Gordon Luster

Chicago teen whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer dies The Torres family story came to public attention after the teen’s father was detained at a Home Depot in Niles.

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'Most Vile Scumbags on Earth': Critics Appalled by Explosive Report on Kristi Noem's Corruption | Common Dreams Explosive report reveals 'outrageous corruption' by US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and top adviser Corey Lewandowski.

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Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

I knew I saw this somewhere before. Funny that it’s almost exactly what’s actually happening now.

You might think that the inhumane conditions at America's concentration camps is because of this administration's usual lazy incompetence, but, no, it's because of this administration's usual vicious cruelty.

Getting big money out of politics is project number 1, regardless of the issue.

No! Abolish it and start over.

Fascism in full flower

🆕 Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @oregonstate.edu, @iiasa.ac.at & PIK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yes, I will otherwise be amazed.

It sure as heck would be easier.

The problem is that helping "all Americans" is not the objective of the republican party, or even of some politicians in the Democratic party. They just help their big sources of funding.

Bernie Sanders is right.

We need Medicare For All.

Excellent. Trump would have a stroke if they won.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕

(From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Regulations are what keeps ordinary Americans healthy and, often, alive.

It took spoiled meat and rodent droppings out of our food. It took harmful lead out of our gasoline and paint. It took poison out of our water.

Deregulation only achieves one goal: making rich corporations richer.

After she's no longer in government, will she still be concerned?

Shameful shit!!!! Shame each and everyone of them!!!!

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

The people who need their own half time show are the same people who needed their own drinking fountains and lunch counters. Nothing has changed.

#badbunny
#Superbowl
#halftime

#donaldtrump

If we can’t stand for human rights here and abroad, we can’t credibly fight fascism anywhere.

Palestinian freedom is tied to our fight against authoritarianism at home. You cannot defend democracy while aligning with anti-democratic interests like AIPAC.

If Pam Bondi was a waitress.

Hey no problem. He USED to do that. 🙄

Not only is this what you would do if you were trying to kill a technology and a company developing it ….

it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.

Russia only offers the world death and ruin.

I would much rather have a dozen noncitizens vote than millions of citizens not be able to.