At the rate Ukrainians are taking out refineries, Russia will achieve its climate targets by December. kyivindependent.com/russia-to-be...

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Argentina cut a deal with China that undercuts American soybean farmers already crushed by Trump’s tariffs. Now Trump wants send $20 billion of YOUR tax dollars to bail out his political ally in Argentina. America First? More like Trump first.

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US. And nobody covered it. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that Trump loyalist Sigal Chattah has been unlawfully serving as Nevada’s U.S. Attorney since July. Chattah and her office are now barred from prosecuting cases — the second Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney disqualified within 2 months after Alina Habba in NJ.

WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

I understand bailing out farmers who suffered some sort of natural disaster or blight to their crops from a parasite, disease, etc. But that’s not what is happening. They can’t sell their abundant crops because of one man. Trump did it, he can pay the farmers out of his crypto.

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JUST NOW AT THE UN…

Kimmel’s forever ban lasted 0.30 Scaramuccis.

Good time to release the Epstein files

You know how fascism requires a smaller and smaller ingroup as it develops? Well so does neoliberalism. Palestinians, trans people, disabled people...they become acceptable losses who must be sacrificed to "save democracy." The only way to defeat fascism is to leave no one behind.

Thanks to Trump, 1 in 4 nursing homes could close. Community clinics are on the brink of shutting their doors. Hospitals, already filled to the brim with patients, are bracing for huge cuts. Promising research that offers the last hope for kids with cancer is shutting down.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Welp, time to win the shutdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tx5...

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

It’s abnormal to lose *a* person. It’s deliberate to lose *1,200+* people. This is not a paperwork problem or a clerical error. This is an apparatus designed to disappear people quickly. Why wouldn’t they do it to you? Who would stop them? Shut. It. Down.

It's a tough choice.

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Call me crazy, but I’m pretty sure that taking your medical advice from a conspiracy theorist, a tv doc and a reality gameshow host might just be a really fucking bad idea.

The RI offshore wind project can resume work.

I do think MAGA managed to make the Kirk assassination their 9/11 Not in the sense they wanted, but in the sense that they took their brief window of public sympathy and strip-mined it so totally that everyone hates them even more, now

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"Women are not [generally] permitted to wear pants ... Just four personal items are allowed on employees' desks, with maximum dimensions of 5 inches by 7 inches. One former staffer at Uline's headquarters recalled a coworker who was forced to remove several drawings done by his young child."

California bans most law enforcement including ICE from wearing masks bbc.com/news/article...

Preach it, sister! open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Apparently, the testimony of 40 minors was not enough to convince then U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta (later a Trump appointee) to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein. This is one of the biggest cover-ups of our generation. @oversightdemocrats.house.gov won't stop until the truth comes to light.

If a 5'2" king decreed no one is legitimately taller than 5'6" and anyone found engaging in 5'7" or taller behavior was an adherent of a dangerous ideology and an enemy of the state it would not change the nature of what he was about to do to tall people simply because he phrased it in a clever way.

FBI Readies New War on Trans People - Ken Klippenstein

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Dirty old judge. Same old America. The Charleston magistrate who called Dylann Roof’s family “victims” just got busted on child exploitation charges. They always tell on themselves. Always. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

"you're upper class and live in the white house" yeah well Skip Gates lived in Cambridge and got arrested in his own home for "looking like a prowler" so what the fuck do you think you're doing with that exactly

Today is the day of the special election to fill the seat of former MN State Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot by a right-wing extremist.

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

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For those who have not been following: you need to know about this.

Anyone who still thinks that the problem is the left, or even both sides, when the the vice president of the United States gives a speech like this, simply cannot be trusted.

Exactly. Stand up or be complicit. You don't have to understand trans issues. You don't have to debate them. You just need to loudly point out that they are people and they have a right to exist and live their lives and be free to be themselves, just like you.

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.