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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.

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In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?” 🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season. Brilliant timing.

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If the bill passes, it will make ICE the nation’s largest jailer, with more funding for prison camps than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons. It would give ICE enough money to have more officers than the entire FBI.

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Stop calling it Alligator Alcatraz like it’s a f***ing theme park. It’s a taxpayer-funded wildlife internment camp built with stolen FEMA funds. Ron DeSantis literally bragged they “get to shower and eat,” like he wanted a prize. They give it a cute name to minimize the cruelty.

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In the end they will try to lock up every brown person in the country, whether they are a citizen or not. He will sign an executive order declaring himself president for life and the Supreme Court will uphold it 6-3. They will leave you no choice. They think so little of you.

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A perfect example of why education should be a public service by default and private by request. Families already stretched thin shouldn’t be at the whims of some moneyed person or people who can decide tomorrow to just stop giving a fuck

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I am absolutely outraged that our so-called president didn’t have the decency to attend the funeral of a murdered public official and her husband. He hasn’t even commented on it. Let that sink in folks…I can’t even get my head around the thought of a person that inhuman.

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In 2020, when I told people that I was building a pro-democracy media outlet, people thought I was kidding. When I told them that the fight for democracy was the fight of our time, they thought I was being overly dramatic. Well...here we are. Subscribe to Democracy Docket now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

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Kneecap is not the story. Genocide in Gaza is.

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"If you believe that what a satirical band who play characters on stage do is more outrageous than the murdering of innocent Palestinians, then you need to give your head a fucking wobble.” We did a wee feature interview ahead of Glastonbury with the Guardian... www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

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GRMA Glastonbury 🔥

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It was something I was entirely unaware of, that Rod Stewart agreed with Enoch Powell. (For those of you too young or not from the UK, Powell was an extremely racist, far right politician.

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🔥 Kneecap absolutely lit at Glastonbury. Solidarity, standing with Palestine Action, calling out the BBC, Keir Starmer and Rod Stewart (boycott breaker). They can never silence our rejection of Israel’s genocide, they will never shut down our solidarity with Palestine #FreePalestine #BDS 🇵🇸

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🙏Don't ignore my post🙏 My family and I are living the worst days of our lives. We've run out of flour, and a bag of flour costs $400. Please help me. Don't let my family go to bed hungry. What if your family🥺💔💔💔😭😭😭😭😭😭 gofund.me/301aff27

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Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this? Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids. She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms. Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen. 🧵

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🚨BREAKING: #MitchMcConnell was just publicly confronted in the Senate hallway by young people for GUTTING #Medicaid and green jobs while accepting $3M from Big Oil. He looks like a deer in headlights! We need more of this‼️

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I sure as hell have noticed. How about you? 🤨

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Maziar Bahari reflects on Iranians caught between their corrupt government and Israel’s ongoing attacks. An all-new The Weekly Show is available now.

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@squilkie.bsky.social Hello 💔 I’m reaching out with a heavy heart. My family in Gaza has been living in a tent with no essentials after losing our home and father. If you can help or just share, it could ease our pain. Thank you 🙏 Link in bio.

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We're not spectators to history, we're the makers of it. Join us on July 17 to Make Good Trouble Together & carry on John Lewis' legacy of fighting for justice & equality. #GoodTroubleLivesOn social.demcast.com/s/H9SVWZrf

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So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

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Miami just canceled its November election & pushed it to 2026. No public vote, just canceled. Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year. This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?

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I really enjoyed this conversation with @out5p0ken.bsky.social for her Substack. I hope you'll check it out.

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DESANTIS: “You’ll have an ability for food. You’ll have an ability to consult legal rights - if you have that.” History has seen this darkness before. But this is the first time it has been broadcast live.

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Politics is not a game. It's people's lives. The Government's welfare cuts will have a catastrophic impact on the sick & disabled, and plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. It's simple: show some humanity and drop this Bill, now.

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Wow! The pediatric death toll for the 2024-25 flu season keeps climbing. #CDC was informed of +3 deaths last week; they occurred between early Feb & mid April. The total is now 253 pediatric deaths (& more reports could still come). 90% of these kids weren't vaxed. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

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“The richest 1 percent of Americans would receive a total of $121 billion in net tax cuts in 2026. The middle 20 percent… would receive less than half that much: $56 billion.” https://trib.al/EP028Z2

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Be nice if more news agencies picked this up

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@squilkie.bsky.social How do I explain the sound of a bomb replacing a lullaby? Or the look in a starving child’s eyes? This is Gaza. This is my life now. I’m reaching out not just for support but for survival. Please help us, however you can.🙏🏻💔 bsky.app/profile/engo...

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Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports

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Planned Parenthood provides affordable: ➡ Cancer screening ➡ STD testing and treatment ➡ Prenatal support Today's decision from SCOTUS to allow SC to remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid means that people will be sicker and people will die. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court just declared open war on poor women. In Medina v. Planned Parenthood, the Court ruled states can defund Medicaid access to reproductive care. You’re broke? You don’t get healthcare. You get suffering. This is judicial violence.

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More relevant than ever.

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This man visited Apple’s flagship Barcelona store—exposed their matching of donations to the IDF, support for illegal settlements, and R&D in occupied Jerusalem. Apple is complicit in apartheid and systemic racism. We must hold them accountable and spread the truth. #Apple #BoycottApple #BDS #IOF

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Middle East crisis live: at least 21 in Gaza reported killed by Israeli gunfire and airstrikes

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Watch this. Because this is the way: Local officials using their platform right, reaching out to the community. Ambrocio “Enrique” Lozano, affectionately known as “the popsicle man,” was reportedly abducted in broad daylight in Culver City. Masked man. White van. Cart left behind in the street.

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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

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