Clumsy Ninja 📚
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“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy.” ~ Thurgood Marshall Public ed advocate, retired school psychologist, global citizen attitude, crunchy liberal, atheist, pretty sweary.
"When Trump plucked Katie Zacharia from obscurity & appointed her as his new press sec, he called her 'an attorney.' This is also how Zacharia describes herself. But Popular Information searched for evidence in all 50 states, plus DC, that she was admitted to practice law anywhere — & found none."
Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, claims she’s a lawyer. Is she?
There is no evidence Zacharia has ever been licensed to practice law — and the White House did not provide any
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1. There is no such thing as a "false rumor." The word for that is a HOAX. 2. The headline misses the entire point of the hoax, which is not that he was in Ohio, but that he was in a mental health facility! are there any adults left at the new york times
Russian propagandist Solovyev mocks the U.S. army, claiming they know nothing about modern warfare. "In a war against an adversary like Iran, America couldn't demonstrate anything," he says. A reminder that Russia provides Iran with missiles, Shahed drones, spare parts, and intelligence.
Science overwhelmingly shows that if we "ditch the switch," permanent standard time is the right choice for health and safety. That's why I introduced the Sunshine for Our Kids Act. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
A clock change dilemma pits science vs. politics
Some politicians want permanent daylight saving time, but a chorus of scientists say that's the wrong way to fix the seasonal time change problem.
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BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org & partners just sued ICE over a nasty catch-22 ICE detains people, takes their IDs & work papers, releases them, keeps the papers. Now they can't work & risk getting picked up again for having no ID We're going to court to get it ALL back -TN
ICE “has said Parra was not the target of the attempted stop. Espinosa said Parra told him that he fled because it was unclear there were officials in the vehicles, which he said were unmarked, did not use sirens and had dark, tinted windows.” ICE makes us all less safe. #AbuseofPowerWatch
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 1h agoIn Houston—where ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in July—the man who was run down by an ICE agent has been left w/leg and hip injuries and a shattered ankle and will require additional surgery. Miguel Parra Hernandez was hit “in a violent and brutal fashion,” an advocate said. #AbuseofPowerWatch
Peskov confirms that the diesel deal will not aid in the negotiations process or ending the war.
I’m hiring motivated and eager interns for the Spring 2027 semester in my Boston office. BIPOC, LGBTQ+, working class, veterans, and other underrepresented candidates with Massachusetts ties are encouraged to apply. Applications are due Monday, November 9th.
Holy shit. Rick Jackson didn’t just duck a debate with Keisha Lance Bottoms. He left her debating an empty podium. And the moderator made damn sure everyone knew it. Moderator Jeff Hullinger: “Mayor Bottoms, you may now ask a question to your opponent represented by the empty podium.”
More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d
More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife
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There are people under the rubble in Kharkiv. This is absolutely inhuman, horrific, it's unbelievable and unimaginable to crush apartment buildings on families over and over again for 5 years.
Seems relevant to me that the new White House press secretary, who supposed to convey accurate information, believes that elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood are sexually trafficking kids and eating people. 24 hours later, it hasn’t made it into mainstream coverage of Zacharia.
New White House press secretary is a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist
Katie Zacharia, who was appointed White House press secretary by President Trump on Friday, repeatedly promoted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy on social media, accusing elites from the Democratic P...
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Kharkiv right now ‼️ Part of a five-story apartment building collapsed after the Russian attack. Russians are terrorist bastards!
Common Cause just told a federal judge that Trump's taxpayer funded propaganda ads ran hundreds of times after a TRO ordered an immediate halt to them. The two-page notice buff.ly/u2GESdN
Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21h agoI said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.
I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.
Yesterday, a Russian ballistic missile was found in a children’s playground in Kyiv, in the middle of a residential complex. Russia continues its senseless, indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas, terrorising Ukrainians in their own homes.
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
The takeaway is that she'll extend the TRO until at least tomorrow, when she'll try to get testimony from Greg Wischer that doesn't conflict with the government counsel's travel. She may extend it further only for purposes of deciding whether to enter a further TRO.
FEDERAL AGENTS FINALLY LEAVE REP. ILHAN OMAR'S HOME AFTER MORE THAN FIVE HOURS
"So now we're all gonna have a massive fire drill because the government can't be trusted. Unless you're gonna tell me that the government can be trusted?" Judge Reyes now proposes a plan.
And this is Greg Wischer: www.publicdomain.media/p/greg-wisch...
Meet The Young Political Appointee Boosting Trump’s ‘Vanity Projects’
A former mining executive is playing a key role in the president’s campaign to build monuments and stage spectacles in the Capitol. His financial disclosure contains inconsistencies.
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The Trump administration's national deportation force is a threat to all Americans and our multiracial democracy. Our newest report, "76 Ways Mass Deportation Is Breaking Our Democracy,” is the first civil rights review of this anti-immigrant campaign and the path ahead we must take.
Mass Deportations Are Breaking Our Democracy. Here’s How.
ACLU breaks down key findings from our latest report on mass deportations' impact on democracy.
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“The fact that we as a society have moved away from public executions would have mattered a lot for that earlier doctrinal understanding. That it wouldn’t mean nearly so much today is, in my view, a pretty telling indictment of #SCOTUS’s entirely recent jurisprudential shift.” Me on Nidal Hasan:
257. Public Executions and the Eighth Amendment
The shift in the Court's Eighth Amendment jurisprudence would be a significant obstacle to litigation challenging the public execution of Nidal Hasan.
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Yep. Defending Main Street PAC—a GOP SuperPAC focused on boosting non-MAGA Republicans—spent $20-25K on digital ads against Troy Jackson in Portland ... OREGON. Receipts: adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
TrumpsTaxes@trumpstaxes.com · yesterdayIt appears that a GOP Super PAC - running anti-Troy Jackson hits in the Maine Senate race - booked time in Portland…Oregon? #MESen
So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.
Trump has escalated his attacks on Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar to a disturbing new level. Yesterday, federal immigration agents pulled over her son and demanded proof of his citizenship.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.
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"In this city that was once a critical stop on the Underground Railroad for Black people fleeing slavery, it feels like a bleak period in our history is repeating." Read @willbunch.bsky.social on the terror in York County, PA. GIFT LINK: share.inquirer.com/RuFX6g
How York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. | Will Bunch
Local cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.
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The 287(g) program teaming local cops with ICE has created an American secret police Check out what happens in Carroll Twp., Pa. when Sgt. Terry Williams spots a resident filming an immigration arrest It's legal to film traffic stops. This is unconstitutional (full column in 2nd post)
