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Mom. Teacher. Librarian. KU Grad x 2. Jayhawks. Cubs. Chiefs. Bluejays. ✌️❤️🧡

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“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

08.10.2025 23:57 👍 6535 🔁 1820 💬 243 📌 338

My students LOVE his books. And if you can find any of him reading them out loud it’s pure joy

14.09.2025 18:44 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Except all those people voting for Eisenhower or not voting at all because they couldn’t vote for a Democrat or a woman essentially opened the door for Trump to win.

23.08.2025 15:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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WATCH: “In video captured by the Tennessee Holler…”

On @msnbc, @eriellereshef plays our video of @brotherjones.bsky.social getting banned from @GovBillLee’s Teslas-only tunnel announcement — even though it was a state event, in his own district.

30.07.2025 20:49 👍 6199 🔁 2453 💬 271 📌 150

This made me laugh

23.07.2025 21:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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PBS News is not going anywhere.

We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.

We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

22.07.2025 00:06 👍 35432 🔁 8768 💬 747 📌 509
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@raskin.house.gov: "They'd conscripted 1000 FBI agents to be working around the clock 24 hours going through 100,000 Epstein documents and told them to flag any mentions of Donald Trump... This might be one of the most massive cover-ups in the history of the United States unfolding before our eyes."

21.07.2025 00:30 👍 7482 🔁 2959 💬 280 📌 163
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EPA eliminates its scientific research arm The move to dismantle the Office of Research and Development comes as Trump officials cut the agency’s total staff by 23 percent.

These corrupt, incompetent idiots are going to kill a lot of us wapo.st/4lWdVEE

19.07.2025 00:35 👍 1001 🔁 322 💬 44 📌 15
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E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

Breaking News: The EPA said it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of scientists, after denying that it intended to do so.

19.07.2025 01:39 👍 2516 🔁 1354 💬 251 📌 115
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All the States Where DOJ is Demanding Voting Data Read more here.

NEW: The Justice Department has recently been contacting states demanding access to sensitive election and voting data. A former department attorney and voting rights advocate told Democracy Docket that these efforts “should concern all Americans.”

18.07.2025 21:40 👍 1657 🔁 898 💬 84 📌 52
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Alligator Alcatraz isn’t meant for minors. A 15 year old ended up there anyway “Immediate action was taken to separate and remove the detainee in accordance with federal protocols,” said Stephanie Hartman, a spokeswoman for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, which ove...

A 15 year old boy with no criminal history has been sent to Alligator Alcatraz

How much is too much?

amp.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

17.07.2025 20:51 👍 840 🔁 506 💬 79 📌 52
Alligator Alcatraz, the massive immigration detention center in Florida, was originally expected to cost taxpayers $450 million per year. Leaked documents show that, after being in operation for less than two weeks, the cost of the facility has ballooned to over $600 million. 

The 30-square-mile facility located in the Florida Everglades west of Miami—complete with a functional airstrip—was selected to house, process, and potentially directly deport up to 5,000 detainees.

Alligator Alcatraz, the massive immigration detention center in Florida, was originally expected to cost taxpayers $450 million per year. Leaked documents show that, after being in operation for less than two weeks, the cost of the facility has ballooned to over $600 million. The 30-square-mile facility located in the Florida Everglades west of Miami—complete with a functional airstrip—was selected to house, process, and potentially directly deport up to 5,000 detainees.

At $600 million per year for 5,000 detainees, the Everglades detention facility would cost a whopping $328.77 per bed per day.

ICE's 2025 budget request read: "Average adult bed cost per day is $187.48 for FY 2023."

reason.com/2025/07/09/l...

12.07.2025 19:42 👍 836 🔁 339 💬 106 📌 55
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🚨NEW: When ICE raided a Californian farm yesterday, they snatched & disappeared a disabled US veteran who was in his car.

They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor.

Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is.

(🎥 ABC 7 News)

11.07.2025 23:24 👍 10029 🔁 5598 💬 441 📌 498

Everything he says is just….mind numbing. He just talks and talks and talks and talks. At least he isn’t wearing a MAGA hat

11.07.2025 19:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tell Congress: Protect Funding for NPR and PBS Contact Congress today!

