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🚨BREAKING: Someone just projected this video onto a Las Vegas building ahead of the Super Bowl, dubbing it the "Pedo Bowl" and highlighting the men who dominate the Epstein files. Spoiler alert: Donald Trump, Howard Lutnick, and Steve Bannon are the MVP lineup nobody asked for.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Epstein took this photo at a 2015 dinner with Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and emailed it to himself. Further review shows the same photo displayed on Epstein’s credenza. While much of the image on the credenza had previously been obscured, this email now makes clear what it shows.

Union members, please start pushing your unions to push for universal basic income. We all need an unconditional floor and deserve a GDP dividend. Plus UBI would strengthen unions by functioning as a national strike fund for strikes of any duration, and even enable general strikes to be HUGE.

Reminder to look up behind and around before unlocking your phone and while viewing anything on it. We are being surveilled everywhere. Don’t make it easier for them.

More people than ever are using @signal.org to exchange information in large groups. But as groups grow, so does the risk to your messages’ privacy. Fortunately, there’s a lot you can do to use Signal groups more safely. Our security team shows you how.

This is a very, very bad decision from one of the two Reagan judges left on the Fifth Circuit, joined by one of the two most extreme Trump appointees on the court. And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...

LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations. The full story: lataco.com/lapd-arrests... By Izzy Ramirez

🧵The Forgotten Team USA On July 3, 1936, a month before the Nazi Olympics in Berlin, a group of American athletes boarded a ship bound for Europe. The US team included Black sprinters from Harlem, Jewish gymnasts from Manhattan, and a biracial boxer from Pittsburgh.

🧵The dam is bursting. Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland have all launched criminal investigations into potential human trafficking after the latest release of Epstein documents. Trump has to be nervous. Eastern Europe was one of his prime picking grounds for his trafficking model agency.

In case anyone is wondering why Trump posted that vile meme of the Obamas last night-- In the UK, Peter Mandelson is under criminal investigation for passing confidential government information to Epstein. French prosecutors just raided Musk's Paris offices over child abuse images. Plus...

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

School leaders play a critical role in protecting students when immigration enforcement shows up at school. Join NCYL for a webinar on practical guidance, policies, and lessons learned from districts across the country. 📅 Feb 12 | 2 PM ET Register here: bit.ly/ICEinSchools

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Independent journalists across Lane County — including Robert, whose photos Double Sided Media often publishes — report that they've been visited by the FBI in recent days, seeking identification of individuals from the anti-ICE protest at the Old Federal Building in #EugeneOR on Jan. 30.

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I guess @aguilar.house.gov is not getting an Indivisible endorsement. BTW, I live in his district and he lost my vote.

This and because of the child sexual abuse/trafficking, the kidnapping and disappearing of people, and the concentration camps.

I am not going to repost the vile and racist image that Trump posted last night of President & First Lady Obama because it is beyond disgusting. Trump is a vile racist as is every Republican that continues to support him. I don’t want to hear mumbling from Mike Johnson or stoic silence from Thune.

This is infuriating and heartbreaking. Politicians have failed us at the local, state, and federal levels; so much waste and ineffective leadership.

Supervisors also approved $105 million in reductions to other programs, including large cuts to street outreach teams, homelessness prevention programs and other supportive services. laist.com/news/housing...

this regime is unrelentingly evil

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto

We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. This is how he did it (published 2021):

Let's be real, DHS is not buying all these warehouses to create concentration camps for only "undocumented" immigrants-- it's for all POC, queer, disabled, resisters,... in the US.

AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

NEW: The Trump administration’s Department of Education has launched an investigation that could severely restrict college student voter registration and turnout programs nationwide. Read more 👇

🔔 Join us and the U.S. Journalist Assistance Network for a discussion on best practices for protecting data and devices for journalists, featuring Jen Nelson and FPF's Harlo Holmes, Martin Shelton, and @abigail-lp.bsky.social. 🗓️ Feb. 10, 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT RSVP: cpj.org/usjanpaneldata

Pay attention to Senators in the Republican Political Party attempting to move into Governor seats. Tommy Tuberville, Alabama. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee. Mace in S.C. There's a political restructuring in the south. Senators shifting to positions of control of state military forces, as governors.

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The result of a bloated budget and finding cruel ways to spend it.

🚨 Verified ICE in Mar Vista. 12010 Washington Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90066 Please alert your neighbors. cc: @lataco.bsky.social

look, i just don’t think someone who has voted to fund and build up ICE/CBP for years in the senate will be able to lead us out of this mess. and i do not think this is an unreasonable belief, given what we are seeing from the senate today

January saw the most layoffs to start the year since 2009. Hiring was also at the lowest level to start the year since 2009.

“Meet me in the parking lot” energy #Epstein

Major update: Epstein fall out explodes, as the dam breaks: World leaders apologize, top lawyers step down, and the Clintons call the GOP’s bluff. Meanwhile, more files show Trump and Musk connected to Epstein. All while horrible economic numbers are released this morning.

The SAVE Act won't help America's elections. Quite the opposite. The facts: over 20 million Americans don't have access to those documents and nearly 50% of Americans don't have a passport.

Days after covering a protest last week, I realized I had been shot with a new so-called "less-lethal" munition that the LAPD is using more commonly at protests: the FN303. This week, Chief McDonnell said that officers used the FN303 because a judge banned the LAPD from using 40mm launchers.

If you’re mad about the Washington Post layoffs (as you should be!), join the growing movement to BOYCOTT THE POST AND AMAZON!! (We’re also encouraging boycotts of Home Depot and Target!)

Trump admin memos set out a framework casting ordinary Americans as potential domestic terrorists. “And we’re starting to see how that’s playing out …with people placed into a government database on the basis of lawful activity.” - @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social

Almost halfway through @letsgomathias.bsky.social's new book "To Catch A Fascist", it's amazing. I stayed up til 3am reading this important history of today's modern antifascist movement. If you're looking for inspiration, or learning HOW you can help destroy fascist movements, pick this up!

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will not stop the use of California's new congressional maps in this year's midterm elections. The court rejected California Republicans' effort to stop the use of the new maps. There were no noted dissents and no opinion.

Amazing.

this is pretty wild. good argument for lockdown mode if your threat model is one where you might have your phone seized by the Feds: www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...