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I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

26.10.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 15074    πŸ” 3620    πŸ’¬ 547    πŸ“Œ 173

There he goes again

24.10.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5866    πŸ” 2340    πŸ’¬ 191    πŸ“Œ 66
Map showing the U.S. 2025 Billion-Dollar Weather & Climate Disasters and highlights wildfires and severe weather so far through June 2025. Graphic is produced by Climate Central.

Map showing the U.S. 2025 Billion-Dollar Weather & Climate Disasters and highlights wildfires and severe weather so far through June 2025. Graphic is produced by Climate Central.

πŸ“£ The "U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" data is back today through @climatecentral.org! And more soon!

➑️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.

22.10.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 189    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3
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Help me out here. When did Biden take office? Who was the FBI director on January 6th? Who appointed that FBI director?

12.10.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 6061    πŸ” 1550    πŸ’¬ 445    πŸ“Œ 109

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions β€” RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc β€” will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

28.09.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6950    πŸ” 1831    πŸ’¬ 178    πŸ“Œ 82
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1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

Thread πŸ‘‡

26.09.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 7533    πŸ” 3920    πŸ’¬ 745    πŸ“Œ 551

Government funding is the one card congressional Democrats have to play, and one they could and should use to push back against Trump's authoritarianism.

What's their big demand?

RFK Jr's resignation? Reforms in ICE? Stand down of National Guard?

NOPE.

"Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits"

17.09.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2676    πŸ” 804    πŸ’¬ 267    πŸ“Œ 226

In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.

13.09.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 22824    πŸ” 6074    πŸ’¬ 970    πŸ“Œ 316
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America was not founded on faith in Godβ€”it was founded on a godless Constitution that draws power from the people.

U.S. foreign policy should defend human rights, not elevate one religion above all others.

Propping up Christianity isn’t patriotismβ€”it’s theocracy.

05.09.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 610    πŸ” 160    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 12
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Humanity

A system that rips fathers from their families in immigration court is not justice; it’s cruelty. People can only take so much before heartbreak turns into resistance.

24.08.2025 04:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5149    πŸ” 1935    πŸ’¬ 188    πŸ“Œ 87
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More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C. Governors of three states β€”Β Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia β€”Β are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC β€” where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to β€œcombat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

17.08.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 8008    πŸ” 3442    πŸ’¬ 261    πŸ“Œ 233
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The Invention of β€œSesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

β€œSmall children from poor or middle-class families who watch β€˜Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

15.08.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 12489    πŸ” 3140    πŸ’¬ 281    πŸ“Œ 155
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I remember the worst day for crime in Washington D.C.'s history and whose fault it was.

11.08.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4000    πŸ” 1115    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 37
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How the DOE and EPA used and misused my research Elevating contrarian views while burying the actual science

Trump’s climate report β€œcherrypicks figures and parts of studies to support a preconceived narrative that minimizes the risk of climate change.” @hausfath.bsky.social knows: it was his research they twisted to fit their preconceived narrative. open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

03.08.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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If this is accurate, it is a new world record heat index (Dayrestan Airport, Iran). πŸ₯΅

31.07.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 12
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in β€œsweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➑️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

26.07.2025 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5596    πŸ” 2456    πŸ’¬ 190    πŸ“Œ 184
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I will continue to stand up for those that strengthen our country. Recognizing their dignity and worth is essential to a stronger, more prosperous future for us all.

op: thedadbriefs (via IG)

23.07.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 445    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 6
He Walked Right Into THIS
YouTube video by MoveOn He Walked Right Into THIS

youtube.com/shorts/eYmZX...

19.07.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 452    πŸ” 214    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 21
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32 Palestinians fatally shot trying to reach U.S. group's food distribution sites, Gaza authorities say The U.S. and Israel seek to replace the traditional U.N.-led aid distribution system in Gaza, asserting that Hamas militants siphon off supplies.

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat." Yet, hungry people desperate to reach a legitimate food distribution center are being fired upon and killed. The desperation of hunger is not a crime. This is not defense, it’s a humanitarian failure.

19.07.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

The rescission bill has passed the Senate. Once it passes the House, as expected, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's budget will be zeroed out for the first time since 1967, back when TV stations still broadcast in black and white.

17.07.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2572    πŸ” 1149    πŸ’¬ 178    πŸ“Œ 213
graphic showing increases in extreme precipitation across the continental US

graphic showing increases in extreme precipitation across the continental US

The National Climate Assessment may have been deleted but the planet keeps reminding us what it said

15.07.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 290    πŸ” 126    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3
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THIS is what courage looks like.Today, striking farmworkers bravely stood in front of cameras, the community, and the press, risking their jobs, safety, and future. To speak the truth. About the stolen wages. About the years of being unheard.
This is a movement. And today was a turning point.

15.07.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 21248    πŸ” 6270    πŸ’¬ 403    πŸ“Œ 326
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Hot air: the most extreme heatwaves are accelerating the fastest Tropical regions where heatwaves are already common will be hardest hit by this trend.

The frequency of the longest and most dangerous heatwaves is increasing as the planet warms

15.07.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 205    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1
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National Climate Assessment Interactive Atlas The Interactive Atlas of the 5th National Climate Assessment of the United States provides maps, data, and stories from the 5th Assessment.

*SIGH*...apparently the NCA5 website will not be archived by NOAA. But you can still easily access the PDF of the report from the NOAA Library. It's also linked in the NCA Atlas on an Esri server nca-atlas-nationalclimate.hub.arcgis.com

04.07.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

02.07.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 44120    πŸ” 15043    πŸ’¬ 1613    πŸ“Œ 974
Screen shot of interactive change in average annual temperature of the US from the Atlas of the 5th National Climate Assessment

Screen shot of interactive change in average annual temperature of the US from the Atlas of the 5th National Climate Assessment

Happy Monday! The interactive ATLAS and StoryMap of the 5th National Climate Assessment can still be reached on Esri servers at
nca-atlas-nationalclimate.hub.arcgis.com and
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0c8f...

NCA5 will soon be at www.ncei.noaa.gov/nca2023/ after NOAA finishes security scans
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30.06.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 157    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6
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If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.

20.06.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 25910    πŸ” 5774    πŸ’¬ 1357    πŸ“Œ 443
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These are the people that make America great πŸ‡²πŸ‡½πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

13.06.2025 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 36731    πŸ” 9515    πŸ’¬ 1227    πŸ“Œ 715
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MAGA kill children. Everyone involved with DOGE have the blood of hundreds of thousands on their hands. Murderers.

31.05.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1483    πŸ” 505    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 23
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It shouldn't have to be said but if you're law enforcement and you have to cover up your face while doing your job, you are not the good guys in this situation.

09.05.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4597    πŸ” 1213    πŸ’¬ 142    πŸ“Œ 68

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