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Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Not only did the US, per its own ‘intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE. www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...

Wow. This is the most morally corrupt administration in some time. Call out the names of the men and women that have no real reason to be representing the people that sent them to the halls of Congress. Naming names is one way to curb bad behavior.

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A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina. The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.

The cruelty is the point.

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

Why push this connection? Because it's strategic to make autism seem preventable. If it's preventable, then responsibility for prevention falls to moms. And if that responsibility is moms', then society doesn't need to spend public resources supporting autistic people and their families.

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

Even after all this, the @nytimes continues to normalize it

Buried deep in the text of the more than 1,000-page bill is a measure to restrict the federal courts’ authority to hold officials in contempt if they violate court orders.

Imagine that! Who’da thunk it? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

Fact-check: True

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A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.

the President of the United States, everyone

If approved, the move would be the first time Guard troops at the national level have been asked to assist in the removal of migrants in the U.S. without legal status.

Sudan is convulsed by violence. Two warring generals accused of war crimes, incl targeting civilians, bombing villages, obstructing food Tens of thousands killed, 13 M fleeing- 5.6 million in Darfur alone. UN labels it world’s worst humanitarian crisis. www.arabnews.com/node/2600854...

PRO PUBLICA: “IT IS CORRUPTION.” Trump officials were leaning on African countries to get Elon Musk’s Starlink approved, threatening to cut off 🇺🇸 funding to programs in their countries if they didn’t. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Transportation are illegally forcing states to comply with the administration’s immigration policies or give up billions of dollars in funding for disaster relief and transportation.   I’m suing to stop this unlawful overreach.

Threatening social media posts targeting US judges have increased by more than 300 percent since last year, a new report shows. www.wired.com/story/violen...

We didn’t forget about journalist Jamal Khashoggi, did we? Murdered inside a Saudi consulate. Dismembered. Then a full-on coverup, sanctioned at the highest levels.

Murphy: "There's no guarantee that we are gonna have a free and fair election in 2026. He's trying to rig our democracy, to destroy dissent, to cripple the opposition, so that even if his approval ratings are in the 30s next year, there isn't the ability for his opposition to muster a real campaign"

The President of the United States of America is gifted a plane by those who butchered a journalist alive, recorded the screaming and are known to behead people.

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A man battling stage 4 lung cancer was preparing to fly across the country for a life-changing double-lung transplant when his insurance company denied him coverage

Ok, hear me out. Pritzker and Murphy 2028. Watch this 👀

“They’re only arresting them because of our color. Because we’re Hispanics. My mom isn’t a criminal. She takes care of her grandkids & serves a church.” ICE says her mom is in Louisiana. @tnimmigrant.bsky.social presser on the @TNHighwayPatrol ICE NASHVILLE raids: www.facebook.com/share/v/18D7...

“Of course they don’t explain… The crowd chants "Don't take the mother!" over and over again…” A harrowing account of this horrific scene in Worcester, as ICE grabbed a woman without telling anyone why over the screams over her family: www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

Across the U.S., doctors are increasingly concerned that people with serious medical conditions are avoiding medical care out of fear of being apprehended by immigration officials. “The tragic message to these people is: Be a shadow and hope that you do not die,” one said. nyti.ms/4d4Wu1s

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Therapies involving mRNA, a key to Covid vaccines, hold great potential in treating several diseases. But some lawmakers want to ban them and the U.S. government is cutting research funding.

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For decades the NIH has led a public health campaign credited with saving thousands of babies from dying in their sleep. The administration's cuts come as sleep-related infant deaths have been rising.

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!

A gift to the NRA.

Men at Bluebonnet Detention Facility (immigration prison) in Anson, TX form an S.O.S. with their bodies to signal to a drone overhead. This is the facility from which the Trump Administration appeared ready to fly another planeful of men to El Salvador last weekend www.reuters.com/pictures/sos...

America Last

Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

Today is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day! 🐾 Whether it’s a dog, a cat, a bird, a bunny, if you can adopt, I promise it’ll be one of the most beautiful things you’ve ever done. In honor of shelter pet adoptions, here’s Lucky on his very first day with us after he came to his furever home.

Remember, to throughly cook all meat products, for safety’s sake…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

The American government kidnapped a 2-year-old child of Venezuelan migrants and placed her with a “foster family” after deporting her mother to Venezuela and sending her father to El Salvador: abcnews.go.com/US/el-salvad...

The Trump administration is looking to build an immigration detention facility at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., and pushing to speed up a review process, according to internal government communications obtained by KQED.

Trump will do everything he can to block the midterms from even happening. The voter suppression bills are increasing. Now is the time to fight. See you at the May 1st protests @50501movement.bsky.social