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Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts

Adult content restrictions are paving the way for more anti-LGBTQIA+ content censorship Bans on 'adult content' can quickly be extended to deem LGBTQIA+ content as ‘mature’ enforceing wider censorship

Adult content restrictions could pave the way for anti-LGBTQIA+ content bans 👇

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Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

"Contrary to economic orthodoxy, this paradigm redefines politics as the process of coordinating our abundant human and material resources within ecological limits, rather than exploitative competition for scarce funds."

What exactly is the EPA protecting under Trump? The profit margins of his rich polluting donors?

"It’s a form of resistance that requires us to put aside ego, and the need for personal gratification, to become a node in a living network of care, support, and defense."

More than anything else I hope the legacy of this moment will be organized care everywhere

Monroe & Florence Work Today - Explore the map of Lynchings Lynching in the United States targeted many groups of people of color as well as white people who defied white supremacy. Explore the interactive map.

Students are often surprised to learn abt the lynching of Italian immigrants under Jim Crow. While these represented a fraction of the victims of this national regime of racial terror, anti-Italian violence was designed to prevent multiracial organizing against Klan country.

I spent nearly 30 years in criminal justice. It is perfectly lawful to film. Particularly when you’re not impeding… This is absolutely the fascist takeover of the country. You’re watching the frog boil right now in front of your eyes. Many of us are in the water and it’s getting hot.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

what really fucked me up is that portobello mushrooms are just old button mushrooms

Don't forget to leave out a plate of smallpox for Christopher Columbus tonight.

A photo of a small, black-furred shrew climbing on a branch with text overlay that says "Australia’s only shrew declared extinct. Australia continues to lead the world in mammal extinctions."

Australia’s only shrew has been declared extinct. Australia leads the world in mammal extinctions and ranks second for loss of biodiversity. We need better funding for conservation action and stronger environmental laws to uphold our international commitments to prevent further extinctions 🧪

I am so weary of that class of extremely online leftists who think being a Serious Person™️ who only posts and does nothing else is superior to being a Fun Person™️ who physically shows up

Be interesting to see what things they get wrong. I can remember being a kid and Family Ties made reference to a stop sign on a street that didn't have one. (The show was set in OH, near Columbus, but you'd never really know it unless you were from there.)

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It's a community organized initiative. Three shorts is ICE spotted, three longs is ICE is detaining someone.

Has a real L. Ron Hubbard vibe.

I think the only thing Chief Justice John Roberts and I both enjoy is a gay dinner party on Martha's Vineyard. Glory!

I was raised Protestant and even I recognized that the priest was bringing out the "big guns" to focus attention on what's happening.

RIFs rip through federal Office of Special Education Programs With OSEP reportedly decimated, one special education expert asks: How can IDEA "possibly function"?

I mean this. If you voted for this get the hell off my Bluesky feed. You voted against Every child and Every thing that I have spent my lifetime fighting for. If you voted for this we share No common ground and you are my enemy! . www.k12dive.com/news/special...

Why aren’t media outlets unmasking these scumbags?

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

It's a small thing, but I think journalists need to respond with a lot more condescension when pols try to get away with "I haven't seen it."

"Wow -- that kind of widespread mortgage fraud in your own admin seems like it would concern you if you thought it were serious to indict her over it."

Can we try one more thing before we deploy troops on America’s streets? Two, really.

Tax billionaires’ earnings, not just income, at 50% after the first $100 million and end corporate welfare. If they’re too big to fail, they’re too big to be bailed out by taxpayers.

Arrests and Protests at the Broadview ICE Facility The Department of Homeland Security says that eleven people were arrested Saturday at a protest outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

Read my words. Ty.

Why it's back in the news. Not even the corrupt Supreme Court wants to touch it.

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When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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Asking for a colleague, is there literature out there on using police interview transcripts as a historical source, particularly from a methodological perspective?

#historians #histcrim 🗃️

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A picture and headline from an article: Unicorn bride marries Kenny from south park at Portland ICE protest

the boys who landed at Normandy or fought in Stalingrad couldn't have imagined the horrors of 21st century war