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I like animals, reading/audiobooks, playing word games and watching documentaries, detective/true crime tv, baking shows, and Golden Girls. Democrat in a red state trying to navigate and learn and do what I can to make it better. @ jaffobsession on xitter
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ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

I thought Roy Cooper was going to run for this seat anyway. Not sure if he's committed yet though.

I wanted to see them when they played in Clemson but the tix sold out in like a minute 😫

Key point from @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social

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This is fucking fucked. Literally, this technology is such utter garbage in almost every conceivable way. Environmentally, financially, creatively and, apparently, medically. It's actually dangerous for your health. Unreal. This is like meth that talks to you.

A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed

Turn basically anything you do into gift cards with Fetch. Earn at stores, restaurants and shopping online. Even playing free games. Download Fetch with my link or use code C83FN to get a bonus when you submit your first receipt. referral.fetch.com/vvv3/referra...

The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana is hiring! We are seeking applicants for our restoration coordinator position. They will work with other members of our team to design, plan, execute and monitor restoration projects across Louisiana's coast. www.crcl.org/employment-o...

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election. A new generation of leaders is here.

Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this? Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids. She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms. Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen. 🧵

This dissent today from Sotomayor is really something.

DO NOT LOOK AWAY ICE arrested a 6yo boy with leukemia at #immigration court

“HE’S BLEEDING!” Trump’s unidentified masked Gestapo kidnappers smash a man’s window then smash his face into the pavement, causing him to bleed from the head.

"Democrats" in this story are Larry Summers and the founder of Third Way. That's it. This is either poor journalism or malicious journalism.

Man, I miss all the cool stuff ☄️ wyff4.com/article/mete...

I doubt "We were not actually aiming for the No. 1 key component to making a nuclear weapon" is the narrative the White House was looking for.

"They didn't have vests that said ICE or anything," said Velez's sister Estrella Rosas. "Their cars didn't have license plates."

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Maga troll block opportunity

This is my shocked face🙄

Medicaid $ going to PP in SC amounts to a measly $90k 🙄 but assholes gonna asshole I guess. wyff4.com/article/supr...

A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

LENOIR CITY, TN — pregnant fiancée of an American lost her baby in ICE detention after they denied her prenatal care after pleading for help for days. (@ltgovmcnally & @lowellrussell21’s district) Unimaginable cruelty. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...

Good news! Food truck in Sumter providing free meals for kids all summer www.wistv.com/2025/06/22/f...

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.

“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

"Bishop Pham — who celebrated Mass at St. Joseph Cathedral before hopping on a bus to the federal building — said priests would return for similar 'walks in solidarity' at immigration court..."

Once again…say it with me…”not a drag queen”.

Iconic anti-war poster, originally by US printmaker Lorraine Schneider, 1966 #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

We all learned a great lesson in media literacy last year. Mainstream media kept repeating that some amorphous set of interests framed as "the economy" was the top priority for voters until it became reality. It's no longer needed now, so they moved on. Similar to the post-covid "crime wave" in '22

They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission. They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again. And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.

This is outrageous. Marco Rubio takes care of his own people, leaves regular Americans behind. apnews.com/article/iran...

Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident. He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 97 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

“A horrible display of waste… rotting fruits and vegetables… store after store closed… if the ice raids continue be ready for even bigger sticker shock when you go grocery shopping…” 🍎 🥕