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Grannie Wolf

@nitehowl55.bsky.social
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Social justice ✊🏽Economic equity ⚖ Environmental protection 🌎 Survivor of the 60's✌🏽❤ Mountain dweller🌲🌻 VoteBlue 🌊

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
An unarmed veteran was attacked from behind, sustaining injuries and being dragged into a Portland ice building.
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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
GOP Rep. Nick Lalota won’t talk to his constituents. So I will. Join me this Tuesday for a People’s Town Hall on Long Island. Sign up now at Suffolkdems.com/swalwell
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
ANCHORAGE…
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
We need to stop referring to our situation as being like living in a police state or like life under authoritarian rule. We are living in a police state under authoritarian rule.
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Yes! ATTN MEDIA 💥 A lie is not an answer to a question. A deflective rant is not a answer. A statement of the law or rule itself does not answer if that law or rule is being violated. When they won't answer, don't just repeat their words, tell us that they refuse to answer!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“A five alarm fire for democracy” 🇺🇸 👇🏽Here’s the video @gavinnewsom.bsky.social just released asking Californians to “Vote YES November 4” to counter Trump’s election theft attempt in Texas.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 14/08/2025
It’s no coincidence that we stand here today, at the Democracy Center, with Donald Trump's ICE agents standing outside as we speak. Is this a threat to you, Trump? Are you scared of what happens when the people of this state come together to make our voices heard?
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Today's federal presence at Governor Newsom's press conference was a clear and brazen message designed to intimidate. The message was: *Regardless* of whether California redistricts to negate Texas gerrymandering, the federal government intends to use force to sway the next election in its favor.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Newsom: Here we are in plain sight before one vote is cast in the 2026 midterm election and here he is once again trying to rig the system. He does not play by a different set of rules, he does not believe in the rules.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 14/08/2025
On November 4th in California, you will have the power to stand up to Donald Trump. You will have the power to stand up for people. We're going to give the people of this state the power to stand up for democracy.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/07/2025
Breaking news: “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, CBS said in a statement. The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
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Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, to end in May 2026
CBS said in a statement that it was “purely a financial decision.” The show launched with Colbert as host, executive producer and writer a decade ago.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 15/06/2025
Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🙏🏻 Thank you, Harvard! 🙏🏻
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Save Social Security!
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Trump’s defiance of the Supreme Court threatens all of our rights. I will continue to press for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
China just halted orders of all Boeing planes. This is a major strategic failure for Trump.
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China orders its airlines to stop accepting deliveries of Boeing jets, report says
As its trade war with the U.S. widens, China has ordered its airlines to stop accepting Boeing jet deliveries, Bloomberg reports.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Just updated this timeline to fix a typo and address an error in the last box where I'd gotten the manner of arrest wrong. I present the full version Mr. Abrego's time in the United States, using court documents to explain the allegations of gang membership and what actually happened in his case.
Full copy of Abrego timeline. Excerpted below in alt text:

TIMELINE
ABREGO GARCIA GANG ALLEGATIONS - SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION. 


March 28, 2019: PGPD Arrest. Kilmar is arrested for loitering outside Home Depot while looking for day labor. A Prince Georges County PD detective grills him about whether he’s a gang member. He denies any involvement. Four hours later, he is transferred to ICE custody, without PGPD charging him for any offense.

April 2019: ICE Allegations: At a bond hearing, ICE claims Kilmar is part of MS-13. They submit one piece of evidence: a “Gang Field Interview Sheet” (GFIS) filled out by the PGPD detective that claims Kilmar is part of MS-13. The GFIS says (1) he was wearing Chicago Bulls gear, and (2) a “confidential informant” allegedly claimed that Kilmar was a ranking member of the “Westerns” clique, which is in Long Island, a place he has never lived in.

Summer 2019: Investigation: Kilmar’s lawyers reach out to PGPD to investigate these claims. They find out that (1) the police did not even file an incident report about his arrest, and (2) the detective that filled out the GFIS has been suspended for an unknown reason.

August 2019: IJ Decision: At his final bond hearing, ICE declines to offer any evidence of gang membership other than what’s in the GFIS. The IJ denies bond, finding that the GFIS is sufficient proof of membership at this time, despite noting its obvious flaws. Kilmar appeals this decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals.

