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A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

You sure about this, Google?

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

I was very moved by my conversation with @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social...

Male Costa’s Hummingbird

Parting shot of this rock star from last week… Costa’s Hummingbird on cholla skeleton 🪶☀️🌵 (sunrise reflection in bird’s eye)

Undocumented immigrants aren’t showing up to work because they face a double threat:

📌 ICE could roll up to the job site, because it’s easier to target hardworking people than go after real criminals.

📌 When the work’s done, some employers refuse to pay and threaten to call ICE.

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?

ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles

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Karl: The transformation has been gradual and unmistakable.

By February, some golden urns on the mantle.

April, gold adornments appear on the walls.

By July, it's gold everywhere.

Just this week more scaffolding popped up, even more new gold trim appeared.

@crockett.house.gov: "They pledge their fealty to some idiot who's obviously struggling mentally. Whether it's mental decline or whether he's ever had the capacity, they decided they're going to do whatever he wants them to do.. I never thought I'd see the day that a Texan would bow down to a NYer."

VA terminates key union contracts | CNN Politics The Department of Veterans Affairs is terminating collective bargaining agreements with several key government unions representing its employees.

The VA canceled union contracts for 400,000 workers - many of them veterans.

One more example of this Administration’s disrespect for American workers including veterans.

On Wednesday, ICE GOONS arrested a mother in the school drop-off line at Inzunza Camarina Elementary in Chula Vista, leaving her two children in the car.

I will say it again.

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At Home Depot garden center where some amazing activists are holding up signs that say “ICE WAS HERE TODAY” and even still there are day workers all over the parking lot. LA isn’t going to abandon our neighbors and friends and family. Fascists can’t understand that but it is the case nonetheless.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...

"That's just how it is."

#Jagged old wooden pilings sticking out of Colpoy's Bay, Ontario shortly before sunrise during a #longexposure to show movement in the cloud. For the #BlueSkyArtShow

#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #landscape #clouds

no more educational material for your children. just poisonous right wing slop.

Ken Paxton just filed a lawsuit to remove me from office.

But this seat doesn’t belong to him or me — it belongs to the people.

My message to Ken Paxton:

Come and take it.

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@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "There ought to be independent commissions in every state. The fact of the matter is that doesn't seem like it's possible. We have to recognize that, even though I'd love to see it for Illinois, we're not going to unilaterally disarm when R states are drawing crazy maps."

YouTube video by Pearlmania500 The island man, his best friend and the girlfriend that is lying.

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#epstein #maxwell #dt #trafficking #traffickingMinors #corruption #coverUp

A great thread on how oligarchs take a legal concept from "quite clear" to "clear as mud" in order to enact their agenda.

Jordy Meiselas: ICE didn't just lower the age requirement—they removed the age requirement. Now, at any age—you can go and join. They've riled up their base and have given them one lane to occupy: take out your anger, become an ICE agent, and chase down migrants. They are preying on people's hate.

I just looked up, it’s in the pea family. (That explains everything.)

I’m in the mood to learn, so let’s do Teachable Tuesday! Drop a cool fact, some neato knowledge, or anything YOU might know that you think WE probably don’t! Teach us something today!

A $200 million ballroom, and now this. He doesn’t ever plan on leaving.

Trump Readjusts Golf Tee In JD Vance’s Mouth

Trump Readjusts Golf Tee In JD Vance’s Mouth

Chinese ICE Detainee Dies by Suicide at Pennsylvania Detention Center A Chinese ICE detainee died by suicide at Pennsylvania’s Moshannon Valley detention center in Pennsylvania, a private jail run by GEO Group.

Chinese ICE Detainee Dies by Suicide at Pennsylvania Detention Center
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A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year. The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive. threads.com/@unapologeticallyzae

Interesting that the Times story seems to indicate that the elimination of trans people from public life seems to be a stalking horse for introducing ID cards by the back door by making it possible for pubic bodies to demand birth certificates as evidence of whether you are allowed to use the loo.

NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response.

She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.

YouTube video by Democracy Docket Coffee with The Contrarians an Marc Elias

This morning, I joined @jenrubin.bsky.social and @normeisen.bsky.social on Coffee with The Contrarians. I hope you watch and enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbQn...