It really seems that his objective is to destroy our country.
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Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
According to a Trevor Project survey from last year, nearly 6 in 10 LGBTQ students experienced bullying over the last school year. Those who were bullied “reported significantly higher rates of attempting suicide in the past year than their peers,” the report noted.
The United States Department of Education will no longer collect data measuring harassment, bullying, or assaults of transgender or nonbinary students. “OCR determined that its costs outweighed its benefits,” the Education Department said in a statement.
Education Department Ends Federal Tracking of Bullying and Harassment of Trans Kids
The new policy also alters the definition of rape, excluding “gender identity” from a list of protected statuses.
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NEW: The DOJ hit a significant milestone — its 20th loss out of 20 in its sweeping legal effort to access state voter rolls after a judge dismissed its case against Colorado. The court ruled the department did not provide a sufficient justification for needing the rolls, as required by federal law.
Trump DOJ now 0 for 20 after judge dismisses Colorado voter roll lawsuit ‘with prejudice’
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is zero for 20 in its lawsuits seeking to obtain state voter rolls, after a federal judge dismissed its case against Colorado Monday.
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More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
A video circulating on social media shows a Russian drone hunting an unarmed civilian trading at a local market in Kherson's Central district around 6:45 a.m. Video: National Police / Telegram.
🚨 NEW: $36 million payment from ICE to GEO Group, for-profit prison company, on July 24 for detention services at Mesa Verde and Golden State ICE detention facility in California. ICE is a for-profit scheme paid for by taxpayers, using immigrants as commodities. www.quiverquant.com/news/Governm...
Government Contract Update: $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC | GEO Stock News
We just received data on a $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC. from the Department of Homeland Secur
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BREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Another detainee dies at controversial NYC-area ICE facility
Edwin Lopez Cornejo died Aug. 1, his family said. Cornejo's mother blamed her son's death on him not receiving medications needed to treat his diabetes.
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OK, small point here, but it’s almost certain he meant “parameters of a deal,” but he can’t spell and is very dumb, so he used “perimeters of a deal” and news orgs are just running with it like that’s a perfectly normal thing to say, which it absolutely is not. That’s not a thing anybody says.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 4d agoBREAKING: Trump pauses attacks on Iran, citing “perimeters of a deal” that would end Tehran’s “nuclear threat” and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...
Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation
A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...
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The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.
SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
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Literal communism with government control of the means of production
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 4d agoThe US government granted a permit to build a 211-mile road through Alaskan wilderness. In exchange, it gets a stake in a mining company. This is how the Trump administration is re-writing the rules of business. Read more: bloom.bg/3RBNlHv 📷: Emily Sullivan for Bloomberg Businessweek
An Israeli billionaire stole Guinea's iron ore worth trillions. www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
Beny Steinmetz: Mining tycoon in Swiss trial over Guinea deal
Billionaire Beny Steinmetz denies alleged corruption over a huge iron ore deal in Guinea.
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😳 “A law to sell [parts of] Argentina to the ultra-rich of the world *** On Aug 6, the Senate plans to vote on Milei's new bill, the Private Property Inviolability Law. If approved, tech tycoons like Peter Thiel will be able to keep the water, energy & climate of Patagonia” By F. Gomez, 7/31/26… 1/
If you care about children, please share this information: Trump's ICE thugs have separated over 145,000 U.S. citizen children from a parent & in at least 22,000 cases, both parents were detained. Trump is abusing hundreds of thousands of US citizen kids & tramautizing them!
The administration has detained 400,000 immigrants: What do we know about their children? | Brookings
With 400,000 immigrants detained by the administration, researchers examine what the data reveals about the children left behind and the policy implications for their well-being.
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𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚🚨 Prisciliano Trejo, aged 29 becomes the 50th person to die in #ICE custody. He was denied medical care until it was too late. His family was denied the ability to see him when he was finally sent to the hospital. This thread is one you must spend time on. We cannot ignore the atrocities!
Amazon was sued by consumers who accused the retailer of misrepresenting the environmental benefits of seafood sold on its platform. Consumers said labels like 'dolphin safe' and 'responsibly sourced' misled them into believing Amazon's seafood sourcing causes minimal harm to oceans reut.rs/4wCl9n4
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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How is Ken Paxton able to own at least 15 real estate properties worth around $9 million—including a $1 million property in Hawaii with an ocean view—on his government salary of $153,000 per year? Explain it to me like I’m five.
While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
ICE separated nursing mom from infant, toddler in Nashville, against its own rules, advocates say tennesseelookout.com/2026/07/31/i...
ICE separated nursing mom from infant, toddler in Nashville, against its own rules, advocates say • Tennessee Lookout
Human rights organizations seek the immediate release of a breastfeeding mother with a pending asylum claim, detained in May by ICE.
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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.
My sincere religious beliefs demand that we send people who defraud and lie under oath to prison.
tomwellborn3rd@wellborn.net · last wk.Kim Davis told the court under oath she'd made no transfers over two thousand dollars in five years. Deeds show she moved three parcels worth over four hundred thousand to family members eight months before that. She wants the martyrdom without the debt.