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Thank you for your attention to this matter.

graph shows more DOGE contract cuts in blue states

We saw this pattern in infrastructure cuts during the shutdown, cuts alleging social services fraud, cuts to contractors under DOGE: all targeted to blue states. It is an obviously partisan abuse of power, brazen and on a scale we simply have not seen before. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...

This is part of a pattern that is impeachable: Trump cuts previously appropriated Congressional funds, but only to states led by Democrats (California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota).

Trump's Schedule F Rule Finalized A bizarro rule formally justifies politicizing public services

New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants.

The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...

Ghislaine Maxwell has made it abundantly clear that she will continue protecting pedophiles and sex traffickers until she is granted clemency by Donald Trump.

She doesn’t care about the crimes that she has committed and is completely unremorseful.

The term is so rare that out of over 300,000 news entries, it only appeared first in May 7 2024 in a "news" article on evangelical blog World News Group called "Giving evil a pleasant label." This was logged two days before EPPC posted the document on May 9.

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Civil society in #Minneapolis keeping neighbors safe and fed.

These organizations have been vetted:

#amplify in #solidarity

ICE has seized schoolkids, gassed a baby, and gunned down American citizens. @warren.senate.gov and Oversight Democrats are keeping track of all of it. And we will hold every agent committing these acts accountable.

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WATCH: “This wasn’t a dog whistle.”

Progressive Caucus members @votegloriaj.bsky.social & @justinjpearson.bsky.social react to Trump’s “mask-off” racist Obamas-as-apes post — Gloria wore an “eat racists” pin and said she’ll always speak up and “be on the right side of history”

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What a wonderful interview.

You’re being overtly precise, that’s generally great. But in response to sarcastic hyperbole it is probably not way up there on the humour scale.

But there’s that, too.

Gosh! I came here to post this & found your skeet in the NICK OF TIME.

What a true sportsman. Sports star. Beautiful in every sense of the word.

A wide, low-angle shot from the Apple Music Halftime Show features three performers suspended in mid-air from wooden utility poles. The performers wear white outfits and straw hats, captured in dynamic, horizontal poses as if floating or being blown through the air. The utility poles are detailed with transformers and tangled black wires, rising from a thick bed of tall green grass. In the background, the bright lights and tiered seating of Levi's Stadium are visible against a dim twilight sky.

A wide, high-angle view of the Apple Music Halftime Show finale, showing the artist Bad Bunny standing on a small platform high above the stage. He wears an all-white structured suit and has his arms outstretched, overlooking the expansive set. The stage below is a dense collage of the cultural elements seen throughout the show: Performance Elements: To the left, dancers are suspended from utility poles, while hundreds of other performers in colorful streetwear stand on the field with their arms open. Set Pieces: The urban streetscape—including the barbershop, the "La Marqueta" bodega, and a vintage white truck—is positioned near the lush tropical greenery and palm trees. Scale: In the upper right corner, a portion of the massive stadium crowd and the edge of the football field are visible, illustrating the grand scale of the production.

The electrical poles blowing up highlights the immense issue of reliable electricity in Puerto Rico. Since Hurricane Maria, the grid has been completely unreliable. Most of the money sent to fix it has been held up or shoveled into corrupt companies that pocket the money. There is immense corruption

A medium-wide action shot shows Bad Bunny walking toward the camera on the football field during the Apple Music Halftime Show finale. He wears an all-white structured suit and carries a football against his chest while singing. He is led by a large processional of musicians and flag bearers: Musicians: A group of men in white guayabera-style shirts, tan trousers, and straw hats surround him, playing traditional percussion instruments like panderos (hand drums) and güiros. Flag Bearers: Behind the musicians, several people hold large flags representing various Caribbean and Atlantic nations, including the Puerto Rican flag, the United States flag, and the flags of Barbados and Aruba. Background: A massive digital screen in the stadium displays the text "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN H... IS LOVE". The stadium stands are filled with thousands of spectators under a twilight sky.

When Bad Bunny said "God Bless America" he meant it in the way that encompasses ALL of America, which includes Latin America, not just the US.

There's always more to pull out from the lyrics and other things in the background. This performance was a love letter to Puerto Rico, its people, and its culture. There's never been anything like it on a stage this big. It means everything for Puerto Ricans to see this.

willful stupidity in the service of a tiny cadre of idiots that dont undertand the concept of a closed system

Well isn’t this some pretty darn good public health maintenance. #Milan #WinterOlympics #MaskingUp #SafetyFirst #VirusPrevention

Thanks a lot to @alyssaharad.bsky.social
for pointing to @npr.org reporting on the smart athletes’ role model health behaviors.

Recommended reading in the history channel @workingclasshistory.com 👇👇👇

Sarah Bosetti ruft uns alle beisammen 🤭 @sarahbosetti.de 👏👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Call it socialism, but I prefer funding research, education, and the arts through taxation to funding it through sucking up to sex criminals.

Ciao @annflank.bsky.social blockempfehlung

Coffee and safe haven: Inside the Skid Row cafe run by formerly unhoused women The Downtown Women’s Center cafe helps train dozens of people a year as they transition from homelessness.

“We always get second chances. And it was a struggle.”

— Now LaShornda works to train other women at the cafe, providing many with their first job after fighting to survive on the streets for years.

Leadership: altruism, compassion, and encouragement.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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The kids you reached are so alright. 🤞✊👏👏👏

These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over’ Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities

Samiya, 17, led her Los Angeles high school's walkout.

"The White House has a TikTok account, and they’ll post things like 'deportation ASMR'. You go on YouTube the night before school, and you watch an ad of Kristi Noem threatening everybody who has ever come to this country. It’s frightening."