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Masked ICE agents shoved and injured journalists today at Federal Plaza. One reporter left on a stretcher. This abuse of law-abiding immigrants and the reporters telling their stories must end. What the hell are we doing here?

8/ Governor Kathy Hochul just posted this statement on X.

If you see your fellow Americans as the enemy, you have no business being Commander-in-Chief.

"This was a major policy speech in which Trump was socializing our top generals and admirals to the idea that the core of their mission is going to be dealing with domestic enemies."

Trump is a buffoon, but a very dangerous one. Read about it in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social:

“You kill people and break things for a living” is one of the most insane sentences I’ve ever heard

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Let’s be clear—this is bigger than Trump. The Epstein files show how banks, corporations, and even governments looked the other way while children were abused. Survivors deserve justice. We can’t let this cycle repeat.

Ali Velshi: The dwindling of America's middle class wasn't inevitable; it was a policy choice. An economy that works for everyone isn’t a fantasy; it’s a choice. We’ve just been making the wrong one. Now it’s time for America to choose better.

OPINION by @velshi.com:

“For decades, we’ve been told that prosperity trickles down. But it hasn’t, it’s been sucked upward.”

READ MORE:
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Trump White House Spoke to Cracker Barrel About Logo Switch The administration also issued an official press release about the change

Inflation and cost of living are way up as Trump appears to be spoiling like a Trump Steak. Also, still no Epstein files. But at least Trump is fighting Cracker Barrel for you.

Feeling great yet, everyone?

https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-white-house-spoke-to-cracker-barrel-about-logo-switch

40% of Missourians vote for Democrats, and this is the Congressional map the Republicans are pushing for.

Little kids with brain cancer.

That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

Slouching into fascism Are we already past the tipping point?

Just months short of the nation’s 250th birthday, Trump is close to batting a thousand at speed-running the very abuses of power that led the Founders to write the Declaration of Independence in the first place.

Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION
Starbucks worker pay: $15,000

Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION
Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000

CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker.
In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more.

The system is rigged.

The danger is not so much that machines may become like humans, but that humans may forget what it means to be humane.

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Alabama's state senate map violates the Voting Rights Act for unfairly limiting Black political power in Montgomery.

This is an important victory for Black voters.

"It can't happen here" - a great number of people in official, important positions as they're watching it happen here www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-isnt...

This keeps happening.

Jon and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social discuss the disparity between government support versus the public opinion on Gaza.

Trump has actually been remarkably successful in implementing his agenda and at the six month mark he's hit a low point in Gallup approval ratings. That's because the agenda is fundamentally unpopular! Something we tried desperately hard to communicate in 2024.

Doctor Denies Woman Prenatal Care Because She’s Unmarried A Tennessee woman was forced to flee her state to seek treatment for her pregnancy.

A Tennessee woman was denied prenatal care by her doctor because she is "unwed."

Let's be clear: the Republican agenda is not pro-life or pro-family.

If it were, pregnant women wouldn't be forced to flee their home states to get basic prenatal care.

The immensity of this reporting cannot be overstated.

@propublica.org made an archive of reported, fact-checked info on each of the individuals sent to prison in El Salvador.

Trump admin knew that only *six* had been convicted of violent offenses.

whatever else republican house speaker mike johnson (and the congressional republicans who serve under him) ever do in this life, this headline will last forever and ever, for their whole blessed lives.

(gift link, no paywall)

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

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BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional.

We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil has officially been released from ICE custody after more than 90 days in a detention center, per the AP.

WATCH: The official social media account for the U.S. Border Patrol posted a bizarre "hype video" to celebrate an ICE raid on a flea market in Santa Fe.

It makes me think of much of the wisdom I hear from Alok Vaid-Menon about people’s ability or inability to live in freedom and peace with others based on their ability or inability to be at freedom and peace with themselves.
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I just ordered a book called “The Power of Mattering by Zach Mercurio. I wonder what takeaways I may have about our societal problems today and how who feels like they (or others) matter or do not matter affects it all.
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Things I’m pondering today…

I just read John Pavlovitz’s latest. He referenced a song that says “none of us are free, if one of us are chained.” It seems pertinent to the upcoming Juneteenth holiday and also what’s going on in our country and our world.
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