Part-owner Umi Hassan said she lived here right after 9/11 and didn’t feel as marginalized and fearful as she does today. She’s unable to sleep at night and carries her passport everywhere. Tears running down her face, she asked, “What else can I do to be an American?" --- So fucking awful.

#IA03 Republican incumbent Zach Nunn should be very worried today. The Polk County suburbs were crucial for Cindy Axne's wins in 2018 and 2020, and Polk County Dems are as well organized as I've ever seen. laurabelin.substack.com/p/four-takea...

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🧪A few more hours to go…

This is amazing journalism, and a heartbreaking story. Don’t read the comments if you want to retain your hope for humanity.

For their anti-immigrant, white nationalist post about 100 million deportations, DHS stole the artwork of a non-white foreigner: Japanese illustrator Hiroshi Nagai. Apparently no white Americans were available to design an image. View Nagai's work here: hiroshinagai.com/contents.html

My last gift link. Besides just being interesting and important, this is also a window into the utterly shambolic way this administration makes policy. Read it and weep.

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So, the actual Heritage Americans sued about the placement of an immigration facility in the Everglades and are now being punished by the Trump administration

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

There are only 45 million foreign-born people living in the United States right now, about half of whom are naturalized citizens. So this ridiculous edge-lord post by taxpayer-funded trolls is suggesting deporting 55 million native-born citizens.

Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.

An absolute must to read and ponder. Right through to the end. By Spencer Ackerman. "Weiss simply has no idea what it took to report this story, and even less about the value of what her reporter delivered. Ellison would not have installed someone who did." www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...

“many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers” is deep wisdom and you don’t need to reproduce to embrace it!

“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx.com in @gizmodo.com He’s always been this way.

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

THREAD: Verified videos of anti-establishment protests currently unfolding in Iran Protesters push back police and security forces on Tehran's Jomhouri Street. Location: maps.app.goo.gl/LKZH6YbnT2WE... @geoconfirmed.org

There is nothing inexplicable about why some histories are not widely known.

The revolution will be tacky af www.facebook.com/share/1DMgUM...

So many romance novels involve overcoming innumerable obstacles before first realizing that you actually like this person, and then actually getting together. This has obvious video game potential.

Good. Never think we can’t do anything.

We’re serial killers.

SMITH says he had evidence that Trump directly ordered alleged co-conspirators to call senators on the evening of Jan. 6 to try to continue delaying the vote ceritification. He also had evidence that Bannon said Trump was still "on fire" on evening of Jan. 6.

This from the party that ran ads saying Max Cleland, who lost three limbs in Vietnam, supported bin Laden. They have forfeited the right to complain about anyone else’s campaign tactics.

I zoomed around in a tunnel earlier today. It was built by the federal government, not Elon Musk, but still. 😏

Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I can. Everyone should read it.

Thread with excerpts.

Be Gone, Evil — Katie Aki

This is such a strange quote from a strange article. Paradigm B does not notice that Auschwitz was (in part) a DEATH CAMP. That is not a minor detail. Paradigm A seems to think that it would have made a difference to a man or woman in Auschwitz to have a rifle.

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From Jack Smith's intro... "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power." Anyone who witnessed 1/6/21 saw this.

Sheeeeiiiit

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

The entire reason they’re locked is to prevent weird freaks like this who have no right to be there from marching in and endangering the kids.

theyre storming kindergartens because there was literally no price to pay for calling in bomb threats to children’s hospitals in 2023…its only upside for them

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

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Gift link. It’s worse than you can imagine. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’m reading about Mississippi in the 1960s, and just encountered a member of that state’s Sovereignty Commission, a taxpayer-funded group dedicated to supporting segregation by any means necessary, including extensive spying on MS citizens. Forty years later, how do you think he justified this?

Thread. Cosign.

NIH funded this work—reflecting a surge in Alzheimer’s funding over the last 10-12 years. NIH is the primary funder for AD research.

Read the article. It’s truly beyond belief.

*blinks* The author of this astonishing screed has just left Harvard for Florida. I wish him well in his new bubble, in which I suppose people will just accept his claim that outside western civilization there is no civilization at all.

I think about this a lot

Guy convicted of felonies for falsifying his business records and then who pardoned many white collar criminals in return for millions of donations says he's sincerely concerned about what now?

Gen Mark Hertling: Professional behavior is discouraged when disagreement feels unsafe, missions aren’t clear, legal and ethical standards appear negotiable, allies question US reliability, and leaders appear more focused on politics. Check, check, check, check, check.

Isn’t the product supposed to be good for a while before the enshittification phase begins?