Let that sink in.
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Let that sink in.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Says the man without a ❤️😡
THIS IS AMERICA 🇺🇸 A mom runs to find her child after a school shooting because Republicans ran to protect the NRA.
Today, little kids at Annunciation Catholic School were forced into a club that no child should ever join. It’s a fucked up club, and it’s growing because our so-called leaders refuse to act.
It’s the fucking guns.
BREAKING: VETERAN'S BEGIN A SIT-IN IN WASHINGTON DC AND WON'T STOP UNTIL THE MILITARY LEAVES TOWN
Jon asks why the GOP's "one is too many" logic applies only to immigrants and not mass shootings
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Dan Froomkin excoriates his erstwhile colleagues among the corporate owned legacy media over their supine, dishonest coverage over the fascist occupation of D.C.: open.substack.com/pub/critical...
🚨🚨Holy Shit!! You have got to see this new ad!! MAGA Republicans in Congress are doing everything in their power to protect the Pedo-President. They need to #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles and stop protecting pedophiles. Share this everywhere.💥🔥💥
As of late last month, the investigation—led by US senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia—had unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual abuse; 14 involving pregnant detainees and 18 involving children.
Community member drives off ICE agents while they are going door to door in Middletown, NY. This is how it’s done …
America is banning books- people who ban books are mostly on the wrong side of history. Countries that ban so many books definitely are on the wrong side of history.
It’s more clear than ever that the Trump dictatorship is consolidating power and the United States is taking on elements of a police state. A country in peril like this needs journalists it can count on. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
There were 34 church leaders & christian school employees who were arrested, pled guilty and/or were sentenced to prison for child sex crimes in the month of July.
HAPPENING NOW: It's Day 2 of the bench trial in Newsom v. Trump, the suit brought by California over Trump's use of the national guard and marines for immigration enforcement. I'm covering for @lawfaremedia.org. Today we expect testimony from the government's witnesses. 🧵
🚨TESTIMONY OF THE YEAR: A Texas voter just torched Donald Trump and Greg Abbott during a redistricting hearing - and it was BRUTAL: “He cheated on the golf course… He cheated on his taxes… He cheated on his wives… He cheated on democracy…” But then came the mic drop 👇
People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it! 8/8/25
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Propaganda🤦♀️
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Forcing a pregnant woman to sleep on the floor, denying a child with a brain tumor treatment — these are just some of the damning allegations about ICE detention made in a new report from Senator Ossoff. This report adds to what we've long known: ICE detention is dangerous and puts lives at risk.
🤑 HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of DOLLARS to be SPENT on a GAUDY BALLROOM at the White House… …BUT NO MONEY 💸 for CHILDREN DYING of CANCER. 🤯
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.
“The country with the Statue of Liberty deprived us of our liberty without any kind of evidence,” Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan who was held in CECOT for months, said two days after he was returned to his family.
Wow
Family of Virginia Giuffre re: Ghislaine Maxwell prison transfer "It's w/ horror & outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker G. Maxwell has received.. Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children.. she should never be shown any leniency"
He might as well be defending the horse and buggy. Solar is already cost-competitive and rapid progress is being made on electricity storage www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind...
OMG
WATCH: “The current system is broken. Indiscriminate raids are tearing families apart and punishing hardworking people.” 1 of 3 marine sons of a landscaper viciously beaten by ICE testifies before Congress.
BREAKING The EPA has drafted a plan to end its ability to fight climate change. According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet. Full Story: bit.ly/4lKOjuT
Her mom was a farmworker. She never came home. ICE took her, tortured her, and forced her to sign her own deportation. Her daughter is still waiting. This is the war on immigrants. The war on Indigenous people. The war on mothers. ICE isn’t broken—it’s evil by design. #OnYourSide
I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.' Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.
“We believe strongly in our mission and the 70 years of impact we have had in our region and plan to continue serving our audiences for years to come,” WHYY said in a statement.
3 And every journalist who buried it— Every politician who looked away— You didn’t stay neutral. You stood with him. Where’s the list? Because the girls never mattered to them. But they matter to us. Don’t stop talking. Don’t let him get away again.
Trump and the GOP created the biggest transfer of wealth to billionaires in American history. Here’s how they funded it: ❌ Health care ripped from 17M ❌ 1 in 4 nursing homes closing ❌ Clean energy industry devastated ❌ Slashes to food assistance They didn’t “cut waste” – they cut people’s lives.
From a time when childhood vaccines were just a figment of imagination. Row after row of baby headstones.
Persons born or naturalized in🇺🇸 are 🇺🇸citizens No state shall make or enforce any law that abridges privileges or immunities of 🇺🇸 citizens No state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
Now would be a good time to familiarize yourself with history. One historical incident I'm thinking a lot about recently is Japanese internment in the US during WWII. Over 100k people sent to concentration camps and more than half of the people detained were US citizens.
