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The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

When survivors reacted to this so-called Epstein Files transparency, they didn’t sound shocked. They sounded validated. Because even with a law, even with a deadline, even with the entire country watching, this pedocracy behaved exactly the way it always has.

“I'm crying for two reasons. I want everyone to know that I am shedding tears of joy for myself, but also tears of sorrow for all the other victims that the FBI failed.” END/

This used to be Tulsi Gabbard.

925k+ tons of greenhouse gases/yr. Tons of toxic air pollutants. This is what Transco's supercharged nat gas compressor stations will emit in Lexington & Mooresville, already beset by bad air insideclimatenews.org/news/2805202...

Here’s a lesson in infrastructure: DC streets weren’t built for 67-ton tanks. Roads buckle, curbs crack, and the substructure can collapse. But we’re risking all of it to re-stage a war victory because a big boy is turning 79. (1/4)

They stole land, lives, and legacy—then erased the truth. From burning Black towns to redlining ghettos, Erased tells the brutal Black history they buried. This isn’t a lesson. It’s your truth. 📚 Read it now: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

“I’m a transgender service member and today was my last day in uniform. After 11 years, eight months and 1 day I’m taking the uniform off for good. I will always be yours bc this rank, these skills, this name will always be me.” ~Technical Sargent Altesse Aurum #TransInMilitary 🫡 🏳️‍⚧️ @altessaurum

Pay workers what they’re WORTH! Not the minimum amount you can get away with.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.

We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.

And there you have it.

Booker: "What this president is doing is violating our constitutional principles, violating the fundamental rights of people in order to punish them to carry out his own retribution plan ... Donald Trump is saying, 'ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for Donald Trump.'"

🚨 “Teachers are PISSED” —Randi Weingarten, AFT President joins us IN-STUDIO and speaks out about the dismantling of the Department of Education—it gets emotional for all of us. Plus, our EXCLUSIVE ‘Hands Off’ footage from Portland & Seattle. WATCH NOW: youtu.be/TJVcYvVBI1E?...

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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Who pockets the money we pay in tariffs? Is this for Trumps crypto slush fund?

Twitter is down or I’ve been booted off for cussing too much. 😂

I don't want Canada or Greenland… I want PBS, Social Security, and The Smithsonian. CAN YOU SAY THE SAME?! 🤚

People were mean to him on Twitter, so he bought Twitter. People were still mean to him, so he bought the US government. And he is going to use it to hunt down those bad people!

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did on J6 🚨🚨🚨

“…destroy my influence” = tacit acknowledgment he has acquired the government. “…push negative propaganda about me” = they keep pointing out the stuff I say and do. “They are evil” - anyone who opposes an oligarchy is evil.

The Felon President is condemning ‘waste’ and firing workers – while cashing in by traveling to his own golf resorts and over-charging secret service to stay there. Read more here: bit.ly/4imHMET #DonTheCon

U.K. tourist Becky Burke finally returned home to Wales on Tuesday after spending 19 days in a U.S. ICE detention facility. Her parents relayed their daughter’s description of her release from ICE, saying how she was taken in “leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs,” which left her “traumatized.”

Just sent this text to my law school classmate, who is the chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell, and is representing Donald Trump on his criminal appeal, and who I suspect helped broker the Paul Weiss deal. Brad Karp is the chairman of Paul Weiss.

Raskin: "There's an absolute attack on the Constitution taking place by an administration which views the Constitution as just inconvenient furniture that's gotta be kicked out of the way."

AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

The Chinese government is his most important business partner.

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

Walz: "It's so obscene that he would put a mock classroom -- we all know he's never been in one. He wouldn't last for a minute. He's surrounded by people who know nothing about education. They want to make this about bureaucracy and cutting. This is about children."

The government files a response to Judge Boasberg that is "woefully insuffcient." The judge is determined to get to the bottom of what happened last week. Good thing-best to find out now if they are going to violate orders. Looking forward to discussing w/ @alexwitt.bsky.social on @msnbc.com at noon

Just learned about this. Paul, Weiss just became complicit in an act of presidential corruption that no one is even trying to hide. They gave 47 $40M worth of pro bono (free) legal services in exchange for not pulling their security clearances. This is pure mob-level criminality.

This Paul Weiss capitulation is the most disgraceful action by a major law firm in my lifetime, so appalling that I couldn’t believe it at first. Any lawyers at that firm—partners or associates—who don’t promptly resign will defile their moral and professional reputations beyond repair.

Sanders: We are not a poor country! There is no excuse on God’s earth for people to have to choose between food and the medicine they need to stay alive.

Reminder: If you’re sharing information, protect yourself. Documents and communications often contain hidden watermarks, intentional typos, odd punctuation, inconsistent spacing, or stylized phrasing—all designed to uniquely identify the source.

Sigh. This is the worst timeline.

The Department of Education was created by an act of Congress. We will not let it be dismantled by a wannabe King.

This is insane

Musk was not elected! Is this another norm that we have no law against because nobody ever thought anyone would ever think to let happen? Until Trump.

Sanders: In our form a government, unless you are a coward, you don’t sue the media because they report on things you don’t like.