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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
When children are shot in their classrooms, all politicians can offer are thoughts and prayers. When a shooting happens near them, they demand a $350 million golden ballroom to protect themselves.
Don't normalize a system that protects power more than it protects children.
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It’s national library week and I love my @mymcpl.bsky.social!! My husband knows when I am going to “just return a book real quick” that I’m coming back with 3-4 more books. I couldn’t afford to buy all these all the time at the bookstore, so I’m extremely grateful for our library system!
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Hope in Liberty, MO… great turnout of a few hundred! This was a fraction of it. No kings!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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The Beacon @thebeacon.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
“Your job isn’t keeping up with your housing, which is the biggest issue,” said Kansas City Houseless Prevention Coordinator Josh Henges. “We’ve seen over the last five years that wages are not even coming close to matching the cost of housing.” In Kansas City, that math is stark. buff.ly/KlsZlRX
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Working homelessness: When 'getting a job' isn't enough in KC
Increasing numbers of sheltered families have jobs while a growing population is caught in the gap between the wages they earn and the cost of housing. It’s a formula for rising homelessness.
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
www.kmbc.com/article/kans... motel residents, not counted in homeless numbers.
kmbc.com
Residents at Kansas City motel scrambling to find places to stay after city orders shutdown
Many residents of a Kansas City motel are struggling to find somewhere to go after the city ordered families to leave by Friday due to unsafe living conditions.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 12/11/2025
The skyrocketing price comes as the president threatens to deploy additional troops to more American cities to quell dissent and turn America into a full-blown police state. interc.pt/43qaEH1
A photo of members of the National Guard walking down Beale Street on Oct. 24, 2025, in Memphis, Tenn., overlaid with the headline, "Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising," and the DEK, "Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price."COST OF TRUMP’S MILITARY OCCUPATIONS OF CITIES

Los Angeles................. $172M

Washington, D.C...........$270M

Portland......................... $15M

Chicago..........................$13M

Memphis..........................$3M

TOTAL..........................~473M
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 13/11/2025
“By cutting aid for permanent housing by 2/3 next year, the plan risks a sudden end of support… beginning as soon as January. All are disabled — a condition of the aid — and many are 50 or older. The document does not explain how they would find housing.”
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Devoured this book in 3 days. Excellent narrative storytelling following several families, with data and stats interwoven. Extremely timely with current SNAP events and talk of affordability.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Asylum seekers don’t come from "insane asylums.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.” It’s very sad that Gov. Stitt can say this obviously true thing but @GovBillLee wouldn’t in a million years. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Looking forward to a great local event tonight!
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 30/09/2025
It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
“This meeting could have been an email” energy.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"The number of Americans missing work for National Guard deployments or other military or civic duty is at a 19-year high, adding disruption to a labor market that’s already under strain." Pretty remarkable when we're not at war—except against our own people. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Watch what they do, not what they say
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
A little fiction break, and now back to some non-fiction. I read and enjoyed Icebound by @andreapitzer.bsky.social … I’m not sure “enjoy” will be the right word for this book about such a dark topic, but I believe I’ll learn plenty.
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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Grieving for the America I love.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Quite the contrast. Feb 28, 2025. Aug 15, 2025. @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Immigration thugs drew their guns on a disabled kid & dragged him from a car outside a school. Then they somehow left a bunch of bullets on school grounds. When agents were contacted to pick up the ammunition, they told the school to use it for target practice. www.huffpost.com/entry/la-boy...
huffpost.com
Immigration Agents Detain Boy With Disabilities Outside LA School
After the school principal intervened, the agents left live bullets behind in a case of what the district superintendent called "mistaken identity."
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
That wouldn’t have deep reaching impacts at all, across multiple industries
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 11/08/2025
The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🚨NEW: This is what all networks should do! MSNBC fact checks Trump live during his press conference. The REAL crime stats are put on screen as he reads out his made up figures.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 19/07/2025
I mean, you could cancel Paramount and support @pbs.org instead.
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I really do love my city. Never thought I’d end up staying here as long as I have, but it has a lot of beauty and greatness… if one knows where to look.
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
When I saw this book by @maklelan.bsky.social I knew I had to read it. So excited to dive in!
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Finished @leahlitman.bsky.social book Lawless last night. Chapter 5 really illuminated and gave context to what we are seeing with the dismantling and debilitation of our government agencies. Great book. I’ve already ordered a copy for a gift!
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reality check 🤔😕😢 @realitycheck.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
"the Justice Department’s decision to spare Hernandez shows that officials are also willing to keep serious offenders in the United States to meet their particular goals. Abrego has no prior criminal arrests or convictions" Violent felon offers to lie about Abrego to save his own ass. DOJ accepts.
washingtonpost.com
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
An astonishing figure in this piece: Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing. This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers. That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.
newrepublic.com
Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
As good of a time as any to start this read.
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Vox @vox.com · 26/06/2025
Republicans want to convince more moms to stay home. Here’s how. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/E25lVO
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The MAGA dream family would cost all of us
Republicans want to convince more moms to stay home. Here’s how.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A. After realizing he’s American, they just slink away. Their only explanation: “Why were you running?” Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...
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Tulsa Teresa @tulsateresa.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Trump repost on Truth Social: “There is no #JoeBiden - executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. >#Democrats dont know the difference.” The US President is full blown crazy and Congress refuses to act. God help us.
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Massive turnout #nokings in Kansas City, great energy and bubbles!
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Kc, Mo #nokings 1 Hour before the protest
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I listen to podcasts slightly sped up, so it’s always funny when I see a clip posted from one of my frequents and I’m like, “Are they drinking? Why are they talking so weird?” But it’s just their normal voice and speed.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
No funds to rebuild after devastating storms and fires, but troops if you demand basic human rights. Got it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says deploying Marines and National Guard to protests in Los Angeles will cost $134 million.
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The only president I’ve ever seen that feels the need to use the military for his anti-immigration actions after manufacturing the crises to begin with. There were no protests, ICE raids started this whole debacle! There’s serious dark agendas at work here… www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
usatoday.com
Trump wants 20,000 troops to hunt, transport immigrants. Cost estimate: $3.6 billion
The moves would shift the military from its mission of defending the nation against foreign adversaries toward policing its streets.
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Authoritarians like to punish the power to protest, which is enshrined in our constitution.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/06/2025
dustin on Twitter: “look at the resources they're willing to commit to terrorize people but not feed or house people”
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Get ready for more masquerading like this. But don’t fight back against your attackers/kidnappers bc they COULD be federal agents…
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candasaurusrex.bsky.social @candasaurusrex.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
When I’m broke like USA supposedly, I tell the kids no dinner (snap), no healthcare (Medicaid), no future investment (grants), we need to cut back (fire fed servants) and then I throw myself a big, expensive, wasteful party and destroy infrastructure in the process.
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