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
A young man sobbed, “They took my mom.” That’s what today’s immigration raid looked like at a Ventura County farm—“ICE” firing tear gas at children and protesters. This is fascist racism. We need nonviolent mass citizen intervention. Now. (Video via anonymous viewer) #OnYourSide
Trump’s budget bill gives ICE $45 billion to expand detention centers. The estimated cost to end homelessness and hunger in the U.S.? $45 billion. Your reminder that a budget is a statement of your moral priorities.
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The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms. By @rhersher.bsky.social and @lsommer.bsky.social
It’s bizarre that the most obvious, accurate answer - right wing media advantage - doesn’t even make lists of what MIGHT be wrong. Like it’s not even under consideration. No wonder they are constantly in disarray. They cant even see the problem.
Nothing says #July4 like a big juicy slice of watermelon. This yummy fruit doesn't just appear on our picnic table. It takes a lot of work. An average watermelon weighs 20 pounds. Can you imagine harvesting them in a 98° Bakersfield area field like these workers?
pretty weird how there's always billion dollars just lying around whenever ICE needs concentration camps but there's never any money when children need healthcare or a simple school lunch. oh well just one of those things I guess
Ever wonder where the tomato on your #July4th burger comes from? These Central Valley tomato harvesters spend hours bent over under the sun harvesting. On an average they lift around 170 buckets a day. Each bucket weighs 25 lbs. It’s exhausting, physical labor. #WeFeedYou
“Journalism”🤮
A video about the Declaration of Independence. I'm proud of this one.
ICE will become the 7th largest military force in the world. But tell me again that we don't have enough money to feed our children.
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
Feels like a crime scene 👏
If you need a reminder of what we're fighting for, here are a bunch of authors reading short excerpts of letters sent to them by grateful readers. Recommend having tissues handy.
While America slept, Republicans voted to advance a bill that will cause the largest: • loss of health insurance in history • cut to food assistance in history • hike in college costs in history • spike in utility bills in history All to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.
Mark and Melissa lie peacefully at the center of our state and our hearts today. Their memorial, guarded by service dogs and men and women in uniform, casts a momentary shadow over L'Étoile du Nord as we honor their life’s work to make Minnesota shine brighter for all.
This is NOT just cutting access to abortion. It’s limiting access to CANCER screening, birth control, screening for sexually transmitted infections. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote, “Today’s decision is likely to result in tangible harm to real people.”
Orwellian😳
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
Cruel, heartless, depraved monster🤬🤬
Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What's happened since? A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
This is the kind of excessive force case DOJ routinely prosecutes. They should open an investigation here, based on the misconduct not the victims status.
I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
🦅 Included in the GOP Reconciliation Bill are provisions to sell off 3 million acres of America's public lands - with no Tribal consent, no public input, no regard for environmental protection. America will be stripped of her beauty, while the unconscionably rich cash out. We're being played.
We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.
Six days ago, Democratic Representative, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, Mark, were brutally assassinated in their home. State Senator John Hoffman, and his wife, Yvette, were also shot at their home. *SIX DAYS AGO* Have both parties just moved on or…
FINALLY Democrats are putting out HARD-HITTING ads. WATCH AND SHARE: #MAGAKidnappers
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Compilation of massive 'NO KINGS!' protests today ✊ #NoKings
These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸
Exactly right. The assault on a senator was a crime but Noem’s “liberation” comments were actually even worse.
Every elected Republican should be asked if they think the president has the power to send in military in to “liberate” a state or city from its elected government.
All my life, it's seemed obvious to me that every child should have the same right to clean water, nutritious food, a safe home, healthcare, education, and the chance of a real future, regardless of the pure accident of where on this planet they were born. I won't back down from that.
When was the last time we wondered about who puts things on shelves? Today, those invisible ones are seen only to be criminalized for fleeing poverty and oppression. Are they really stealing a glamorous life from us? Pass it on if you stand with those who work in the shadows. #OnYourSide
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“We served a nation—not a king, a bully, or a dictator.” — U.S. Navy Veteran Rusty Hicks Trump has federalized the Guard, threatened governors, and now wants active-duty Troops in our streets. This isn’t about safety. It’s about control.
for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle
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Imagine if these were trucks full of food to be distributed to anyone who needed it.
The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
The Trump administration announced Tuesday it will revoke a federal policy that required hospitals to provide emergency abortions when necessary to stabilize a woman’s medical condition. We will be allowed to die.
1. Trump and his Republican allies say their budget cuts are targeted at waste, fraud, and abuse But Trump's new 1,223-page budget proposal, quietly released on Friday afternoon, reveals the real target: Poor children
The GOP moved for 2 decades toward becoming a death cult, Accepting school shootings as a necessary evil, accepting unnecessary death from Covid long after vaccine availability. Now, joni Ernst says the quiet part out loud. Health ins shouldn’t matter because we’re all going to die anyway.
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