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Unemployed…got a lead for me? A lover of color, art, craft, beauty, architecture, pottery, patterns, art history, history, travel, good food (Italian to sushi), and anything that makes me happy.

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Pritzker demands a $1,700 refund per family for the people of Illinois after Trump's tariffs were ruled unconstitutional.

Dems, pay attention. This is your midterms message.

20.02.2026 22:06 👍 9596 🔁 2836 💬 247 📌 211

Good, clear explanation. FYI.

23.01.2026 17:19 👍 601 🔁 215 💬 21 📌 9
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Your guide to Oscar-nominated movies and where to watch them There are a lot of films and we are here to help! We've assembled details and coverage for the 14 films nominated in six major categories — all in one place.

There are a lot of films and we are here to help! We've assembled details and coverage for the 14 films nominated in six major categories — all in one place. n.pr/4jZjgLG

23.01.2026 17:23 👍 80 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1
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How the Media Fails With Trump. Over and Over. (And Over.) Plus: The people of Minneapolis are amazing.

The media tends to treat Trump’s more insane statements as ephemeral, but then turns around and treats his climb-downs as binding. Why?

Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4rebOig

23.01.2026 17:30 👍 147 🔁 38 💬 14 📌 1
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Trump Administration Starts Immigration Operation in Maine

Heads up: The Trump admin has started arresting immigrants in Maine as part of a new federal operation targeting the state.

The operation is intended to target immigrants from Somalia. People from countries including Sudan, Guatemala and Ethiopia were swept up on the first day of the operations.

21.01.2026 21:45 👍 969 🔁 604 💬 73 📌 36

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

21.01.2026 23:14 👍 9091 🔁 3343 💬 172 📌 193

That's a photo of someone being tortured

22.01.2026 00:06 👍 447 🔁 103 💬 14 📌 1
Full canvas square of mostly green abstract embroidery completely improvised as I stitch. There is a bit of yellow in the top left corner and a swath of blank canvas down the right side

Full canvas square of mostly green abstract embroidery completely improvised as I stitch. There is a bit of yellow in the top left corner and a swath of blank canvas down the right side

Close up of mostly green abstract embroidery with beads and a fuzzy Pom Pom  and sequins. Lots of different stitches included

Close up of mostly green abstract embroidery with beads and a fuzzy Pom Pom and sequins. Lots of different stitches included

Another close up of mostly green abstract embroidery and sequins. There is a small yellow bee charm also included

Another close up of mostly green abstract embroidery and sequins. There is a small yellow bee charm also included

This is what I continue to work on every evening - it helps calm my nervous system after a day of following the latest news. About 75-80% completed 💚

21.01.2026 17:14 👍 296 🔁 58 💬 29 📌 6
Angled cup featuring greyscale weathered spacecraft design with text: 

ANY STATE ANY ENTITY
ANY IDEOLOGY 
THAT FAILS TO RECOGNIZE 
THE WORTH, THE DIGNITY 
THE RIGHTS OF MAN

Angled cup featuring greyscale weathered spacecraft design with text: ANY STATE ANY ENTITY ANY IDEOLOGY THAT FAILS TO RECOGNIZE THE WORTH, THE DIGNITY THE RIGHTS OF MAN

Angled cup featuring greyscale weathered spacecraft design with small round window and suited astronaut clasping hands together with text above: 

THAT STATE
IS OBSOLETE

Angled cup featuring greyscale weathered spacecraft design with small round window and suited astronaut clasping hands together with text above: THAT STATE IS OBSOLETE

After "The Obsolete Man"

22.01.2026 00:31 👍 164 🔁 42 💬 4 📌 1
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AOC: The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming and everyone is pretending this is normal.

21.01.2026 22:49 👍 12360 🔁 3810 💬 338 📌 239
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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

21.01.2026 21:32 👍 11993 🔁 6999 💬 1311 📌 1921
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I’m demanding Sec. Noem provide an explanation for this abhorrent policy & that my Republican colleagues hold hearings & join me in demanding the Trump Admin answer for this lawlessness. 6

21.01.2026 21:57 👍 1927 🔁 572 💬 127 📌 49

Looks like Senator Blumenthal's office worked with the whistleblowers, and has already put out a letter to the Trump admin demanding answers.

Congress MUST act. This is a five alarm fire for our basic rights under the law. bsky.app/profile/blum...

21.01.2026 22:35 👍 4466 🔁 1285 💬 65 📌 47
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16 years ago today, SCOTUS sided with big corporations over the American people in their infamous Citizens United ruling.

That decision paved the way for unchecked & secret money in our politics & helped billionaires & special interests buy more elections.

We must reverse it.

21.01.2026 22:38 👍 1866 🔁 520 💬 62 📌 29

What’s different??

22.01.2026 01:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.

Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

21.01.2026 22:28 👍 7621 🔁 2890 💬 205 📌 64
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DHS says they have a “list” of around 1,400 people to round up in what they’re calling “Operation Catch of the Day” — a completely disgusting and inhumane name for their terror campaign in our state.

21.01.2026 14:39 👍 696 🔁 286 💬 28 📌 20

At a time of unprecedented daily scandals, this this whistleblower complaint, and the memo it reveals for the first time, breaks through for me as beyond the pale.

It's the federal government conspiring in secret to subvert the Fourth Amendment.

Read it here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

21.01.2026 22:32 👍 3243 🔁 1046 💬 32 📌 57
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Heartbreaking cruelty visited upon children in our name

21.01.2026 18:25 👍 3294 🔁 1429 💬 136 📌 229

This judge should haul Bovino in every time one of his goons violates the order.

21.01.2026 21:27 👍 4266 🔁 1196 💬 140 📌 38
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No Funding for ICE Surveillance Tech!

So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE.

There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it.

Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance.

24 hours. Go.

www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...

21.01.2026 23:35 👍 3069 🔁 1771 💬 94 📌 188

I’m thinking they belong in The Hague

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22.01.2026 01:08 👍 269 🔁 53 💬 5 📌 0

And NPR

22.01.2026 01:26 👍 63 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.

22.01.2026 00:55 👍 29245 🔁 12286 💬 1118 📌 528

Hague

22.01.2026 00:56 👍 613 🔁 106 💬 8 📌 2
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Dear Jonas’ Letter Is No Prize We have three years left with a mad king. It doesn’t feel sustainable.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“The uncomfortable truth is that the president of the United States is a man with the mind of a spoiled child. His debilitating solipsism is a threat to the stability of the entire world,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.

22.01.2026 01:00 👍 377 🔁 71 💬 31 📌 6

This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.

This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.

21.01.2026 23:03 👍 4195 🔁 1449 💬 64 📌 32

In 2020, when I told people that I was building a pro-democracy media outlet, people thought I was kidding.

When I told them that the fight for democracy was the fight of our time, they thought I was being overly dramatic.

Well...here we are.

Premium or free, subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

22.01.2026 01:10 👍 1017 🔁 214 💬 10 📌 1
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Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.

A 5-year-old preschool student was taken with his father by federal immigration agents shortly after arriving home from school, Columbia Heights school leaders said Jan. 21.

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