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So that’ll be nearly $1 billion between sale and operations for 1600 beds.
Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · 8h agoBreaking: CoreCivic has announced they've sold the 1,600 bed Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minn., to the U.S. through the Department of Homeland Security for $495.6 million. CoreCivic will still manage the facility, which is expected to start receiving ICE detainees this fall.
In a country with a president who is such a destructive sore loser, politicians who are both helpful and gracious in defeat is a greatly appreciated novelty.
Trump is trying to pull off a US-style version of the Tiananmen Square Massacre coverup where everyone in China who remembered what happened on June 4, 1989 knows *exactly* what they must not admit and is utterly terrified to speak the truth. I never imagined seeing such abject cowardice in the US.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) says he will vote against acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to serve in the role permanently, putting more pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to limit GOP defections on the high-profile nominee.
Fetterman to oppose Blanche’s nomination to head Justice Department
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) says he will vote against acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to serve in the role permanently, putting more pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune …
thehill.com
#BlueWaveIn90Days While Ken Paxton is out GRIFTING...abuse of power and a long history of corruption... James Talarico shows up at a DALLAS FOOD BANK and helps out Americans are struggling That's why TEXAS VOTE for JAMES TALARICO He'll fight for you Go to jamestalarico.com BLUE WAVE
From higher costs, to less access to health care and food assistance, Elon Musk's corrupting influence on our politics has had lasting effects on everyday Americans. He's the poster child for reforming our campaign finance system.
Musk Plans to Spend at Least $100 Million to Help Republicans in the Midterms
Elon Musk, a year after a huge blowup with President Trump and the Republican Party, is said to be planning to spend in at least eight states to help them in November.
nytimes.com
Yep, there's a reason that the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) changed its name to CoreCivic in 2016.
Ian B. Bautista@xicanodekcenmke.bsky.social · 5h agoThe name, CoreCivic sounds so wholesome, altruistic, and democratic. The reality is abusive, terroristic, and authoritarian. Those are OUR tax dollars. We should not invest them so horribly.
In New Jersey, we stand up for one another. Know your rights.
Republicans keep laughing about affordability but young people understand that what’s happening right now isn’t normal. I live by myself in a small apartment, I just paid $300 for my monthly electricity bill. The highest I paid under Biden was $60.
I agree. There's so much fraud in the system. medicarefraudsenator.com
Rick Scott: The $1.7 Billion Medicare Fraud CEO Who Became a Senator
How Rick Scott oversaw the largest Medicare fraud settlement in U.S. history at Columbia/HCA Healthcare, pleaded the Fifth 75 times, walked away with $350M+, and then got elected to public office.
medicarefraudsenator.com
NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
wired.com
Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
wired.com
Meta has made it repeatedly clear that one of their growth strategies is sexualizing kids. Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership team deserve to face personal liability for this, and the company deserves sanctions up to and including corporate dissolution
WIRED@wired.com · 9h agoOver the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.
SCHIFF: When Trump ran against Hillary Clinton, who won? CANDEUB: Um. Trump was certified as winner S: Did he in fact win? C: He was certified S: Do you have some doubt about if he won? C: I have no doubt he was certified S: When did it become so difficult to answer such a simple question?
What do you think would happen if "Democratic Socialist" was replaced with "FDR Democrat"?
Trump’s recent Saudi nuclear deal puts his use of the presidency for personal profit on full display. It will be up to the next Democratic-majority Congress to open investigations and make clear the consequences of compromising our national security for profit. More from Tom Malinowski:
Trump's Rare Feat in Iran
The president announced a deal framework that nearly everyone hates.
contrariannews.org
Every judge that is receiving a lifetime appointment here is signaling that they are pretty flexible when it comes to defending American democracy donmoynihan.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h agoBLUMENTHAL: Judge Cronan, you're already on the district court. Who won the 2020 election? CRONAN: Joseph Biden received the majority of electoral votes B: You have nothing to lose. You have a lifetime appointment, and yet you're unwilling to state the simple fact that Biden won the 2020 election
⚠️ Democrats in array: Schumer, Gillibrand, and Whitmer coalesce behind El-Sayed
U.S. Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez, whose wife was arrested by ICE in front of their 6-year-old daughter: "How can I even focus on my military career because I have to worry about how my wife is doing?"
🚀❗️🇺🇦 We will destroy ballistic missile launchers on the territory of the Russian Federation, — Zelensky at NSDC meeting
In the age of Donald Trump, Republicans have been reluctant to say that an alleged domestic abuser shouldn’t serve in Congress, @ashleyrparker.bsky.social reports.
Domestic-Abuse Allegations in the Age of Trump
Republicans have been slow to call for an Ohio congressman to end his reelection campaign.
bit.ly
LIVE: El-Sayed holds a briefing after Michigan US Senate primary win youtube.com/live/cp1evFQ...
LIVE: El-Sayed holds a briefing after Michigan Senate primary
YouTube video by Reuters
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Former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake just endorsed Jon Ossoff for Senate in Georgia. "Character matters. And I want someone in that seat who takes the institution seriously and will protect the institution."
Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake backs Jon Ossoff, saying ‘character matters’
The Arizona Republican has been one of the loudest critics of President Donald Trump. He says Ossoff's character outweighs any policy disagreements they might have.
ajc.com
Politics feels corrupt because it is. Billionaire mega-donors aren’t just buying yachts and jets — they’re buying power, and they’re using that power to rig our political system. jamestalarico.com/issue/corrup...
Look at Trump's serial failures, his obvious decline, the disastrous poll numbers for the GOP, the abysmal quality of their candidates, their complete absence of accomplishments, their betrayal of their base, the absence of post-Trump leaders emerging...and tell me the Dems are the ones w/problems.
The decisive failure of GOP referenda in Kansas Amendment 1 and Missouri Amendment 4 yesterday is yet another reminder of something I've been saying for a while: Voters, even Republican voters, now regularly despise and repudiate GOP attempts to use them to destroy democracy.
I fought Rudy Giuliani and Trump in 202 and learned an important lesson: They would lie in the parking lot but have to be more careful in court. Jeanine Pirro's dismissal of the bogus case against David Hearn is just the latest example of this.
