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Jurors ruled that yes, Meta "eavesdropped and that yes, users could have reasonably expected that their sensitive menstrual information was not being shared. Finally, the jurors ruled that no, Meta did not have consent for its actions."

My FYP is video after video of pre-med students explaining how the big bill’s student loan cap will make it impossible for them to afford med school. Experts were already predicting a doctor shortage to the tune of 86k by 2036. This will make it exponentially worst. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hFxfBL/

A few days ago, Kristi Noem was bragging about stealing money from FEMA to fund Alligator Alcatraz

As we kept warning, Republicans are willing to kill their own base to line up their pockets and please the billionaires. And, voila, the tragedy in Texas that sadly will become more common with natural disasters and defunded infrastructures and organizations designed to help people.

May this Fourth of July remind us of where we came from, of what we’re fighting for, and of who we can be. Organize. Mobilize. Resist. Power to the people.

They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.

trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether

This bill is an act of war by the billionaires and their white nationalist allies against the people of the United States. It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps. It’s fascism.

It's a fascist regime, folks. You have to start treating it like such. You need all hands on deck and a remarkable change in attitude, language and tactics to confront Trump and MAGA. The old guard ain't gonna cut it.

17 million people’s health insurance is not waste. If you’re looking for frauds, look at all the Republicans who promised not to cut Medicaid but did it anyways.

An obscene $170 billion is going towards the Trump regime’s deportation efforts in the “Big Beautiful Bill”, including $45 billion for detention centers and $27 billion for more ICE agents and operations. The ICE concentration camps alone will have more money than the entire federal prison system.

Not only does this bill strip healthcare from millions of people, steal our money for billionaires, and explode the deficit by trillions. It also gives $170 billion to the regime’s deportation efforts. More ICE. More kidnappings. More concentration camps. Their evil has no limits—this is fascism.

Well, seems like it's over. Trump will get his almost $200 billion more for immigration agents, weapons, surveillance tools, and huge detention expansion. This will entail at minimum another roughly 19,000 immigration agents across ICE and CBP, that will probably be shotgun-hired at lower standards

All of what you've seen so far — the detention of activists, the masked agents in cars with no plates, the raids with in full combat gear, the detention camps — has been a prelude. We'll see it all kick into overdrive. There will be multiple more teams of masked, inexperienced agents in every city

The GOP Budget Bill is a tragedy for the American people and a complete moral failure. Donald Trump and his MAGA enablers are ripping care from cancer patients, meals from children, and money from working families — just to give tax breaks to the ultra-rich.

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

Mike Johnson just said if you are for reducing the deficit, this bill is for you. The bill adds 3-4 trillion dollars to the deficit. They just lie.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget. Republicans did it. Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate. Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due

“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”

Here’s Abrego Garcia’s amended complaint. It alleges that Abrego Garcia “was subjected to severe mistreatment upon arrival at CECOT, including but not limited to severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture..” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland. Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”

One thing that's clear is that these kidnappings will continue so long as there's no organized resistance to them. That resistance could be nonviolent or armed, coordinated by state and local governments or by groups of residents. Bottom line is that someone has to get between immigrants and ICE.

Call your senators and your rep. This is insane.

for the record, just over 12 percent of students at uva are black or hispanic. 12 percent are asian. 5 percent identify as "multi-ethnic." about 57 percent of students are white. this is what Trump considers to be "DEI" run amok.

Taking $ meant to help the population and using it for mass incarceration is kind of the essence of authoritarian priorities and goals.

Yeah, that’s exactly what he wanted.

As the author of a global history of concentration camps that came out in 2017, this sums up the last several years of my life.

This is really short, so easy watch. I've mentioned how pumping up the infrastructure is what saved us all from the great depression. This is another facet of that. Lift people out of poverty, and you help the country! Tax breaks for rich do NOT benefit the people!!! youtube.com/shorts/IWs-z...

Veasey has RFK Jr dead to rights here, and they both know it.

CARTER: How could you possibly justify the decision to terminate HIV vaccines studies? RFK JR: We've been promising an HIV vaccine since 1984 and every year Congress pours money into it CARTER: Because they haven't come up with one, you then cut the forward motion by getting rid of NIH dollars?

Reuveni notes that he repeatedly told DHS throughout the night of March 15 that they had to follow court orders. Even Drew Ensign agreed Judge Boasberg's order required them to turn the planes around. Emil Bove intervened and ordered DHS to ignore that interpretation.

Reuveni accuses Drew Ensign, the DOJ lawyer appearing for the Trump admin in the CECOT cases and other immigration cases, of lying to Judge Boasberg on March 15 when he said he didn't know planes were taking off. He says Ensign was at a meeting the day before when the flight were planned!

🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations. He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."

RFK Jr. is killing Americans with his reckless health policies. We need to state that plainly because it's important and it's true.

This man has been nominated by Trump for a judicial appointment. Hearing on Weds "Senior Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, told subordinates he was willing to ignore court orders in order to fulfill the president’s aggressive deportation campaign, according to a whistle-blower complaint."

HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too. This isn't over, but this is a huge win. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.

Our nation’s heroes put their lives on the line to protect our way of life – we owe them every bit of support we offer.
 Trump wants to deny veterans’ health care because of who they love or vote for.
 Illinois will protect the benefits they've earned.

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

The Supreme Court's bias toward corporate interests is persistent, pervasive, and exhaustively documented. But it is still extraordinary to hear a sitting justice bluntly call it out and castigate her colleagues for consistently twisting the rules in favor of big business. slate.com/news-and-pol...

And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet?