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Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan.

Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

NEVER FORGET — when the National Guard WASN’T called, and that he lied when he said he couldn’t.

I received your sunshine and roses email about the budget bill. If it is so fucking good, why wait two years till after the midterms to implement so much of it?

Torres: If the bill is so popular, why are the cuts largely delayed until after the midterm election? And if the bill surgically targets fraud, waste and abuse, why is it necessary to set up a $50 billion stabilization fund for rural hospitals?

The American Police State Is Here ICE is about to eclipse the FBI as America's most important law enforcement agency. That's bad. Super-duper bad.

Within months, ICE will have twice as many agents as the FBI and will have its own huge and growing prison system (which it operates independently) as its masked and un-uniformed officers continue to snatch people off of the streets and mete out violence.

Congress Traded Your Pap Smear for a Billionaire’s Tax Break Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," argues Kierra Jones, is part of "conservatives’ political crusade to ban abortion and gender-affirming care, and to deprive Americans of their reproductive and bodily aut...

"It doesn’t matter if you live in a state where abortion is protected. Nearly 200 Planned Parenthood clinics and all of the invaluable services these facilities provide could soon be lost."

Read the full op-ed here: www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps...

Alligator Alcatraz detainees allege inhumane conditions at immigration detention center Detainees claim they are enduring inhumane conditions, including lack of access to water, inadequate food and denial of religious rights.

Reports begin to emerge regarding the inhumane conditions under which people are being detained at the Florida Everglades concentration camp.

• One meal per day
• No showers
• Maggot-infested food
• Lights on 24/7

These are known torture tactics.

Many detainees are legal residents.

#OnYourSide

The builders behind Alligator Alcatraz and other detention sites are top DeSantis donors.

They scored no-bid or “emergency” contracts worth tens of millions—while funneling cash into his political machine.

Pay-to-play isn’t just speculation—it’s backed by the paper trail.
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Biden-Harris allocated $2.2billion for the nation’s grid to protect against extreme weather, $26million to improve forecasts of droughts/floods, $80million for flood forecasting/inundation mapping, next generation tools to enhance NWS forecasting, etc. Trump cancelled much, if not all, of this.

If Donny pissed Leo off, won't he tell the justices he owns on the Supreme Court to start ruling against Donny? 🤞

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Sen. Van Hollen outsmarted Trump today helping Abrego Garcia get a step closer to justice youtu.be/pVs1U9EQMm8?...

The SAVE Act, a.k.a the Save the Republicans' Asses Act, is a shameless attempt to block Americans—especially married women—from voting. Requiring birth certificates to cast a ballot? That’s not election security. That’s voter suppression.

They absolutely could. But they won’t, because they’re all a bunch of fucking cowards.

I will never forgive this stupid MFers who voted for him or the ones who stayed home.

What a strange feeling... is that... joy?

Find Your Voting Locations | WISDEMS Voter Protection Team This searchable map shows you early voting and dropbox info for hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across Wisconsin. Enter the address you're registered at and your options will pop up!

If you're in Wisconsin, please know that Judge Susan Crawford will protect YOUR rights and freedoms. Find your polling place and make a plan to vote tomorrow: vote.wisdems.org

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

This article... just ... damn.

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the display of and allowance for non-human behaviors 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 in Texas schools. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. This bill may be referred to as the Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education or F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act. SECTION 2. Section 31.007, Education Code, is amended by amending Subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows: (a) The board of trustees of an independent school district shall, with the advice of its district-level committee established under Subchapter F, Chapter 11, adopt a student code of conduct for the district. The student code of conduct must be posted and prominently displayed at each school campus or made available for review at the office of the campus principal. In addition to establishing standards for student conduct, the student code of conduct must: (1) specify the circumstances, in accordance with this subchapter, under which a student may be removed from a classroom, campus, disciplinary alternative education program, or vehicle owned or operated by the district; (2) specify conditions that authorize or require a principal or other appropriate administrator to transfer a student to a disciplinary alternative education program;

(C) a day that the student must rehearse, perform, 1 or attend an event that would otherwise require the student to 2 dress in costume if the student is a school mascot or is involved 3 in district funded or sponsored theatre organization. 4 (6) “Non-Human Behavior” means any type of behavior or 5 accessory displayed by a student in a school district other than 6 behaviors or accessories typically displayed by a member of the 7 homo sapiens species including: 8 (A) using a litter box for the passing of stool, 9 urine, or other human byproducts; 10 (B) a personal or outward display, except during a 11 school play or by a school mascot, through surgical or superficial 12 means of features that are non-human such as: 13 (i) tails; 14 (ii) leashes, collars, other accessories 15 designed for pets; 16 (iii) fur, other than naturally occurring 17 human hair or a wig made to look like human hair; 18 (iv) artificial, animal-like ears; or 19 (v) other physiological features that have not 20 historically been assigned to the homo sapiens species through a 21 means of natural biological development; 22 (C) barking, meowing, hissing, or other animal 23 noises that are not human speech; and

The "F.U.R.R.I.E.S ACT" bill from Stan Gerdes (R-Smithville) would prohibit "non-human behavior" in Texas schools, including but not limited to:

-Litterboxes
-Tails
-"Leashes, collars, other accessories designed for pets"
-"Barking, meowing, hissing, or other animal noises"
-"licking oneself"

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”

@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”

NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*

(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

Again: We are in the Golden Age of Corruption.

newrepublic.com/post/192244/...

EXCLUSIVE: This just happened onstage in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphys concert. "This is America, no kings here!" @dropkickmurphys.com nails it again!!

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

It’s funny how all those big protests just disappeared after the election, despite worsening conditions for Gaza.

Almost like they were being disingenuously amplified to sway voter opinion, or something.

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.