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Executive Director, Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights. Co-author, Breaching the Mainstream. Old school anti-fascist. Hockey fan. he/him.

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Florida reports 21 cases of E.coli infections linked to raw milk The Florida Department of Health said on Monday that there have been 21 cases of Campylobacter and E. coli infections linked to drinking raw milk in the state, including six children under 10.

Paging RFK Jr, raw milk advocate and Trump’s Secretary of HHS…

Shiga toxin-producing E. coli and Campylobacter infections can cause diarrhea, vomiting and stomach cramps. In severe cases, they can cause kidney failure, which is of particular concern for children.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

05.08.2025 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 143    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5
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Project 2025 agenda is about halfway to completion in Trump’s first six months

Trump is nearly halfway through Project 2025 agenda in just the first six months of his presidency

05.08.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 181    πŸ” 127    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 16
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First images of ICE migrant detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas The El Paso Times has obtained the first aerial images of the Trump administration's new immigrant detention facility at Fort Bliss.

Here are the first areal photos of Trump's immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, El Paso. The first detainees started arriving on Friday.

Here is my quick rundown of what we know about the site.

05.08.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 282    πŸ” 214    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 34
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A β€œStriking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.

Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.

β€œThis is striking,” one doctor said. β€œThe trend is very clear.”

05.08.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3943    πŸ” 2116    πŸ’¬ 166    πŸ“Œ 157
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The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.

The Trump administration is undertaking an unprecedented strategy to try to undermine our elections. They are doing so by rewriting election rules, targeting election officials, supporting election deniers, and retreating from protecting voting rights. bit.ly/4l1lUPP

04.08.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 260    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 12

#Immigration #ICE

05.08.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is it. Freeze it in amber. Hang it in a museum. The ultimate expression of the NYT and the elite class behind it.

The utter moral failure of ceding power to Trump? Acceptable ... if it is done in a clever, savvy way!

05.08.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2761    πŸ” 689    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 28
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BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announces that he will pursue a court ruling declaring the seats of quorum-breaking Democrats as vacant. More to come.

Background:
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

05.08.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 259    πŸ” 114    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 39
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History of the Holocaust How Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party turned anti-Semitism into the Holocaust that killed six million Jews from 1933 to 1945.

How the Holocaust happened in plain sight

05.08.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Data vs. Doubt: Danish Scientist Responds to U.S. HHS Secretary Critique of Aluminum Vaccine Study Anders Hviid, August 3, 2025, Copenhagen In his opinion piece published August 1, 2025, on Trialsite News, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services raises a number of methodol...

Data vs. Doubt: Danish Scientist Responds to U.S. HHS Secretary Critique of Aluminum Vaccine Study: Secretary Kennedy was wrong. www.trialsitenews.com/a/data-vs.-d... 1/2

04.08.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

This wannabe Tim McVeigh had 24 grenades and the only reason his plans didn't come to fruition was his own cousin turning him in.

This is an escalation.

04.08.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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Man arrested for 'extremist' threats to kill Black, Jewish people with homemade explosive devices, records state Records show Henderson identified as a Nazi and white supremacist as he attended meetings with local Nazi groups. He also wanted to emulate Luigi Mangione's actions.

Nathan James Henderson, a Texas neo-Nazi, arrested for terroristic threats against Black, Jewish people and government officials.

Search warrant turned up weapons, explosives, and notebooks with plans to attack public events.

www.kens5.com/article/news...

04.08.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 8

It seems Marco and the Trump regime are making it impossible for regular people to enter the US. This is NOT the America where I was born and raised. This is NOT the America where I want my grandchildren to live. What about you? How will you resist?

04.08.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
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Tucker Carlson Rips Gen Z White Supremacist As 'Angry Gay Kid' While MAGA Beef Heats Up Far-right commentator Candace Owens also lashed out at the white nationalist influencer, saying he has "little boy insecurity."

The world’s on fire, but on the bright side, two of the most vile white supremacists are tearing each other apart. Small mercies.

04.08.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Brett Meador partnered with Vancouver, WA Calvary Chapel pastor Daniel Fusco to do the "PDX Crusade."

04.08.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scientists crack the case of the melting sea stars. It only took a decade Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade.

Researchers in Washington and British Columbia say they have solved a deadly ocean mystery that has stumped scientists for more than a decade.
The Trump administration wants to shut down the federal lab where the work took place and others like it.
www.kuow.org/stories/scie...

04.08.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Doctors left Idaho after abortion ban, study confirms β€’ Idaho Capital Sun Idaho lost more than a third of its practicing obstetrician doctors after the state’s near-total abortion ban took effect, a new study finds.

Idaho lost 35% of its obstetricians after the state passed its near-total abortion ban, new study shows. Nearly half of them moved to another state to continue practicing.

