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ICE agent points gun directly at the head of innocent civilian—just for taking picture of his license plate. He drew his gun with one hand—while fumbling to open the car door with the other. The "agent" did not seem to be aware someone else was already recording his vehicle. Pasadena, California.

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Breaking News: British lawmakers voted to prevent women in England and Wales from being criminally prosecuted for having an abortion.

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Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered

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reminder that just last week ICE rescinded a policy meant to curb warrantless arrests:

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"But whether the Trump GOP and its allies wish to believe it or not, the truth of the startling gun violence study is this: If more states had adopted stricter gun laws, many more children would be alive today. Where you live can mean life or death."

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One of our leading citywide elected leaders and candidates for mayor peacefully asks masked ICE agents to see a warrant and is violently arrested. Horrifying and disturbing for what it is and what it represents. Fascism. www.amny.com/news/brad-la...

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"You don't have the authority to arrest US citizens who are asking to see a judicial warrant." NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander being arrested along with a member of his NYPD security team by ICE.

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Trump's idiot followers (ie every Republican Senator) want to sell off FORTY PERCENT of public land? That is 40% of OUR land.

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At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, there’s a tomb for Alma House, an African American girl who was just 16 years old — and nine months pregnant — when she was lynched by a white mob. Trump wants us to forget about girls like Alma. Here's how ⤵️

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Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

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why have water when you can have a service that brings up fake results because it can't be arsed to run the search you asked it to

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In 50 years when some young historian tries to claim there was an elaborate strategy behind all this, it’ll be crucial for all us olds to scream, “NO! IT’S JUST DUMB!”

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Immigration raids in Los Angeles hit small business owners: 'It's worse than COVID' reut.rs/4n6bTmO

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"Trump called for the CSB’s closure during his first term but settled for leaving many investigator and agency leadership positions unfilled."

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The House version of Trump's so-called "Big, Beautiful Bill" cut $800B from Medicaid—and the Senate version is even worse. There's nothing "beautiful" about kicking millions off their health care. And to pay for billionaire tax cuts? We must fight this with everything we've got.

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Screenshots of the suited and booted post need to be given to a bot to post on everything FIFA and the Olympic Committee put out. We need those events to be massive failures. Time to take international events away from the US until we oust the fascists

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74% of white evangelicals support violence. Religions are violent. Religion is always part of the problem. I don't see how there are metaphorical bridges to be built here. You can't reach someone that thinks a god wants them to kill poor brown people.

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BREAKING @prri.org poll. My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support. 1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process. prri.org/spotlight/ne...

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The MAGA reverse-Robin-Hood scheme would remove 11 Million people from Medicaid, 5 Million from the Affordable Care Act exchanges, slash SNAP by more than $700M, “strip 4.5 million children who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents of eligibility for the Child Tax Credit,” and ..

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In serious countries that are actual democracies, strong mainstream parties force members who do stuff like this to resign, & far right authoritarian parties that do this are shunned from government. Here in 🇺🇸, one of our two parties has collapsed into far right authoritarianism. So neither happens.

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Protesters have come face-to-face in recent days with members of law enforcement wielding “nonlethal” weapons. While these are regularly used in the United States to disperse public demonstrations, they can cause serious injuries.

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I mean, obviously? AI is an obsequious liar. I was told by my boss to use it. I quickly disproved the first 5 search results with the sort of research methods my second grader can perform. AI tried to apologize for lying.

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This is why national educational standards that match the rest of the planet are needed.

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All the credit that Tim Walz got as a VP candidate for good stuff that Minnesota has done? Melissa Hortman (and a bunch of other women) led the hard fight to get bills on his desk and make it politically safe for him to sign.

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John Hoffman and Yvette Hoffman were hit by a combined 17 bullets from the Minnesota assassin, and both survived and are now recovering. Yvette shielded their daughter. www.startribune.com/john-hoffman...

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