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Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Just in case you forgot…
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Watched the governor on Pivot this morning. Well worth watching.
Think New Mexico isn’t fighting for patients, they’re fighting for private equity. There’s a doctor shortage because Wall Street buys up community hospitals, guts staff, and turns ERs into cash cows. Patients wait 16 hours for care while profits soar. Private equity is strip-mining hospitals.
Mother Jones: “RFK Jr. Is Getting Personal Authority Over Who to Kick Off Medicaid” “The reality is that more and more people are becoming chronically ill through Long Covid and other health conditions…Around half…fit the criteria of ME/CFS..” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Putting a 10 year old on tv to talk about his friend being shot at school is a different level of diabolical.
How, by all that is holy & good, has America not learned its lesson about immigration? That it’s our greatest strength. Yet, the nativist hate returns Every. Single.Time. The Germans in the 1700’s, Irish in the 19th century, the Italians, Eastern Europeans, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cubans. Wise up!
DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH The media who do this are heartless bastards
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
Shuler: This is the choice working Americans have been given: chaos, or the same broken status quo. We wanted cheaper groceries—and we got tanks in our streets. We wanted affordable health care—and instead, 16 million Americans are about to be kicked off their coverage
How we arrived at this point, where oligarchs own the media and the “truth”.
Witkoff: “There’s only one thing I wish for — that the Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes you’re the single finest candidate since that award was ever conceived.” Peak bootlicking. 🥇👞💋
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
We need to wake up.
Brutal. A humiliation ritual.
In natural sciences, it is often said that a dying creature, while in battle, is often most vicious when it knows it's end is inevitable. The current capitalist system along with the patriarchal cancer infesting the land is coming to a close, perhaps violently, so be prepared.
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Very illuminating clip here: Los Angeles City Councilmember Imelda Padilla criticizes SB 79 because it limits local elected officials’ power to block new housing, then @jonlovett.bsky.social reminds her that we have a massive housing shortage that is strangling our state’s growth.
#chicago #nationalguard #fdt
You have to start to wonder if the interior decorator is actually trolling him.
Already boycotting Starbucks’ for several years now. I don’t miss it.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
Something is wrong with a system where 76% of workers say they’re worried to make ends meet, while greedy corporate CEOs make 285x what the median worker does. Working people don’t have to accept this. A union contract is how we fight back.
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
Sanders Will Rally With Maine Challenger to Susan Collins, Graham Platner truthout.org/articles/san...
Please support the veterans’ sit-in at Union Station in Washington DC. Here is a link to the GoFundMe: linktr.ee/Jolly_good_g...
There’s plenty of disinformation trying to blame the nascent offshore wind industry for whale deaths without evidence. Not only is that misleading, it also takes the focus away from solutions that might actually address the leading causes of death — vessel strikes and entanglement with fishing gear.
Moore: The president seems to obsessed with me. Today he called me a beauty. And when I first met him, he just talked about how I was a good looking guy.
This was an amazing discussion about media, democracy, and community. Heather Cox Richardson Leigh McGowan (Politics Girl) Joanne Carducci (JoJoFromJerz) Dana Goldberg substack.com/@muellershew...
Minnesota is heartbroken. From the officers responding, to the clergy and teachers providing comfort, to the hospital staff saving lives, we will get through this together. Hug your kids close.
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
These guys should be home with their families.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
I feel something similar, but with the way HS, ICE, and the NG were beating and rounding up black people and poor people in DC last week. Where did they go? Nobody knows! But sure keep looking for those files that have most likely already been shredded and replaced. bsky.app/profile/iwil...
envoy arrives in it's new plane
EPSTEIN Epstein Epstein Epstein Government buying stake in private companies: socialism Epstein Epstein Epstein President having stakes in those companies: corruption Epstein Epstein Epstein Worrying about Cracker Barrel logo instead of governing Epstein Epstein Epstein EPSTEIN
He's crazy and DANGEROUS www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPrs...
I expected to see the painting take a breathe. Amazing!
Jones responds to Ogles…
Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"
Masked immigration raids don’t protect us. They hide abuse and strip away our dignity. Stand with me in demanding transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition.
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Alligator Alcatraz Contractors Have Links to Allegations of Fraud, Price-Gouging Nooooo. Stop it. www.military.com/daily-news/2...
