Celeste- explore the universe and all therein…

Morning in the Midwest As I rise, I don’t see the sun,

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My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life.

In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded.

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JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia urges a magistrate judge in Tennessee to give him the fairness and due process he was denied for months in El Salvador and reject the Trump administration’s bid to detain him pending trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is the most dangerous thing Trump has done since taking office and the silence from Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker and House Chair Mike Rogers is deafening, and a betrayal of their duty to the military and the Republic.

The cruelty is the point.

YouTube video by Freddie 🌻 my immigrant family🧧day 40 of being trans

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We are not on the cusp of a crisis, nor have we been. We are in it. Project 2025 was not a hoax or a joke, but a plan to subvert and destroy American Democracy. Progressive, Awake, Evolved, Enlightened, Educated- when did these things become “bad”? The party told you…

We don’t have to wonder how President Trump will line his pockets if the GENIUS Act passes—he's showing us now.

Since Monday's GENIUS Act vote, his stablecoin’s daily trade volume has increased by over a BILLION dollars, or 1000%.

The Senate can and must stop this corruption.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

as others have pointed out, NYT never saw it as reflecting on US Zionism when an Illinois man stabbed a 6-year-old Palestinian kid, or when a Florida man mistook two Israelis for Palestinians and shot at them, or when a Palestinian student was murdered in Vermont

modern Zionism consists of exactly one belief: that no person on Earth, including diasporic Jews, has any civil right which might supersede the most paranoid right wing Israeli's suspicion that they are a threat to Israel.

Trump's attack on ActBlue's 'dark money' was backed by dark money Elon Musk helped fund an effort to gin up fraud claims against the donation platform.

The funding for some of Trump’s “data” on an alleged ActBlue “fraud” seems to have come from just such a source: an opaque super-PAC bankrolled by none other than Elon Musk.

We saw the storm brewing a mile away.

While I loath that we are at the point in the slide to authoritarian rule where judges are being arrested for- checks notes- advising someone of their constitutional rights, I am proud as a Wisconsinite that we have been in the news as a hotbed of, checks again, common sense democratic decency. Amen

Deeply weird that goons expect the people they're arresting to treat them with nothing but deference, but I guess when all you've tasted is boot you start to doubt anyone else less eager to partake.

worth noting that he also wasn't uniquely evil among nazis, like the holocaust was a multi person job

Judge Dugan’s arrest is outrageous and a fear tactic to our independent judiciary. Trump has always thought he was above the law, but now he’s enabling his goons to push that limit as far as it can go. His reckless deportations and flaunting of the Constitution will fail.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that federal authorities may once again seek reporters’ phone records and compel their testimony in leak investigations, reversing a policy that was designed to protect journalists from intrusive government efforts to identify and prosecute sources.

Trump Directs Justice Dept. to Investigate ActBlue, Democrats’ Cash Engine The president ordered an inquiry into ActBlue, the main Democratic fund-raising platform, in his latest move using the government to target political opponents.

If this were a report about any other country in the world, the headline would be something more like "Trump Expands Efforts to Crackdown on Political Opposition."

Opinion | We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.

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Thank you to Ita Segev, beloved JVP-NYC member and anti-Zionist Jew who was born and raised in Jerusalem, for sharing these powerful words on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust remembrance day.

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Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Selling access to a “private dinner” and White House via memecoin? If a Dem did this, Fox would never let us hear the end of it.

A federal judge on Thursday blocked key parts of a sweeping anti-voting executive order issued by President Donald Trump in March. Voting rights advocates described the order as “an astonishing and unprecedented voter suppression” effort.

The transphobic lawyers are really getting transphobier tbh and I don't like it

Pledging to defend the Constitution right before the country you were about to become a citizen of unconstitutionally detains you

The EPA is firing employees focused on children’s health simply because their job descriptions include DEI. These 10 regional children’s health coordinators have worked closely with schools and local institutions to prevent and address environmental hazards that put kids at risk.

Trump’s organization is out here selling Trump 2028 hats like the Constitution is just a suggestion.

Reminder: The 22nd Amendment exists. You can’t run for a third term.

In case you're wondering whether Trump's transphobia has real effects, today an opposing counsel in a landlord tenant case cited Trump's EO on military service by trans people to argue that a trans person isn't credible in court because we're inherently dishonest.

The White House makes an offer Ukraine had no choice but to refuse How one-sided is Donald Trump's plan for peace in Ukraine? A Democratic senator called the Republican "the Neville Chamberlain of our time.”

"One NATO official, when asked for a reaction to the plan, replied, 'Did Putin write this for him?'...”

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Gary Lineker, "What's going on there (Gaza), the mass murder of thousands of children is something we should have an opinion on"

Amol Rajan, "The BBC needs to be impartial about it"

Gary Linekar, "Why? It needs to be factual"