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"Using emergency powers to suspend civil liberties, the German police, and its auxiliaries, the Nazi SS and SA, took into “protective custody” tens of thousands... They were imprisoned and brutalized in makeshift camps set up in workhouses, abandoned factories, cellars, and even taverns."

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Republicans are almost certainly leaking our most sensitive information to our enemies.

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Since the AG doesn't seem to be getting ethics guidance from her team these days, I wanted to make sure she has the rule in the Justice Manual in front of her, which expressly prohibits this.

submitted 2 hours ago • 533 comments

It is very dangerous that unidentified people are arresting people without warrants. No one is safe.

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Trump's America:

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Republicans lie about everything.

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Prices are still ridiculously high at my grocery store but the press seems to have decided that it’s no longer a story.

submitted 57 minutes ago • 8 comments

A common defect of @nytimes.com euphemizing is treating Trump & co. as a given story's protagonist. Even when they offer no basis for doing so, their actions must be explained not neutrally but as if they were affirmatively legitimate, creatively inventing the basis for doing so when necessary

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“The grid operator hadn’t asked for this, the utility hadn’t asked for this, we as the state hadn’t asked for this." President "Lower Prices" is jacking up prices on ratepayers in order to keep polluting the air and water. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/c...

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NB: “This way of thinking appears in the defence review…which says “the UK’s longstanding assumptions about global power balances and structures are no longer certain” – a rare acknowledgment in a British government document of how far and how fast Trumpism is affecting foreign policy certainties.”

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NPR speaks with a British orthopedic surgeon who just returned from his fourth medical mission to Gaza. He says many people he operated on were civilians and were shot while trying to reach food aid.

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@radleybalko.bsky.social last May: "Miller plans to bring in the National Guard, state and local police, other federal police agencies like the DEA and ATF, and if necessary, the military. Miller’s deportation force would then infiltrate cities and neighborhoods" open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

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Even if the Musk-Trump feud is permanent, he will have already done incalculable damage to federal programs, workers and civilians. But it's even worse than that—he's installed a framework and a logic that will continue to tear apart the federal government. Musk's job has already been automated.

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Probably the best photo I’ve ever taken of a sunset.

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70% of voters are deeply concerned about the Republican plan to gut Medicaid and the ACA. Why? Because it will raise health care and grocery costs for 80 million Americans—just to hand tax breaks to billionaires. People know what’s happening. And they oppose it.

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Carl Sagan in 1986 on the problems with media and science literacy.

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British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"

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This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

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"Prisons all over the United States are withholding books from prisoners, but not because they contain contraband. Books are becoming harder to receive based on their content."

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#OnThisDay, 7 Jun 1944, Ginette Jullian parachutes into occupied France with the Special Operations Executive. She works as a wireless operator behind enemy lines for three months until the Allied forces overtake her unit. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WorldWar2 🗃️

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"Using emergency powers to suspend civil liberties, the German police, and its auxiliaries, the Nazi SS and SA, took into “protective custody” tens of thousands... They were imprisoned and brutalized in makeshift camps set up in workhouses, abandoned factories, cellars, and even taverns."

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Apparently, we are now entering the era of the wild camps.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

submitted 21 hours ago • 924 comments

the people who make this country unsafe aren’t immigrants. the people who make this country unsafe are cops.

submitted 9 hours ago • 30 comments

Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

submitted 9 hours ago • 277 comments

The - admittedly entertaining - operatic feud between Musk and Trump should not distract us from the fact that their joint fascist coup already resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and will kill many more in the long run 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

The Netherlands boasts over 35,000 km of separated cycle paths, half of which have been built since 1996. This (fairly recent) success is built on design principles which are embedded in urban planning and together form a deliberate, systematic approach to infrastructure design: youtu.be/pdsUjjncUp0

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

"Every time we go to the polls, politicians will say that every election matters and every vote counts. They will be right" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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How is this not kidnapping?

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ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.

submitted 15 hours ago • 894 comments

Probably time to repost this for 🦋 The West is already at war whether it wants to be or not. Here's how to fight Putin's global imperialist insurgency. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

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Republicans are bigots who don't care about freedom of (and from) religion. "Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) is coming under fire from colleagues in both parties after misidentifying a Sikh man as Muslim and saying he should have "never been allowed" to deliver the House's morning prayer."

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The Financial Times editorial board calls on all members of the European Union to -Ban trade with Israeli settlements -Sanction settlers and settler organizations -Suspend offensive weapon exports to Israel -Sanction Smotrich and Ben-Gvir -Recognize the State of Palestine

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The Trump secret police are terrorizing people across CA. They’re grabbing people from work sites, injuring people & now have arrested the President of SEIU CA, David Huerta. David is one of our great labor leaders. He’s dedicated his life fighting for low wage workers. I stand with David Huerta.

