Lost in the chatter about Todd Blanche and Trump's slush fund is the fact that anti-abortion Senators have demanded Blanche do a whole mess of things for them. The judiciary committee votes Tuesday morning. We're in the danger zone

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In the past month, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee have asked Todd Blanche to: *review DOJ's stance on the Comstock Act, a law antis claim bans all abortions *force FDA to end abortion pills via telehealth to settle a lawsuit *fan flames about abortions later in pregnancy this is all Bad News

Alex and the droogs insist they were only appreciating the architecture. AG Pirro is reinstating vandalism charges after Trump released this damning photo.

Gas is $3.89 in Iowa City today. Can't wait to get to HyVee and find out how much ground beef is.

goddamit -- the University of Iowa (completely controlled by the GOP) just cut TA budget by another 10% my son's a math grad student and he is practically foaming at the mouth about how many undergrads will be packed into these discussion sections fuck elon

🦠 That hearing was not about oversight or truth. Paul wanted to publicly humiliate Dr Fauci and punish a scientist whose real offense was standing between the American people and an administration that treated mass death as acceptable collateral damage during the COVID pandemic. Dr. Stacey Patton

Exactly! Let's make the midterms into a referendum on whether America wants terrorists attacking police getting paid by our tax dollars!

And the DEMS' 2026 midterms message is "Choose socialism"? "Medicare for all?" "Bomb Israel instead"? Or instead, maybe a message that appeals to 80% of Americans. Including rural Americans targeted for impoverishment! "Repeal the Big Beautiful Bill" youtu.be/LnaCe1ZMODA?...

Seven Reasons Why the Big Beautiful Bill Targets Rural America

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The Trump administration is quietly considering a rule change that could make it easier for polluters to build facilities with little to no notice to the public.

AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say

Rule would allow states to decide how much—if any—public input there can be.

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The US government took a half century to build a vaccination system that shielded children from certain infectious diseases. Its success depended on 2 fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them. Thanks to RFK, Jr, both are now in peril ...

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues

The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

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Josh Turek is fighting for affordable living, health care access, and a protected environment. He stands for public education and against school vouchers. His opponent is a Trump ally, beholden to MAGA donors. Support Josh Turek. https://app.sosha.ai/s/YqmuYnTR

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Epstein survivor Dani Bensky: You can’t say that you want to make sure sex offenders and sex traffickers are behind bars and then vote for him. Every vote for Blanche is really a vote against survivors. If Thom Tillis wants to call, I’m happy to talk to him. We’ve been trying to get in touch

🚨Folks check this out‼️This is the reason so many of us talk about voting all the way down the ballot. We don’t know how the vote would have turned out if these 154K voters would have voted down ballot, but I don’t think Cherie would have lost. Stay informed my friends. NC LFG!!

New ICE facility for kids will be run by a for-profit prison company that has reported deaths of two detainees since April at one of its facilities. And whether the company may be violating federal tax rules is “a valid question,” said a former IRS attorney. www.thequeenzone.com/a-private-pr...

A private prison company will run new ICE children's facility--and IRS pros have questions

A tax-exempt nonprofit tied to a private prison company will operate a new ICE facility in Louisiana, prompting questions from a former IRS expert.

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Urgent 🚨 #ICELawlessness is destroying families! Even the families of those who sacrifice everything for us like US Army soldier, Wilmer Trujillo who served in our military for 20 years. His wife, Arelys Barahona-Martinez was taken by ICE during an immigration check-in. Share their story! 🧵

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Judge You Harshly 🦋✌️🤟🖖🌈@judgeyouharshly.bsky.social · 2w ago

Taylor Farms is on sale at Whole Foods. You’ve got to be shitting me. 🫩

FLAG: Jim Jordan has sent a letter to Todd Blanche referring Jack Smith for criminal charges. Jordan claims "sufficient evidence exists for the DOJ to examine" whether Smith intentionally made false statements to Congress as a way to obstruct oversight. No such evidence exists.

Horrifying footage out of Madison, WI. Multiple officers tackle a man off his bike, swarm him on the street, and fire 3 shots at point-blank range while holding him down in the intersection. Executed in broad daylight. This isn't policing—it's state violence. Demand justice NOW!

‘Help us! ICE is here!’: Video shows woman detained at Denver airport while boarding Southwest flight mrf.lu/2tGfS

This is how every decent human looks at a war criminal. War Criminal, pedophile, rapist, thief, liar.... www.threads.com/@millesini/p...

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This is how every decent human looks at a war criminal.

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Since July 2025, at least *1.5 million kids* have lost access to SNAP, in part due to changes from the harmful Republican reconciliation law. This emergency will only continue to worsen without immediate congressional action to delay this cost shift for all states. www.cbpp.org/blog/number-...

Number of Children Receiving SNAP Continues to Drop Under Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law

In the 19 states with publicly available data or that have shared unpublished data, the harmful Republican reconciliation law has taken SNAP food assistance away from more than 1 million children...

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I don't understand the number of people who can't understand that when we move into an animal's habitat, we enter a symbolic agreement—we have a responsibility to share the land with them, and walk softly because we're guests in our relations territory. Thanks Seattle, you collectively get it 😍

nickforbrains 🏳️‍🌈@nickforbrains.bsky.social · 2w ago

Re: Jimothy. The thing people don’t maybe know about Seattle and western Washington is that we have lots and lots of raccoons and lots of us set out food for them and recognize the different ones. Jimothy is a special boy but we have a habit of taking care of trash pandas here.

#Michigan #Detroit Hundreds of people gathered Sunday for a Jeep ride through Detroit, joining a nationwide movement calling for an end to gun-violence. The event was created by Monica Murry in memory of her granddaughter, 18-year-old Keon'ne Tremble, who was fatally shot during a block party (1)

🧵The @newyorkermag.bsky.social has a devastating, in depth examination of the Camp East Montana detention center constructed at Fort Bliss near El Paso. The story focuses on several migrants held there, inclding Rey, who fled Cuba in the 90s on a raft fashioned from a truck tire.

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Michael Scott's Disgusted 'Ewww' Face

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Atomicvegan@atomicvegan.bsky.social · 2w ago

From Facebook, a thread: Where is your lettuce coming from. Meet Bruce Taylor, of Taylor Farms. This man makes huge contributions to Trump so his lettuce is never inspected. So far, this man has given us E. coli, and cyclospora. He does NOT allow his lettuce pickers to take bathroom breaks.

Cheating bioig time.

Secret Agent Number Six@designationsix.bsky.social · 3w ago

The same people who cry "election interference" are hiding a senator's dead body to keep their majority.

Jon Ossoff sums it up: “This is the cruelest & most arrogant group of people who ever ascended to high office - their cruelty & arrogance are only matched by their incompetence."

Fail to hold billionaires accountable and guess what? You end up eating shit.

lianelsie.bsky.social@lianelsie.bsky.social · 3w ago

Meet Bruce Taylor (Taylor Farms). He buys Trump favor so his lettuce skips inspection — giving us E. coli and cyclospora. His pickers can't use bathrooms. Kroger and Sysco lettuce? That's his. Most US restaurants serve it.

This is fascism in its most direct form. Silence criticism. The Nazis built the first concentration camps to silence the dissidents.

@debbie156@debbie156.bsky.social · 3w ago

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