Robin Stanton
@robinstanton.bsky.social
Retired. Seattle. Pro nature, pro water, pro planet. Pacific Northwest of the contiguous United States is my home
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Why is America going to war with Venezuela?
Maduro ain't it!
Maduro ain't it!
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Why is America going to war with Venezuela?
Maduro ain't it!
Maduro ain't it!
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just going to keep saying that they’re going to blow through that shiny megabudget much faster than anyone predicts
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
just going to keep saying that they’re going to blow through that shiny megabudget much faster than anyone predicts
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I’ve heard many stories of how ICE is not following the law or honoring due process.
I'm at the Tacoma ICE facility to come see for myself and hold ICE accountable. From my visit, it was abundantly clear that ICE is lying.
I'm at the Tacoma ICE facility to come see for myself and hold ICE accountable. From my visit, it was abundantly clear that ICE is lying.
Rep. Salinas visits Tacoma ICE facility.
YouTube video by Congresswoman Andrea Salinas
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I’ve heard many stories of how ICE is not following the law or honoring due process.
I'm at the Tacoma ICE facility to come see for myself and hold ICE accountable. From my visit, it was abundantly clear that ICE is lying.
I'm at the Tacoma ICE facility to come see for myself and hold ICE accountable. From my visit, it was abundantly clear that ICE is lying.
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The president of the United States is insane. Full stop.
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The president of the United States is insane. Full stop.
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BREAKING: new emails CONFIRM my reporting that there are TRAINING VIDEOS instructing FBI personnel on how to review the Epstein Files. Plus, a lot more…
The emails reveal the special training given to FBI personnel working on what it called the “Epstein Transparency Project.” In some instances they referred to it as the “Special Redaction Project.” The training entailed PowerPoint slide presentations and video instruction on how to review the files.
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
BREAKING: new emails CONFIRM my reporting that there are TRAINING VIDEOS instructing FBI personnel on how to review the Epstein Files. Plus, a lot more…
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The name of the SDOT Bike Lane Sweeper! sdotblog.seattle.gov/2021/05/17/n...
Vote for your favorite #NameThatSweeper finalists!
Help us choose the name of our new protected bike lane sweeper.
sdotblog.seattle.gov
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The name of the SDOT Bike Lane Sweeper! sdotblog.seattle.gov/2021/05/17/n...
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Wow this is bad.
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Wow this is bad.
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I had the Seattle Japanese Garden almost to myself today…
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I had the Seattle Japanese Garden almost to myself today…
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Feed: "The Seattle Times The Seattle Times"
By: The Associated Press on Tuesday, November 25, 2025
By: The Associated Press on Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Photos show thousands demanding an end to violence against women and girls
Nov. 25 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a global call to raise awareness about all forms of abuse targeting women and girls. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
www.seattletimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Feed: "The Seattle Times The Seattle Times"
By: The Associated Press on Tuesday, November 25, 2025
By: The Associated Press on Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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For dinner I made the most Seattle thing ever: wild-foraged chanterelles delivered by the milkman. How wild-foraged? When I opened the package I noticed they still had pine needles on them.
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
For dinner I made the most Seattle thing ever: wild-foraged chanterelles delivered by the milkman. How wild-foraged? When I opened the package I noticed they still had pine needles on them.
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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
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Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
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WOWWWWW— that didn’t take long: “Crews walk out on on Nashville tunnel, claiming Musk’s Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA concerns”
As we suspected, that absurd not-a-town-hall with Steve Davis aged like guacamole 🥑 nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
As we suspected, that absurd not-a-town-hall with Steve Davis aged like guacamole 🥑 nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
WOWWWWW— that didn’t take long: “Crews walk out on on Nashville tunnel, claiming Musk’s Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA concerns”
As we suspected, that absurd not-a-town-hall with Steve Davis aged like guacamole 🥑 nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
As we suspected, that absurd not-a-town-hall with Steve Davis aged like guacamole 🥑 nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
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Now, after waiting five months for our records request to be filled, we know they were. Though WA law prohibits this kind of compliance with out-of-state agencies who are looking to prosecute abortion seekers, it did not prevent Spokane County’s data from being searched for that reason.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Now, after waiting five months for our records request to be filled, we know they were. Though WA law prohibits this kind of compliance with out-of-state agencies who are looking to prosecute abortion seekers, it did not prevent Spokane County’s data from being searched for that reason.
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In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
Texas deputy searched Spokane County Flock cameras for a woman who had an abortion– RANGE Media
Amidst nationwide and state scrutiny of the cameras, Spokane County’s Flock network was used by an out-of-state cop looking for a woman who had an abortion.
rangemedia.co
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
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Gift link to this article.
It's OK if you don't read it, it looks really rough.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
It's OK if you don't read it, it looks really rough.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Gift link to this article.
It's OK if you don't read it, it looks really rough.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
It's OK if you don't read it, it looks really rough.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
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Guillotines
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Guillotines
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ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
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We trans people have always existed. We will always exist, and we will thrive.
I restored and colorized this c.1910 photo of Magnus Hirschfeld's 4th, 6th, and 7th patients. They were three of the first trans men to receive medical care and legal support in Germany over 120 years ago. I can't help but appreciate their dapper sense of fashion.
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
We trans people have always existed. We will always exist, and we will thrive.
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MORE: The local crew foreman on the NASHVILLE tunnel dig says Elon’s Boring Company has been wildly late on pay, and has been trying to hire his guys behind his back.
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
MORE: The local crew foreman on the NASHVILLE tunnel dig says Elon’s Boring Company has been wildly late on pay, and has been trying to hire his guys behind his back.
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
He also says despite what Steve Davis said about safety, the situation is dangerous.
nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/25/b...
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Cuba has accused the US of preparing a violent intervention in Venezuela as Washington expands its military presence.
Cuba condemns ‘aggressive’ US stance towards Venezuela as tensions rise
Cuba has accused the US of preparing a violent intervention in Venezuela as Washington expands its military presence.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Cuba has accused the US of preparing a violent intervention in Venezuela as Washington expands its military presence.
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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this is so deeply awful
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
this is so deeply awful
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The “good old days” in White America.
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The “good old days” in White America.