CJ
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Washing road-sore hearts: no burden, but joy.
More than a dozen local law enforcement agencies across the country have used opioid settlement money to procure Flock cameras and other AI-powered automated license plate readers (ALPRs), an investigation by Mother Jones has found.
Police are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras
Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
motherjones.com
My friend's little child died unexpectedly today, a child I have known since she was born. I feel like the whole day is in crystalline clarity - every word and action I've taken today made sharp as glass. I have held that baby, read to her, dangled her, chased her around her home. It is impossible.
An ICE Air flight (325-seat) is scheduled to depart Ft. Worth, TX for Senegal at 5:40pm local time today. Based on info from attorneys, we’re monitoring this flight for forced third country transfers to Central African Republic (CAR) and possibly other countries in the region.
Fighting for voting rights for all Americans! The current administration wants to take voting rights from women! Fuck that shit!
Many things are pulling at a lot of us right now but we need each other. Self-care is important because we have work to do to take our democratic republic back from the fascists who are intent on destroying it. Grab a few friends and recharge your batteries. #StrongerTogether 👊
BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment when it used security-related justification to revoke the legal status of students who expressed views it didn't like. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“A review of meeting minutes, local reporting, state opioid expenditure disclosures, and invoices obtained via public records requests reveals that at least twelve sheriffs’ offices and police departments have since 2024 spent their opioid funds on Flock cameras.”
Police are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras
Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
motherjones.com
ICE ripped 50,000 human beings from their homes and disappeared them into cages last month. 50,000 empty dinner tables. 50,000 cold beds. State-sponsored terror disguised as policy. Silence is complicity. We cannot look away. Fight back.
Somewhere in the middle of the ocean, a sailor who couldn't call a lawyer, couldn't fly home, couldn't do anything—hit post. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-came...
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
404media.co
1/ The GOP Senate Leadership Fund got caught running a fake news site to pin a South Carolina murder on former Governor Roy Cooper. That same operation runs five more fake local sites in swing states. The party of liars is rolling out their slate of lies. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
Gov. Sanders stiff-arms Ch. 7 when it asks questions about Mike Hagar's stewardship of Arkansas State Police & refusal to publicly meet with Black legislators; repeats same non-answer answer over and over. #arpx #arnews #arleg buff.ly/c11xfhU
I just witnessed an ICE abduction in N Seattle, after following several black SUV's traveling almost double the speed limit I followed them to The Crown Inn where they stopped a man in a white work truck and abducted him I tried to raise the attention of cars and bystanders but most ignored me
How is this not bigger news? Armed agents entering a tribal nation without authorization and very much opposed by the tribe. www.kvoa.com/video/armed-...
Armed CBP agents, border wall contractors enter Tohono O'odham Nation
Armed federal agents and border wall contractors entered Tohono O'odham Nation land without authorization Wednesday morning, according to the Tohono O'odham Nation Office of the Chairman and Vice Chai...
kvoa.com
Border Patrol SWAT team blocks Arizona tribal police from trespassing border wall contractors azmirror.com/2026/08/26/b...
Border Patrol SWAT team blocks Arizona tribal police from trespassing border wall contractors
Around 20 "masked, armed" Border Patrol agents, including the agency SWAT team, blockaded Tohono O'odham police from issuing trespassing citations and removing border-wall construction workers
azmirror.com
www.americanprogress.org/article/weig...
Weighing Priorities: What U.S. Spending on the Iran War Could Fund Instead
The House of Representatives took the first step toward passing a bill that would provide the Trump administration $73 billion to fund its already costly war in Iran. That funding, if better allocated...
americanprogress.org
The amount the Trump regime has spent waging war on Iran could have... -Funded free school lunches for every child -Lowered health insurance premiums for 20 million people -Doubled the National Park Service budget -Fully funded public radio and television ...with money left over. Priorities.
What we can say with certainty is they wouldn’t have gotten measles if someone hadn’t given it to them. And no one would have given it to them if their communities had immunity as a result of vaccination. A great thing about the measles vaccine is that by protecting yourself, you protect others too.
Oz is claiming that the two measles deaths in Pennsylvania might have “had another condition that was already attacking them and they happened to get measles at the same time”. This implies that 1. It’s okay if kids with comorbidities die of measles. 2. That they would have died anyway so nbd.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoDr Oz: "I don't want anyone in America concerned inappropriately. We don't know exactly what happened in PAG yet. We don't know if the children died from measles or had another condition that was already attacking them and they happened to get measles at the same time. We lived this during covid."
WTF, 🤬🤬🤬 read this twice. “A judge dismissed a lawsuit from a civilian engineer in the Military Sealift Command after it was determined that her report of being raped in her own bed aboard a Navy transport ship was within her duties and must be treated as a workers’ comp claim.”
Lawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as worker’s comp issue
The order handed down this month closed an attempt by a civilian engineer to get justice for an assault she said threw her life into shambles.
stripes.com
4 days ago The Pentagon fired the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes. Yesterday they broke the story of Elsie Dominguez, a civilian engineer who was raped repeatedly by the Captain of a Navy ship she was on. They keep trying to silence the press & quash the truth. Elsie’s story must be told:
Lawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as worker’s comp issue
The order handed down this month closed an attempt by a civilian engineer to get justice for an assault she said threw her life into shambles.
stripes.com
The idea is to terrorize people critical of the government, in violation of the First Amendment. Much of what ICE does is not primarily motivated by immigration law enforcement at all.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 5d agoStopping this nightmare needs to be the highest priority of incoming Democrats after November
The Felon will always do what benefits his own interest.
Every. ICE. Agent. Is. A. Human. Trafficker. Every. ICE. Agent. Is. A. Kidnapper. Of. Children. Every. ICE. Agent. Is. The. Modern. Equivalent. Of. A. Concentration. Camp. Goon. Every. ICE. Agent. Needs. To. Face. Criminal. Prosecution. For. Human. Rights. Abuses. Abolish. ICE. Prosecute. ICE.
The state looks the other way, cutting taxes for the wealthy and subsidizing private education for families that don't need the help, but the rise in hunger does not sleep.
Survey: New food insecurity number nears 40% - Arkansas Times
A new survey shows that food insecurity is rising rapidly in the state.
arktimes.com
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
If you live in an area that has pockets of immigrants, and you think nothing is happening with ICE, you are probably wrong. I've been hearing about things happening EVERYWHERE right now.