If DOJ has a strong criminal case against Abrego Garcia, they should welcome the chance to prove his guilt at trial. This offer of guilty plea or Uganda is coercive. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
"A man who shared posts on his Facebook page backing Palestine Action has told how he was hauled from his bed by police and arrested on suspicion of breaking terror laws in a terrifying dawn raid." www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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Garcia: What we got was complete bullshit. We demanded the full Epstein files, and that’s not what was sent over. The White House cover-up clearly continues. What they sent us was 33,000 pages of documents that have already been in the public domain.
I remember being on a train in Eastern Europe and being terrorized in the middle of the night by officious men in epaulets demanding to see everyone's papers. I said to my friend, "Glad we don't live in a 'show me your papers' country." That seems rather quaint now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
When you’re too dumb to tell the difference between imitating and mocking.
This guy speaks for many of us. I've posted another video with more information under this one. WATCH: #Resist 🧵1/2
Deportation to a country you are not from is not deportation, it’s human trafficking. Words matter. Military occupation of a city is martial law not crime prevention. Words matter. Imprisonment without due process is a concentration camp. WORDS MATTER.
#humanrights #momsky
The DOJ released the security video of Epstein's jail in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. The DOJ released the Maxwell/Blanche transcript in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. Such an obvious cover-up.
🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
When they start coming for disabled people… you should get concerned, not supportive of them. Because history shows they never end with disabled people, it’s a gateway to the rest of society. (Going after disabled people is bad enough though without anything else happening)
I honestly don't know what I did to deserve this incredible tribute. I can only say I'm honored, flattered, and humbled—and, of course, deeply grateful to everyone who made this accolade possible. I pledge to do my utmost to live up to it. 🙏🏼🤗
This is just 😔 sad. Arresting someone, ruining their life and livelihood over weed. BUT transferring a convicted child trafficker to a cosy spa facility who's maybe months away from a pardon is okay
Historic document release. www.bbc.com/news/article...
No frickin way #allythepiper #piperally #freebird
NZ: Right after appointing 4 new #ERA members, #ACT deputy leader, #Workplace Relations Minister #BrookeVanVelden has expressed the wish that #compensation payments to #workers will be reduced. #nzpol #VanVelden pressures ERA to reduce worker compensation payments thestandard.org.nz/van-velden-p...
My fav SCOTUS minds.
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
It’s difficult to measure the impact of lies. Just ask the justice who called out Trump for fraud Thursday, while handing him a $500 million gift.
Folks, this is the definition of communism. Communism under Trump !
National Guard has been mobilized in 19 states - for now, August through November
I worked for my local county court as an officer, union job. 1990s County gov’t asked to only offer HMO to new employees. ⬇️ the standard for new employees would eventually affect all of us, we argued. The lower the bottom, the lower the top. Why is that so hard to understand? #Pinks #DemVoice1
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Today, the president threatened to militarily occupy numerous American cities without authorization or rationale. He was also praised by a notorious child sex trafficker, with whom he obviously cut a deal, to cover up evidence he sexually abused kids. The GOP is united behind him. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Oooh, don’t tell them about gloves! Or night time!
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego has been RELEASED from prison and is headed home to Maryland to be with his family. Judge Xinis has an order in place requiring a 72 hour notice if ICE decides to detain and deport him to a third country. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance 1/2
If they are the police, then I'm
Thank you, Judge Williams. You’re standing in the breach and halting this nightmare in accordance with the law, and we appreciate you!
We knew — we knew — that hotter seas meant stronger hurricanes, that warmer air meant wetter storms, that rising seas meant higher surges. We had the science. We had the evidence. And still we chose to accelerate, to subsidize fossil fuels, to silence the truth. open.substack.com/pub/rebekahj...
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NEW: A federal judge in Miami has ruled that operations at the controversial detention facility Alligator Alcatraz must begin to wind down, ordering state and federal officials to stop transferring detainees there and relocate current detainees within 60 days.
More destruction of education.
Here's how prosecutors described Ghislaine Maxwell in a pretrial motion during her criminal trial: "The defendant's willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct … strongly suggests her true motive has been and remains to avoid being held accountable for her crimes."
Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.
Monte Mader @montemader.bsky.social
The first concert I went to, that was a very long time ago.
Governor Gavin Newsom is knocking it out of the park! If you’re not on board with Newsom, there’s no one else FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE so you best join the fighters.
The pace of our transition from Republic to Autocracy continues to accelerate, with all the same pretexts and justifications we’ve seen in other places throughout history for each incremental move. We even have the enablers and quislings that are a necessary precursor.
Rachel Maria😎 
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