The democratic nominee in 2027 MUST promise to release these protesters: "In all, the Prairieland defendants drew a combined five and a half centuries in federal prison. They were largely found guilty due to mere proximity—being in the wrong place at the wrong time—and their political beliefs."

The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans

Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.

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The Unites States of Appalling: “The video is very disturbing, and we’re looking into it”...“Detained individuals have long complained about the quality of the water … We’ve heard of water being murky, tasting terrible, having unknown things in it.”

'Disturbing' video shows 'worm-like creatures' swimming in ICE detainees' drinking water

A video shared by attorneys shows a California ICE detainee holding up a water bottle crawling with "worm-like creatures" just weeks after a judge ordered the facility to fix its water problems.The fo...

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Science first warned of global climate change in 1938, see Guy Stewart Callendar. Science has shaped our world as profoundly as evolution, culture, beliefs. But only science just recently. But arguably, it is the most profound agent of change of them all..

Conold Tr*mp may not be the Anti-Christ, but he is most definitely the Anti-Earth:

‘Total chaos’: the biological wonderland threatened by Trump’s border wall

Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people

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The only killing that's more important than immigrants and Iranians to the GOP--The War on the Poor: 'In-home care for persons with illness and disability “often these are services that your family would typically have provided for you” – a program which “can be abused”, Oz said.'

RFK Jr pauses $1bn Medicaid funding to California and Minnesota

Trump’s health secretary says AI used to identify potential fraud in Democratic-run states

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The Tr*mp regime wants to end TPS for Haitians, on the premise it is a safe place to return to. It is not. "One day, she says, her closest friend refused to run an errand. Sara watched as gang members raped the 16-year-old, beat and killed her. Afterwards, they set her body on fire."

‘They said I had to kill him’: the Haiti gangs forcing children into a life of brutality

With the state shattered, armed gangs offer food, shelter and perilous safety to young people – but at a terrible cost

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Any creature on this Earth with eyes will look you right in yours. If it could speak human, and you asked "Are you sentient?" It would ask "Are you simple?"

Environmentalists decry Trump admin's changing of 'harm' in Endangered Species Act

The Trump administration made a change to the language of the Endangered Species Act that environmental groups are concerned will open protected habitats to development.

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Jeffries=DEATH: “Members of the center-left New Democrat Coalition, as well as Jewish lawmakers, said they were opposed,” the outlet reported. “Several members alleged that Republicans allowed Massie’s amendment to reach the floor because they hoped to divide Democrats on such a contentious issue.”

Progressive Caucus Leader Backs Amendment to Cut Off Billions in US Military Aid to Israel | Common Dreams

"The Israeli government committed war crimes in Gaza and helped drag America into war with Iran," said Rep. Greg Casar. "Americans should not be financing more weapons for Netanyahu."

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All presidents kill people, but this is new: 'President Donald Trump's has made "casual butchery of the innocent" a common occurrence in his administration, according to a new analysis from The i Paper, which further argued that his conduct is, in key ways, even more bloodthirsty than the mob.'

How Trump's love of murder has made the US government worse than the Mafia

President Donald Trump's has made "casual butchery of the innocent" a common occurrence in his administration, according to a new analysis from The i Paper, which further argued that his conduct is, i...

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On hell: 'one rarely sees tradwives over the age of 35 talking publicly about how much they love their marriages because they are often deeply unhappy..they are “keeping their heads down, gritting their teeth and waiting to die because that’s all there is left for them. That’s their only escape.”'

'Dead inside': Tradwives realize their horrible mistake too late

A new report reveals that tradwives — or women who willingly dedicate their entire lives to serving their husbands, usually for religious and political reasons — are starting to regret their decision....

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A method to the madness: "In essence, he’s [Vance] saying something like this: I might have written serious books and have a law degree from Yale but don’t worry, I hate the same people you do. And governmental malfeasance doesn’t rattle me."

Why does JD Vance keep saying loony things? | Margaret Sullivan

Scratch their surface and you see exactly what he’s trying to do: stand up strong for intolerance and corruption

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AI slop? Nope, Israel says Yep, it's real. They are proud of their cruelty. Damn proud.

Photo of abused Palestinian detainee causes anguish for two Gaza mothers

Disturbing image showing restrained detainee adds to agony of two mothers, each of whom is certain he is their son.

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The amphitheatre at My Old Kentucky Home S.P. in Bardstown KY, waiting for The Stephen Foster Story to start, performed annually since 1959. July 4th was his 200th birthday, as always free cupcakes at intermission. The person that has attended 50 times, and an Aussie, were gifted harmonicas.

Why Hakeem Jeffries and Co. are right to be shitting their pants: "Perhaps most importantly, Democratic voters are furious with their own party for not standing up more forcefully to Trump or showing more outward alarm at the threat to liberal democracy itself."

Democratic Voters Have Had Enough

Democratic voters are turning on party leaders as anger over Trump, Israel-Palestine, and elite impunity fuels a wave of primary upsets.

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Goddamn it: "The Trump administration does not have to reinstate materials related to climate change, immigration and slavery that it has removed from national parks, a US appeals court ruled on Thursday."

Trump administration can remove history and climate info from US parks, court says

In latest legal twist, appeals panel rules US does not have to reinstate signage on climate, immigration and slavery

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Someone protesting solo has a strength that a group, no matter the size, can not match.

From the couple of classes that took at university, one grad level, learned to take the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy with a grain. Philosophers are like lunks in a gym, but using gray matter instead of muscle. They care about winning the arm wrestling match, not about actual reality really.

One might find it helpful in understanding our current world to take this Janis Joplin quote and apply it to at least the last past couple of hundreds of years: "There is no tomorrow. It's all the same fucking day man."

Ukraine will be exporting weapons soon. Countries are openly making pleas on the world stage to the Ukrainians for assistance in defending their own countries. Queues for gas in Russia are making the 1970s energy crisis look quaint. Putin is scared of becoming Caesar in 44 BC. The US lost to Iran.

Hard to argue: "We're just screwed..it’s hard to draw any other conclusion as a civic matter after watching the American character degenerate over the last 10 years. In all likelihood, with respect to presidential corruption, we’re just screwed. Happy national birthday.”

Conservative slams Dems for not riding Trump's corruption harder

A conservative writer scolded Democrats on Thursday for not focusing on President Donald Trump’s unprecedented corruption in the months leading up to the November mid-terms.“For all intents and purpos...

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