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1 week ago, @qasimrashid.com "qasimrashid: Culture wars are the distraction. This is the cost." #government #politics #spending #congress #americans #immigration #war #tariffs #military #schoollunches #students #immigrants #transathletes #oligarchs

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...

Shell Reports Nearly $7 Billion Profit Amid ‘Unprecedented Disruption’ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/b...

www.bbc.com/news/videos/... Arrest him and throw him in jail. He needs a large fine and a re-education about endangered species.

Storm Season Is Here and the National Weather Service Is Short-Handed www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/c...

This is what leadership looks like, imo. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Meanwhile, in Sudan… www.bbc.com/news/article...

A new low, both for ICE and for Americans in general. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’m always amazed at how many people fail to understand this simple fact.

Prominent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA, Citing Trump’s Attack on Science www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/c...

My resignation letter

www.bbc.com/news/article... All of these women are heroes on every level.

Kristi Noem seems to be mistaking American citizens for her dog.

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#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

🚨🚨 Attention: ICE 🚨🚨

www.bbc.com/culture/arti... Time to reverse his cancellation.

Friends, I have one word to share with you today: COVFEFE

Covey tweeted that when a man shot 2 National Guard officers, Trump called it “a crime against our entire nation.” When a shooter shot up a school killing students and teachers, Trump said that we have to get over it.

www.bbc.com/news/article... So cool!

www.bbc.com/news/article... There are no words…

www.bbc.com/news/article... On our way to becoming an isolated, pariah state, thanks to Trump.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Further into fascism. Mussolini would approve.

www.bbc.com/news/article... A true legend has left us. RIP.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/27/s... “Despite these problems, since 2020, the hospital has spent more than $140,000 donating to state political committees, including campaign funds for Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch and Senate President Don Harmon, records show.”

www.bbc.com/news/article... Can’t have any inconvenient, embarrassing stats on how the economy is actually doing contradicting his imaginary numbers, now can we? #lunatocracy

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This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not. That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.

Unfortunately, that tracks.

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

www.bbc.com/news/in-pict... Never forget, please

Please do read this. Then follow it with @brittlestar.com's Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism.

Trump and his cronies claim they support immigration as long as it’s done legally. But today, thousands of Afghans in the U.S. lose their Temporary Protected Status. They’re here legally and would be targeted by the Taliban if they had to return home. The cruelty is the point.

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Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars who refuse to show their faces will arrest you because of the color of your skin or even because you spoke out against Trump. And Republicans in Congress just boosted their funding. Call it what it is. It's fascism.

72% of people swept up in Trump’s immigration raids have no criminal record. That includes at least 250 people detained in deplorable conditions in his “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida. This was never about targeting criminals. It was always about terrorizing immigrants.

My favorite part of this interview was when Varney asks Dr. Oz if 11 million people will lose their health insurance, and Oz says no, because "the numbers are often offered by economists who look at numbers." He then adds, "This is really a psychology question." OK! www.jezebel.com/dr-oz-brings...

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... If you read just one thing today, read this article. It will make clear for you exactly how screwed over we the not-rich of the world are.

Very cool that cis people can just access hormones willy nilly but trans people have to jump through a million hoops to get the same exact treatment

Concentration camp jobs posted on Indeed. I wonder if they’ll start advertising that the uniforms are being made by Hugo Boss: www.indeed.com/cmp/Critical...