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How can a civilized society ignore the torture of children?

How can good people let toddlers & babies be incarcerated &deprived of clean drinking water?

If you care, do something.

Start by calling Congress & telling friends about this. 202-224-3121

Consider getting involved:
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🔊 A strike on an Iranian girls’ elementary school may have been using outdated American targeting data. Listen now on the Reuters World News podcast reut.rs/4b6eeKx

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Trump is unhinged and truly desperate to stay out of prison. Per the WSJ: “President Trump has told aides he would back the killing of new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei if he proves unwilling to cede to U.S. demands, such as ending Iran’s nuclear development.” The initial attack on Iran appears to have killed every viable candidate that the US may have hoped would assume power. So now Trump’s plan is to kill the one Iran decided on. Do presidents generally advocate assassination in print? Trump got a war. Now he doesn’t have the slightest idea what to do with it. It seems he truly believed that the US could simply impose its will on smaller countries, getting in and out with little cost. But Iran is not Venezuela. And it is not anonymous boats that can be destroyed by an eye in the sky. This conflict couldn’t be any different. There’s no end in sight no matter how many hare-brained thoughts the president throws at it. There doesn’t seem to be an end even conceptualized. No base of popular support by we the people. Iran is bloodied but determined to keep on fighting. So now what? The spreading war in the Middle East is now threatening the ties between the region and the US that Trump has pushed since taking office. Reporting says that the rich countries in the Persian Gulf, who have pledged billions in US investment, are having second thoughts. A prominent Dubai businessman posted at Trump on social media: “Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war?” Trump had placed the Gulf states “at the heart of a danger they did not choose,” he wrote. The NYT warned that tech giants like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Oracle, who were investing in large-scale facilities across the Middle East with an eye to making the region a global center for AI, are questioning the security of such investments. Trump is steadily tanking numbers on all the issues that used to be what the GOP considered their strengths—the economy, immigration, and national security. Meanwhile, the DOJ is still withholding some Epstein files of FBI interviews pertaining to a credible accusation of sexual abuse of a minor against our president. Why? He has also become so desperate to force the GOP Congress to limit voting before the 2026 midterms that he took to social media to threaten you. He said that unless the Senate weakens the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act over the objections of Democrats, “I, as President, will not sign other Bills until this is passed, AND NOT THE WATERED DOWN VERSION—GO FOR THE GOLD: MUST SHOW VOTER I.D. & PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP: NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS EXCEPT FOR MILITARY—ILLNESS, DISABILITY, TRAVEL: NO MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS: NO TRANSGENDER MUTILATION FOR CHILDREN! DO NOT FAIL!!!” This is the guy the GOP gave it all to. Along with the health, wealth, safety, and security of America. Good luck.

From a voter in 📍 Reynoldsburg, OH

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White House: War Isn’t Hell. War Is Effing Awesome. You Are Hell. Once, war was justified by ho-hum lies about WMDs. Now, it’s Childish Gambino grooves and the Book of Revelation. Get with the program.

Operation Epic Fury is just a bunch of men, several with extremely violent personal histories and fantasies, jacked up on geopolitical rage and a meme set that combines medieval superstitions, Call of Duty, and the glorification of violence as an end in itself. trib.al/bQn0oZN

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Fetterman doesn’t even give a shit about the kids in Iran. Let that in for a second.

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Every Senate Dem But Fetterman Signs Call for Probe of Iran School Massacre | Common Dreams Sen. Fetterman broke ranks with Democrats again by not signing a letter to Hegseth calling for a probe of the apparent US bombing of an Iranian school—while claiming that "everyone agrees ​on perfor...

Every Democratic Senator But Fetterman Signs Call for Probe of Iran School Massacre

“Massive civilian casualty incidents like the attack in Minab are not only detrimental to the Iranian people, but they also undermine US national security interests."
- Senate Democratic Caucus

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Airports are asking people to donate gift cards and essentials to TSA workers who are going without pay US airports are asking for donations for TSA workers who are going without pay during the partial government shutdown.

The greatest country. We can't overcome ourselves and agree to pay people who are working.

#proudblue

www.businessinsider.com/government-s...

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Voter Fraud ~ The Facts:

Data Analysis of the Heritage Foundation 
Database (1999-2023)

77: Non-citizens who successfully cast a ballot over 24 years.

10: Undocumented immigrants who voted. 

1 Billion+ Ballots: Estimated total votes cast
 in the U.S. (1999-2023)

0. 00000764: Minuscule % of ALL Votes

The Bottom Line:
Even using data from a conservative organization looking for fraud, the instances of non-citizen voting are statistically microscopic.

❇️ FACTS:

The 2020 election was NOT rigged.

Trump LOST both the popular vote AND the electoral college in 2020.

