Democracy and trains

We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept.

Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Google is pushing Gemini heavily in schools, btw

Define “real people” though

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

Whitewashing Selma: The Trump Administration's Assault on Civil Rights Memory When Preserving the Past Becomes a Threat to Power

Of all the NPS sites that tagged interpretive materials as potentially problematic, the one that hits hardest is Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail. #NationalParks open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Oh hell yes

Bro, ICE is still here kidnapping people, now they’ve even got transit vans advertising fake companies.

A tweet from Eleanor Klibanoff saying, "The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily BLOCKED a Dallas judge’s order to keep the polls open til 9, ordering the county to separate out votes from people who were not in line at 7pm. Not a final ruling, but will create chaos in getting results from Dallas County"

Wow. If any races in Dallas County are super tight, this will be a huge legal fight as thousands of votes hang in purgatory.

Trump's Wish to Nationalize Elections Is a ‘Terrible Idea,’ Mississippi Elections Chief Says President Donald Trump’s suggestion to nationalize elections is a “terrible idea,” Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson said.

Trump's call for Republicans to nationalize elections is "a terrible idea," says Mississippi's Republican Secretary of State, Michael Watson.

“The Constitution is pretty clear on the delineation of the powers there,” he said.

Truly doesn’t seem like it

“.. A handout picture released by the Iranian foreign media department of graves getting dug for the victims of a strike on an elementary school.”

@reuters.com

Footage showed babies being evacuated from a hospital in Bushehr, Iran after the facility was damaged amid US-Israeli strikes. Staff and Iranian Red Crescent workers could be seen wheeling the infants needing specialised care from the neonatal unit to waiting ambulances.

Precisely

Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls' school targeting likely ‘deliberate' Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.

Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.

Oh that’s terrible, I’m so sorry

Particularly children who were amongst some of the first casualties.

tomorrow is with one of the biggest election days of the year. there's so much to go over it's hard to know where to start.

so, let me help:

here are the *10* elections i'm watching the most closely, *at the state and local level* (=no federal elections included!)

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These motherfuckers deliberately target schools for violence HERE. I sure as shit believe they targeted schools elsewhere too.

The fact that they didn’t pick Minneapolis hands-down tells me these dumbasses really ain’t about that life

@infinitescream.bsky.social

JFC

Eeeeewwwwwwwwwww

whiteness at work

I thought the rules were that you could only use Signal for planning war crimes and were required to add a reporter to the chat

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Ban the fucking polymarkets. Betting on death. Betting on war while Incentivizing death and war. Shaping foreign/domestic policy by rewarding the rich people already in the know and encouraging them to make decisions that destroy the world while padding their pockets. Burn it down.

W.I.L.D.

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