🇸🇪🇺🇦 Sweden's Supreme Court has ruled to hand over the Russian shadow fleet vessel Caffa to Ukraine. The ship was used to illegally export grain out of occupied Sevastopol. Thank you Sweden!
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Nature lover, restore native plant environments, defend the vulnerable, when you adopt a pet they are yours for life, vote Blue in every single election local to federal, get all your vaccinations, 🚫DMs please
Probably not something Jesus would approve of. Maybe Republican Jesus, but not the dude from Nazareth.
Ernest Columbus Withers, Sr. (August 7, 1922 – October 15, 2007) was an African-American photojournalist. He documented over 60 years of African-American history in the segregated Southern United States, with iconic images of the (1/11) #blackphotographers #blacksky #addtoblacksky
Trafficking survivors are being deported despite legal safeguards. A 17-year-old trafficking survivor was ordered deported in July 2026. Judges face pressure to expedite cases, undermining children's rights. Executive control is shaping immigration court outcomes. This is sick.
$1.4B to deploy the National Guard into cities? On top of: -$1.5T for the Pentagon -$240B for ICE and CBP -$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet -$300M for Trump's ballroom -$100M for Trump's golf outings But nothing for working people.
Warren Decries $1.4 Billion Cost of Trump's National Guard Deployment in DC | Common Dreams
Cost of National Guard deployment in DC under Trump projected to reach $1.4 billion by 2029. Sen. Warren criticizes spen
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Over 1,700 dead from world’s fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak as WHO offers dire warning www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Over 1,700 dead from world’s fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak as WHO has dire warning
As of Monday, the outbreak has led to 3,874 confirmed cases and 1,751 deaths, according to the latest data from Congo’s Ministry of Health
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🚨BREAKING: Voting advocates filed a lawsuit Tuesday, asking a state court to quickly put a redistricting referendum on the November ballot as Missouri Republicans inch closer to thwarting voters’ efforts to block gerrymandered new voting maps. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri voting advocates sue after redistricting referendum rejected
Missouri voters have fought for nearly a year to put the gerrymander to a statewide referendum vote in November.
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⚡️Update: Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue. A massive Russian attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported Aug. 5.
Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue
A massive Russian ballistic missile and drone attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported overnight ...
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JD Vance takes a big dump on American colleges and universities and college graduates
A sweet little girl with autism brought her stuffed puppy to the dog show. One of the judges noticed her, came over, and asked if she’d like to show her dog too. What followed was pure magic. Original post
Trump's cruel immigration crackdown targets military families www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... #TheyHateTheTroops #Project2025 #WhiteNationalism #DHS #ICE #DoD #immigration #military #Blues
Trump’s cruel immigration crackdown targets military families
President Donald Trump’s racist anti-immigration policies are putting military families directly in the crosshairs and hurting the country’s ability to defend itself, a new report released on…
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Lawmakers from Oregon, California, Nevada, Minnesota, and New Hampshire specifically called out Polymarket, which hosted bets in January 2025 on the wildfires in Los Angeles.
Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets
Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.
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Butterflies are on the move because of climate change. You can help them. “A lot of impact can be made in your backyard,” he said. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/s...
Butterflies Take Flight in Face of Climate Change and Extreme Weather
In 32 of the countries included in a recent study, at least a quarter of the native butterfly species had moved to new areas.
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BREAKING - A federal judge has just ruled that 'Tower Dumps' are inherently unconstitutional. Story below, details on a case that was only unsealed because of our court motion. www.courtwatch.news/p/judge-rule...
Judge Rules Tower Dumps Search Inherently Unconstitutional
Docket and Opinion are only available because Court Watch successfully fought to unseal it.
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Animals never forget those who are kind and loving to them. Original post
JUST IN: Convicted Felon Donald Trump is scrambling on an emergency basis to try to convince a federal judge to block production to the BBC of financial documents for more than 400 of his business entities
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. This is what they wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
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Close-up videos show substantial destruction onsite of the Wildberries logistics center in Aleksin, Tula region, in Russia.
The fact that the Democratic senators are agreeing to a continuing resolution until Dec 11th with NO compromises for them is absolute political malpractice and head scratching. Why not even try to ban like…. The arch? Anything!
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
Moldy showers. Food shortages. A lack of toothpaste, deodorant and soap. Military families are sounding the alarm about rapidly worsening conditions on the USS Lincoln. From Priya Sridhar:
Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln
The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.
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JUST IN: Trump is scrambling to stop the BBC from digging into the finances of his business empire after a judge ordered him to hand over records in his $10B defamation lawsuit against the network.
Trump is making stuff up: "The radical left wants to ban a thing called gasoline"
Mainstream media isn’t talking about it, but bulldozers and construction crews have descended upon Texas’ Big Bend National Park as the Trump administration moves forward with its border barrier project. The project will permanently damage one of our nation’s greatest natural treasures.
This would amount to a complete capitulation from the US. Literally no way to even attempt to spin this as a win.
