I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Texas Republican Keithself storms out of the meeting he's supposed to be running because a Democrat asked him to treat his colleague Sarah McBride with respect. These people would not last one day as a trans person.
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At a protest called to decry NYU Langone’s cancellation of medical appointments for young trans patients, now filling St. Vartan Park in Manhattan.
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Now of all times Susan Collins picks to support Tulsi Gabbard, an unfit and dangerous nominee. Collins is the worst judge of character and ability I have ever witnessed. Everyone from Kavanaugh to Gabbard gets her ok. Maine- kick her out in 2026
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Here is the starter pack for contributors to The Contrarian
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I’m really delighted to be one of the contributors to the pro-democracy new media group, The Contrarian. More news about this coming later today!
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Well f*€k.
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