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MAGA having a real normal one in response to the tragic flooding in Texas

really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves

the sister of the race science "academic" quoted by the New York Times in their shameless hit piece on Zohran Mamdani seems like a lovely person and is insisting her brother was never awarded his PhD and is just pretending to be a professional academic

How come after all her lamenting that she hadn't read the bill before she voted for it, Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to vote for it again? And how come no one is asking her about that?

Translation: If you use your first amendment rights to call attention to the fact that we are shredding your fifth amendment rights...you are aiding terrorism. www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...

I wish Elon would stop making sense so I did not have to agree with him so much this week.

Unlawful ICE raids are taxpayer-funded kidnappings tearing families apart

Funny how the tax cuts for billionaires are permanent, but the ones for waiters and nurses come with an expiration date. Tips untaxed until 2028. Overtime break ends 2028. But the rich? They got theirs forever. This bill isn’t reform. It’s a heist.

We have traditions like “souls to the polls” where entire Black Churches go vote together. We have community events that involve food and music. Our elders start teaching us at a very early age about how important the vote is for Black People. Y’all take it for granted because you can🤷🏾‍♀️

I just don't understand this. George W Bush, Barack Obama, and Bono just recorded videos commending the staff of USAID for their work and lamenting the agency's destruction... And those videos were not released to the public.

Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."

PUTNAM COUNTY: Young Dems Vice President Trenton Strode was just arrested and charged at a (Republican-controlled) County commission meeting 👇🏽 Apparently for “approaching his county commissioner too quickly”🤔, per their post: www.facebook.com/share/v/14DN...

I worked at Planned Parenthood. They diagnose cancers while still treatable. They help women decide what birth control works for them. They help those working through mental health challenges.   Defunding them just harms people who already struggle to find places to get care.

Lawmakers are worried that Palantir is helping make a super-database of Americans’ private information. Behind their worry lie several people who are behind Palantir’s selection for the project, starting with Elon Musk.

If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it. Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.

I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.

New, from me: They are trying to shove through the massive reconciliation bill as quickly as possible. Stepping back, the bill is: *an assault on the poor to benefit the richest *an assault on freedom *an assault on the future donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-re...

If only there were half the outrage over Israeli soldiers shooting starving people queuing for food as there has been towards some rappers mouthing off at Glastonbury, we'd be in a very different place

By Bill Bramhall

My statement on the vile rhetoric being spread about Zohran Mamdani:

Them: Mamdani wants to invoke Sharia Law on New York City! Mamdani: Here I am at the Pride March!

Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.

Total jackass, sure, but he’s also correct.

Not Alligator Alcatraz. Alcatraz held people who had been convicted in a court of law. This is Alligator Auschwitz, which will hold people who are not charged with anything other than the crime of being brown, just like Auschwitz held those for the crime of being a Jew.

More fake ICE agents doing horrible things. Everyone should be speaking up about this. Masks and no ID required is a ridiculous recipe for horrors. @MarshaBlackburn & @SenJohnson & Sexton should be banning it, not protecting it.

The United States tried presidents who were smart, decent, and capable of empathy, but decided it wasn’t for them. It just didn’t reflect them.

Chuck Schumer says Democrats will force the Republicans' 940-page bill to be read out loud on the Senate floor. "Republicans won't tell America what's in the bill. So Democrats are forcing it to be read start to finish on the floor. We will be here all night if that's what it takes to read it."

Period. #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #NoKings #PeoplesMovement #FuckTrump #FuckThiel #FuckVought #FuckVance #FuckZuck #FuckBezos #FightTheOligarchy

This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Here you go!

Ahem

NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:

Stripping birthright citizenship from people born in this country goes against rights guaranteed in the Constitution. We must stand against unconstitutional actions and stand up for the fundamental rights granted to people in the United States of America.

We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law.  A new generation that gives meaning to the “we” in “we the people.” Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future.

If you have student loans or know someone who does — watch this great explanation because this Big Beautiful Bill WILL affect you. op: mckenzie.mack_ (via IG)

Absolutely 💯.