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I know we’re all tired and fed up but please keep contacting your legislators often. If I can email Lindsey Graham every week, you can email yours!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
#Pushback #CallCongress
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#Pushback #CallCongress
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How Many People Has the U.S. Killed in Boat Strikes?
The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
🧵🧵Mega-thread of coverage of the illegal extrajudicial killings below🧵🧵
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
🧵🧵Mega-thread of coverage of the illegal extrajudicial killings below🧵🧵
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
How Many People Has the U.S. Killed in Boat Strikes?
The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.
theintercept.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
How Many People Has the U.S. Killed in Boat Strikes?
The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
🧵🧵Mega-thread of coverage of the illegal extrajudicial killings below🧵🧵
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
🧵🧵Mega-thread of coverage of the illegal extrajudicial killings below🧵🧵
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
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The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May)
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May)
Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May)
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May)
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ICE is using a new app called Mobile Fortify to scan people's faces and determine their immigration status.
The government's use of biased, unreliable facial recognition tech to supercharge its mass deportation campaign endangers all of our rights.
The government's use of biased, unreliable facial recognition tech to supercharge its mass deportation campaign endangers all of our rights.
Face Recognition and the ‘Trump Terror’: A Marriage Made in Hell | ACLU
ICE and CBP are smashing their way not only through car windows but also through any constraints on the use of face recognition
www.aclu.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
ICE is using a new app called Mobile Fortify to scan people's faces and determine their immigration status.
The government's use of biased, unreliable facial recognition tech to supercharge its mass deportation campaign endangers all of our rights.
The government's use of biased, unreliable facial recognition tech to supercharge its mass deportation campaign endangers all of our rights.
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In light of the assault on American science by its own government that launched in January this year, we published the Anti-Autocracy Handbook in June to provide some guidance to scholars about how to respond to an emerging autocracy. The handbook is available at: sks.to/autocracy. 1/n
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November 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
In light of the assault on American science by its own government that launched in January this year, we published the Anti-Autocracy Handbook in June to provide some guidance to scholars about how to respond to an emerging autocracy. The handbook is available at: sks.to/autocracy. 1/n
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A 30 year trip to prison for an abortion??? Insane! Just say you have an inferiority complex and want to control women, for fuck's sakes.
Imprisoning women? Banning IUDs? South Carolina considers abortion bill that would be nation's strictest
A group of South Carolina senators plans to consider a proposal that could introduce the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation.
www.latimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A 30 year trip to prison for an abortion??? Insane! Just say you have an inferiority complex and want to control women, for fuck's sakes.
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This should alarm everyone.
On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.”
It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025.
THIS IS INDOCTRINATION
On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.”
It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025.
THIS IS INDOCTRINATION
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This should alarm everyone.
On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.”
It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025.
THIS IS INDOCTRINATION
On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.”
It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025.
THIS IS INDOCTRINATION
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No, it’s not time for South Carolina Democrats to give up and start voting for Republicans.
November 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
No, it’s not time for South Carolina Democrats to give up and start voting for Republicans.
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Women who have abortions would face decades in prison and IUDs would be banned under a South Carolina bill that state lawmakers will consider during a hearing on Tuesday.
It's the most extreme proposal any state has considered since the 2022 Dobbs ruling.
It's the most extreme proposal any state has considered since the 2022 Dobbs ruling.
Women Who Have Abortions Would Face Decades in Prison Under South Carolina Plan
Women who get abortions could spend decades in prison and IUDs would be outlawed under proposed legislation in South Carolina.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Women who have abortions would face decades in prison and IUDs would be banned under a South Carolina bill that state lawmakers will consider during a hearing on Tuesday.
It's the most extreme proposal any state has considered since the 2022 Dobbs ruling.
It's the most extreme proposal any state has considered since the 2022 Dobbs ruling.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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And another Epstein email about Donald’s finances
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Page 1
From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 1/6/2018 9:20:31 PM
To: Michael Wolff
Subject: Re:
It looks to me as you might have driven him over the edge. DJT: 'I do things proper !!/ " im really, like. smart.!! sounds like elizas father- donald dolittle... or dopey donald or demented donald. as I told you his
statement from camp david was laced with "he has made billions and billions of dollars. he is reportedly petrified that his bluff will be called.. His 100 million dollar plane he said be bought from paul
allen, is really a 1991 boeing 757 previously used by a mexican airline. repainted. His- ladder capital| finance 11c, - ladder capital 1 finance 11c, deutsche bank trust co americas. chicago unit acquistion. (
says "springing loan" over 50m -I never even heard of the term. as part of june 17 disclosure form he owes each more than 50 m apiece. but of course, not disclosed just -how much more.. declared the revenue
of his real estate as INCOME without deducting expenses or taxes. all a sham
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Michael Wolff <
> wrote:
I feel he truly must be
off his rocker. Could there be a strategy here?
