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There are no small acts of resistance. I swing at my right, if you get hit, you know why.
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ProPublica
25 days ago
Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570. (Published July with
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-private-lawyers-texas-cases?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1759974000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Secular Talk
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Will Creed be performing???
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NPR
29 days ago
JUST IN: Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting officers to open fire, DHS said. via
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Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side
Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/04/federal-agents-shoot-woman-they-say-boxed-in-authorities-in-brighton-park
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to Tomi Lauren: "I like your shoes"
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Cognitum
about 1 month ago
It's good we got this.
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‘Emergency’ World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland
The announcement comes in response to Trump's "militarization of our city."
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/10/emergency-world-naked-bike-ride-planned-in-portland.html
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The Intercept
about 1 month ago
If the U.S. military does confront drug cartels in Mexico, it will find itself facing battle with its own weapons.
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Trump Calls Cartel Members “Terrorists.” They’re Armed With Bullets From a U.S. Army Factory.
The president blames Mexico for the flow of drugs into the U.S. — while enabling the flow of guns into Mexico by slashing federal regulators.
https://interc.pt/3KxWyN1
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youtu.be/xIhdf1vWf2k?...
Sam is the final boss
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The Legend of Ethan Klein | Aamon Animations
YouTube video by Aamon Animations
https://youtu.be/xIhdf1vWf2k?si=JueB15HyIMnx64gU
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Raw Story
about 1 month ago
A proposed class action lawsuit filed on Tuesday in federal court states that a U.S. citizen has been illegally detained twice during sweeps targeting Latino construction workers in Alabama — and that federal agents refused to accept his documentation.
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Feds improperly arrested US citizen twice — and refused to accept his papers: lawsuit
A proposed class action lawsuit filed on Tuesday in federal court states that a U.S. citizen has been illegally detained twice during sweeps targeting Latino construction workers in Alabama — and that federal agents refused to accept his documentation.The suit names several Trump administration offi...
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!*
about 1 month ago
More than 450 lawsuits filed by people who say they were sexually assaulted as kids and teens in NYC juvenile detention centers have been tossed by a judge due to a 'flaw' in the City's law. Survivors are rallying right now at City Hall for the law to be fixed.
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Over 450 Claims of Sex Abuse of Teens in City Custody Thrown Out Due to 'Flaw' in City Council Law
The ruling could also end some Epstein sex-trafficking cases. Survivors are rallying Tuesday for the law to be amended.
https://hellgatenyc.com/sex-abuse-horizon-gmva-council-law-epstein
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NPR
about 1 month ago
JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."
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Trump defends use of U.S. military against 'enemy within'
Earlier, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the purpose of the department would exclusively be "war fighting."
https://n.pr/3IQZQKN
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You might’ve included the fact that he said to the military generals to be prepared to go to war on American citizens in blue states… Do better.
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Raw Story
about 1 month ago
President Donald Trump revealed that he had told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use inner cities as "training grounds" for war.
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Trump tells Hegseth to use inner cities as military 'training grounds' for war
President Donald Trump revealed that he had told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use inner cities as "training grounds" for war.In an unprecedented speech to top military brass on Tuesday, Trump said that American inner cities were "a big part of war now.""It seems that the ones that are run by th...
https://bit.ly/4nVIZFs
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Public Citizen
about 1 month ago
BREAKING: Supreme Court ruling allows the Trump admin to unilaterally refuse to spend $4B in congressionally appropriated foreign assistance funds. The ruling allows the admin to ignore Congress's power of the purse – in violation of fundamental separation of powers principles.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff
about 1 month ago
#WolffBites
: US GDP rises much faster than previously estimated. Might this be a dividend of Trumptistics - gov't statistics adjusted by Trump's preferred statisticians? The world wonders.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/e...
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The US economy grew at a 3.8% rate in the second quarter, significantly stronger than previously reported | CNN Business
The US economy’s comeback in the second quarter was just revised higher again, and economists estimate that momentum carried on in the third quarter, underscoring the resilience of the world’s largest...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/economy/us-gdp-q2-final
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Wake up people.
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CalMatters
about 1 month ago
LA Unified offers financial help and legal advice to immigrant families, among other services. The district has emerged as a national model.
https://cal.news/4gGOeGR
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The Lever
about 1 month ago
🚨NEWS: Trump's DOJ just abandoned the defense of anti-corruption laws in a JD Vance case aiming to expand Citizens United. To defend the law, the Supreme Court has appointed a former Roberts clerk who argued to limit the scope of anti-bribery laws.
www.levernews.com/citizens-unl...
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Citizens Unlimited: The Inside Plan To Deliver Citizens United 2.0
With regulators on the sidelines, a corporate litigator close to conservative Supreme Court justices is stepping in to defend a case that could unleash unlimited political spending.
https://www.levernews.com/citizens-unlimited-the-inside-plan-to-deliver-citizens-united-2-0/
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CNBC report is actually just a long form advertisement.
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Brian Tyler Cohen doesn't know if his Chorus platform is funded by Disney.
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An inconvenient truth.
