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Trump Grifting 101
Step 1: Silicon Valley Billionaire donates to the Trump campaign

Step 2: Raises funds for a new bank promising his "political network" will get it done

Step 3: Submits bank charter

Step 4: Gets it approved rapidly + celebrates with Trump's bank regulator:

How Ithaca is Leading New York State’s ‘Multifaceted’ Reparation Efforts Ithaca is leading New York State’s reparation efforts with a passed proposal that will allocate $50,000 of Ithaca’s 2025 budget to funding a study on reparations for Black residents.

“It's been true throughout our history that when Black people get free, we all get free... We're going to have to ensure that the legislature and the governor follow through on those recommendations." - @avtorres4.bsky.social

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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

It’s hard to watch the testimony at sexual assault trials. Especially since our system is still failing to get complainants the representation they deserve A system that gives victims and survivors of sexual violence the right to independent legal representation would be instrumental change

The ongoing blame and shame in the Stronach trial demonstrates why complainants need independent legal representation, Angela Marinos writes
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Holy sh*t.

You paid more for your Eras Tour or Cowboy Carter nosebleed seats than Ticketmaster paid in federal income taxes last year.

Because they paid $0.

Our tax code and our economy are so broken.

We will force a vote on Rep. Thomas Massie and my bipartisan resolution to stop Trump from launching an illegal war in Iran next week. This perhaps will be the most consequential vote in Congress on war or peace since the Iraq war vote in 2002.

NEW YORK — “growing outrage” after a nearly blind refugee father dropped off by border patrol and left to find his way home in the cold was found dead

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Mifepristone Lawsuit Could Jeopardize National Access to Telehealth Abortion A federal lawsuit led by Louisiana seeks to stop abortion pills from being mailed across the country.

A federal judge in Louisiana could end telehealth access to medication abortion nationwide. 
 
This lawsuit is a blatant attempt to ban abortion. Mifepristone has been safely used for 25 years. It's the most common method of abortion care in America. Women will suffer if access is restricted.

Protestors rally against Western Maryland ICE warehouse Chanting and hymns could be heard from within the Washington County Commissioner’s office as people gathered to protest for and against the facility.

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CHATTANOOGA: “DO Y’ALL HAVE A WARRANT? What’s the suspicion of crime, they’re brown?”

ICE trespasses on private property as they conduct their racial profiling terror campaign. An ex ICE lawyer just testified they are trained to disregard the law.

Full: www.facebook.com/share/r/1CPF...

“What kind of administration releases naked photos of victims, and then protects the perpetrators?”

#TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinAdministration

US women's gold medal-winning team declines invitation from Trump to attend State of Union address The U.S. women’s hockey gold medal-winning team has politely declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

The U.S. women's hockey gold medal-winning team has politely declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

This really sums it up.

This guy gets it.

BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

Boycott the State of the Union Trump doesn’t deserve our attention

Boycott the State of the Union
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Absolutely boycott the SOTU address. Robert Reich sums up why nicely, my favorite reason being:
Trump is obsessed with ratings. Make his ratings suck and it will drive him over the edge.
Plus, we know the SOTU. It Sucks.
#BlueCrew

Scott has spent the last 15 years of his life working in the highest echelons of government, as FL Governor (from 2011-2019) and as a U.S. Senator (since 2019), during which time he has undermined every effort to use the tools of governance to improve the public sphere.

The US Immigration Industrial Complex is a Threat to Everyone If President Dwight D. Eisenhower were alive today, he very well may warn of the ever-growing immigration industrial complex.

"US immigration enforcement has evolved into a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry in which profitability increasingly dictates policy and enforcement priorities."

By: @tylermcbrien.com

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Kristi Noem lied about an immigrant being a cannibal.

Of course it was all made up nonsense. Normal people didn’t believe it, just like we didn’t believe Haitians were eating pets.

This is part of dehumanization of immigrants playbook. Fear and hate is the point.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

March Indivisible Chicago Sing-Along · Indivisible Chicago Join us for another fun evening of resistance singing! We are trying out some songs that we might sing at upcoming events and we want your feedback. What songs are the most inspiring, uplifting, meani...

🎤 Indivisible Chicago Sing-Along: join us for another fun evening of resistance singing!

🎵 We are trying out some songs that we might sing at upcoming events and we want your feedback.

Monday, March 2nd, 6:30 pm, North Side. Get info & register here ⤵️

Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday.

They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

So the previous strikes didn’t “totally obliterate” their nuclear capability then?

The same lies and propaganda over and over

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending *** As of the end of January, there have been no convictions."

Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

New polling says Jasmine Crockett has the best chances to beat Ken Paxton in Texas.

The “she can’t win” crowd might want to start updating their talking points because the voters know what’s up.