Ringo Burns
@ringoburns.bsky.social
Proud mom, exhausted nurse, fiercely independent, I believe in truth justice and the rule of law for the universe 🌎. Praying and fighting for the generations to come. 🙏🏻🗽💙👊🇺🇸
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Just a note that @jbendery.bsky.social is 100% worth following. Always finds stories like these that matter, and yet are a bit under the radar.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 3h agoFormer 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...
Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.
The hate. The disrespect of the planet and eachother.
www.npr.org/2026/08/05/n... We are about 3rd world country at this point. #USDemocracy
Appalachia's black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners' protections stall
Rates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.
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"The only thing truly impressive about Donald Trump is his skill at corruption." 🔥🔥🔥
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 2h agoThe New Republic’s Matt Ford on Trump selling early looks at his social posts, which often move markets: “The scheme is functionally no different than if he asked for giant burlap sacks of cash from Wall Street executives in exchange for reading his executive orders the day before they are issued.”
More than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops have been detained, and at least six have been deported, in President Donald Trump’s massive crackdown on immigration. 🧵 www.thedailybeast.com/ice-detains-...
New Ad: Gina Hinojosa, Dem TX Gov. candidate promising to rein in GOP leaders "who forgot who they serve." She plans to take on the corporate interests she says have been controlling the Texas GOP for far too long.
I am an Australian and I want Trump and his entire administration charged with treason. What about you?
Drumpf you are going to lose bigly in the midterms, will you do a runner?
A former attorney says Israeli authorities coerced the leader of Wisconsin's largest mosque into confessing to crimes and that the U.S. is wrongfully relying on those convictions to deport him.
US efforts to deport Palestinian mosque leader rely on coerced confessions, witness testifies
A former attorney says Israeli authorities coerced the leader of Wisconsin’s largest mosque into confessing to crimes and that the U.S. is wrongfully relying on those convictions to deport him.
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America’s ambassador to Italy has spent much of the summer hosting parties on his $450m superyacht. That has some critics questioning whether displays of fabulous wealth make for good diplomacy
In Italy, America does business on the ambassador’s yacht
A billionaire diplomat’s floating statecraft
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#AI #DataCenters #SkyrocketingEnergyBills #EnvironmentalDamage #WaterSupply #HugeOppositionToAI #NoisePollution #GovAbbott #Westlake #Texas #BuddhistMonastery www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Texas residents fume over proposal to put data center next to a Buddhist monastery
The backlash coincides with a directive from Gov. Greg Abbott ordering audits of all pending data center power grid connections across Texas
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They do this stuff right out in the open yet crucified Joe and hunter Biden for practically nothing
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to Donald Trump Jr. said it received at least $100 million from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration. (Published June)
An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...
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LIST: The pet-focused stores set to close after Tractor Supply announcement
LIST: The pet-focused stores set to close after Tractor Supply announcement
More than 70 stores across 17 states are expected to close in the coming weeks.
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