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The Trump effect is everything he touches turns to shit. The corrolary is everything can get even shittier. Living on unceded xučyun (Huichin) Ohlone land,our colonization continues in Palestine. Free Palestine. Born at 315 ppm.

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.

Trump sued Capital One for “debanking” him over politics. Capital One’s response: our anti-money laundering team spent months reviewing your 300+ accounts and recommended closing them. Not vibes. Compliance. Great Substack here by Dean Blundell!⬇️⬇️ #USDemocracy open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

Trump Sued His Bank For Being “Woke.” The Bank Just Told The Court Its Money Laundering Team Closed His Accounts. Whoops.

Trump sad Capital One closed his bank accounts because they were woke "never Trumpers." New court documents say, "you were laundering money through 300 different accounts." WHOAH.

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What will the media companies who are publishing stories that Blanche agreed to a “deal” with Cornyn & Tillis to kill the slush fund write when people start getting paid with our tax dollars & this whole thing is revealed as a sham? Since they aren’t writing how it’s a sham now.

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...

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FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

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🚨Palestinian man Sheikh Farouk Ramadan, whom Israel labeled a “terrorist” after he defended... The footage undercuts the army’s claim that it “neutralized the terrorist who carried out the shooting attack,” as previously shared in a post by @ireallyhateyou.bsky.social account on X (@ireallyhateyou)

🚨 Palestinian man Sheikh Farouk Ramadan, whom Israel labeled a “terrorist” after he defended himself during a confrontation with armed settlers in the occupied West Bank village of Tel on Friday, was shot dead while unarmed, an analysis of four videos by +972 Magazine and Local Call found. 

The footage undercuts the army’s claim that it “neutralized the terrorist who carried out the shooting attack,” as previously shared in a post by 
@ireallyhateyou
 account on X (see reply).

Reconstructing the incident from the footage, the outlets lay out the following sequence:

🔸 Armed settlers from the nearby Havat Gilad outpost entered the Palestinian village, and one struck Ramadan with his rifle. Residents came out to repel them and a scuffle broke out.

🔸 Ramadan wrestled that rifle away and fired it during the melee. This is the moment Israel calls a “terror attack,” but the weapon was a settler’s, seized on the spot.
🔸 He was then filmed walking slowly toward soldiers, unarmed, with nothing in either hand, before dropping to the ground. He was shot dead there, possibly by a settler, minutes after the gun had left his hands.

The outlets note the army only located the weapon in a search after the incident, confirming Ramadan was not holding it when he was killed. 

Two Israelis and four Palestinians, including three of Ramadan’s relatives, were killed; Israeli media have reported the dead soldier (the second Israeli) was likely killed by friendly fire.Bild
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Video analysis unravels Israel's account of West Bank shooting By Oren Ziv @mekomit.bsky.social Read more: www.972mag.com/tel-palestin...

Fatima Ameaka followed all the rules and she still got scooped on a domestic flight, caged, shipped to another cage, and then released with a promise of trial. The labyrinthine paperwork system is already cruel, now it's punctuated with random kidnappings.

Johns Hopkins researcher Fatima Ameaka released from ICE custody

A public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University who was arrested by immigration officials while boarding a domestic flight has been released after spending multiple days in federal custody acro...

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A Drop Site report uncovered that Brad Parscale, a longtime advisor to Pres. Trump, & his company Clock Tower X have signed a $46.5M contract w/ the Israeli gov't to deploy “websites and content to deliver GPT framing results on GPT conversations.” The intent of the agreement is thus to influence...

A Drop Site report uncovered that Brad Parscale, a longtime advisor to President Donald Trump, and his company Clock Tower X have signed a $46.5 million contract with the Israeli government to deploy “websites and content to deliver GPT framing results on GPT conversations.” The intent of the agreement is thus to influence artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, tools like Claude or ChatGPT, to respond favorably to inquiries about the U.S.-Israeli relationship.

Parscale’s team recently told Axios they are “seeing success” at getting popular Al systems to incorporate information from their sites, though they declined to provide data.

Drop Site’s Julian Andreone pressed senators about this development and asked whether they see a conflict of interests, have national security concerns, or take objection to the corruption.

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Either Haley Stevens lacks Any self awareness or she hopes every voter is ignorant to her atrocious record. Either way, it’s indefensible. Vote Abdul El Sayed for US Senate in Michigan. ❤️✊🏽

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Israeli soldier blindly opens fire toward Syrian towns from land Israel illegally occupies. Video: Sahat English 🇵🇸 via X (@sahatenglish)

I don't understand Bernie Moreno at all. If you harmed a hair on my kids' heads, I would crawl through broken glass to beat your ass and care very little about the consequences. This guy can't even say that his daughter's attacker shouldn't run for reelection.