Texas… it’s not just Grijalva….

#TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
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North Carolina effort wipes out $6.5B in medical debt for 2.5M people Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents.

Amazing what happens when you put Dems in charge!

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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Dear friends: "Dilexi te" is Pope Leo's rich meditation on the call from both Jesus and the church over the ages to love and care for the poor. It's an invitation to prayer and action. Take time and read it for yourself and bring it to prayer. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

On August 27, 2025, Petitioner was arrested at the Carson Car Wash in Carson, California by uniformed Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) officers and unidentified plainclothes federal agents. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 48; Santiago Decl. ¶ 3. During the arrest, Petitioner sustained severe leg injuries. See Pet. ¶ 48; Santiago Decl. ¶ 5. He was handcuffed and transported by CBP to the emergency room at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Carson, California. Id. At the hospital, Petitioner was admitted under a “blackout” procedure for patients in law-enforcement custody and was registered under the pseudonym “Har Maine UNK Thirteen.” Santiago Decl. ¶ 7. Federal agents remained at Petitioner’s bedside during admission, transfer to non-public treatment areas, and throughout his stay, keeping him handcuffed to his hospital bed. Id. ¶ 6. On or about August 27, 2025, CBP transferred custody of Petitioner to ICE. See Pet. ¶ 48. He remains detained at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center under the supervision of ICE, which has contracted with Spectrum Detention Services (“Spectrum”) to provide guards. See Santiago Decl. ¶ 8; Pet. ¶ 48. Since that date, two to four uniformed guards—either Spectrum employees or ICE agents—have been continuously stationed in Petitioner’s hospital room, monitoring him at all times, including while he sleeps, eats, uses the restroom, or receives medical care. See Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 9–10.

ICE has been paying private security for 24/7 guards to watch a guy with no record whose leg they fucked up so badly he has been in a hospital for over a month, and we wonder why people were handing Tom Homan bags of cash.

Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social

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A friend at the gym thought it was suspiciously coincidental that a nuclear power plant was approved for the hill country in May and now land has been cleared by the floods. SHEESH! Conspiracy theory much?!?!? And the proposed expansion is in Seadrift, not the hill country.

Flagrant journalistic malpractice. It's not a "custom"; it's a constitutional RIGHT.

DHS Twitter account: FIRE UP THE DEPORTATION PLANES! Image of a skeleton doing squats with the text MY BODY IS A THAT TURNS MACHINE ICE FUNDING INTO MASS DEPORTATIONS

This is a real tweet from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Questions about the impact of Trump’s cuts to the NWS on the tragedy in Texas have now reached The NY Times— as the death toll climbs above 50. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

When the Cuts Hit Home I am not an alarmist.

TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood, incl girls still missing from a camp. In the time of climate change we need better weather prediction from fed’l resources, not the dramatic cuts Trump/Musk have imposed. joycevance.substack.com/p/when-the-c...

I'm neither a scientist nor union member. However I WILL be sure to call Congress on July 16th.

😳 “as many lives lost as WW1”

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Check out the Declaration’s list of grievances It’s time to recapture our freedoms.

As the Fourth of July approaches, Jen Rubin turned to the Declaration of Independence—not for its famous opening lines, but for its list of grievances. Nearly 250 years later, the echoes of Trump are hard to miss.

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Houston, we have a problem!

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Not a sign, but a man had stopped by Taco Bell and distributed dozens of tacos to protesters in Bel Air, MD.

Just purchased posterboard and flags to prepare our signs.

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Meaning, how has the USA fallen so far, so fast. What an embarrassment that the US is no longer free.

Outrageous!

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @BillBramhall @NYDailyNews )

This story is horrible.

Same

Unfortunately, Sen. Cassidy has sold his soul.

Dead children. Insecure internet and personal privacy. Loss of veteran services. Loss of safety net for disabled, unemployed, and seniors. Crashed economy.

Killing children by denying aide isn't genocide? Maybe not technically but it feels like it.

👇🏽🎯 scrap the cap

So let's review. Over the last 24 hrs we've learned that two DOGErs embedded at IRS are finalizing a plan to share your tax data with people throughout the government; that's plainly illegal. Meanwhile Mike Johnson claims that Elon is already pouring your Social Security data into his AI and he's...

Same.