Old School Liberal 🇺🇸 🇸🇪 Its time to obliterate the Epstein Class.

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We are occupied by the Christian Taliban. Gilead is on the horizon. Do we have the will to stop them?

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.

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

It's not about one US Senate seat. It's about all of us together. It's about a belief that we can take our government back from the very people who want to monetize us at every turn. The fomentors of inequality. The drivers of war and genocide and apartheid. We get to decide.

🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

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So why isn't Fox news televising interviews of all the happy people who live near data centers so we can hear what a treat it is to live with the constant noise, lights, increased utility costs and non-existent new jobs?

At the start of the Civil War, there were 4 million people who were enslaved in the US. Families were separated so some members could be sold to plantations in other parts of the country, including children.

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"If you become a multimillionaire on a government salary and now own 15 homes on the public's dime, you should, then you should have to answer the public's questions." James Talarico re Ken Paxton

NEW: California’s top election official demanded DHS explain how it concluded that thousands of noncitizens may be registered to vote in the state. The department has not publicly disclosed its methodology or alleged that the people it flagged actually voted.

‘Serious doubts about the reliability of your data’: California bluntly challenges DHS over sweeping noncitizen voter claims

California has not provided its statewide voter registration list to DHS or any other federal agency. State law prohibits the disclosure of sensitive voter information, including Social Security numbe...

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The state has found some registered Texas voters were wrongly flagged as potential noncitizens. The secretary of state told counties to immediately reinstate any Texans who were removed from the voter roll despite showing DPS proof of citizenship. bit.ly/4yOsWzH

Texas finds some registered voters wrongly flagged as noncitizens

The secretary of state told counties to immediately reinstate any Texans who were removed from the voter roll despite showing DPS proof of citizenship.

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Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.