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‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

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“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”

@reuters.com #Chicago
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

Transgender Youth Have Better Emotional Health after Taking Hormones, New Study Finds Hormone therapy improves transgender young people’s well-being and social relationships, but Trump’s recent executive order and state bans threaten to take it away

Transgender Youth Have Better Emotional Health after Taking Hormones, New Study Finds

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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I love the cover of my upcoming collection. I feel very very lucky. My dream for 2025 would be that my cover gets to compete in the @electriclit.bsky.social best book covers of the year bracket!

a paper mache sculpture of a medicine cabinet filled with over the counter medicines, prescriptions, and other bathroom goods

Bernie Kaminski creates lifelike papier-mâché iterations of everyday items.

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YouTube video by NPR Music Doechii: Tiny Desk Concert

This so much: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-91v...

A poem by Langston Hughes titled "Tired". It reads as the following: "I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two -- And see what worms are eating At the rind."

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

#books #reading #booksky #poetry

The Biden-Harris admin has canceled $175 billion in student debt for nearly 5 million people.

Project 2025 seeks to get rid of student loan forgiveness programs and income driven payment plans.

The result? Monthly student loan payments could triple for many borrowers.

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A screenshot of a Twitter exchange. At the top is a tweet from Tom Fitton (@TomFitton), who says: "Water is wet and abortion kills a human being." This tweet has 70 replies, 143 retweets, and 864 likes. Below that, a reply from the official Lake Superior (@LakeSuperior) account reads: "This lake vehemently stands with women having the right to choose." This reply does not show metrics. Beneath that, Lake Superior (@LakeSuperior) responds again, saying: "Thomas, not even your first talking point is correct. Water is not wet, what water touches is wet. I'm confident I have a lot more experience in making things wet than you do." This tweet has 23 replies, 76 retweets, and 455 likes.

Whoever runs the Lake Superior account is burnin down houses rn

Feels like a good day to remind everyone that JD Vance was a no-show on the vote for my bill to expand the child tax credit when it was on the senate floor two weeks ago. My bill failed after Republicans blocked it, leaving 16 million kids worse off.

Childhood vaccinations will have prevented more than 500 million illnesses and 1 million deaths in US since 1994, CDC report says | CNN Routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented hundreds of millions of illnesses, tens of millions of hospitalizations and more than 1 million deaths among people born between 1994 and 2023, accor...

Routine childhood vaccines prevented "hundreds of millions of illnesses, tens of millions of hospitalizations and more than 1 million deaths among people born between 1994 and 2023..." www.cnn.com/2024/08/08/h...

Trump took a private flight with Project 2025 leader in 2022 Trump took the flight to speak at a Heritage Foundation conference, where he said, “They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.”

"Trump took the flight to speak at a Heritage Foundation conference, where he said, 'They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.'"
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OMG and he’s tall!!!😂

it’s happening

So, journalists... anyone gonna ask him to explain exactly what he meant by that? Or Vance, or any campaign surrogate, or any GOP elected?

I just deleted my NYT games app. There goes my Connections streak.😢

Poll 71% of Biden supporters want a different candidate

You wouldn't know it by the chyron, but this woman literally said said:

"I'm voting for democracy. A convicted felon is not it. Biden is our guy." That was her quote.

Trump’s Sleazy New Project 2025 Disavowal Scam Blows Up in His Face As new reports tie Trump to Project 2025, a writer who has examined the plan explains what this saga really reveals about the reactionary agenda MAGA wants to inflict on our country.

Trump's efforts to run from Project 2025 are blowing up in his face:

*CNN reports 140 former Trump officials are involved

*New video shows Trump praised its creators in 2022

On the pod, we go deep into the threat Project 2025 poses, with Amanda Becker of The 19th:
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Democrats should be calling it "Trump's Project 2025" to make it at least a little harder for him or others to deny a connection to it. Plus, it only happens if he wins so that's the connection right there!

Inflation eased further in June, helping cement path to rate cuts Fed watchers increasingly think a first rate cut could come in September, so long as the data continues to cooperate.

Breaking news: Inflation eased further in June, handing Federal Reserve officials another dose of encouraging data as they inch closer to cutting interest rates and taking pressure off the economy.

Major publications think one big article outweighs the flood the zone Biden coverage. But that's not how people consume news anymore. A lot of people probably never read this, but they sure as hell saw the stream of Biden articles in their newsfeed.

IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households’ back taxes For years, the tax agency simply didn’t try collecting sizable debts owed by 1,600 filers with annual incomes of at least $1 million.

The IRS reported Wednesday that it has collected $1 billion in taxes and penalties owed by hundreds of wealthy households who accumulated past-due tax debts for years while IRS enforcement dwindled.

Clarence Thomas Gifted Luxe Trip to Putin’s Hometown: Dems The allegedly secret gifts were disclosed in a letter from two Democratic senators that accused Thomas of potentially committing tax fraud.

I sure did not have "Harlan Crow paid for a yacht and private helicopter trip for Clarence Thomas to visit a palace in Vladimir Putin's hometown" on my bingo card, but in hindsight, why the hell not. www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-tho...

wait so Orban went to Moscow and now he’s going to Mar-a-Lago?

A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trial The testing of lenacapavir was halted because results were so impressive — 100% effectiveness. The decision was made to give all participants the injection rather than the alternative daily pill.

Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...