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“Nobody came”: Hill Country flooding survivors recount anguish, neglect during emotional hearing Residents told state lawmakers about what they’ve lost and the hardships they’re experiencing almost a month after the July 4 disaster devastated the region.

The MAGA-led response to the Texas floods is going great - so great that locals are still finding rotting human body parts in the debris that no one in government appears to care about picking up:

ICE thugs violently kidnapping a pregnant woman off the streets in Elgin, IL as her child watches in horror.

Please keep elevating these stories — Do NOT normalize this abuse. These people need to be held accountable.

This chart should end all discussion on the matter… it won’t though.

Border Patrol at a Home Depot in Los Angeles days after the 9th circuit affirmed a court order that purports to block this exact behavior. They don't even know who they're chasing! This is insane. Send them all to jail.

Curious that republicans OUTSIDE public office seem to understand economics while not a single one in office acts like they do.

#EconSky

Has it occurred to anyone that the guy who just:

- fired the head of the BLS for reporting employment data
- wants to fire the Fed chair cuz he wants 1.5% Fed funds
- tells Americans that foreigners are paying the tariffs

...might be intervening in the stock market?

Important

At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has:

Removed COVID vaccine recommendations

Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee

Replaced scientists with antivaxxers

Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research

Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research

Worth trying

DESTROYING perfectly good equipment. At least try to sell it or something!!

Is this mostly republicans staying home or flipping? I would guess independents do flip.

😳 but good one this time

To say that "the data show these vaccines fail" in regards to the mRNA plaform is unforgivable.

For those of you that don't remember - this is the data from a SINGLE dose. In December 2020. So good I cried in grateful tears.

Attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein survivors say history is repeating itself with Trump's DOJ "sidelining them from critical decisions."

It suggests that "victims are, at best, an afterthought to the current administration."

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Absolutely

This is theft

Only the best people…

Tesla Grants Musk $29 Billion in Stock to Keep ‘Elon’s Energies Focused’

Elon Musk granted $29 billion in additional shares, which is more than twice as much as all the US foreign aid spent on sub-Saharan Africa last year before Musk took his chainsaw to USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...

Musk might even more unpopular than Bibi, BIBI!… nothing that $30B won’t cure.

Best wishes!

Post and replies are gold

Just home from a cross-country road trip... Vegas isn't the only place completely empty.
Small businesses with no customers, no highway traffic compared to years past, and mostly just white people everywhere (esp National Parks).
It was heartbreaking to see this happening in every town in America.

🙏🏼 Pleaaaaaase

Incredible irony

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When people say things like "I asked chatGPT" it sounds no different to me than "I asked my psychic".

😳

Damn them for all time for not caring that he’s a child trafficker.

Gah!

One, I am not sure the highest priority here is the victims, justice for the victims or combatting child exploitation, or at least I do not feel this way. If there was justice for the victims we would see some kind of accountability for the years they allowed this horrible human being, if you can call him that, to prey on underage and young girls while jet-setting around the world with high-profile individuals and/or entrapping his victims in his various mansions and/or his notorious private island. And to make matters more severe continued to traffic, rape and assault victims while on prison work-release and/or even after being a registered sex offender for about a decade. Rather, I feel like the DOJ’s and FBI’s priority is protecting the “third-party”, the wealthy men by focusing on scrubbing their names off the files of which the victims, “know who they are”. To learn that our own president has utilized thousands of agents to protect his identity and these high-profile individuals is monumentally mind-blowing. That is their focus? Wow!

One of Epstein's victims calls out Bondi's DOJ for protecting the powerful men in the files.

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