John Wesley Shipp

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Republicans spent years lecturing Democrats about “family values.” This poll says the lecture is over. Moral bankruptcy is not a dealbreaker for most Republican voters. And we can see it in the candidates they nominate and continue to support.

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A fair, dignified defense is the right of every New Yorker, not just those who can afford it. Congratulations to The Brooklyn Defender Services Union for reaching a tentative agreement and thank you to the public defenders who serve New Yorkers every day.

Brooklyn Defender Services ends strike with tentative agreement | amNewYork

The Brooklyn Defender Services Union reached a contract agreement that it said includes a set of economic and workplace gains including a higher wage floor,

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❗️🇺🇸 ‘Buy-cott’ boosts Memphis pizza shop after owner refuses to serve national guard - The Guardian “The city rallied behind Tamboli’s despite online boycott calls, as frustration grows over the Trump administration’s federal taskforce following multiple deaths”

ACTUAL Proper American scientific research is already on its last legs, Russell Wought's plan to base funding decisions purely on politics, rather than scientific grounds and/or the benefits to the world and humanity will put the final nails in the coffin. youtube.com/watch?v=2o1R...

Project 2025’s $1 Trillion "Spoils System": How Trump Plans to Corrupt American Science

YouTube video by Thom Hartmann Program

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The historical record shows a complex election with real controversies, legal challenges, foreign influence efforts, and administrative disputes. It does not establish a coordinated fraud scheme that courts or official reviews found changed the certified outcome. Joe Biden won! 10/10 #Pinks

"They are killing our neighbors in the streets, and no one in Washington seems prepared to hold them accountable." — NNU Executive Director Puneet Maharaj From Maine to Texas to Minnesota, nurses say: Abolish ICE!

National Nurses United condemns ICE murder in Maine

National Nurses United (NNU) is today condemning the latest murder by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, this time in Biddeford, Maine. NNU maintains that the only way forward on this ...

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🚨BREAKING: A Bush-appointed federal judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking access to West Virginia's unredacted voter registration list. The department is now 0-13 in its sweeping legal hunt for states' private voter data.

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Meta's data center contractor in Cheyenne, WY contaminated the city's reclaimed water system with a rare bacterium,before the facility has even opened. Goat Systems LLC dumped fill-and-flush wastewater with Cupriavidus gilardii into the sewer. Took 2 water plants offline for months. A #SheShed 🧵

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rar...

The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges.

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NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport

There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.

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