cactusam.bsky.social

cactusam.bsky.social

@cactusam.bsky.social

Musician and Public Radio announcer/ producer. I play the Blues every Friday Night. I take pictures too!

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Leader Jeffries torches SCOTUS: You "right wing extremists on the Supreme Court" don’t get to pretend racism is over while gutting the Voting Rights Act in the same breath. This fight ain't over. They started it, but we will FINISH it.

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The Catholic, who gives his support to the guy who post pictures of himself as Christ and the pope… Instead of supporting the leader of his own faith… The kind of faith that’s only skin deep? #He’sGoingInsane #TimeForThe25th

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Iran and Iranian-backed militias fired missiles at Israel and Arab states, apparently hitting the U.S. Embassy compound in Kuwait, while Israel and the United States pounded targets in Iran as the war expanded Monday with statements of defiance and increasing casualties. https://to.pbs.org/4aYt30f

pbs.orgLive Updates: U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran widensIran and Iranian-backed militias fired missiles at Israel and Arab states, apparently hitting the U.S. Embassy compound in Kuwait, while Israel and the United States pounded targets in Iran as the war...

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🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: “We gave up nuclear weapons and other arms under the Budapest Memorandum in exchange for security guarantees. But when Russia invaded, no one protected our sovereignty or saved our independence.”

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Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

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So the DOD started laser testing because they believed party balloons were drones, shut down all of El Paso airspace, and blamed it on Mexican cartels?

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CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

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We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

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🚨BREAKING: Puerto Rico has been part of the United States since 1898, and people still act confused that Puerto Ricans are American. States that joined after Puerto Rico: • Oklahoma — 1907 • New Mexico — 1912 • Arizona — 1912 • Alaska — 1959 • Hawaii — 1959 Yet somehow this is still news to folks.

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BREAKING: on this Super Bowl Sunday, Epstein Survivors have just released this PSA: “Stand with us.  Tell Attorney General Pam Bondi IT’S TIME FOR THE TRUTH” Please share everywhere!

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Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."

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Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year: “As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”

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"There's only one profession that is protected in the Constitution of the United States, and that is a free press. That is because the founders understood that, for a democracy to survive, it needs to have an informed citizenry," says Jonathan Capehart. https://to.pbs.org/4qKNgxr

to.pbs.orgCapehart and Abernathy on the backlash against Trump's immigration operationJonathan Capehart of MS NOW and Gary Abernathy of The Abernathy Road newsletter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including the political backlash against President Trump's immigration ...

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This should piss everyone off, and our tax dollars paid for this. A massive building purchased by ICE for $70 million in Arizona to “warehouse” immigrants. Calling this “housing” is a lie. This is storage. This is treating human beings like inventory.

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TODAY: Massive protests erupt in Greenland and Denmark as people take to the streets to show their unity against the United States threat

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“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” ~ Frederick Douglass ICE continues to exist because endurance has been mistaken for consent.

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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand