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Proud Californian. Feminist. Here for the democracy camaraderie 🩵 & fight against fascism.
“the boss wants this money" from @wsj.com, a deep dive into the extortion operation run out of the White House gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
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“The government hasn’t paid for any work performed since November, providers say, and in recent months has insisted it will only hand over the money in exchange for information about the children that the lawyers say is confidential.”
Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · 6d agoThe Trump administration has gone months without paying attorneys who represent unaccompanied immigrant children as part of a years-old, congressionally-funded effort. The latest in a series of temporary bridge contracts ends tomorrow, with no replacement in sight: www.huffpost.com/entry/unacco...
Trump traded GEO Group and CoreCivic stocks, two private prison corporations, nearly 30 times in 2025. GEO Group’s profits increased by 700% that year and CoreCivic raked in $650 million in ICE contracts — both benefiting Trump’s stock portfolio. Cashing in on his own cruelty.
Passed in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibited discrimination against individuals with disabilities & paved the way for inclusion in all aspects of public life. Today, we celebrate its 36th anniversary & recommit to protecting and advancing disability rights today and always. #ADA36
Imagine if it had been around during the Holocaust.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2w agoKalshi has created a market for users to bet on the number of migrants detained by ICE each day.
I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:
Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers.
Now they want to open a new for-profit Trump prison camp for children: apnews.com/article/ice-...
A new ICE facility could speed up deportations for families and kids
The Trump administration plans to open a 528-bed holding center for migrant families and unaccompanied children awaiting removal from the U.S., putting it next to a Louisiana airfield that has become ...
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A powerful message from 1945, from people who knew. We don't have "other people" in this country; we're all Americans. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnA1...
This World War II PSA Warned Us About Fascism
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Every American needs to be on high alert to Trump’s efforts to restrict voting before midterms. He is exploring every lever of power, from using USPS to withhold ballots to extorting Congress by holding FISA and housing bill hostage www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u...
Federal Judge Strikes Key Parts of Trump Order Restricting Mail Voting
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The President is holding hostage the most significant federal housing legislation we’ve seen in decades — canceling an opportunity to build more homes and drive your costs down in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. His ransom? Your right to vote.
Trinity Moravian Church, a politically diverse congregation in Winston-Salem, N. C., has been raising money to retire medical debt in the surrounding community.
These church members disagree on politics. Together they're wiping out medical debt
Trinity Moravian Church, a politically diverse congregation in Winston-Salem, N. C., has been raising money to retire medical debt in the surrounding community.
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SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on Kushner & Ivanka: “Now Albania's anti-corruption police are getting involved… do you think Jared Kushner would get special island-buying privileges if he weren't the President's son-in-law? And isn't he supposed to be doing diplomacy, not shady land deals?”
Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.
Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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ICE is already larger than the Marines. And Republicans in Washington are trying to give them even MORE money. What if we funded health care instead?
Additional funds for ICE: $70 billion Cost to end homelessness for nearly 8 years: $70 billion We don’t suffer from a poverty of resources. We suffer from a lack of moral imagination.
This administration has a simple agenda: Profit. For themselves and for their friends. No matter the cost. No matter the consequences for our country. They do not care about you. They only care about their own bottom line.
Today, the U.S. Senate passed legislation that unravels protections for the Boundary Waters watershed. The vote passed by 50-49. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/c...
Senate Votes to Allow Mining Near Minnesota Wilderness
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Yet HHS is shutting down all mRNA funding and research.
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛
🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today. That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings
The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.
5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds
Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined
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Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars: "As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don't support free speech. I'm not at liberty to say which. Let's just leave it at North Korea and CBS."
That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
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It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.
Weird they dragged in Hillary Clinton when there's another First Lady right there in the White House who actually knew Jeffrey Epstein.
It shouldn’t be harder for a woman to register to vote than a man…
