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Aiding and abetting the enemy is...(checks notes)...called treason. Causing innocent civilians to be killed is...(checks notes)...called crimes against humanity and a war crime. Seriously, what the fuck is being done in our name, with our money?

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NEW: Seattle might declare a civil emergency to help LGBTQ (mostly trans) people fleeing red states, so I looked for a Texas angle. An organizer told me that Texas is #1 among trans people looking to relocate: "The baseline hostility to their existence is unbearable." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

chron.comSo many LGBTQ Texans are moving to this city, it may declare an 'emergency'Seattle is one of the many places that transgender Texans are resettling after fleeing their home state.

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I mentioned Paul Weyrich in the clip. It's important to be able to say you've actually seen the original clip. Don't take my word for it that they don't want you to vote. Weyrich spelled it out.

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Madonna, Pedro Pascal, Ms. Rachel, Javier Bardem, Raffi, Brandi Carlile, Keke Palmer, and Jane Fonda are among the signatories of a new open letter calling for the immediate shutdown of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, where ICE has detained children and their families.

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"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." That was an ICE officer in Minnesota, clearly violating the First Amendment. From threatening onlookers with violence to telling people recording them that they are going into a “domestic terrorist” database. This must end.

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These 11 Democrats just joined the GOP to vote to force DC police to cooperate with ICE, against the city's own laws. Ed Case Henry Cuellar Don Davis Laura Gillen Jared Golden Vicente Gonzalez Adam Gray Kristen McDonald Rivet Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Tom Suozzi George Whitesides

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FT’s Guy Chazan reports that the Trump admin is slowly realizing that Putin, not Zelensky, “may be the biggest obstacle to peace” in Ukraine. However, it’s still too soon to say whether this is a true epiphany or just a temporary mood swing. www.ft.com/content/9a75...

ft.comInside the Trump administration’s quiet shift on UkraineLack of compromise by Vladimir Putin has led the US to view him as an obstacle to a ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv

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Today, Trump welcomed white South Africans as refugees—and did this. It’s bad for our national security, shameful & unconscionable. And especially hypocritical after all the administration and GOP-wide non-stop condemnation of Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

militarytimes.comDHS ends deportation protections for AfghansRefugees from Afghanistan previously granted temporary protected status may now be forced to return to a region many feel is unsafe.

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Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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How can I say this gently? Fuck you, Senate Democrats, and fuck your decorum. We are fighting Nazis here. GET IN THE FIGHT.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social

CNN reporting that Senate Democrats are “disappointed” in House members for violating “decorum” at Trump’s speech last night. Just utterly clueless. And worth remembering next time those senators wax reverently about John Lewis.

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Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Jim Sciutto@jimsciutto.bsky.social

Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.

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Jokes aside, the point of these confirmation processes are to largely just assess “is this person qualified” even if they don’t hold your politics. What too many people fail to grasp is that “not willing to be party to raging lawlessness” is a qualification standard

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A new edict from President Musk. “Afrikaner refugees.” What an absolute perversion.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Trump just issued an executive order titled: ADDRESSING EGREGIOUS ACTIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA It says "the United States shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation"

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"Future generations will marvel that it wasn’t China’s actions that eroded US standing. Instead, it was a US president and the billionaire he unleashed to shoot first and aim later, eliminating an institution that is a cost-effective example of what once distinguished the US from our adversaries."

nytimes.comOpinion | Samantha Power: Killing U.S.A.I.D. Is a Win for Autocrats EverywhereThe attacks on the agency are cruel and counterproductive.

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Elon Musk claims it's a crime to publish the names of the young engineers who work for him who have access to systems they shouldn't. Here they are: Akash Bobba Edward Coristine Luke Farrito Gautier Cole Killian Gavin Kliger Ethan Shaotran

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Paying tribute to a Confederate general is not supporting the military — it’s supporting white supremacy.

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Pete Hegseth, in his first remarks as defense secretary, refers to Fort Liberty as "Fort Bragg"

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⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ New Year's Day was a day that enslaved Black people feared the most. Why? It was the day that slave masters would rent them out or auction them off. This would result in the splitting up of (cont) #ResistanceRoots #ProudBlue #USDemocracy ibw21.org/reparations/...

ibw21.orgThe Dark History of New Year's Day in American SlaveryBy Olivia B. Waxman — "Of all days in the year, the slaves dread New Year's Day the worst of any," one 1842 account explained. Here's why.

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Texas Legislators are trying to take over Austin and make it run directly by the state, taking it's right to self governance away? Am I understanding this correctly? I am going to the bill now to look into it.

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