FBI Director Kash Patel plans to gut the FBI after purging hundreds of agents who were deemed to be insufficiently loyal to President Donald Trump. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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Explicit Content Warning: The article below contains detailed discussions of severe institutional misconduct, including physical assault, sexual violence, and crimes against children involving federal law enforcement personnel.
This "diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy — the peaceful transfer of presidential power — to buckle," Judge Mehta
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
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Go NewMexico! If you win this, I will buy any book @katiephang.bsky.social publishes, and I will read it on a week long vacation in New Mexico, where I will spend good money!!
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 4h agoBREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 8h agoThe Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
We need to be posting this and demanding thru calls, his resignation as a lifelong criminal and convicted felon.
The Liberal BoJack@thelibbojack.bsky.social · yesterdayWhy is it not front page news on every major media outlet that the United States commander in chief had hundreds of his bank accounts frozen for money laundering??????
We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇
If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...
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ICE is crawling social media to find its critics, investigation reveals
ICE is crawling social media to find its critics, investigation reveals
The Department of Homeland Security has allegedly sent ‘hundreds’ of subpoenas to social media companies about users’ posts
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Ken Paxton failed to disclose he secretly purchased real estate worth millions of dollars in Hawaii, Florida, and Utah. Experts say this is a direct violation of Texas state ethics rules.
PITY THE NATION Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced Pity the nation whose breath is money And sleeps the sleep of the too well fed – Lawrence Ferlinghetti (after Khalil Gibran) (Full poem read by author here) youtu.be/lKCblAJtzgE
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Pity the Nation
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#ImpeachImprisonTrump #TrumpisaCriminal @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 24h agoPhang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
1/ 🧵 The Trump administration has spent over a year blaming immigrants for healthcare fraud. Well, blaming immigrants for everything. The government's own inspector general report tells a very different story, and immigrants are not mentioned in it once. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
Republican Senators are voting to confirm Trump’s lawyer to be AG when it just came out that Capital One shut down Trump’s accounts under suspicion of money laundering and Trump wants exemption from being investigated for tax fraud. THESE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS.
They are essential -- and the US Constitution guarantees the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. You can not have any of that if you are tethered to a job you hate because you need health insurance but even with that insurance you will eventually be saddled with enormous medical debt.
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Exactly this. They are liars, cheats and scammers who want to continue to enrich themselves after trump dies or leaves office.
4fuxake@blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 2d agoThe entire GOP are treasonous traitors who have stabbed America in the back!
“A few minutes of embarrassing CSPAN coverage, while the staffers themselves had to endure over two years of sexual harassment, is not comparable” Leaders of Democratic Women’s Caucus urge resignation - not censure - of Rep Chuck Edwards (R-NC) after ethics committee report
Minnesota! 📣 Ever think about what the $4.4 billion of federal taxpayer dollars spent on mass deportations could buy instead? We did. Wednesday, we're launching a tool that shows the economic tradeoffs of Trump's immigration + deportation assault on our communities. Get a peek here 👇
The cost of mass deportations in states like Minnesota—and what federal tax dollars could be funding instead
This week, EPI will release a new tool showing the cost of mass deportations to taxpayers in every U.S. city, county, and state. For the first time, the actual economic tradeoffs imposed on all taxpay...
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Reminder: Todd Blanche has… -Weaponized the DOJ to persecute Trump’s political foes -Purged hundreds of career DOJ lawyers -Botched the release of the Epstein files and ignored victims’ wishes He can’t be trusted and has no business being Attorney General. The Senate must reject him.
The dignity of James Baldwin is force of nature youtu.be/hcYTpKHsWpY?...
James Baldwin’s Prophetic Warning to America (1969) | The Dick Cavett Show
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Apple got a $2.2 billion tariff refund. Amazon got $600 million. Trump is sending the "refunds" to the companies, not working people. Every single cent of these refunds should go back to American consumers.
Real science. Real good.
Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 2d agoThe world of CRISPR is bursting open! Another application for CRISPR- To target mutated proteins that were previously deemed "undruggable" or difficult to target. This has been applied to treat HPV driven head & neck cancers. The goal is to take this to a clinical trial. 🧪 archive.today/n4QAc
An important warning from @meiselasb.bsky.social that the “sham document” Blanche’s advancement seems to rely upon showing the insurrectionist slush fund is *dead* is actually “unenforceable” @SenThomTillis @JohnCornyn
