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Private Practice Social Worker, reader of books, believer of science, equality for ALL. SoCal resident, will fight for Democracy. No DM’s, crypto, bitcoin or B.S.
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🚨 Disturbing footage shows the brutal arrest of a terrified 16-year-old girl—sobbing, screaming as “ICE agents” abducted her mom without a warrant or ID. At least 4 grown men slammed her face into the pavement. This is child abuse. This is state terror. Worcester police are complicit.

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that our client Rümeysa Öztürk must be released on bail immediately. She will return home to New England as her case proceeds.

🧵Update: In Worcester, MA, ICE dragged a mother away from her baby & family—without identifying themselves or showing a warrant. She’s now in San Antonio. The community tried to stop them. They were met with force. Read it. Share it. Never forget it tinyurl.com/No-warrant @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

“The bottom line is that the Republican bill is going to cut health care for kids, seniors, Americans with disabilities and working families, and Democrats are going to fight to stop it.” #MomSky Moms for Medicaid

Gwen and I join Minnesotans in congratulating His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope! May his papacy bring peace, compassion, and our shared Midwestern value of loving thy neighbor.

Something I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.

My Mom died of cancer. My grandparents died of cancer. My best friend died of cancer. Many of YOU, Democrats and Republicans, have friends and loved ones who died of cancer. Cutting cancer research is evil AF, and we should ALL agree on that. If we can't, we're cooked.

Enten: This is down 21%. They really don't like the tariffs. And we know they really don't like the tariffs because Canadian summer air bookings to places in Canada actually up actually up 6%.

The grift is systematic

some people go on vacations to sightsee and go on beautiful hikes but nancy mace flies around the country looking at bathrooms

Chicago is on to something.

Thou shalt not fire 20% of all generals when thou couldst not pass a breathalyzer.

lol.

Have you ever seen some random stranger out in public and immediately thought to yourself, “Well, he’s a serial killer”? IYKYK.

Here are the good guy, pass through PBMs that @costplusdrugs.com has partnered with. Talk to a couple of them before youe company makes any decisions on their pharmacy benefits.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

A reminder that debating Stephen Miller — who is not a lawyer and is not making legal arguments, he is spouting propaganda — is a win for him.

A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.

Thank you Mark Cuban! Michael Woodruff

Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?

My god i hate this timeline...

Nothing to see here. Just @emilyjaynef.bsky.social being forcibly removed from NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall tonight for having the temerity to act like a citizen of the United States. Hero.

On target!

Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS? …And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people? Oh wait…🥴

This is downright sacrilegious. SO offensive.

Detainees at an immigrant detention center in Texas have sent the outside world a desperate message: SOS. A drone captured the image of 31 men banding together, using their bodies to form an SOS in the dirt yard of the Bluebonnet immigration detention facility. Just days ago, dozens of Venezuelan…

This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.

Tesla is installing new locks on the barn doors after all the horses have escaped.

•••••BREAKING••••• Tesla stock, $TSLA, begins to plunge, falling over -4% in overnight trading as WSJ reports that the company’s board of directors has opened a search for a CEO to succeed the widely despised Elon Musk.

Kamala Harris: The courage of Americans who are speaking out to say, it is not ok to violate court orders. Saying it is not ok to detain and disappear American citizens or anyone without due process. The courage of judges to uphold the rule of law in the face of those who would jail them.

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

Just when we thought Amazon might actually have a tiny sliver of integrity.

100 days into this presidency, Americans are paying the price - higher prices, crashing retirement accounts, and broken promises. But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up. It's up to us to demand something better.

Wow. UPS announces they will cut 20,000 jobs this year because of the economic conditions under Trump.

Dear Canada- Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever. ❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸 #MakeAmericaNormalAgain

Dear Canada, we Americans have no business lecturing you on elections, but I hope you learn from our mistake.

Forgive the earnest post here, but one year ago this week, Global Tetrahedron took over The Onion. We've since brought back the paper and ONN, dramatically increased revenue, and hired more writers and artists. But most importantly, as other places debased themselves, we refused to bend the knee.

Pritzker: As a Ukrainian American Jew who built a holocaust museum… let me say this to Donald Trump: Stop tearing down the constitution in the name of my ancestors. Do not claim that your authoritarian power grabs are about combatting anti-semitism.

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT! BREAKING NEWS: In an absolutely devastating speech, JB Pritzker demolishes the entire MAGA movement: “It’s time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don't know how to organize a group chat.

This whole clip is truly unbelievably great. I am genuinely astounded by how good this is.

NEW: It looks like A LOT of Eagles have BOYCOTTED the White House visit. Go Birds! 🦅👏 Apparently missing: Jalen Hurts, AJ Brown, DeVonta Smith, Brandon Graham, Darius Slay, Nolan Smith, Jordan Davis, Jalen Carter, CJ Gardner-Johnson, Zack Baun, Nakobe Dean, Isaiah Rodgers, Jalyx Hunt, Josh Sweat.

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?