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I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

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President Biden answered some questions and shared that he is optimistic about the treatment he has been receiving

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They zip-tied the kids. “We’ve never seen them detain family units, children, like this.… We have not seen this before, and I think the point is to instill fear and kind of be cruel about this process."

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Who hired Tapper as a serious journalist with these articles in his back pocket? Bad human being & terrible writer. I never thought much of him but if I’d known his history I would’ve actively boycotted watching him.

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All spiral galaxies rotate, and their shapes are caused by patterns in how stars bunch up. This is Hubble’s view of NGC 2525, a spiral galaxy located about 70 million light-years from Earth that continues to (ever so slowly) twirl. Credit: NASA, ESA. 🔭 🧪

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Moss Agates are similar to the Brazilian Lodolites. Both of them can keep a Universe, a Forest, or a different world inside them. ⠀ photo: Java Minerals #minerals #crystals

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

To be earnest for a moment, it is just incredibly irresponsible & destructive for the Secretary of Transportation to talk like this.

submitted 27 days ago • 79 comments

it's a coup against the Constitution. A way you can tell that it's that is that the first things they seized were GSA, the treasury's payments system and the US Marshalls service (the door keys, paychecks and building security, respectively, for federal facilities)

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Fifty years after he was graduated from Princeton University, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered the baccalaureate address at his alma mater. This is how he ended the speech:

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Still so powerful

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Scott Pelley—American author and reporter for CBS News for more than 31 years, did not hold back

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Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

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The GOP’s reconciliation bill is one of the worst environmental bills I’ve ever seen. It guts public input, silences tribal and community voices, slashes environmental protections, and hands sacred and public lands to the lowest bidder with no accountability.

submitted 45 days ago • 272 comments

I mean I don’t know why that’s in quotes because it’s literally true

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I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark. I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.

submitted 47 days ago • 1119 comments

This is the NY Times flat-out lying to the world.. Ras Baraka was there to do an inspection. He was there on official business. Federal agents arrested him for trying to do official business. They did it to protect ILLEGAL federal conduct, which he was trying to put an end to.

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In case you feel like angry all evening

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“The victory over Nazism cost millions of lives- including 8 million Ukrainian lives. Remembrance means recognizing when history tries to repeat itself. Russia must be stopped now.” Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

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Exactly!👇

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Trump Administration’s planned budget cuts threaten key Lake Michigan data network From @ottawanewsnetwork.bsky.social michiganadvance.com/2025/05/05/t...

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Make a movie a national security threat: E.T. The Extra Terrorestrial

submitted 51 days ago • 238 comments

Wth happened to you in the 30yrs I was gone, Michigan? I The power grid in Metro Detroit wasn’t this unstable in the 70s-90s. No storm or wind here but we just heard a transformer blow & all our electricity went out.

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View from earlier for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow prompt, green #photography #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #green

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The Black Knight!

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Hard to read in this political moment but fascinating approach to conservation “Animals with rich cultural repertoires are better equipped to innovate & adapt…cultural diversity acts as a form of ecological insurance, enabling populations to respond to unpredictable changes in their surroundings.”

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Somehow, I completely missed Stephen Miller’s uncle taking him to the woodshed back in 2018. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

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Just to be clear, we reached the arresting-judges-and-deporting-US-citizens-without-due-process stage of the slide into authoritarianism today. And the citizens in question included a toddler and a child with cancer who needs treatment in the US.

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They are taking away our vaccines. Jay Bhattacharya is talking about eliminating mRNA vaccines. Meanwhile, RFK Jr. has managed to ratfuck the Novavax approval process.

submitted 60 days ago • 53 comments

Utterly disgraceful. "Last week, the Department of Homeland Security sent emails to Afghan refugees telling them to 'self-deport' back to Afghanistan." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...

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The office below technically still exists, but it’s unclear for how long. Now HHS is defunding the Women’s Health Initiative, the longest standing effort to track issues affecting women’s health. They enrolled >160k women in the 1990s and still have >40k current participants.

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BREAKING: we won! A federal judge has enjoined the administration's shut down of Voice of America Another success for the Constitution and for us @sddaction.bsky.social & our many wonderful partners & clients More details to follow--stay tuned!

submitted 64 days ago • 643 comments

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

submitted 64 days ago • 347 comments

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Two headlines in the New York Times today.

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Pope Francis knew the enemies within: “In every religion there is always a fundamentalist group that does not want to go ahead and lives on bitter memories, on the struggles of the past, looking for more war and also sowing fear." www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

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