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💙 DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE. We will all be Kilmar Abrego Garcia if trump isn’t stopped. Don’t let the bastards get you down. No bio, no follow. I UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT.
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NEW: This tribal lender has boosted the economy of its Alaska town. But some tribal members are appalled by the millions it’s made off desperate borrowers — much of which, lawsuits allege, has gone to outsider Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil. With @adn.com

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Adriana Smith’s story MUST be told so America can understand what’s at stake when draconian abortion laws like the one in GA keep a brain dead pregnant woman on life support just so the fetus can be delivered. What kind of dystopian hellscape has Dobbs created? m.youtube.com/watch?v=wNYT...

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Don't let up. Hold their feet to the fire. (DoJ: I do not mean to literally light feet on fire.)

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🚨According to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.

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The huge cuts to Medicaid are the biggest headline but there are many atrocities in the GOP budget outline. Today I'm doing an #OutOfOrder countdown of the 10 worst. @cherylbluewave.bsky.social @rickhavoc.bsky.social @rekhet.bsky.social @susieb.bsky.social www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Reminder that there is no process that would make it legal to disappear someone from the United States to a foreign gulag to face abuse and torture

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THIS!

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All the sads for james comey.

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How can you not respect this woman when she describes Jake Tapper’s book as “fairy smut.”

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Republicans are raising taxes on the most vulnerable while giving tax breaks to their wealthy donors. Watch Rep Gomez ‬ @gomez.house.gov lay it all out. #DemsConnect #USDemocracy #DemVoice1

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WHEN is his mental acuity going to become a topic for mainstream media?

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If only.

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That ignorant parking garage lawyer isn’t fit to hand out jaywalking tickets. #habbadabbadoodoo

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"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM. All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed. There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..." www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

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Hmmnn, very interesting comparison, the jumbo jet we know about, and many other things, what else is out there when you start peeling the layers back?

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After-tax income under the Trump/GOP budget: -People making less than $17/k year: LOSE $1000 -People making between $17k and $51k/yr: LOSE $700 -People making over $4.3M/year: GAIN $389,000 This is what class warfare looks like.

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“I resigned … because the policy since the beginning of the administration was to put pressure on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia,” says Trump’s former ambassador to Ukraine. “Peace at any price is not peace … As we know from history, appeasement only leads to more war.”

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What corporate monopolies are doing to grocery prices is no small potatoes. Watch.

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