As promised from the charity event, it's now time for the BOOK GIVEAWAY RAFFLE! I'll be sending 10, signed copies to people as the prize for the raffle! How to enter: 1. Follow me 2. Comment on this post 3. Repost this post Given the books being physical, please see details in comments. 1/3
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
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“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Transgender Youth Have Better Emotional Health after Taking Hormones, New Study Finds www.scientificameric... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Transgender Youth Have Better Emotional Health after Taking Hormones, New Study Finds
Hormone therapy improves transgender young people’s well-being and social relationships, but Trump’s recent executive order and state bans threaten to take it away
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I love the cover of my upcoming collection. I feel very very lucky. My dream for 2025 would be that my cover gets to compete in the @electriclit.bsky.social best book covers of the year bracket!
Bernie Kaminski creates lifelike papier-mâché iterations of everyday items. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/12/bern...
The Biden-Harris admin has canceled $175 billion in student debt for nearly 5 million people. Project 2025 seeks to get rid of student loan forgiveness programs and income driven payment plans. The result? Monthly student loan payments could triple for many borrowers.
Whoever runs the Lake Superior account is burnin down houses rn
Feels like a good day to remind everyone that JD Vance was a no-show on the vote for my bill to expand the child tax credit when it was on the senate floor two weeks ago. My bill failed after Republicans blocked it, leaving 16 million kids worse off.
Routine childhood vaccines prevented "hundreds of millions of illnesses, tens of millions of hospitalizations and more than 1 million deaths among people born between 1994 and 2023..." www.cnn.com/2024/08/08/h...
Childhood vaccinations will have prevented more than 500 million illnesses and 1 million deaths in US since 1994, CDC report says | CNN
Routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented hundreds of millions of illnesses, tens of millions of hospitalizations and more than 1 million deaths among people born between 1994 and 2023, accor...
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"Trump took the flight to speak at a Heritage Foundation conference, where he said, 'They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.'" www.washingtonpost.com/elections/20...
Trump took a private flight with Project 2025 leader in 2022
Trump took the flight to speak at a Heritage Foundation conference, where he said, “They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.”
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So, journalists... anyone gonna ask him to explain exactly what he meant by that? Or Vance, or any campaign surrogate, or any GOP elected?
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y agoTrump gave a speech asking Christians in the crowd to vote "just this time." “In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good," he said.
You wouldn't know it by the chyron, but this woman literally said said: "I'm voting for democracy. A convicted felon is not it. Biden is our guy." That was her quote.
Trump's efforts to run from Project 2025 are blowing up in his face: *CNN reports 140 former Trump officials are involved *New video shows Trump praised its creators in 2022 On the pod, we go deep into the threat Project 2025 poses, with Amanda Becker of The 19th: newrepublic.com/article/1837...
Trump’s Sleazy New Project 2025 Disavowal Scam Blows Up in His Face
As new reports tie Trump to Project 2025, a writer who has examined the plan explains what this saga really reveals about the reactionary agenda MAGA wants to inflict on our country.
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Democrats should be calling it "Trump's Project 2025" to make it at least a little harder for him or others to deny a connection to it. Plus, it only happens if he wins so that's the connection right there!
Eoin Higgins@eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 2y agoAt least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration had a hand in Project 2025, a CNN review found.
Breaking news: Inflation eased further in June, handing Federal Reserve officials another dose of encouraging data as they inch closer to cutting interest rates and taking pressure off the economy.
Inflation eased further in June, helping cement path to rate cuts
Fed watchers increasingly think a first rate cut could come in September, so long as the data continues to cooperate.
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Major publications think one big article outweighs the flood the zone Biden coverage. But that's not how people consume news anymore. A lot of people probably never read this, but they sure as hell saw the stream of Biden articles in their newsfeed.
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 2y agoEverytime The Times is criticized for its hundreds of attacks on Biden and age, it will point to this one (over-designed) editorial it has at last written. #ButHerEmails arithmetic.
The IRS reported Wednesday that it has collected $1 billion in taxes and penalties owed by hundreds of wealthy households who accumulated past-due tax debts for years while IRS enforcement dwindled.
IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households’ back taxes
For years, the tax agency simply didn’t try collecting sizable debts owed by 1,600 filers with annual incomes of at least $1 million.
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I sure did not have "Harlan Crow paid for a yacht and private helicopter trip for Clarence Thomas to visit a palace in Vladimir Putin's hometown" on my bingo card, but in hindsight, why the hell not. www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-tho...
Clarence Thomas Gifted Luxe Trip to Putin’s Hometown: Dems
The allegedly secret gifts were disclosed in a letter from two Democratic senators that accused Thomas of potentially committing tax fraud.
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Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trial
The testing of lenacapavir was halted because results were so impressive — 100% effectiveness. The decision was made to give all participants the injection rather than the alternative daily pill.
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