Virginia Scharff
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Historian, novelist, gardener, cook
Nazi rhetoric noted.
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The Tennessee Holler
about 6 hours ago
âThis should be a nuclear bomb, it shouldnât be a Wednesday.â -
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
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This story keeps breaking my heart.
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Who in hell thinks this is okay?
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Democracy Now!
about 10 hours ago
âWe had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away.â
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Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID
âWe had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away.â We speak to surgeon and health policy expert Atul Gawande about the Trump administrationâs near-total dismantling of USAID. Gawande,...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/13/usaid
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
about 23 hours ago
In light of current reminders about how powerful rich men exploit and assault young women under the safety and guise of various forms of âemployment,â just wanna give a shout out to NYT for this gem last week where we learned about how
#metoo
*actually* ended harming the workplace. đ
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 8 hours ago
There sure is a lot of missing evidence when it comes to DHS.
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Tom Schuba
about 9 hours ago
Chicago's Far South Side devolved into chaos when residents confronted Border Patrol agents who rammed a car to make an arrest. The feds ultimately used tear gas to flee, despite a Chicago police leader offering to clear a path and warning that cops didn't have gas masks.
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Feds deployed tear gas on the Far South Side even after cops told them they had no gas masks, sources say
The agents deployed gas, smoke and other riot-control chemicals against residents and officers, including Chicago Police Department Deputy Chief Dan OâConnor, who had asked them not to use the gas, la...
https://tinyurl.com/mt3sfh4j
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Kashana
about 10 hours ago
Somewhere out there someone whoâs the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world
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Trumpâs first choice for AG: finally we hear his victimâs story.
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Josh Marshall
about 8 hours ago
suitably dark
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Amanda Katz
about 8 hours ago
Whatâs it like to be going to hell at such a young age
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Release the DOJ files and we can judge for ourselves.
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TizzyWoman
about 10 hours ago
Eight Senators snuck in a MILLION-DOLLAR PAYOUT for themselves for being investigated for their possible involvement in the January 6th insurrection. There is no money for healthcare, but there is money for a payout to Senators? This is fucken đ đ©!
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Marc Elias
about 9 hours ago
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump. The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
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Heather Cherone
about 9 hours ago
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North Center Daycare Teacher Detained by ICE Released From Custody
Diana Santillana Galeano, who had been held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in Clay County, Indiana, was released Wednesday night, hours after a federal judge granted a habeas peti...
https://news.wttw.com/2025/11/13/north-center-daycare-teacher-detained-ice-released-custody
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Mother Jones
about 9 hours ago
Video of a daycare raid in Chicago went viral last week, showing armed federal agents dragging a teacher from Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center as children watched in terror. To the families at the daycare, the scene was a show of force that shattered their sense of safety.
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âThey dragged her out in front of the kidsâ: Inside Chicagoâs ICE raid at a bilingual daycare
When armed agents stormed Rayito de Sol, a Spanish-immersion daycare, parents like Maria Guzman say their children witnessed terrorânot justice.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/rayito-chicago-immigration-ice-raid/
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Moira Donegan
about 10 hours ago
Womenâs status is eroding rapidly and dramaticallyâin employment, in culture, and in the law. But that is not considered important news; whatâs considered important news is menâs aggrieved feelings about how weâre not being forced back into the kitchen fast enough.
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Natalie
about 10 hours ago
âThe Epstein Shutdownâ
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November 12, 2025
It turns out Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and House Democrats were right to call it the âEpstein Shutdownâ for the last several weeks on social media and in interviews.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-12-2025?r=4dyrp&utm_medium=ios
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Mark Joseph Stern
about 11 hours ago
The Supreme Court just refused to stay this young girl's removal to Venezuela, uprooting her from her life in Texas to a foreign country where neither of her parents currently live. Sotomayor and Jackson note their dissents.
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Douglas M. Charles, PhD
about 11 hours ago
This court is corrupt & cruel.