The (bullshit) SAVE act is designed to disenfranchise voters.

Republicans are on the WRONG side of history and they’re ANTI-American.

Republicans can NOT win unless they CHEAT.

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Opinion | The Idea That Trump Was Antiwar Was Always Delusional

I’ve always known this.

Trump’s long career of launching failed ventures belie any idea the war power of the Presidency would not be another plaything he’d pick up.

What’s predictable is he how hastily abandons & glosses over his failures with a coating of BS.

#resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue #Iran

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Judge halts removal of Eritrean asylum seeker from UK to France under ‘one in, one out’ Court makes finding pending final hearing that trafficking victim ‘likely to suffer harm to his mental health’ if returned A high court judge has halted the removal of an Eritrean trafficking victim to France under the UK’s “one in, one out” scheme, after raising concerns that forcibly sending him back could cause him harm. The controversial deal, under which one asylum seeker who arrives in the UK on a small boat is forcibly returned to France in exchange for another being brought over legally, was launched last summer. As of 5 March, 370 people have been brought to the UK legally and 354 sent back to France. The aim is to deter small boat crossings, but thousands of asylum seekers have crossed the Channel since the scheme started. So far this month, 1,200 people have made the perilous journey. Continue reading...

Judge halts removal of Eritrean asylum seeker from UK to France under ‘one in, one out’

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(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of collapse any time soon after nearly two weeks of relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

uk.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-us...

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Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own Board of Governors appointees overseeing the curricula include roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.

Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own: The Board of Governors overseeing the new curricula includes roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.

truthout.org/articles/flo...

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I washed dishes for years. I’m the only person in this race who’s been in a union. I’ll fight for workers like our nurses every single day and work to earn their support in this campaign. They take care of us — we need to do the same.

#MEPolitics

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Read our campaign's poll memo with full results here 👇️

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🚨POLL ALERT🚨 Our campaign is leading the Democratic primary in ME-02.

Voters want a bold progressive who will deliver Medicare for All, universal childcare, and protect Social Security — and that’s exactly what I’ll fight for in Congress.

Paul LePage will be back in Florida for good. #MEPolitics.

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Time for Susan Collins to be concerned on behalf of County farmers. #MEpolitics

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My next concern would be that a lack of traditional fertilizers pushes farmers to use more wastewater sludge, which will continue to add PFAs and toxic chemicals to our land and food. Understanding these connections within public health is what makes me a better candidate than my opponents.

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On 12th March

1912 – Girl Guides founded

1930 - Gandhi Began Salt March (pivotal moment in India's independence movement)

1938 - Anschluss: Germany Annexed Austria

1968 - Mauritius Achieved Independence from UK

1989 - World Wide Web Proposed

2011 - Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

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In South Burlington, Vermont, protesters are being tear-gassed by ICE and local police as they attempt to prevent a kidnapping.

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South Burlington Unites in Peaceful Resistance to Protect Family from ICE

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Dems: do not CAVE! Fund DHS NOT ICE or BP. GOP disgrace Text SIGN PHQNHN to 50409 to send this to your officials.

Speak up
Be heard
This one has an acrostic

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Dems: do not CAVE! Fund DHS NOT ICE or BP. GOP disgrace Text SIGN PHQNHN to 50409 to send this to your officials.

Here is one inspired by @rbhubbell.bsky.social letter today

With an acrostic

Keep speaking up, keep being heard, make the ones who should serve us listen! With @resist.bot it's as easy as sending a text

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#pushbackworks

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Protect states rights by ending funding to Trump's illegal war! End Trump’s illegal war with Iran. Trump’s war has already cost the lives of US service members, at least 1,000 Iranian civilians, and others caught in the crossfire throughout the region. A competent Congress would have asserted its constitutional power over war, passed the War Powers Resolution last week, and impeached, convicted, and removed Trump, Vance, Hegseth, and the rest of this regime.

🖋️ “Protect states rights by ending funding to Trump's illegal war!” hit 100 signers!

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Another word you might use for it is "looting".

"This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

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Oralè Resisters
You know the Assignment!
Never let the Republicans forget!
Trump is a sking republicans to stop mentioning
“MASS DEPORTATION”
During upcoming midterms!
#GOPMASSDEPORTATIONS #GOPlovesICE #ReneGood #AlexPretti #LiamRam

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Guillotines fix it all

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YOU OWN THIS ILLEGAL WAR & PENTAGON extravagance. STOP IT NOW Text SIGN PGZVPZ to 50409 to send this to your officials.

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YOU OWN THIS ILLEGAL WAR & PENTAGON extravagance. STOP IT NOW Text SIGN PGZVPZ to 50409 to send this to your officials.

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I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

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