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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hard to believe just two months ago feds deployed tear gas outside a grocery store and elementary school in logan square.
how many times has this scene played out since then? little village. east chicago. albany park. avondale. old irving park. lakeview.
yet it's never not jarring.
how many times has this scene played out since then? little village. east chicago. albany park. avondale. old irving park. lakeview.
yet it's never not jarring.
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
hard to believe just two months ago feds deployed tear gas outside a grocery store and elementary school in logan square.
how many times has this scene played out since then? little village. east chicago. albany park. avondale. old irving park. lakeview.
yet it's never not jarring.
how many times has this scene played out since then? little village. east chicago. albany park. avondale. old irving park. lakeview.
yet it's never not jarring.
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"A Pew Research Center survey from earlier this year shows that most countries view China rather than the United States as the world’s leading economic power.... This is a striking reversal from just two years earlier." www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...
Experts react: What Trump’s National Security Strategy means for US foreign policy
Atlantic Council experts delve into the newly released document outlining the Trump administration’s principles and priorities for US foreign policy.
www.atlanticcouncil.org
December 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"A Pew Research Center survey from earlier this year shows that most countries view China rather than the United States as the world’s leading economic power.... This is a striking reversal from just two years earlier." www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...
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MAGA are now attacking Sabrina Carpenter by calling her and her music too sexual when they fully support a serial rapist pedophile adulterer whose own trashy wife has nude photos of herself all over the internet, not to mention their own endless obsession with sex.
December 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
MAGA are now attacking Sabrina Carpenter by calling her and her music too sexual when they fully support a serial rapist pedophile adulterer whose own trashy wife has nude photos of herself all over the internet, not to mention their own endless obsession with sex.
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So Donald Trump has been given a vanity trophy based on a sculpture by a member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
So Donald Trump has been given a vanity trophy based on a sculpture by a member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salhab_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salhab_...
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It certainly is, but this is also a possible source - the sculpture "Thoughts and Desires" in Ariana Park at the UN Palace of Nations in Geneva. (I suspect the sculptor will soon be getting some phone calls asking where HE got the idea from....) az-art.gallery/en/mammadov-...
December 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It certainly is, but this is also a possible source - the sculpture "Thoughts and Desires" in Ariana Park at the UN Palace of Nations in Geneva. (I suspect the sculptor will soon be getting some phone calls asking where HE got the idea from....) az-art.gallery/en/mammadov-...
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The author of “Camp of the Saints,” also born 100 years ago bsky.app/profile/100y...
July 5, 1925: Jean Raspail, a French author who became a hero of the far right with his novel "The Camp of the Saints," about an "invasion" of the West by dark-skinned immigrants, is born. Trump administration figures who praised his work include Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon.
December 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The author of “Camp of the Saints,” also born 100 years ago bsky.app/profile/100y...
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Fitting that our new National Security Strategy is basically cribbed from Camp of the Saints, the super-racist 1970s novel that is all the rage amongst contemporary fascists around the globe, like Steve Bannon.
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The new National Security Strategy of the U.S. contains some pretty explicit white nationalism:
“We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of
Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”
“We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of
Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”
December 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Fitting that our new National Security Strategy is basically cribbed from Camp of the Saints, the super-racist 1970s novel that is all the rage amongst contemporary fascists around the globe, like Steve Bannon.
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What an interesting coincidence.
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What an interesting coincidence.
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Don't ever call this THING a president!
December 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Don't ever call this THING a president!
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www.politico.eu/article/elon... #ProudBlue. Elon Musk having a total meltdown over being fined 120 million Euro’s. He is promising retribution and calling for the end of the EU. The EU could ban Musk from doing business in Europe. He can bitch and moan about his fine but the EU holds all the cards
Musk threatens ‘response’ against individuals who imposed €120M X penalty
The tech billionaire blasted “EU woke Stasi commissars” in posts on his social media platform, X.
www.politico.eu
December 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
www.politico.eu/article/elon... #ProudBlue. Elon Musk having a total meltdown over being fined 120 million Euro’s. He is promising retribution and calling for the end of the EU. The EU could ban Musk from doing business in Europe. He can bitch and moan about his fine but the EU holds all the cards
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CORRECTION: Earlier in a reply (deleted), I said that we *can* commit war crimes while not at war. That is incorrect. My thought was surely it’s *both* a war crime *and* murder. I thought about the war crimes we committed during Vietnam (not a war), but that IS an armed conflict and that counts. 1/
December 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
CORRECTION: Earlier in a reply (deleted), I said that we *can* commit war crimes while not at war. That is incorrect. My thought was surely it’s *both* a war crime *and* murder. I thought about the war crimes we committed during Vietnam (not a war), but that IS an armed conflict and that counts. 1/
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The Environmental Protection Agency has approved two new pesticides containing PFAS (“forever chemicals”)—raising serious concerns about their long-term impact on food, water and public health. 🌿🚨 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved two new pesticides containing PFAS (“forever chemicals”)—raising serious concerns about their long-term impact on food, water and public health. 🌿🚨 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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feds launched multiple gas canisters as they made their exit from elgin, leaving community members scrambling and choking.
unclear if they abducted their target.
this is the first time feds have used gas since the dismissal of a federal lawsuit which had sought to constrain agents’ use of force.
unclear if they abducted their target.
this is the first time feds have used gas since the dismissal of a federal lawsuit which had sought to constrain agents’ use of force.
December 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
feds launched multiple gas canisters as they made their exit from elgin, leaving community members scrambling and choking.
unclear if they abducted their target.
this is the first time feds have used gas since the dismissal of a federal lawsuit which had sought to constrain agents’ use of force.
unclear if they abducted their target.
this is the first time feds have used gas since the dismissal of a federal lawsuit which had sought to constrain agents’ use of force.