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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does--Margaret Mead. "No cause was ever lost until someone gave up..." Anonymous MN Democrat SD52-CD2 Slava Ukraini
This loophole has everything to do with the glut of detention centers in America. They’re not going to stop at immigrants.
Sassy0210@sassy0210.bsky.social · yesterdayPrison slavery. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), roughly 800,000 of the nation's 1.2 million incarcerated individuals are prison laborers. ✅13th Amendment loophole-Abolishing slavery EXCEPT as a punishment for crime.
My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.
A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.
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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@jamestalarico.bsky.social for Texas US Senate gets it - under his opponent Ken Paxton and Gov. Abbott, data centers are running amok in TX. Talarico has a sensible plan to regulate data centers. Texas, he is the right choice for your next senator, not the corrupt, 15 home owning Paxton.
Every judge that is receiving a lifetime appointment here is signaling that they are pretty flexible when it comes to defending American democracy donmoynihan.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoBLUMENTHAL: Judge Cronan, you're already on the district court. Who won the 2020 election? CRONAN: Joseph Biden received the majority of electoral votes B: You have nothing to lose. You have a lifetime appointment, and yet you're unwilling to state the simple fact that Biden won the 2020 election
This sucks apnews.com/article/mili...
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
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ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.
In the 1950s we had 700 different chemicals in our food Today we have over 10,000 in our food In Europe, they only have 700 still today. Kelloggs makes the safer Canadian version and the American version. Two different options, same manufacturer. Americans have been sold out sadly.
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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Body camera footage obtained through court-ordered discovery has revealed federal immigration agents calling Latinos racial slurs during Operation At Large. Text message screenshots filed as exhibits contained conversations of agents exchanging locations of (cont.) www.notus.org/agencies/dhs...
Federal Judge Holds DHS in Contempt Over Immigration Agents’ Text Records
DHS must pay $500 a day until it turns over data from agents’ personal cellphones used in Operation At Large in Los Angeles last year.
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Wow! @menendez.house.gov says that the EXACT scenario I flagged two months ago, where ICE "releases" someone having a medical emergency solely so their death won't be recorded as occurring while in custody, happened last month at the infamous Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ.
Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · 21h agoDays before the death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo, ICE officials did not report the death of another man who’d been detained at Delaney Hall — because they had technically “released” him in the middle of a medical emergency, Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) alleged. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
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Federal officials recently started threatening to seek criminal charges against two elected county sheriffs who have declined to give immigration agents broad access to inmates subject to deportation. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
ICE Threatens Sheriffs In Chicago and Minneapolis With Prosecution Over Access to Inmates
In a new tactic, federal immigration officials recently started saying they would criminally charge the elected county sheriffs in Minneapolis and Chicago.
nytimes.com
New Mexico is suing the federal government for blocking their ability to investigate Epstein's crimes that took place at his ranch there. Pedophile protector Todd Blanche and his pedophile boss don't want them to see the evidence. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
New Mexico sues DOJ and Todd Blanche, alleging they blocked Epstein probe
The lawsuit was filed on the same day New Mexico is releasing a report of its preliminary findings from an ongoing probe into Epstein and his ranch in Stanley.
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The United States Treasury: An ATM for the Rich and Powerful
A day after CoreCivic announced it was reopening the long-shuttered private prison it owns in Appleton, Minn., the company said it was selling the facility to the federal government for almost half a billion dollars.
ICE buys empty Appleton, Minn., prison for immigration detention, raising tax questions
The sale was announced one day after the private prison said the 1,600-bed facility would reopen. The small town relies on property taxes from the facility for much of its budget, however, federal prisons are typically tax exempt.
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Sure, Democrats are not perfect and we have some bad apples. But sexual harassment and abuse of women has become an absolute epidemic among elected Republicans because it is the culture of the party under lifetime serial sexual harasser Donald Trump.
Every single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents
Klobuchar is going to put up Saddam numbers in November.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h agoEvery single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents
I wrote about how one of the central problems we have in the moment is that the wealthy have grown increasingly used to not facing accountability. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
The powerful keep escaping accountability. Here’s who enables them.
Philip Bump argues that political allies, investors and public cynicism allow wealthy and influential Americans to operate without accountability.
ctinsider.com
“The lawsuit alleges that Blanche and his department had “stonewalled” the state investigation that Torrez reopened in February after the 10,000-acre Zorro property was mentioned thousands of times in recent releases of the so-called Epstein files.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
New Mexico sues justice department for ‘stonewalling’ Epstein investigation
Filing by attorney general Raúl Torrez comes after DoJ appears to have ignored deadline for key Epstein ranch files
theguardian.com
They indicted an Olympian for damage their own contractor caused. 5 hours cuffed. National smear. Then dismissed “without prejudice” so they can do it again whenever they want. Prosecutors get immunity. Does this poor man even get an apology? #USDemocracy #RisingBlue apple.news/AEfSKoBgCSa2...
Opinion | How the former Olympian accused of Reflecting Pool vandalism could get justice — MS NOW
David Hearn has several options for recourse – but none of them are easy.
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1. the whole "disappointing night" thing is pure cope. El-Sayed beat the establishment candidate despite being outspent 10:1, that's an earthquake 2. primary polls are just not great and everyone needs to spend the next week going really, really hard for Peggy Flanagan
🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)
The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.
nytimes.com
Folks, Trump and his Republican enabler’s are going to try every trick in the book to cheat in the midterms just like they did in Tarrant County, TX where they tried to close half of the polling locations for the midterms. Stay loud📢 and focused👀 Lets get a #BlueWaveIn90Days
The police say that over the weekend, officers found the poles the cameras were mounted on had been cut down and the cameras were gone. Flock cameras are stirring controversy across the country as they compile license plate and other vehicle details in a national database.
Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras
The police say that over the weekend, officers found the poles the cameras were mounted on had been cut down and the cameras were gone. Flock cameras are stirring controversy across the country as the...
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