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A veteran, mother of veterans and a grandmother who wants a better world for all the children.
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📌We are in the most precarious moment in our nation’s history since the beginning of the Civil War. Anybody who is not reporting it this way is dangerous, completely out of their depth, and should not be taken seriously. 📌As the retired managing editor of Stars & Stripes I urge you to share this.

Excellent summary of our predicament here from veteran reporter Mort Rosenblum. www.mortreport.org/reports/a-wa...

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” an immigration judge told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning, including a 4-year-old girl, squeezing her pink plushy toy.

Imagine that: a drunk Fox entertainment host can't run the largest agency in the world. It's a real shocker. www.mediaite.com/politics/the...

Incredibly, this appears to be true. We tariffed our own (jointly operated with the UK) military base.

It’s a start since I can’t afford to buy ‘em anymore.

“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.

Unconscionable

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett on Trump's poisoning of the economy. open.spotify.com/episode/1RPk... youtu.be/3PXVrLH4zSU?...

🧵I know what the Trump administration is doing to the country because they’ve already done it to rural America. They stripped public schools of funding. They closed our hospitals. They sold family farms for parts. They let our infrastructure rot. And then they gerrymandered us to keep us quiet.

UPDATE: From the original poster of the letter on FB:

Hey friends, I came across this in someones timeline. Never a truer word spoken about Mr Dicktator!!! Please share so those that voted for this nightmare can feel publicly shamed!Everyone deserves peace and morality in their lives. Well except the MAGATS that voted for this shit show. Repost, Linda💞

And no matter how you’ve chosen to justify your allegiance to him, ultimately you made your decision, and quite frankly, I have lost the respect for and the affinity I had with you. There is a divide between us now that will never be completely removed. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...

I can’t believe this shit

Can’t make this shit up

A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.

We should be writing Project 2029—defining the society we want, clearly and publicly. Let’s start today.