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Buffalo Police officers who pushed 75-year-old during Black Lives Matter protest cleared of wrongdoing | CNN Two Buffalo, New York, police officers who pushed a 75-year-old protester to the ground in June 2020, fracturing the man’s skull, were cleared of wrongdoing by an arbitrator on Friday.

Also if this is Buffalo PD remember that this is the same force that pushed a 75-yo peaceful protester to the ground during thr BLM protests www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/u...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

A PENGUIN ASKS: HOW MANY CHILDREN WILL BE DEALING WITH THE TRAUMA OF ICE FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES?

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This was entirely about trans people, by the way. Trump was screaming about ripping away trans rights, Democrats didn't applaud, and he berated them for it while they sat there. Not a word from the Dems or media today.

The Hill: Reps. Ted Lieu & Dan Goldman are calling on the DOJ to appoint a special counsel to investigate Pam Bondi, accusing her of perjuring herself when asked about evidence relating to Trump in the Epstein files.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

Bird Flu Strikes California Elephant Seals for the First Time

“Seven elephant seal pups at Año Nuevo State Park have tested positive for the virus, known as H5N1, becoming the first recorded cases in northern elephant seals. They are among about 30 seals that have died at the park since late last week and the first to have been tested, said Roxanne Beltran”

Pic of Bondi and Patel. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel saw all 6 million files and still chose to support Trump and lied under oath to protect these monsters. They are complicit.

Greenland is a sovereign country. It is protected by Denmark. Trump lied last night when he said we gave Greenland to Denmark after WWII. It was never ours to give!

#DefendersofDemocracy
#SheShed
#StrongWomen

Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns Vice President JD Vance has announced that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns, as part of what he described as an agg...

This is deeply illegal, breaking the Medicaid statute and the ICA.

States are entitled to funding from federal govt to help pay for Medicaid. Providing less than the statute calls for is open and shut illegal, more akin to the impoundments Nixon lost unilaterally before SCOTUS than anything so far.

But Mike Johnson and the vast majority of House Republicans don’t want him to resign, to their eternal shame and disgrace. His conduct becomes yours when you ignore and excuse it.

Ken Dilanian @KDilanianMSNOW New with @CarolLeonnig : The FBI has fired at least 7 FBI agents and support staff as a result of their role in the classified documents case involving records Donald Trump kept at his Mar-a-Lago club, according to three people familiar. The people fired are said to have participated in some way in pulling calling records for Patel and then Trump political action committee chief Susie Wiles during the investigation.

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Vance says Minnesota’s Medicaid funds halted as part of Trump’s ‘war on fraud’ Vice-president makes announcement with Mehmet Oz, who says other states will be next after Minnesota

Let’s be clear: the Trump administration isn’t “pausing” funds to fight fraud. They’re weaponizing Medicaid to punish a state that rejects their extremism. They’d rather see a child lose coverage than see a Democratic governor succeed.

Reminder... #Trump was supposed to sit for a deposition in August 2009. Where is it? #EpsteinFiles

Two crucial points that @leahlitman.bsky.social discusses here:

1) Rep James Comer could do what Rep Robert Garcia did and go look at the logs to confirm the missing files himself.

2) If Dems win the House, they can subpoena these specific files in 2027.

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Trump’s Epstein Scandal Takes Damning Turn as Dem Drops New Bombshell As new revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein saga threaten the president, a legal expert decodes what we just learned—and lays out a roadmap to what will happen now.

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up."

If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod:
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This is a huge hole in U.S. regulation, though current administration policy is to open the hole even wider

They found him. He died.

Another murder by our immigration goon squads

Republicans heckle Biden after he swipes at their Social Security positions Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted at the president from the back of the chamber.

Remember how mad republicans got during President Biden’s SOTU when he said republicans want to fu*k with your safety nets? 👇
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A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

Throughout the Trump admin, American taxpayers are paying the salaries and federal benefits of right-wing social media trolls who spend all day attacking Democrats online on our dime. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

No one who is at all concerned with the national security of the United States can possibly support Trump. This is simply a hideous betrayal of the country and its future in exchange for a bribe.

The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money.

In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it.

Taxation without representation.

Instead, the butler went to jail for longer than Epstein. The FBI knew then, covered it up, and they know now.

thehill.com Vance, Oz announce pause in Medicaid funds to Minnesota amid fraud probe

Vance, Oz announce pause in Medicaid funds to Minnesota amid fraud probe

JD Vance: "I guarantee their are gonna be voices in the media and the state of Minnesota who say, 'This is hurting children.' No. It's hurting fraudsters. The way to protect kids is to go after those fraudsters, which is what we're doing."

JD Vance: "We're taking the social safety net. We're taking something that exists for the benefit of people who can't pay for medicine on their own. We want to help our fellow Americans. We can't do that if those programs are being defrauded."

Hungary's leader orders extra security at energy sites, claiming Ukraine plots disruptions Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ordered extra security at critical energy infrastructure sites after claiming Ukraine was attempting to disrupt Hungary’s energy system.

Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election
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Bitches!!

🚨 SCOOP: Trump told the country he wants “homes for people, not corporations.” At the same time, his allies were circulating a bill that could block states from stopping Wall Street from buying up houses in their own neighborhoods.