Tell Congress: Protect Funding for NPR and PBS actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

10.07.2025 19:12 👍 96 🔁 26 💬 4 📌 2
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Top Hurricane Scientists Sound the Alarm on Looming NOAA Cuts Long-time head of NOAA’s premier hurricane lab in Miami says proposed cuts would reduce forecast accuracy by as much as 40 percent

Top Hurricane Scientists Sound the Alarm on Looming NOAA Cuts

Long-time head of NOAA’s premier hurricane lab in Miami says proposed cuts would reduce forecast accuracy by as much as 40 percent.

10.07.2025 19:23 👍 555 🔁 280 💬 42 📌 14

Sen Thom Tillis (R-NC) tells CNN that there are 100s of people who should still be behind bars for what they did on Jan 6

09.07.2025 22:32 👍 3792 🔁 795 💬 336 📌 115
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REPORTER: Do you expect any of the countries here to face tariffs?

TRUMP: I haven't thought of it, but maybe, I don't know. Let's see, I like him, him, him, him, and him. No, I don't think so. These are friends of mine now.

09.07.2025 17:35 👍 914 🔁 240 💬 210 📌 83
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According to Yale experts, up to 35,000 Ukrainian children have been kidnapped and taken into russia and temporarily occupied territories, the Guardian article says.

These children are forced into places where their identities are erased and hatred towards their homeland is imposed.

01.07.2025 17:24 👍 184 🔁 85 💬 5 📌 10
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Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept.

Chance that this guy—who onJan 6 told other rioters who were attacking law enforcement officers, “Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!”—could get a security clearance in normal times:

Zero.

Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

02.07.2025 04:37 👍 5155 🔁 2528 💬 230 📌 177

Because Trump is on Putin’s side. Because Trump works for Putin.

02.07.2025 11:33 👍 619 🔁 240 💬 30 📌 9
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US supreme court rules schools must let kids opt out of LGBTQ+ book readings Court sides with parents in Maryland who protested exposure to storybooks they found objectionable

In a case that exposed the passions surrounding the US’s religious-secular divide, the court sided with parents in Maryland who protested that they were left with no means of shielding their children from the contents of six storybooks they found objectionable.

Read the full story ⬇️

27.06.2025 15:33 👍 35 🔁 10 💬 15 📌 5

Republicans pulled an all-nighter to:

-strip healthcare away from 17 million Americans
-take food assistance away from 3 million Americans
-eliminate school meal access for 18+ million kids
-send energy costs soaring
-add $3.3 trillion to national debt
-raise health care premiums for seniors

01.07.2025 16:20 👍 5957 🔁 2391 💬 303 📌 149
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Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency

Just horrible. Sickening. Evil.

This decision will kill children.

We all knew RFK Jr was the worst person for this job. He's lived up to the hype. The f*cking worst.

Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

25.06.2025 18:15 👍 124 🔁 49 💬 7 📌 5
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This beloved Mexican market in LA is losing business amid immigration raids ICE raids have led to fear and anxiety for immigrants in Los Angeles. That fear extends even to those who are in the U.S. legally, keeping many away from public life.

ICE raids have led to fear and anxiety for immigrants in Los Angeles. That fear extends even to those who are in the U.S. legally, keeping many away from public life.

25.06.2025 11:57 👍 452 🔁 100 💬 31 📌 15

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

24.06.2025 21:43 👍 40460 🔁 14843 💬 1608 📌 596
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Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests take Santa Ana father after repeatedly hitting him In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests are seen violently detaining a Santa Ana father before forcing him into…

KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.

23.06.2025 00:13 👍 8345 🔁 4765 💬 573 📌 448
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The GOP's massive bill would benefit the rich the most -- while hitting the poor The top 10% of earners in the U.S. would see the biggest gains under the GOP tax and spending package, according to congressional forecasters, but those at the bottom of the income ladder would be worse off.

The top 10% of earners in the U.S. would see the biggest gains under the GOP tax and spending package, according to congressional forecasters, but those at the bottom of the income ladder would be worse off.

12.06.2025 18:06 👍 558 🔁 237 💬 60 📌 36
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Funded by your tax dollars.

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