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I’ve seen the future of America: Blue urban areas: Non-white people being terrorized, arrested, put in concentration camps & disappeared Red rural areas: White people getting sick & dying at triple the rate they already are due to no hospitals/medical providers & their refusal to get vaccinated.

I’m not a huge Taylor fan, but my girls are. I saw that Charlie Kirk responded to her engagement to Travis Kelce by telling her to submit and be a good wife. She’s a billionaire. Travis is not. That tells you all you need to know. As a woman, you can never achieve enough success for them…

STEWART: “I feel like I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state by speaking out? I would say the opposite — they’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.”

The 2016 election was on November 8. Trump was declared the winner that night. And, two days later, on November 10, Obama welcomed Trump to the White House as president-elect. That's an, uh, interesting definition of a "coup" there. Most important here -- remember the Epstein Files?

Happy Caturday! #catsofbluesky #cats

It’s a cover up.

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

⚡️UK and Germany to sign historic mutual defense pact amid Russian aggression, Bloomberg reports. The agreement reflects growing concerns across Europe over Russian military aggression and doubts about U.S. commitment to NATO under President Donald Trump.

Do Markets Value Fed Independence? An Event Study.

Trump on Powell: “I was surprised he was appointed” (Trump appointed him)

I thought that Jan 6 would end Trump, or voting fraud, or a conviction, being impeached, the 1 Million Americans he killed with Covid, the misogyny, raping women. Raping children. Nothing stops him. He can call this a hoax, but like everything else in his life, Donald Trump is guilty as sin.

Doctors live longer - unless they’re Black and/or female. #medsky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

@catgyoung.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A colleague’s husband (who uses fruit flies for his research) is now expressly forbidden from referring to sex-linked genetic variations as “male” and “female”. He can only refer to them as “male” and “non-male” (because “female” is woke, I guess). This obsession with sex/gender is weird.

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Never forget that they sent 2,700 Marines to stop protesters in Los Angeles but sent ZERO to Texas to help find 180+ missing people.

"Adolf Hitler, pursuing a ruthless campaign for a 'Nasified' and loyal Germany, armed himself today with the power to cancel citizenships and and confiscate the property of critical or hostile citizens, including Germans living abroad." United Press July 16, 1933

BrO Just Nailed it. Wait for it... 😅 #dog #dogday #bluesky

I love Jess Piper. Insert “Iowa” when you hear “Missouri”. #iowa

“Yes! Yes, I see it! Friday, you’re almost here. You can make it!” #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky #photography

The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Two moments in time, two vastly different outcomes. Hope then, fear now. But we are resilient, and the American people will not forget what Donald Trump and most congressional Republicans took from the working class and low income Americans, to give to the wealthiest. op: thedemocrats (via IG)

Nauseating. And effective.

Alternate headline: Zach Nunn is worried he's going to lose in #IA03 and is looking for an escape hatch. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

What better time could there be for a prime minister of Israel to recommend a president of the United States for the Nobel Peace Prize

Donald is currently laser-focused on the flooding deaths in Texas and taking care of the survivors.

Terrific thread from the congressman here:

Reached an actual person at #MMM's office via capital switchboard 202-224-3121. Easy, just say Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks when prompted. #iowa #ia-01 #killthebill

What a disgusting person. Crooked and evil. ProPublica finds that Noem hid $80,000 in income she diverted from her own PAC. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

💯 Relied on this study for a piece on HPR about the potential impacts of mass deportation on Hawai'i: Nationally, 19.1% of CNAs working in nursing homes during the pandemic were foreign born. In Hawai'i, it's 70%. Also, a higher share of immigrant CNAs was associated with better patient care.

Just a reminder the mainstream news has all but memory holed this incredibly violent political assassination of a leader & her spouse, which was almost multiple political assassinations if the attacker had not been delayed by several Democratic reps not being home & 2 other people he shot surviving.

Allowing immigration agents to identify people using face recognition technology, which is notoriously biased and unreliable, is a recipe for disaster. Congress must put an end to this dangerous practice.

List of ALL 100 U.S. Senators DC Contact Information: Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville 202-224-4124 Senator Katie Boyd Britt 202-224-5744 Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski 202-224-6665 Senator Dan Sullivan 202-224-3004 Arizona Senator Mark Kelly 202-224-2235 Senator Ruben Gallego 202-224-4521 1/17

Ryan’s statement makes clear that the fed government had threatened to withhold unrelated university funding & student visas in order to coerce his resignation All individual university leaders now have targets on their backs

BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.

The budget bill contains tens of billions to fund an army of 10,000 more ICE agents. This is a red alert moment for our democracy.

We are living in precarious times.

Thought the first vote was at 4 pm We are here and ready to rumble (as in make the case about how bad this bill is). 4 T in debt, 100 B more in Medicaid cuts. Pretty lonely on the other side right now.

As an experienced rural organizer, these are the three things I would talk about on repeat in rural communities: Medicaid and schools and jobs. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

National Association of Building Trades says the Big Ugly Bill will cost 1.75 MILLION JOBS in the trades.

EviCore markets itself to insurers by promising a 3-to-1 return on investment — that is, for every $1 spent on EviCore, the insurer would pay out $3 less on medical care and other costs. (Published Oct. 2024)

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

Mark and Melissa lie peacefully at the center of our state and our hearts today. Their memorial, guarded by service dogs and men and women in uniform, casts a momentary shadow over L'Étoile du Nord as we honor their life’s work to make Minnesota shine brighter for all.

How do they get away with this? The bill they passed cuts Medicaid by $793 BILLION. $793 BILLION. It's in the bill. They wrote it. Their own budget office says 10 million people will lose Medicaid coverage. Just wild.

More terrible news from SCOTUS.

"There were numerous malign examples [of AI content used to deceive voters] in last year’s American presidential election, prompting public warnings by officials at CISA, the Office of the DNI, and the FBI. Under Mr. Trump, the agencies have dismantled the teams that led those efforts." Gift link.

Thank your local stations for covering the people not just the politicians. As Rachel Maddow has said, the most important story of our time is not what the White House is doing but how the American people are responding. #weallaregoingtodie #iowa #siouxcity #ernst