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 3:39 PM jeffrey E. wrote:
how does it feel to have the president of the united states. at camp david. focus on you.. ! . please note
The information contained in this communication is](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:762z2djzqm2er7azshes77fe/bafkreihqxgk6kp4mzmwdakoj7a7kq4slwgqfuvpj7gekixdxuipmd6mbfy@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 AM
And another Epstein email about Donald’s finances
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I don’t know anything but it does occur to me that the Epstein Files will reveal quite a lot about Trump’s finances 👀
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I don’t know anything but it does occur to me that the Epstein Files will reveal quite a lot about Trump’s finances 👀
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New story about our law clinic's client, who was in the US legally and was cruelly deported "inadvertently" and separated from her young child, despite a Homeland Security spokesperson claiming ICE "does not separate families." (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
She Was Deported in Error. Her Child Was Left Behind.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
New story about our law clinic's client, who was in the US legally and was cruelly deported "inadvertently" and separated from her young child, despite a Homeland Security spokesperson claiming ICE "does not separate families." (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
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Rhetoric taken directly from Nazi Twitter. I can tell you the precise accounts even
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Rhetoric taken directly from Nazi Twitter. I can tell you the precise accounts even
Look at how Epstein cleaned up his image
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From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Al seckel
12/15/2010 5:36:27 PM
Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Results
Importance: High
Jeffrey,
The bats did the sweep. Here are the new results taken as of a minute ago.
You have only one negative article left on front page of google, which is the Huffington Post article. The Huffington Post is extremely hard to move, because it is so powerful, has millions of links to it, and uploads massive new and original content it on a daily basis with posting from out side readers. We managed to push it down the page, as it used to be at the top. If we were able to post original content to both the science and the org site (absolutely not a single word to this day by Jessica, just talk), we would have been able to push it down even further, and off the page. WE did manage to get rid of the daily beast article, which is now far removed, inspite of their own efforts to keep it prominent.
Toxic suggested search engine terms that popped up automatically when you typed in your name are also now removed.
Wikipedia was an important victory, as it will always be at the top of the search engine results. ow the head lines do not mention convicted sex offender or pedophile. Instead, Philanthrophic work, Epstein Foundation, Promotion of Scientists. We have stopped the hacking on your wiki site, and that was a major effor. Your wiki entry now is pretty tame, and bad …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:762z2djzqm2er7azshes77fe/bafkreifcrxw6ilfiryo7nvg552vdkdolddgm3pay5fcd7k434jfvpfgtli@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Look at how Epstein cleaned up his image
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🧵Spotted While Roaming In Aotearoa New Zealand:
A young human (8?) is crouched in front of a white picket fence, clutching a super soaker to his chest.
He tenses, then...
JUMPS UP
and sprays his little brother who's sleeping on the porch.
GOTCHA!
Little Brother roaring vengeance.
It. Is. On. (1)
A young human (8?) is crouched in front of a white picket fence, clutching a super soaker to his chest.
He tenses, then...
JUMPS UP
and sprays his little brother who's sleeping on the porch.
GOTCHA!
Little Brother roaring vengeance.
It. Is. On. (1)
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
🧵Spotted While Roaming In Aotearoa New Zealand:
A young human (8?) is crouched in front of a white picket fence, clutching a super soaker to his chest.
He tenses, then...
JUMPS UP
and sprays his little brother who's sleeping on the porch.
GOTCHA!
Little Brother roaring vengeance.
It. Is. On. (1)
A young human (8?) is crouched in front of a white picket fence, clutching a super soaker to his chest.
He tenses, then...
JUMPS UP
and sprays his little brother who's sleeping on the porch.
GOTCHA!
Little Brother roaring vengeance.
It. Is. On. (1)
I don’t know anything but it does occur to me that the Epstein Files will reveal quite a lot about Trump’s finances 👀
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I don’t know anything but it does occur to me that the Epstein Files will reveal quite a lot about Trump’s finances 👀
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
I read this today and can’t stop thinking about it. The dawn of the post-literate society by James Marriott
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I read this today and can’t stop thinking about it. The dawn of the post-literate society by James Marriott
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The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
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U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is among several Senate Republicans who could benefit from a shutdown-ending bill that lets them challenge the seizure of their phone records in special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 investigation. Read more: https://bit.ly/47F379P
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is among several Senate Republicans who could benefit from a shutdown-ending bill that lets them challenge the seizure of their phone records in special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 investigation. Read more: https://bit.ly/47F379P
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AI is now being used to “flag” school library books.
The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency.
This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency.
This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
The Most Dangerous AI Tool for Libraries Yet
How Class-Shelf Plus v3 quietly turns censorship into an automated workflow and why every librarian should be alarmed.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
AI is now being used to “flag” school library books.
The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency.
This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency.
This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
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“When the same stories that are targeted ideologically also become the ones flagged algorithmically, the result is not neutrality. It is amplified harm.”
AI is now being used to “flag” school library books.
The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency.
This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency.
This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
The Most Dangerous AI Tool for Libraries Yet
How Class-Shelf Plus v3 quietly turns censorship into an automated workflow and why every librarian should be alarmed.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“When the same stories that are targeted ideologically also become the ones flagged algorithmically, the result is not neutrality. It is amplified harm.”
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New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director
In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...