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I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on, the President of the United States even joking about revoking someone’s citizenship should be met with universal condemnation.

So like, what do we do?

* The most important thing we can do is keep people out of ICE custody. Join an immigration rapid response team in your area.

* Protest. Organize in your neighborhood. Figure out what needs doing.

@deeretopher.bsky.social

Have you seen this man? In the wake of deadly floods in Texas, FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found.

Texas was devastated by deadly floods. In the aftermath, FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found. In any other administration, this would be an epic scandal. But with Trump, it's treated as business as usual.

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When a government starts targeting former intelligence officials, law enforcement leaders, and anyone who once investigated or criticized those in power, it’s not just a red flag, it’s a page straight from the authoritarian playbook.

The worst chief justice of all time Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.

New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time

"American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."

The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

The Trump administration has chosen not just to trivialize the danger presented by climate change, but to revoke funding for the very data collection and research that would help the country better understand and prepare for this moment.

By @abrahm.bsky.social

At George Washington’s home, dozens become citizens on July 4th The U.S. naturalization ceremony at George Washington’s historic Mount Vernon estate included remarks by Arnold Schwarzenegger

More than 100 immigrants from 95 countries became U.S. citizens at the home of George Washington on the Fourth of July.

There’s a movie about this that I would recommend to the folks at the NYT. Maybe they’ve heard of the filmmaker’s son? Zohran Mamdani?

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

🚨 A contact reached out to let us know the #Minneapolis VA has had a mass exodus of anesthesiologists. This has caused the #VA to be unable to keep up with surgery cases, leading many to be sent out into the community. The community healthcare system already struggles with staffing.

The war on women by the GOP continues apace.

Nothing like a little “creative accounting” to push a $3.3 trillion tax cut for the rich. Republicans are using an accounting gimmick to make it look like their tax plan doesn’t add to the deficit. Can’t pass it honestly? Just cook the books.

Left photo is a broken down white dog cowering in a kennel. Right is the same dog, looking magnificent while he stands on a rock.

#AdoptDontShop

Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of 'devastation' from megabill

Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state's congressional delegation that the Senate GOP's Medicaid cuts "would be historic in their devastation."
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HHS eliminates CDC staff who made sure birth control is safe for women at risk The Trump administration eliminated the CDC team that developed national guidelines for prescribing contraception safely for millions of women with underlying medical conditions.

RFK Jr’s HHS eliminates CDC staff who made sure birth control is safe for women at risk.

From a distance you can see a mountain landscape with a blue sky and a few hazy clouds. on the sides of the picture you can see parts of trees. On the left in light green, on the right a smaller dark green tree further away. in the center is a black box on which is written in white “Only caring about your own right is exactly how you lose them”.

@runawaydog.bsky.social

Trump’s justice department issues directive to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship for civil offenses Memo says those subjected to civil proceedings are not entitled to an attorney like they are in criminal cases

If the DOJ can make a case against de-naturalizing a citizen then why not allow someone to have an attorney? Stripping away rights only leads to abuse and victims setup by others to CREATE reasons for deportation that might not be true!

Warnock: "We are engaged in Robin Hood in reverse ... this is socialism for the rich."

FEMA money being diverted to house immigrants in makeshift prison in the middle of Everglades which feds and state are spending billions to restore.

Make it make sense.

In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”

🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.

Brilliant timing.

More fake ICE agents doing horrible things.

Everyone should be speaking up about this. Masks and no ID required is a ridiculous recipe for horrors. @MarshaBlackburn & @SenJohnson & Sexton should be banning it, not protecting it.