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This is pretty massive...there are tons of legal cases challenging the firings of USAID/government employees in 2025, as DOGE ran amok, and the revelations here could be really impactful:

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

TRUMP: The United States, out of respect for President Trump, was not required to give anything in return - an unprecedented situation for Russia TRUMP MOMENTS LATER: If sanctions would have been placed, certainly those negotiations would have come to a complete and total halt

Stand with Zelensky and against Putin. Stand with Pope Leo XIV and against ICE. Stand with No Kings and against Meta. Stand with the people and against the oligarchs. Stand with liberal democracy and against Trump.

Q: If it wasn't you, then who gave the order for Starlink to go down in Ukraine? TRUMP: I don't know

No amount of support for Russia can end the war, because Russia is the criminal aggressor. A modicum of support for Ukraine could, however, end the war, by making it impossible for Russia to continue. This should not be a hard choice.

Gloating is fun but it's much more important to be accurate

Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird

Made me chuckle. I mean, really? File under #HowDumbCanYouBe?

PSA: The Trump administration changed the form used to register and request absentee ballots, removing the checkbox for US citizens who have never lived in the US(even though some are eligible to vote under state law). The change could block eligible voters and was made without proper public notice.

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Rep. Beatty and Norm are pushing back against Trump’s latest attempts to make the Kennedy Center become collateral in placating Trump’s ego. @normeisen.bsky.social @repbeatty.bsky.social

The truth is finally coming out. This is exactly what we were warning about while “Alligator Alcatraz” was still open and MAGA dismissed it. A new report from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general confirms that immigrants detained at the

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Every Republican in Congress owns what Trump has done, is doing and is going to do. The vast majority of it would not have been possible without their collective acquiescence and enabling. He’s emboldened by the fact that Congress refuses to function as a separate branch of govt.

Kahlil Greene, the “Gen-Z Historian,” is a Peabody Award winner, two-time Emmy nominee, and author of “History Can’t Hide” on Substack. He recounts the history of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District, a prosperous African American community known as “Black Wall Street.” #WeAreAmeric

The third-ranked company in market capitalization globally is afraid of losing money from governments which censor what their citizens see. So, the company willingly obeys without any apparent critical thinking of its own. www.marketcapwatch.com/company/alph... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censors...

Stacey Abrams is a New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur and political leader. Abrams profiles W.E.B. Du Bois, the pioneering scholar and activist who co-founded the Niagara Movement and helped build the NAACP's fight for equality. #WeAreAmerica250

@joshturek4iowa.bsky.social is an Iowa House Representative, 4x Paralympian, 2x Gold Medalist in wheelchair basketball, and disability advocate. Turek recounts the Dust Bowl, the environmental catastrophe that drove families from the Great Plains. #WeAreAmerica250

Here's what I heard when I visited Delaney Hall today and spoke with people who are detained there.   I won't stop fighting to shut this facility down and help detainees get the medical care they need.

Dr. @jbf1755.bsky.social is an award-winning historian and Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. Freeman recounts how the 1765 Stamp Act sparked colonial protests over "taxation without representation" that helped set the stage for revolution. #WeAreAmerica250

1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year. Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social is an author, commentator, 5X undefeated Jeopardy! champion, and Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval War College. Nichols profiles James A. Garfield, who defied his era to champion Black civil rights more forcefully than any president until Lyndon Johnson. #WeAreAmerica250

On a private call, Todd Blanche said his goal was to make the "Dobbs decision permanent in every single state." This isn’t just a confirmation vote anymore—it’s a roll-call vote on which Senators endorse BANNING abortion in ALL 50 states. I’m voting NO.

Maggie Bohara is the co-founder and director of @weareamericamarch.bsky.social, a grassroots movement organizing 160-mile walks for democracy and civil rights. Bohara tells how Jacob Coxey's 1894 march of the unemployed on Washington foreshadowed the New Deal's public works. #WeAreAmerica250

BREAKING: Reports confirm that Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo has died while detained at Delaney Hall, reportedly due to inadequate medical care. More than 50 people have died in immigration detention under the Trump administration.

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...

Thank you Katy Perry!

The fed gov may be so scared of the truth about the President’s House site that it ripped panels down, replaced them w/whitewashed ones, set up giant surveillance cameras & stationed 4 park police there…but Philly still finds a way to get the truth out. Spotted across the street from the site.

@houlahan.house.gov needs to see this

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social has served his country as a U.S. Navy combat pilot, a NASA astronaut, and now as a U.S. Senator for Arizona. Kelly reflects on the improbable quest to send American astronauts to the moon. #WeAreAmerica250

Here's a reminder that Trump threatened 102 days ago to commit genocide against a nation of 93 million people. The story lasted a day or two and the news media moved on. The madman stayed in office to make new threats and kill more people in an illegal war.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer is the 49th Governor of Michigan, an educator, former prosecutor and lifelong Michigander. Whitmer revisits Lyndon Johnson's 1964 Great Society speech, where he called on Americans to end poverty and racial injustice and shape the civilization they wanted. #WeAreAmerica250

Our racist President has removed the slavery exhibit in George Washington's residence. Trump's daddy was a racist as well. It is hard for him to accept that a black man was a far superior president. That is why he wants to turn the clock back to the 1950's. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Ahead of MLB All-Star Game, activists fly banner urging Phillies to cut ties with Citizens Bank. Advocacy network cites the financial institution's ties to private prison companies that operate ICE detention centers: GEO Group and CoreCivic @indivisible.org: www.phillyvoice.com/phillies-cit...

BOSTON…

Hey re-upping for no reason

Bob Crawford is best known for being the bassist for the Avett Brothers, historian, podcast host, childhood cancer advocate, and author of “America's Founding Son.” Crawford shares the history of President John Quincy Adams, who used his post-presidency to fight against slavery. #WeAreAmerica250

60 years ago, MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot named ELIZA. Programmed to respond in the style of a Rogerian psychotherapist, it proved uncannily absorbing—to the point that Weizenbaum, alarmed by how easily people confided in a computer program, became the first AI critic.

Dr. Sherrilyn Ifill is a nationally recognized civil rights attorney, expert, and scholar. Ifill is the former president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the founder and director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy at Howard University School of Law. #WeAreAmerica250

The white supremacist, Neo-fascist Patriot Front turned out en masse in DC today, because Trump has told them that hate makes them powerful. The look on that girls face says she understands that those white head coverings are INTENDED to look like the white hoods of the kkk.

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham…” —Frederick Douglass, 1852

Governor JB Pritzker is Illinois’ 43rd Governor and known for his historic investments in education, healthcare, and economic opportunity. Pritzker revisits the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln's speech that rededicated the nation to the principle that all men are created equal. #WeAreAmerica250

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

Harrison Ford is an award-winning actor whose iconic career spans more than six decades. Ford looks back at the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal program that put thousands of unemployed men to work improving America’s parks and natural lands. #WeAreAmerica250

Please read and call. Flood the zone.

Michael Green is a Professor of History in UNLV's Department of History. Green tells the story of Hoover Dam, the colossal public works project that delivered power and reassured America during the Great Depression. #WeAreAmerica250

Happy Flag Day!