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The brownshirts blew the door off, broke a bedroom window where baby slept, NEVER tried knocking on door first. Over a fender bender in Bell, CA the prior week which the driver reported to police and insurance. This is 100% abuse of powers! Announce yourself www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

Just a reminder of who Thom Tillis is: In 2013, as N.C. House Speaker, he passed a massive voter suppression law that was struck down because it targeted Black voters "with almost surgical precision.” In the Senate he voted against the Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Right Act.

Johnny Noviello moved from Canada to Daytona Beach when he was 10 years old. He grew up in Florida and became a lawful permanent resident. On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Dont go to the US #Cdnpoli #Canpoli #CanadaSky

The odds of you ever obtaining one billion dollars is as close to zero as possible. The odds of you suffering from something that you wouldn’t have to suffer from in a society that valued collective good over wealth, like poverty, hunger, debt, preventable illness, homelessness, etc, is very likely

How many people will be wrongly convicted before this racist database is destroyed Or will it remain for years Destroying lives along the way It's easy to drop something while running from danger But that can end in false convictions www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

🚨17 Million Americans will now LOSE healthcare access to the big beautiful bill to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Pass it on!!

More fake ICE agents doing horrible things. Everyone should be speaking up about this. Masks and no ID required is a ridiculous recipe for horrors. @MarshaBlackburn & @SenJohnson & Sexton should be banning it, not protecting it.

Hey Elon, guess what? Trump doesn’t need you any more. You helped him win, and now he’s kicking you aside — along with your electric vehicles. When will you saps ever learn? TRUMP ONLY CARES ABOUT HIMSELF.

Between Trump attacking Tillis and Collins being forced to suck up to him, it feels like Democrats just picked up two Senate seats in 2026.

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Forgotten in the glare of all the other world mayhem, but the Georgians continue to show that you don’t give up in the face of an authoritarian takeover. Day 214 of protests.

JUST CALLED AND LEFT HIM A MESSAGE TELLING HIM TO KEEP HIS ISLAMOPHOBIC BULLSHIT TO HIMSELF AND STOP ATTACKING HIS OWN PARTY MEMBERS

Be sure to sit down with @nhannahjones.bsky.social’s latest piece in the NYT magazine. It’s a sobering reality that we should be shouting from the rooftops. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

Agree with this. Doing nothing, or shying away from policy advocacy **is** a political action. It's the political action of surrender to autocrats and wannabe fascists. More details here: sks.to/autocracy

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

Self-described Forgotten People: We’re being left behind, DC doesn’t care. Govt: Healthcare, broadband, subsidies for local business, paid for by others? The Forgotten: Boo! Govt: Close local hospital, destroy local jobs, but denigrate minorities? The Forgotten: Thank you, this is what we want.

Today temperature here will top at 111 ° Phoenix 115° The asphalt and sidewalks are insanely hot!!🏜🔥🔥 I just looked out my patio and there's a guy walking his dog Did I say something Oh HELL YES I know YOU are intelligent but please share this for the ones that are not

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

Timothy Snyder with some compressed truth about truth. www.facebook.com/thedailyshow... via @mariopro.bsky.social When Step 1 becomes a commonplace, journalism and its practices are in peril. We crossed into that world well before the 2024 election, but it was hard to get journalists to see it.

This is a nuclear option. Senate Rs want to violate the Byrd rule by creating long-term deficits, using 312 of the CBA to assert that they aren’t But they know the parls will say they can’t do that So Rs are refusing to meet w/ her so they can pretend they didn’t ignore her when they do it anyway

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Corporate media is owned by the very people who will benefit from Trumps regime so do not trust them, they’ve been complicit in destroying America. You get the truth from independent media 👇

The GOP budget slashes over $1 TRILLION from Medicaid, food aid & education—just to bankroll tax breaks for billionaires. Join us + MoveOn, Indivisible, WFP & more to phone bank Medicaid recipients & urge them to call their Senators. Kill the Bill! www.mobilize.us/wfpower/even...

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Read "The horrifyingly probable truth about Trump’s humiliation on the global stage" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-m9QU0i3/oz... We're getting ready for a shift in our ideological form of government to a dictatorship. His actions are lock step for it. What is he going to do to us? Bomb us too?

ICYMI: Actor Diego Luna used his opportunity of hosting the Jimmy Kimmel Show to talk about our immigrant neighbors, how immigrants built and rebuilt our country I respect him using his voice for good. More people with large followings need to #OnYourSide #UnmaskICE m.youtube.com/watch?v=7726...

Please share to friends you have in hurricane alley This will make storm season harder

It's fun how modern conservatism gave up any pretense of intellectualism and just went all in on the "Daddy Trump" cult and the dipshit discourse that gave us "One Big Beautiful Bill" and the "MAGA" nonsense. We're a week away from a solemn Senate speech that's just "googoo gaga, I'm a widdle baby"

Facts: If federal govt reduces Medicaid funding to nurcing homes ✔️27% NHs will shut down ✔️58% will ⬇️ current staffing (fire workers) ✔️55% will ⬇️ Medicaid census (not accept Medicaid funded patients)

Holy Crap. Just straight up looting at this point. Or like was already looting. But just bringing in a semi to haul out the loot faster.

To answer the question in the headline: You quote him, period. It is not our job, nor is it appropriate, to protect the reading and listening public from the vulgarity of this president. I’m dismayed that this is even a newsroom debate in 2025. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

If the government had $45 million to waste on Trump's failed military parade, then there's enough money to fund Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and Veterans Benefits. 💙 #ProudBlue #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpIsTheWorstPresidentInHistory

It would be nice if America had an organization dedicated to opposing antisemitism, rather than another organization opposed to Americans criticizing the actions of a foreign government.

Oh but don’t worry poor rural whites will be entertained by the cruelty of ICE — and the non-white poor in rural areas…well R don’t really care about them

But…that’s exactly what you are doing

Democrats need to use every second to fight back against the Big Beautiful Bill. I’m helping hold the Senate all night and FORCE a full reading of this 940-page bill.

All US politicians should have been at this funeral. ONE OF THEM, her husband and dog were assassinated, in the middle of the night in their own home while covering their daughter with their body.