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Will the USA survive this? - fall out - proverbial & literal from the Iran attack - federal troops in California, Vance and Noem confirming they are there to counter our elected politicians - the end of US soft power with #PEPFAR & #USAID gutted - tariff economic chaos - and a weak Congress

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DONT SCROLL PAST THIS: Emerson Colindres grew up in Ohio. Graduated high school. Played soccer. Followed the rules. So ICE showed up like kidnappers, ambushed him, and DEPORTED him. No court order. No warning. Just a teenage boy dumped in Honduras—alone. This is state violence.

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Your daily reminder.

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There is a vaccine. There is a plan that could work. However, the UCP, or any one of their four health ministers, refuse to act. globalnews.ca/news/1125212...

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BREAKING: PLEASE SHARE Christian Stephen, a member of the US military was placed on a 72 hold in a psych facility for posting this video stating that he wants to uphold our Constitution.

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Powerful

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Bombing the shit out of a Middle Eastern country that didn’t attack us because of “intelligence” about nukes that everyone knows is garbage is what idiotic Republican presidents do, I suppose. More blood on Trump’s tiny hands—and the hands of the party that abets him.

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I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment

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@unaids MUST continue post 2030. 1. The HIV epidemic is decades away from being over 2. UNAIDS has been an essential, successful model of collaboration between countries, companies and communities - vital for future pandemic responses. www.devex.com/news/will-un...

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Getting tested for STIs. Good for you. Good for the community. And if you can donate to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, it helps.

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Moscow will use the regional tensions to divert attention from its own aggression against Ukraine, the UK Ministry of Defense reports. newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/uk-inte...

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Good morning and happy Juneteenth to everyone. Hell of a time to have a DUI hire as secretary of defense.

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Fort Worth is a blue city. You might not realize that, but it’s true. We need to act like it. But it’s about more than party. It’s about values. Voices from across Fort Worth came to City Council on 6/17, asking our leaders to be bold, progressive, and show our values. #wakeup #fortworth

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always loved Little Golden Books... 😆

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Around 1 in 10 in the country are suffering long covid, an estimated 409 million sufferers globally and yet we have this constant narrative being thrown at us that Covid is over. It’s the height of stupidity at this point.

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#booksky

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Can we stop talking about “falsehoods” and “misinformation”? Let’s call it what it is - “lies”. The administration is lying to us.

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@ashotinthearm.bsky.social Cambodia-based social entrepreneur Thomas Cai has tough love on the failure traditional development aid - particularly USAID - and why countries must own their future calling only on the expertise from northern partners if needed. youtu.be/XUu4fMEOyYU?...

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President Zelensky: “The Americans asked us not to strike Russia’s energy infrastructure—shortly after, Russia launched a combined attack on our energy facilities in Kremenchuk.”

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1. Great article in @theatlantic.com by Nicholas Florko on Senator Kennedy & RFK Jr. Cassidy voted for him because he thought he had extracted “concessions… chief among them that he would preserve, “without changes,” the very CDC committee Kennedy overhauled this week.” So here’s my question:

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This is treason: “We are not going away,” Noem vowed in Los Angeles, referring to the federal officials she said had come to “liberate this city from the socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country.”

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Can report a strong turnout at our local No Kings rally. Lots of American flag waving and supportive horn honking. Many homemade signs, some indignant, some witty. One that seemed particularly McLean appropriate: “If only Kamala had won, we’d all be at brunch.”

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“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

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For all our people peacefully protesting today.

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It’s true, as many have suggested, that if they can do this to Sen. Padilla, they can do it to others. I’d only add that they already have been doing this to others. A mass deportation regime, sooner rather than later, becomes contemptuous of civil liberties and basic decency.

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On 6/12, DHS Sec’y Kristi Noem said “We are staying here to liberate [LA] from the socialists and the burdensome leadership this governor and mayor have placed on this country and this city.” This use of military force to displace a democratically elected is the very definition of a coup.

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Padilla: “We will hold this administration accountable”

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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HOLY HELL: Watch the Los Angeles FD showing support for protestors!!!!

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The lack of total outrage at the indictment of Congresswoman McIvey is truly frightening. Hakeem Jeffries ought to be causing high holy hell over this. She is indicted because she is Black. Half of the GOP caucus engaged in sedition and Garland felt arresting a member of congress went too far.

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May the anti-ICE movement continue to spread nationwide! This is the Los Angeles spirit your news broadcast isn’t showing…

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If your healthcare provider supports or endorses anything RFK. Jr has to say about public health or vaccines, your health is in grave danger. Find yourself a new healthcare provider expeditiously. A word to the wise is sufficient.

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We’re all in this together. Be united. #indivisible #resist #NoKings #blueCrew

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You may have seen clips of this speech, but if you haven't yet, you really ought to watch the entire thing and then share it with everyone you know! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8slq...

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12 June 1908 | A Jewish man, Solly Caplan, was born in Manchester (UK). He lived in Tromso in Norway and was a Norwegian citizen. In November 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

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I am sounding the alarm as loudly as I can that Donald Trump has turned the Department of Justice into a cog in his authoritarian machine to prosecute his political opponents.

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