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Veterans slam new VA rule for determining disability ratings The new rule states that a disability level must be based on how well a veteran functions while on medication and not on the underlying impairment.

As expected, MAGA is coming after disability benefits for combat veterans.

Here's just one example of the rule's impact: Veterans taking anti-depressants for PTSD will be forced to stop taking the medication in order to retain their disability payments.

Crypto-Funded Human Trafficking Is Exploding The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.

Crypto transactions for human trafficking—both forced laborers in scam compounds and sex trafficking—grew by at least 85% in 2025. Now measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Almost all these deals are being carried out on Chinese-language Telegram channels. www.wired.com/story/crypto...

“The Republicans know that they can't win unless they cheat, and that is exactly what they’re trying to do in Fulton County.”

Trump is building a national voting database, possibly to disenfranchise Democrats.

The FBI could sieze Ballots before they're counted.

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

FBI’s Fulton County raid may have been illegal, legal experts warn. But it definitely raises fears for 2026 'This is a test run for 2026... Trump could try to seize voting machines or otherwise interfere with state ballot tabulation processes in swing districts around the country.'

The FBI’s unprecedented seizure of 2020 election ballots and records in Fulton County, Georgia has election experts raising red flags for 2026.

One expert warns the raid was a possible test run for future midterm interference in swing districts.

ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.

"Four hours after his arrest, he was taken to a hospital emergency room in Edina with swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain..."

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Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance's America

This visual goes well with the post from @timothysnyder open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

The cruelty, the inhumanity is too much.

I’m sick of MSM using the term “self-deportation.”

There is no such thing as “self-deportation.”

There is “fleeing persecution.”

There is “being driven from one’s home.”

There is “escaping with one’s life.”

But there is no “self-deportation.”

Language counts.

#ICElawlessness

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

Yeah hey JD remember that? What ever happened with that?

DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range.

And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.

We see, know the right from wrong, are cataloguing, & can’t wait to see wrongdoers held accountable…

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

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Taking the day off tomorrow to participate in the General Strike in solidarity with MN.

No Work. No School. No Shopping.

Anyone else?

She’s saying “help me, please, my kids, I’m at the car.” Party claiming “family values” that wants moms home caring for their kids, physically grabs and scares a mom with young kids (their age? safe to be alone for more than a few minutes? watching this crying?). Another way to help: warm up cars.

Remember these ghouls crying about how remote learning will mess our kids up during a pandemic.

In addition to all the above, MN also borders our neighbors to the north. Amassing US military troops (moved inward from Alaska) along the northern border is also disconcerting.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Second man shares horrific story of being blinded by officers at anti-ICE rally in Santa Ana A second man says he was blinded by ICE agents shooting a projectile at a protest in Santa Ana. Britain Rodriguez, 31, a resident of Orange County, said he was standing at the bottom of a set up steps when federal officers above opened fire, hitting him in the eye.

Second man shares horrific story of being blinded by officers at anti-ICE rally in Santa Ana

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche calls what is happening in Minneapolis an “insurrection” and threatens to go after Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey over their “terrorism.”

Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account in Qatar. Nothing to see here. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

It seems as though ICE has been instructed to escalate the violence to justify more violence, and to create propaganda to make us forget we outnumber them 10,000 to 1.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

For my fellow MA residents: www.lucemass.org

How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler As Secretary of State, the President’s onetime foe now offers him lavish displays of public praise—and will execute his agenda in Venezuela and around the globe.

“The one constant in Marco Rubio’s career is that he has betrayed every mentor and every principle he’s ever had in order to claim power for himself,” a political figure in Miami told Dexter Filkins. Read a new profile of Trump’s Secretary of State. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9lfrzE

This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.

F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents

Pam Bondi announces that the First Amendment no longer offers protections for journalists suspected of thought crimes against the regime. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...