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Simon Rosenberg
about 11 hours ago
If Trump wags the dog in Venezuela it is going to do enormous damage to his already degraded brand here in the US. Zero support for this in the public. Will be seen for what it is - transparent attempt to rescue his flailing Presidency.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
about 11 hours ago
You just know that âDid Women Ruin the Workplace?â bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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Crucial reporting on our criminal government from
@propublica.org
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Charles Ornstein
about 14 hours ago
The Trump administration said Tren de Aragua âterroristsâ had taken over a building in Chicago. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up those claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in the raid are telling their stories.
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âI Lost Everythingâ: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua âterroristsâ had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the governmentâs claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges
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Well this will certainly remind people who Trump appreciates.
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George Conway đșđžđ«đđž
about 12 hours ago
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All reasonable questions
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This is unacceptable. We have to make it stop.
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Axios
about 14 hours ago
Four months ago, President Trump blocked the release of the Epstein files. Yesterday's disclosure of thousands of Epstein emails showed why. Trump and his allies had promised to release the files before the 2024 election. He then reversed course in July.
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Epstein files become a fiasco of Trump's own making
Trump's reaction to the Epstein scandal is window into how he handles major controversies that invite criticism about his leadership.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/13/trump-epstein-files-fiasco
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SFGATE
about 23 hours ago
Food pantries and farm stands are helping to feed staff at Yosemite and other national parks.
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'Worn down' national park workers struggling to survive
Food pantries and farm stands are helping to feed staff at Yosemite and other national parks.
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Ask yourself why Epstein was helping Putin. Follow the money.
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Who decided not to follow up? Why?
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Phillips OBrien
about 17 hours ago
Whisper it quietly, but Republicans who are up for re-election next year seem to understand that Trump is becoming a big liability.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Epstein files vote happening next week, Johnson says
The speaker said he would move up the timeline after a bipartisan discharge effort succeeded Wednesday.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/12/congress/epstein-files-house-vote-next-week-00649999
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If 100 House GOP vote to release, will the Senate GOP stand firm to protect pedophiles?
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Good morning!
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Garrett M. Graff
1 day ago
Itâs wild how many of the ICE/CBP detentions are turning out to be illegal â and yet in the US system, there are no consequences for the agents and no recourse for the victims.
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Watch this space.
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Heâs swimming in the sewer he built and flooded.
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Oy veh
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Verdad
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La la la, connect the dots đ¶
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All In with Chris Hayes
about 22 hours ago
WATCH:
@raskin.house.gov
explains the deal that would allow eight GOP senators lucrative lawsuits over phone record subpoenas: "It's certainly the most corrupt provision authorizing financial self-dealing and plunder of the public passed by Congress in this century."
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Eileen Clancy đ§ż
about 22 hours ago
As of 2011, Epstein was a Level 3 registered sex offender (highest-risk) with a lifetime registrant requirement in NY. And a registered sex offender in Florida by 2008/2009. He was required to report all international travel. But sure, visit the Southern White House.
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The Briefing with Jen Psaki
about 23 hours ago
"There is a lot more." Rep. Garcia shares the DOJ is hoarding files from federal Epstein investigations. "Photographs, possibly videos, they have information we need to actually bring justice to the survivors and to implicate the wealthy and powerful men that abused and raped children and women."
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Christopher Hale
about 23 hours ago
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIVâs urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history â condemning Trump-Vance raids as âinhumaneâ and âdehumanizingâ in a 216â5 vote.
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NEW: At Pope Leoâs Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trumpâs Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administrationâs âinhumaneâ deportation campaign â a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/breaking-at-pope-leos-urging-bishops
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Kyle Griffin
about 24 hours ago
Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate ⊠and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
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Clara Jeffery
about 23 hours ago
Reminder that Ken Starr was canned by Baylor University for covering up multiple sexual assaults when he was the schoolâs presidentâŠ
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
1 day ago
All of the times Iâve wondered what Putin had on Trump, and now we find out Jeffrey Epstein was talking to Putinâs ambassador about Trump.
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Jeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into Trump
Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offenderâs extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trumpâs policy decisions.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-russia-emails-00648919
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