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Three children — ages 5, 8, and 11 — and their teacher didn’t come home to their families last night because this country has decided that mass shootings are an acceptable price to pay for unfettered access to guns.

School shootings like the one in Bend, Oregon, are reported by the # of dead kids. But every surviving child carries the trauma, as do their families and everyone affected by previous shootings. Trauma upon trauma, generation after generation. Societies that tolerate this are profoundly broken.

The Tories have called for a 5 year freeze on the Minimum Wage to 'fix unemployment'. Corporate profits in the UK are £680bn a year, enough to employ 25.1m people on the Minimum Wage full time, including NI payments. There are only 1.8m unemployed people.

“[Republicans] are looking for excuses to seize ballots. They are looking for excuses…to take control of the tabulation of votes.” -Marc Elias, Democracy Docket www.commondreams.org/news/georgia...

The genocide continues...

Can someone well versed in the US judicial system explain why Christa Pike got the death penalty? I’m not excusing the murder …. But people murder others in the US all the time and don’t get sentenced to death. She was only 18 and had a history of abuse. What am I missing?

The botched execution of Christa Pike supports what Rev. Jeff Hood, spiritual advisor to the condemned, told our colleagues at @revealnews.org last year: This country's use of capital punishment shows that we, as a society, "have moved in a more violent direction."

I don’t remember anyone giving Jerome Powell a check for $100 million. Who gave it to Kevin Warsh, days before he was confirmed and why?

Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌

The only Consequence, his Company paid a Fine…..

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We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.

So far the fat fuck has destroyed our history, murdered our citizens, broken our economy, lost a war against a second rate power, driven prices up and wages down, alienated ALL of our allies, squandered our military arms, created a Magastapo, and stolen billions. What the fuck does it take America?

The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.

On the 91st anniversary of Social Security, these words from FDR are just as important today:

MaineHealth nurses demand release of colleague arrested by ICE www.mainepublic.org/immigration/...

Zack Polanski, "I'll work with anyone who wants to tackle the climate crisis and wants to protect nature" "There is a huge conversation to have about political donations, how they work, and how we make sure politicians are representing their constituents, rather than vested interests"

Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."

Trump Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins just called his SNAP cuts a "pretty big win". Throwing 5 million struggling Americans — including families with children — off food aid to fund tax cuts for the rich isn't a "win". It's a national disgrace.

Apple got a $2.2 billion tariff refund check. Amazon got $600 million.: Walmart got $10 Billion. So basically they got to raise all the prices then cash in?

The most advanced technology on Earth is not silicon. It is mycelium. It is photosynthesis. It is a living wetland. Every time we destroy these systems, we erase libraries of intelligence we have not yet learned to read. The question is not whether nature is smart enough.

🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw

SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏

This would amount to a complete capitulation from the US. Literally no way to even attempt to spin this as a win.

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Folks from the Women's March have been arrested at the Capitol for protesting ICE. Shout out to the women who are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to get their message out: ABOLISH ICE.

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Rupert Lowe reminds me of so many terrible men. Authentically English pub-bore fascist, bearing down on you with his beery breath, barking “Well it’s just common sense!”

www.samsung-news.com/articles/32K... Everyone and their brothers and sisters know it to be true. And this is another reason we cannot trust our own government to follow thru with anything. Just like investigating Epstien.

The United States Treasury: An ATM for the Rich and Powerful

@catgyoung.bsky.social #medsky www.ovid.com/jnls/pidj/ab...

So legacy media has just discovered Epstein and his buddies were laundering money. Yeah. We know. I give you EFTA0280127. An obvious but rarely cited court case. #EpsteinFiles

Decision Desk HQ projects Fred Wellman wins the MO US House 2 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 11:21 PM EDT

The shameless Islamophobia by the GOP is on full display. The only card they have against El-Sayed. Won't work.

El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

As @RepThomasMassie warns against taking the “fake fox/GOP outrage” seriously — it’s worth pointing out Fox is calling Ceuta “northern spain” to make it seem scarier when it’s actually in North Africa, across the water from the southern tip of Spain. 🤦🏼

It would be good if Bibi looses the election but his personality must be removed from the Government before anyone will trust Israel again quote: Israel, Karim Khan & The ICC: IT'S WORSE Than You Think | Francesca Alba... youtu.be/z5n1-9Zwxok?... via @YouTube

Anger rises as ICC member states accused of facilitating Netanyahu’s flight to Washington