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Here is a 🧵on what I think the ideal cycleway should look like, based on many years of me cycling on Dutch cycle infrastructure all over the country 👇

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Why would Trump’s ICE target an American labor leader and unjustly brutalize him in broad daylight? I’ll show you why 🗣️

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Wild

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This is an unethical, dangerous reversal in policy and commitment to the safety of our communities. Every sector of our economy has a responsibility to keep citizens safe from gun violence and this responsibility shouldn't shift due to political pressure. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

"Using emergency powers to suspend civil liberties, the German police, and its auxiliaries, the Nazi SS and SA, took into “protective custody” tens of thousands... They were imprisoned and brutalized in makeshift camps set up in workhouses, abandoned factories, cellars, and even taverns."

Republicans are almost certainly leaking our most sensitive information to our enemies.

Since the AG doesn't seem to be getting ethics guidance from her team these days, I wanted to make sure she has the rule in the Justice Manual in front of her, which expressly prohibits this.

It is very dangerous that unidentified people are arresting people without warrants. No one is safe.

Trump's America:

Republicans lie about everything.

Prices are still ridiculously high at my grocery store but the press seems to have decided that it’s no longer a story.

A common defect of @nytimes.com euphemizing is treating Trump & co. as a given story's protagonist. Even when they offer no basis for doing so, their actions must be explained not neutrally but as if they were affirmatively legitimate, creatively inventing the basis for doing so when necessary

“The grid operator hadn’t asked for this, the utility hadn’t asked for this, we as the state hadn’t asked for this." President "Lower Prices" is jacking up prices on ratepayers in order to keep polluting the air and water. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/c...

NPR speaks with a British orthopedic surgeon who just returned from his fourth medical mission to Gaza. He says many people he operated on were civilians and were shot while trying to reach food aid.

@radleybalko.bsky.social last May: "Miller plans to bring in the National Guard, state and local police, other federal police agencies like the DEA and ATF, and if necessary, the military. Miller’s deportation force would then infiltrate cities and neighborhoods" open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

Even if the Musk-Trump feud is permanent, he will have already done incalculable damage to federal programs, workers and civilians. But it's even worse than that—he's installed a framework and a logic that will continue to tear apart the federal government. Musk's job has already been automated.

Probably the best photo I’ve ever taken of a sunset.

70% of voters are deeply concerned about the Republican plan to gut Medicaid and the ACA. Why? Because it will raise health care and grocery costs for 80 million Americans—just to hand tax breaks to billionaires. People know what’s happening. And they oppose it.

Carl Sagan in 1986 on the problems with media and science literacy.

British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"

This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

"Prisons all over the United States are withholding books from prisoners, but not because they contain contraband. Books are becoming harder to receive based on their content."

#OnThisDay, 7 Jun 1944, Ginette Jullian parachutes into occupied France with the Special Operations Executive. She works as a wireless operator behind enemy lines for three months until the Allied forces overtake her unit. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WorldWar2 🗃️

"Using emergency powers to suspend civil liberties, the German police, and its auxiliaries, the Nazi SS and SA, took into “protective custody” tens of thousands... They were imprisoned and brutalized in makeshift camps set up in workhouses, abandoned factories, cellars, and even taverns."

Apparently, we are now entering the era of the wild camps.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

the people who make this country unsafe aren’t immigrants. the people who make this country unsafe are cops.

Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

The - admittedly entertaining - operatic feud between Musk and Trump should not distract us from the fact that their joint fascist coup already resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and will kill many more in the long run 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

The Netherlands boasts over 35,000 km of separated cycle paths, half of which have been built since 1996. This (fairly recent) success is built on design principles which are embedded in urban planning and together form a deliberate, systematic approach to infrastructure design: youtu.be/pdsUjjncUp0

"Every time we go to the polls, politicians will say that every election matters and every vote counts. They will be right" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

How is this not kidnapping?

ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.

Probably time to repost this for 🦋 The West is already at war whether it wants to be or not. Here's how to fight Putin's global imperialist insurgency. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Republicans are bigots who don't care about freedom of (and from) religion. "Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) is coming under fire from colleagues in both parties after misidentifying a Sikh man as Muslim and saying he should have "never been allowed" to deliver the House's morning prayer."

The Financial Times editorial board calls on all members of the European Union to -Ban trade with Israeli settlements -Sanction settlers and settler organizations -Suspend offensive weapon exports to Israel -Sanction Smotrich and Ben-Gvir -Recognize the State of Palestine

Here is a 🧵on what I think the ideal cycleway should look like, based on many years of me cycling on Dutch cycle infrastructure all over the country 👇

Why would Trump’s ICE target an American labor leader and unjustly brutalize him in broad daylight? I’ll show you why 🗣️

Wild

This is an unethical, dangerous reversal in policy and commitment to the safety of our communities. Every sector of our economy has a responsibility to keep citizens safe from gun violence and this responsibility shouldn't shift due to political pressure. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Trump and the Republicans are Trump you to pay more for electricity.

Local police are very likely to side with Republican thugs and ICE.

Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