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Casual reminder that a bill must pass *both* the House and the Senate (and get signed by POTUS) to become law.

The DHS / ICE appropriations bill passed the House.

It still needs to pass the Senate with 60 votes.

That vote will be *NEXT WEEK*

Call your Senators.🔥📞🔥

Four GOP Senators.

At most four Repubs in the House.

Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.

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This is the desert of the real. The Wachowskis called it. But like Bernie says, no one wants this. Folks are organizing in amazing ways.

Corporations and ultra-rich individuals with numerous business interests cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own bottom lines.

When billionaire conglomerates take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

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Those ears!

So good to see their history!

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

Wow, it really is "Live Free or Die" in New Hampshire.

What Epstein records have not been made public?

Oh, Gonzo, my heart goes out to you and your whole family. Gather each other close.

There are some good GF baking recipes on the King Arthur site as well. And you can ask them for gf baking advice!

After a judge ordered Donald Trump to make SNAP payments, the wannabe king declared he will defy a court order and won't help people afford groceries.

Trump's message to 42 million Americans: eat dirt.

Feel like some reporter should ask, "sir, how is it that you believe you can competently do your job when you repeatedly fail to hear, read, or see major political events that everybody's least media literate facebook uncle knows about?"

• "We have no inflation." Inflation is at 3%. • "It's at 2%. It's-- it's the perfect inflation." Inflation is at 3%. • "Right now [grocery prices are] going down." Grocery prices are up 1.4% since Trump came to office. • "A year ago, we were a dead country." Not only did the US have the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in both 2023 and 2024, but the Economist magazine called it "the envy of the world." • "11,888 murderers were let into our country." Not only is this number inaccurate, but many of the non-citizens convicted of homicide either here or abroad came in during Trump's first term. • "Washington, DC, was... almost like a crime capital of the world." In 2023, per PolitiFact, "at least 49 other cities in the world had higher homicide rates. • "[Biden] hardly went anywhere. Guy couldn't leave his bedroom." Not only did Joe Biden visit roughly as many countries in his term of office as Trump did in his first term, but Biden was the first US president to visit an active warzone - Ukraine - not under the control of US forces. • "I made Middle East peace. For 3,000 years, they couldn't do it." There is no peace in Palestine, no peace deal in place, and it isn't a 3,000-year-old conflict. • "Communist, not socialist. Communist. He's far worse than a socialist." Zohran Mamdani is not a communist. • "I can't give them $1.5 trillion so that they can give welfare to people that came into our country illegally." The Trump/GOP claim that Democrats want to give free healthcare to undocumented immigrants has been repeatedly debunked. • "They emptied their mental institutions and their insane asylums-- into the United States of America." Asylum seekers don't come from "insane asylums." Obviously. • "One thing I can tell you, the 2020 election was rigged." It wasn't. The courts agreed. • "And a lotta people say when it's rigged you're allowed to do it again." A lot of people don't say this. The US Constitution doesn't, for sure.

Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isn’t equipped or doesn’t bother to push back, he keeps going.

Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

zeteo.com/p/factchecki...

please vote. please.
please. please. please.

show these fascists and billionaires we're fucking done.

show the corporations and universities that we're against this and if they stand up to fascism, the public will be there.

do what we failed to do last year.

please.

SNAP should be the most popular thing the government does

if you’re socialist, it’s the government meeting basic human needs

if you’re 20th century liberal, it’s a form of welfare that helps the poor without directly transferring wealth

if you’re conservative, it subsidizes farmers and grocers

A navy graphic with an image of a food pantry at the bottom, with title text that says "4 weeks into the government shutdown, here's how it's affecting Massachusetts" beneath the following bullets read, "- 1.1 million residents at risk of losing SNAP benefits by this weekend - UMass Memorial Health had to pause its Hospital at Home program which allows patients to receive adequate care at home - Over 25,000 federal employees in MA have either been furloughed or are working without pay - Hundreds of expected flight delays will occur at Logan International Airport during the busiest season - Historic sites, national parks and museums across the Commonwealth have been forced to close"

The Trump Administration's shutdown isn’t a game – it’s affecting the livelihoods of real people here in Massachusetts. People deserve better from their government.

The indignity of it all!

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"

I've saved her some time.

Trump is refusing to use contingency funds to fund SNAP — even though his own administration’s guidance said he had the legal authority to do so.

But he’ll find a way to bail out Argentina, conduct extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean, and build a vanity ballroom.

Priorities.

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...

Yeah, also, shingles sucks, and apparently the shingles vaccine does more than just prevent shingles, it also reduces the incidence of dementia: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ah, Wheeler Hall!