December 2019: BIA Decision: Kilmar appeals the bond decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. The appeals board declines to find “clear error” in the immigration judge’s decision to rely on the GFIS document. However, he is released anyway because he had won withholding of removal.
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 15/04/2025
The Trump administration recently canceled $11 billion in CDC grants to state and local health agencies. The Sick Times has identified specific #LongCOVID programs impacted, including state-level research, outreach, partnerships with community organizations, and more. bit.ly/4jjeAzi
Collage graphic showing President Trump holding a chainsaw, standing in front of a sign for the CDC’s campus. The image is cast in red light and has a foreboding vibe. The text reads, “The Sick Times. $11 billion CDC funding cuts may decimate Long COVID response in several states. By Betsy Ladyzhets.” Black text on a white and red-ish background reads, "Much of HHS’s rationale for terminating the grants relies on the argument the COVID-19 pandemic is “over,” even though the disease is still circulating widely in the U.S., with hundreds of deaths reported each week — likely an undercount — and many people newly developing Long COVID. - Betsy Ladyzhets, The Sick Times co-founder + managing editor."
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. wapo.st/4luJyph
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Opinion | Trump is killing one of our strongest exports
The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Keep asking questions.
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Well, I've done a lot of unfollowing, but it doesn't feel like enough. I don't think I can be here anymore. I'm well informed & have been all 50 yrs I've been following politics. I fully understand what's at stake & how perilous it is right now. 1/6
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Folks who can't move on from Chuck Schumer's cloture vote... the newest way I'm cleaning up my "Follow" list. My therapist says I need to eliminate distractions & minimize the bullshit I consume. Smart lady. ☺️
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"Many who left held a top-secret security clearance, called Q, that gave them access to information about how nuclear weapons are designed, produced and used, officials said..." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
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DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts
Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting th...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“‘I was put in a cell, and I had to sleep on a mat with no blanket, no pillow, with an aluminum foil wrapped over my body like a dead body for two and a half days.’”
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Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border
A Canadian entrepreneur detained by ICE is speaking out after she got arrested while trying to enter the San Diego border to obtain a visa last Monday.
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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
„The family, including his partner, who is a cardiologist in Nashua, have acquired attorneys and been working with the German consulate in hopes to have him released on bail.“ www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
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owl face @wickedsmartface.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Another person taken by ICE. Fabian Schmidt flew into Logan Airport in Boston and was sent to the Wyatt Detention Center in RI. According to their FB post, the family has been in NH since 2007. (🔗s in thread)
Screenshot of ICE website, shows Fabian Schmidt, country of birth: Germany, status: in ICE custody, state: RI, current detention facility: Wyatt Detention Center
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It's why we all need to know that we can still be good anti-fascists and not jump into every feeding frenzy that ripples through these platforms... 😌
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Ds claim to be the Party that cares about real people. Gov shutdowns are devastating to real people. No paychecks, mortgage defaults, medical needs unmet. Very REAL tragedies that Ds WILL be blamed for along WITH Rs as "both Parties are the same." OTOH, winning thru the courts seems possible 👇🏻
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
When we ask how a government shut down could be worse, I wonder if we aren't, once again, suffering from a lack if imagination. I thought that was a lesson learned over the past 52 days...
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"The exact details of which government functions stop during a shutdown is determined by the Office of Management and Budget." Umm... let's not forget that the guy running OMB is the architect of Project 2025 & considers himself exempt from our laws... What could go wrong?
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Yeah, all the "Schumer hate" here is reminding me why I've bailed on these platforms. It's not that I support his position. It's the vibes, people. Schumer's entitled to his opinion that a shut down makes agencies/workers more vulnerable. Buying into the vitriol it's causing is just so toxic.
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Maddow spent her whole A-block telling the amazing circumstances of how a fed judge reamed the gov lawyers & got thousands of fed workers their jobs back. Could that have happened under a gov shutdown? What about all the EPA & FDA & HHS cases pending in the courts right now?
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
So today's reprieve by a CA fed court, for thousands of fed workers fired by DOGE, might not have happened during a gov shut down. In fact, the over 100 filings now before the judiciary against the Trump admin could be seriously delayed under a shutdown. Isn't that part of Schumer's argument?
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Our youngest Democratic congressman, Maxwell Frost, exiting the chamber tonight. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Elissa Slotkin did SUCH a good job tonight! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Grannie Wolf @nitehowl55.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
"El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency."
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edjrockdoc.bsky.social @edjrockdoc.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Got it. Any noteworthy black person Is celebrated "because of their race." Any noteworthy white person is celebrated on their merits. That's their logic.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Our VP met with far-right German party AfP while in Europe. In case you don’t know who they are, I wrote about it when Musk argued that party, Nazi leanings & all, was Germany’s future. joycevance.substack.com/p/musk-in-di...
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Musk in Die Welt
It did not take long for Eva Marie Kogel, the opinion editor at Die Welt, Germany’s paper of record, to decide what the right thing for her to do was.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Ukraine rejects Trump bid to take rights to half its mineral reserves www.ft.com/content/b08b...
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Ukraine rejects Trump bid to take rights to half its mineral reserves
Kyiv wants security guarantees to be tied to any natural resources deal
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15/02/2025
National Nuclear Security Administration officials are attempting to notify some employees who had been let go that they are now due to be reinstated — but they're struggling to find them because they don't have their new contact information. nbcnews.to/4104StF
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Trump border czar Tom Homan on Eric Adams: “If he doesn’t come through, I’ll be back in New York City. And we won’t be sitting on a couch. I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying where the hell is the agreement we came to.” Sure sounds like a quid pro quo.
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Analysis | Why the budding Trump DOJ scandal is a big deal
The episode crystallizes Trump’s politicization of usually independent government functions, and in this case some conservatives actually bucked his team.
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The GOP budget is out. Republicans recently promised to love and cherish Medicaid. Their actual plan is to destroy it.
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