04.08.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3
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Donald Trump Has A Plan To Disrupt The Next Election β€” And It's Like Nothing Seen Before This time the call is coming from inside the White House β€” and that should scare you more than anything.

www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

04.08.2025 04:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels Chris Booth’s channel – rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism and racism – garnered 2.3m views and likely thousands of dollars from YouTube in about two months

New: I identified Johnathan Christopher (Chris) Booth as the man behind the openly neo-Nazi Shameless Sperg YouTube channel. He had gained 52,000 followers in just two months; YouTube shut the channel down after we contacted them for comment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

02.08.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1116    πŸ” 407    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 28
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Mark Zuckerberg is Out of Ideas | TechPolicy.Press Dave Karpf reflects on Zuckerberg's mini-manifesto on β€œPersonal Superintelligence" and what it says about the vision for the company.

Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg posted a new online mini-manifesto, titled β€œPersonal Superintelligence,” setting the direction for Meta’s AI program. The one strong prediction we can make right now is that the future of AI will be a gigantic mess, with huge social costs, writes Dave Karpf.

02.08.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 176    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5
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The DHS memo lays out the agenda for a July 21 meeting among top level officials from DHS and Defense Department. It was authored by Philip Hegseth (yes, he's Pete Hegseth's brother), a top adviser to DHS Sec Kristi Noem and liason to the Pentagon.

newrepublic.com/article/1987...

02.08.2025 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 847    πŸ” 297    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 17
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Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

02.08.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4156    πŸ” 2470    πŸ’¬ 273    πŸ“Œ 373
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A Teen Was Detained at Alligator Alcatraz. Could They Be the First of Many? It comes after weeks of uncertainty around how minors would fit into Florida's immigration crackdown.

new @teenvogue.com: Florida officials claimed they wouldn't hold minors in mosquito- and sewage-ridden Alligator Alcatraz, but a bombshell report in July found a 15-year-old was detained there in July. young people in Florida are afraid.

said one, "If it happens once, it’s going to happen again.”

01.08.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1446    πŸ” 683    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 35

To be fair, National Conservatism is becoming the glue binding together white nationalists, Christian nationalists, and tech neoreactionaries. As such, it deserves exposure for wanting to turn the US into Orban's Hungary, not this sort of elevation.

02.08.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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NY Times and Democracy Docket cover the same hearing. Notice the difference in framing.

This is why -- right now-- we need independent, pro-democracy media.

01.08.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6211    πŸ” 2193    πŸ’¬ 131    πŸ“Œ 92
Funding Crisis Leaves Defense Lawyers Working Without Pay The program that pays court-appointed private attorneys to represent indigent federal criminal defendants has run out of money, starting the clock on a painful three-month delay in paying these attorn...

1️⃣ From our own federal government's website: A "crisis" being caused by this administration that hits right at the heart of our constitutionally defined judicial system.

#judicialsystem #representation #constitutionalrights

01.08.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

Exactly. Klein isn’t a smart wonk, he just plays one on TV.

01.08.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β˜•οΈ It takes 3 armed, masked men to take down one of the more dangerous criminals on the streets of America: the tamale vendor. And, see that asshole on the side pulling a side arm? Those aren’t patriots and the vendor isn’t the criminal.

01.08.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1686    πŸ” 969    πŸ’¬ 198    πŸ“Œ 86

Don’t feel bad. You’re not alone. He is what was sold to all of us as a rare β€œsmart” policy wonk.

01.08.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
CORDER LIST: 606 U.S.)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025
24-109
24-110
ORDER IN PENDING CASES
LOUISIANA V. CALLAIS, PHILLIP, ET AL.
ROBINSON, PRESS, ET AL. V. CALLAIS, PHILLIP, ET AL.
The parties are directed to file supplemental briefs
addressing the following question raised on pages 36-38 of the
Brief for Appellees:
Whether the State's intentional creation of
a second majority-minority congressional district violates the
Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution.
Supplemental briefs for appellants are due on or before Wednesday,
August 27, 2025. Supplemental brief for appellees is due on or
before Wednesday, September 17, 2025. Reply briefs are due on or
before 2 p.m., Friday, October 3, 2025. The time to file amicus
curiae briefs is as provided for by this Court's Rule 37.3. Word
limits and cover colors for the briefs should correspond to the provisions of this Court's Rule 33.1(g) pertaining to briefs on the merits rather than to the provision pertaining to supplemental

CORDER LIST: 606 U.S.) FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025 24-109 24-110 ORDER IN PENDING CASES LOUISIANA V. CALLAIS, PHILLIP, ET AL. ROBINSON, PRESS, ET AL. V. CALLAIS, PHILLIP, ET AL. The parties are directed to file supplemental briefs addressing the following question raised on pages 36-38 of the Brief for Appellees: Whether the State's intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution. Supplemental briefs for appellants are due on or before Wednesday, August 27, 2025. Supplemental brief for appellees is due on or before Wednesday, September 17, 2025. Reply briefs are due on or before 2 p.m., Friday, October 3, 2025. The time to file amicus curiae briefs is as provided for by this Court's Rule 37.3. Word limits and cover colors for the briefs should correspond to the provisions of this Court's Rule 33.1(g) pertaining to briefs on the merits rather than to the provision pertaining to supplemental

😬The Supreme Court will consider whether the intentional creation of a majority-minority congressional district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments.

If the answer is yes, SCOTUS will effectively declare that what remains of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This is very, very ominous.

01.08.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3141    πŸ” 1376    πŸ’¬ 201    πŸ“Œ 262

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