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Stephen Schwartz
about 1 month ago
“A wide range of specialists in domestic and international law regulating the use of force have argued that Mr. Trump and Pete Hegseth … are giving the military illegal orders and causing Special Operations forces to deliberately target civilians … in violation of murder laws.”
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Trump Says U.S. Military Attacked a Third Suspected Drug Boat, Killing Three
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/politics/trump-boat-strike-drugs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU8.OvXD.0Lo-kIbkWSXm&smid=url-share
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Paul Eric Scannell
about 1 month ago
the Israeli occupation regime's vast stockpile of nuclear, biological and chemicals weapons continues to be publicly denied, though it's an open secret. The US gives them diplomatic cover for it, despite it being in violation of every international standard and law
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Dave Stanley
about 1 month ago
The Nazi Concentration Camps were not on their soil either. Action urged for 5 deported men held in Eswatini
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Action urged for 5 deported men held in Eswatini - The Boston Globe
https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=068a7984-2da1-4719-a27d-8351ed5a268d&appcode=BOSUAT&eguid=84983c02-3595-4a9b-b43e-cffef0e016b4&pnum=14#
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Jason Samuels
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Drop Site
about 1 month ago
🚨ACLED: 94% of Palestinians Killed Since March Are Civilians New data from ACLED, the UN- and Western-backed conflict tracker, shows Israel’s post-ceasefire campaign in Gaza has produced one of the highest civilian death rates of the war, with roughly 15 civilians killed for every fighter.
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EriKa KirK, I'm sure the three "k's" are just a coincidence...
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Ars Technica
about 2 months ago
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Right-wing political violence is more frequent, deadly than left-wing violence
Most domestic terrorists in the…
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/right-wing-political-violence-is-more-frequent-deadly-than-left-wing-violence/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=social
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I just saw an interview with
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Governor JB Pritzker
about 2 months ago
Trump's administration is surging federal officers in Chicago — not to improve public safety, but to create chaos. Officials came here for a few hours for publicity, then left without providing any answers or information. I'm asking you to join me in demanding answers.
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I just had a thought while using the bathroom, you should start reading news headlines on the timeline and call it "Braking News!™"
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Vynxx
about 2 months ago
Wtf is wrong with you, do you expect him to comment on every single act of violence in America? I don't see you writing about the LYNCHING OF TREY REED IN MISSISSIPPI.. Hmmm.. I wonder why? See how it's unreasonably dumb to say this when America is extremely violent?
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jackiefromtexas
about 2 months ago
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👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 Here it is, in a nutshell.
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Covering up atrocities in the name of ethno-religious power is exactly the same thing Nazi's did.
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Kat Abughazaleh
about 2 months ago
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
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Social Security Works
about 2 months ago
Scrapping the cap is a common-sense solution for protecting and expanding earned Social Security benefits through the rest of the century!
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NPR
about 2 months ago
The report issued Tuesday by experts commissioned by the United Nations' Human Rights Council calls on the international community to end the genocide and take steps to punish those responsible.
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A UN inquiry accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza, joining a rising chorus
The report issued Tuesday by experts commissioned by the United Nations' Human Rights Council calls on the international community to end the genocide and take steps to punish those responsible.
https://n.pr/4nuL4bd
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Taylor Lorenz
about 2 months ago
Thousands of X users have posted about Ali Nasrati, a 30 yr old IT tech for Walmart, claiming he made insensitive comments abt Charlie Kirk. But Nasrati has never posted about Kirk. Now, he's been suspended from work and forced into hiding. I wrote about people being falsely targeted by the right
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Conservatives Are Doxxing Innocent People Over Charlie Kirk
Right wing influencers are blasting people's names and personal details out to millions before ever verifying their claims.
https://www.usermag.co/p/conservatives-are-doxxing-innocent-people-over-charlie-kirk-ali-nasrati
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Joseph Cox
about 2 months ago
New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc
www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
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Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching
New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.
https://www.404media.co/airlines-sell-5-billion-plane-ticket-records-to-the-government-for-warrantless-searching/
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 2 months ago
An apology is insufficient. Everyone email
[email protected]
and tell them Kilmeade must be fired immediately.
#GoodTrouble
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Who wants in on the betting pool I'm starting on if Tyler Robinson uses the "I did it for the lulz 😆" defense?
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You wanna unravel a interesting thread? Look up who Trump sold his teen beauty pageant to, and then look up who that person's parents are.
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Traditionally Valhalla was reserved for warriors that died in armed combat, not for those who died debating college students from a comfy chair.
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Whether Underground
about 2 months ago
He was killed by a gun, while talking about mass shootings, while a school shooting was also taking place This is the America he advocated for - he just thought he was exempt from the implications
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Democracy Docket
about 2 months ago
BREAKING: The Missouri House GOP just gave preliminary approval to Gov. Kehoe’s mid-decade gerrymander AND a plan to gut the ballot initiative process. This anti-democratic agenda now heads to a full House vote.
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Missouri House Gives Preliminary Approval to GOP Gerrymander, Ballot Initiative Attack
Read more here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/missouri-house-gives-preliminary-approval-to-gop-gerrymander-ballot-initiative-attack/
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