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"This isn’t just meant to stop liberals from engaging in anti-ICE activism. It’s meant to destroy trust among activists, who must now constantly worry about whether HSI has infiltrated them. It’s meant to drive out of public life anyone the administration disfavors." — @snipy.bsky.social

DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew

It's the stuff of East Germany.

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My take on explosive shits lettuce: put a damn restroom facility in the fields (doesn't matter which country) with soap and water, and let the workers take a damn bathroom break like humans.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Brooke Rollins on explosive shits lettuce: "Here's the bigger point -- this lettuce is all coming from Mexico"

Tom Vilsack, former Secy of Agriculture & former gov of Iowa, profiles Dr. Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born scientist whose Green Revolution transformed global agriculture, saving more than a billion lives from famine in this 250 to 250 from @hcrichardson.bsky.social& team. youtu.be/JF46O8BgTq0?...

Norman Borlaug, Narrated by Tom Vilsack

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

muellershewrote.com

We Americans live in a culture that wants to ban books/ideas but not guns. 1. Read 2. Vote 3. Don't let the bastards grind you down pen.org/banned-books...

Banned Books List 2025

What books are banned in 2025? Thousands of titles have been removed from public schools across the country.

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I pray that he lives long enough to face legal accountability for his crimes; that he will not depart this place before escaping consequences for the willful disregard he has spent 80 years showing for the laws of our land, for disparate humanity, and for the sacred platform he never deserved...

With every persecution of the LGBTQ community, every unprovoked attack on immigrants, every planet-wrecking salvo, every defense of a serial predator, every regressive civil rights assault, and every attempt at theocracy by these professed believers, the flight from Christianity rightly continues.

Christian Nationalists Are Mocking Jesus, Making Atheists, And Creating An Exodus From The Church

Growing up in the Church, I was taught that the worst thing one could be was a non-believer; that nothing was as tragic as a damned soul that condemned itself by rejecting God.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com

BARTIROMO: Slotkin says the SAVE America Act would make it harder for Democrats to win REP. GREG STEUBE: She's right

Video evidence of the thugs compromising the lining of the reflecting pool.

Stochastic Pacifist@kh-instability.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ya think?

Evidence has mounted that the supposed “gash” in the Reflecting Pool is... ...tire tracks Trump caused by insisting his many-ton presidential convoy drive on the pool’s fragile surface. Why? He was too lazy to walk. Per his own edict, he must now do 10 years in federal prison.

Never forget 😔

Meanwhile….

Are you ready? Some idiot actually DROVE on the bottom of the reflecting pool before it was refilled. Someone should look into that. There's video, I've seen it. [/s]

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Q: Will the fencing around the reflecting pool be down by July 4? TRUMP: Ready? Thugs

Fogo Azul Nyc! @fogoazulny.bsky.social

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 3mo ago

KNICKS IN FIVE KNICKS PRIDE BROOKLYN

GOP: "He's so upstanding he makes our guy look bad " The rest of us: Nah, your guy looks bad from every angle with or without comparison.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

REP. BRANDON GILL: This is a much more effeminate version of Beto O'Rourke ... this is somebody who is really obsessed with children ... I think of James Talarico as a barely straight version of Pete Buttigieg KAYLEIGH McENANY: We know Talarico has a longtime girlfriend and she's very beautiful

You know, I noticed a drop in gas prices timed with major June primaries. Probably "well timed" releases from reserves. Felt like manipulation.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Thune on the midterms: "When it comes to gas prices, I think most people, if they see the trajectory being one where everything is gonna change and get better and gas prices are gonna come down, I think that's what they're gonna make their decision based upon."

Blame the Republican Party, who laid down and let DOGE and Trump completely demolish the one solution we had to the screwworm plague.

*The New World Screwworm completes its life cycle in about 21 days on average. *DOGE axed the 1st line of defense monitoring programs in other countries. *Secretary Rollins blames Biden. A lack of accountability? A lack of knowledge? Possibly both.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

beyond parody -- Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins blames Biden for screwworm "I do think it's important to note that under the last administration not much had been done to push back"

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

Taxpayers bleed between $132,000 and $197,000 every single day to fund the private cages at Delaney Hall. When public funds turn a profit for private prison corporations, human suffering becomes a highly lucrative business model. We break down the math behind this wealth-extraction machine. (1/10)

Native plants feed native butterflies.

Boiling over those egghead billionaires?! So are we! Join us on overpasses across the nation on June 6 for #democracyday #visibilitybrigade Learn more: www.visibilitybrigade.com/democracy-day @trills4trump.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Probably the earliest, most random trajectory change came when my parents decided to skip me ahead a grade halfway through kindergarten. All the classmates I had, and friends and enemies I made, were possible based on that single change back in 1975. I wouldn't even have my college BFFs

Written by Uju ✍🏽@writtenbyuju.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What happened to you that changed the entire trajectory of your life?

NEW: After being asked to testify behind closed doors before Congress, Howard Lutnick made a $5M donation to House Republicans. After his testimony, Jim Comer said he was satisfied Lutnick was truthful. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Lutnick Donated $5 Million to House Republicans Before Epstein Testimony

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The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0

Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.

open.substack.com

Trump is negotiating to settle his lawsuit against his own IRS, and one of the remedies being floated (along with almost 2 billion dollars) is the IRS dropping all audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses. Just absolutely staggering corruption.

🐮💩 I found a station with the lowest price around, texted my kids, and by the time they got there the price had jumped 20 cents per gallon higher. How long before people can't afford to drive to work?

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Gas prices hit a new national high this morning. I don’t know what planet Tim Scott is on, but you can’t BS your way through people’s price struggles.